{"id":1074,"date":"2024-10-12T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T07:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2024-10-19T15:44:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T15:44:07","slug":"centuries-old-sheet-music-by-mozart-found-in-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/centuries-old-sheet-music-by-mozart-found-in-austria\/","title":{"rendered":"New music manuscript found – attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart written around 1760 between 10 and 13 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nNew Mozart Just Dropped: Lost Manuscript Reveals Centuries-Old Music<\/a>
\nThe young Mozart composed the piece around 1760 and was played for the first time at the Leipzig Opera over the weekend.

\n\nA hitherto-unknown piece of music by the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was recently discovered by researchers the Leipzig Municipal Libraries. The sheet music itself was not scribed by Mozart, the composer of such famous works as The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, and Requiem (personally, I\u2019m partial his Symphony No. 40). The recently uncovered manuscript is a copy, written around 1780, that the copyist attributed to a \u201cWolfgang Mozart.\u201d The lack of Mozart\u2019s middle name in the copyist\u2019s signature suggests that Mozart wrote the piece before 1769, when he started to include the middle of his moniker, according to a Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg release.

\n\nThe piece is a 12-minute-long work in C major, written for two violins and a bass. It has been catalogued in K\u00f6chel, the catalogue of Mozart\u2019s work, as KV 648, but is also dubbed \u201cGanz kleine Nachtmusik\u201d and \u201cSerenate ex C.\u201d The piece consists of seven miniature movements. Based on the composition\u2019s approximate timing, Mozart was between 10 and 13 years old when he wrote it.

\n\nAccording to the German outlet MDR, the piece was played in Mozart\u2019s hometown of Salzburg on Thursday, and debuted in Germany on Saturday at the Leipzig Opera. You can hear a string trio playing a bit of Mozart via the German publication ZDF Heute here.

\n\nThe refreshing addition to Mozart\u2019s catalogue comes just a year after new insights into the life of Beethoven, the great German pianist and composer. Research published last year found that Beethoven had serious liver problems and a hepatitis infection before his death in 1827. Mozart is in the news for a much more pleasant reason, but here\u2019s hoping we discover more about these composers in the new future, even nearly two centuries since their deaths.

\n\nUndiscovered Mozart music found in German library – listen here<\/a>
\nThe piece, titled Serenade in C, was found in a Leipzig library. It was written for a string trio and lasts around 12 minutes. An undiscovered piece of music written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when he was a young teenager has been found at a library in Germany. It is believed the piece – titled Serenade in C – was composed in the mid to late 1760s.

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