Mozart once bet fellow composer Haydn that he could not play a piano composition that Mozart had written that day. Haydn accepted the bet and sat down at the piano with the music in front of him. He started out well, but then reached a part of the composition which was impossible to play because it required each hand to be on opposite ends of the keyboard and at the same time a note be struck in the middle. Giving up, Haydn turned the piano over to Mozart, who proceeded to play the note with his nose and won the bet. (This story may be apocryphal, but it sounds like something Mozart would have done.)
– maroon 22
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