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This upset a few people convinced I had the history wrong or was trying to impose an "Islamophobic" viewpoint on Mozart's work.
I'll repeat, in 1782 Mozart premiered an opera about the Muslim abduction enslavement of Christian Europeans, and did so within 100 years of the siege
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Perspectives: Mozart premiered an entire opera about the Muslim enslavement of Europeans in Vienna in 1782, within 100 years of the Ottoman siege of that city.
All of Europe, with Vienna at the center of the fight and with Barbary pirates still capturing innocent Christian
