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Composers often heavily reused their own musical themes
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Even musical geniuses had lazy days. Great composers like Handel and Bach frequently engaged in aggressive self-plagiarism. If they had a tight deadline, they would casually lift entire melodies from their old, obscure compositions and just slap them into a new piece, assuming the audience would never notice the recycled content.
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