A work for string trio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, long thought lost or destroyed, has been found in a library in the German city of Leipzig, researchers say. Written in the 1760s, probably during the composer’s early youth, the 12-minute piece was performed yesterday (September 19) in Salzburg, Austria, in what may have been a 260-year delay in its premiere, Agence France-Presse reported.
The manuscript is believed to be a copy of Mozart’s original transcription made in the 1780s. Archivists discovered this while compiling the latest Köchel catalog of Mozart’s works, which is treated as: Ganz kleine Nachtmusik; Researchers know of many of Mozart’s undiscovered chamber-music compositions thanks to a list compiled by his father during the composer’s lifetime. It is the last of about a dozen works by Mozart to be discovered in modern times.
