A composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for string trio, long thought lost or destroyed, has been discovered in a library in the German city of Leipzig, researchers say. Written in the 1760s, probably in the composer's early teens, the 12-minute composition was performed, in what may have been 260 years later, in Salzburg, Austria, yesterday (September 19). Agence France-Presse exhibitions.
The manuscript is believed to be a copy, created in the 1780s, of Mozart's original transcription. Archivists discovered it while compiling the final Köchel catalog of Mozart's works, which refers to the piece as Ganz kleine Nachtmusik; Researchers know of many of Mozart's undiscovered chamber music compositions because of a list compiled during the composer's lifetime by his father. It is the last of about a dozen works by Mozart to be discovered in modern times.
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