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John Schick asked: "I wonder if Mozart or Beethoven had any of these problems?" Actually, they knew each other and did "borrow" from each other. Mozart was older, but they were in contact. In most of those eras of music, composers "heavily borrowed" from each other. It was actually expected and accepted. Musical scholars today will make all kinds of comparisons and accusations, but at the time, it was considered the sincerest form of flattery.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beethoven_and_MozartMAB Yeah, I knew the answer Marc.  Actually Beethoven was influenced heavily by Mozart. Kind of a mature and extended Mozart. And Brahms was an extension of Beethoven. Even Brahms’s first symphony took on the name “Beethoven’s 10th. And I was influenced by them all. Man learns from man. And hopefully takes his predecessor’s influence to a new level. But then, that’s not the same as stealing someone’s work and placing one’s name on it. Best, John 
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