EXPERTS ARE OFTEN WRONG

Verdi was rejected by the Milan Conservatory because he had no talent.

Schubert was never considered good enough to work for imperial Austrian musical authorities.

Mozart had to work twenty hours a day and got tuberculosis, just to make a bare living.

Experts agreed Paderewski was not a great pianist.

Rembrandt died a bankrupt.

Cervantes, quite possibly the greatest genius of them all, died penniless.