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TIL a teenage Mozart, while visiting Rome, heard “Miserere Mei, Deus” and copied it on paper by ear. The Vatican threatened excommunication for distributing the work, but when the pope heard of the prodigy transcribing it by ear, he showered the 14 year old with praise.

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