Why is this a dilemma at all? Appreciating a piece of music is purely on its own merits of its content not if it was easy to create or not. The background, et

Why is this a dilemma at all? Appreciating a piece of music is purely on its own merits of its content not if it was easy to create or not. The background, ethics, skill or even creative process of the people behind it have no bearing on whether the music itself is good and how we much we like it, even if Hitler wrote the 9th symphony it would be still be a just as good a masterpiece. To consider anything but the merits of the output is a slippery slope of what biases are acceptable and not, that inevitably ends up being racial or at least exclusionary. Even it was not as difficult as you imagined it to be, he still was the first to find it, or even just the first to popularize it and that is all that matters.