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TIL that the Vatican forbade copies of Gregorio Allegri's Miserere mei, Deus, threatening any publication with excommunication. That was until 1770 when a 14-year-old named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who, on a trip to Rome with his father, heard it but twice and transcribed it faithfully from memory.

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