A tiny upright wooden piano has a paper flag above it and a small hat resting on the keys.

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Salieri

I tell you, you are the greatest composer known to me.

— Amadeus · 1984

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker insists, with emphasis, that the listener is the greatest composer they know of. The praise is superlative but carefully limited to the speaker's own experience, offered as a personal judgment that they urge the listener to accept.

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