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Improvisation video below. In this scene taken from the movie "Amadeus" (a movie about the life of the composer Mozart) the composer Antonio Salieri, an Italian composer who competed with Mozart to be the most important composer, wrote a piece of "welcoming" music in honor of Mozart's first visit visiting the emperor. Salieri is the man dressed in black with the dark hair and the emperor is dressed in his blue and red jacket. After hearing the emperor perform Salieri's piano piece, the emperor tries to give Mozart the sheet music for the piano piece he just played as Mozart walked into the palace. Mozart says, "Keep it, it is already here in my head." They don't believe him and challenge Mozart to play the piece without the music. Mozart does and then begins to improvise on the melody making it a better piece of music while Salieri is humiliated. 

In real life, Salieri and Mozart were rival composers, but at a professional level and were not enemies, but rather friends competing for the same goal of being great composers.