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22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery'

22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery'

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Comments (81)

  • genxy
    If you like a discovered manuscript story, you should see "In the Hands of Dante", great movie.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1333644/This review doesn't spoil the movie https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/19/in-the-hand-of-...Side note, imdb's per country rating histograms are mesmerizing https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1333644/ratings/ how different the Iranian ratings are vs the UK.
  • bit_economist
    There is not a single citation in this article, even though it uses quotations.Here is a more reputable article for this news story: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/arts/music/mozart-music-f...
  • LeoPanthera
    "It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years."Tom Lehrer.
  • cineticdaffodil
  • gcanyon
    > the Duke failed to pay Mozart for his workYou stiffed Mozart!? A curse on your ghost!
  • wvbdmp
    Apparently this was an exercise book he made for a parisian tutee, who later fled the french revolution, leading to the confiscation of the notebook by the revolutionaries.
  • mpfect
    Turns out "technical debt" also applies to national archives.
  • MyHonestOpinon
    While interesting. Is it a 'Major discovery' ?
  • throwpoaster
  • listenfaster
    The library where the discovery was made:https://www.bnf.fr/en/actualitesEN/discovery-unpublished-aut...I’m hoping that a full scan appears in the archive linked at the bottom of the page. I’m a composer and still hand-notate in a notebook. It’s so cool to the penmanship of someone writing in notebooks so quickly yet cleanly. In case you didn’t read, the contents are primarily exercises in composition where Mozart began a passage, the student continued, and Mozart corrected / guided the students work where needed. So there’s a higher percentage of Mozart in the pieces here than not. Like Brundlefly.
  • mrighele
    I love his handwriting style. I wonder if it was the first draft or a copy [1][1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkqfpkTTy2w
  • K2Short
    I hope we get to hear his new/old music. That would be amazing
  • jansan
    Let's hope it is more authentic than the Hitler Diaries[1][1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries
  • kevinten10
    [dead]
  • abstractspoon
    Anyone remember the Hitler diaries?
  • HugoMoran
    seems like more of a minor discovery to me