Question: La passione di Gesù Cristo was written by a composer who spent his career as a subject of what monarchy?
Sentence (from "La passione di Gesù Cristo (Salieri)"): While many composer's set music to this libretto, Metastasio is recorded to have said before Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor that Salieri's setting "was the most expressive of any written on this poem."
Relevant evidence: No