A Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composition for a string trio, lengthy believed misplaced or destroyed, has been found at a library within the German metropolis of Leipzig, researchers say. Written within the 1760s, in all probability within the composer’s early teenagers, the 12-minute composition was carried out, in what might have been a 260-year-late premiere, in Salzburg, Austria, yesterday (September 19), Agence France-Presse studies.
The manuscript is believed to be a duplicate, made within the 1780s, of Mozart’s unique transcription. Archivists found it whereas compiling the newest Köchel catalogue of Mozart’s works, which refers back to the piece as Ganz kleine Nachtmusik; researchers know of many undiscovered chamber-music compositions by Mozart, as a result of a listing compiled within the composer’s lifetime by his father. It’s the newest of a couple of dozen Mozart works to be unearthed in trendy instances.
