Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's A Musical Joke is filled with intentional mistakes by the composer, who inserted odd notes into this amusing and mischievous piece in order to take an angry side-swipe at dilettante composer-colleagues of his time, whose lack of imagination and artless compositional technique are here mercilessly demonstrated - the piece was not intended to parody musicians who play wrong notes as its later title “Village Musicians” suggests. A musical and intellectual deli...