Selected excerpts from emails and forums postings:

My guess is that the Mozart pieces will always have more notes, but perhaps that's the common misconception. -- missing_person

I think that Salieri is underrated. The concerto in C for piano is beautiful --marazm1

I'm a Mozart fan and I still got 60%. Salieri is pretty good though, not mind blowing, genius good but good. I feel shame. --Cloxboy

ones that I was sure it was Mozart turned out to be Salieri --nekodesu

Those who did poorly on your quiz are either casual listeners or mountebanks --Gary

the person who constructed the test hasn't the foggiest notion of what it is that separates Mozart's music not only from the music of his contemporaries, but from the music of all composers of whatever era, and missed entirely the particular genius of that music. The snippets are nonsense. --dzalman

I got 100 % right, and it was pretty easy indeed. I knew all the excerpts from Mozart... Those people who got less than 80 % are either inexperienced, unmusical or deaf. --Matti

I got 90%. I mistook one of the arias for an early Mozart. I recognized all the Mozart works, so it really wasn't a fair result - I didn't do it on the basis of style alone. --Corlyss_D

It would be very easy to mistake the Salieri excerpts for Mozart's music. My response to the test was to conclude on each item simply on the basis of familiarity. So if I did not recognize a selction, I assumed it was probably Salieri, and that turned out to be a valid approach to the test. And when I heard the use of clarinets in one particular aria, I spotted that as Salieri not because I am smart and can distinguish between the two, but rather I know every note that Mozart wrote for clarinet, and that wasn't one of them. The Salieri pieces were excellent and when presented in little mouthfulls could well be mistaken for Mozart. However, one has to hear the entire piece to witness the development in the composition. Those few pieces of Salieri that I have heard in their entirety are often beautiful to begin with but then fail to achieve a sophisticated level of creative development. I find that they become repetitious, something I have never noticed in a Mozart composition. There is little doubt that Salieri had a good feel for melody, harmony, and intelligent selection of orchestral accompaniment. And goodness knows he knew how to write for the voice. The problem that I find is that he did not have the skill to be as inventive with those gifts as other composers. --dnleeson

Wow I got 100%! I didn't expect to. I think I only got that score because I recognised all of the Mozart pieces. Salieri also wrote some good sounding music though, and I could have easily been caught out. I'll definitely be buying the Salieri Album. --Liquorice

I was born in a musical family. My mother was a pianist and everyone else dabbled in music: violin, viola, guitar etc. I grew up listening to my mom, (a pure classical music snob) teach hundreds of students. ... I have now become a singer-songwriter and hardly ever listen to classical music concerts… most of my time is spent writing contemporary “folk fusion”. ... I got 50%, by the way. I have never listened to a work by Salieri from start to finish and I’ve never tried to compare the two, or had anyone explain the difference. The only thing I did to prepare was to pull up the first piece I could find on youtube by both composers and try to find quick differences, which did NOT work for me. It seemed to me that Mozart should’ve been more harmonically interesting and less square, symmetrical and predictable. --Park Bench