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Two Works Discovered Attributed to Mozart, Age 7 or 8
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The scores attributed to Mozart, in his father’s handwriting.
Since the 1760s the fragmentary works sat scrawled at the back of a music book used by Mozart’s sister to study keyboard. They were in the hand of their father, Leopold, but no composer’s name was attached. The International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg now says the two pieces were probably composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart himself, as a young boy.
The music consists of 35 measures of a piano prelude and the solo part, 75 measures long, of a complete movement of a keyboard concerto, said Ulrich Leisinger, director of the Mozarteum’s research department, who is credited with the discovery. The results were announced at a news conference on Sunday in Salzburg. Florian Birsak, an Austrian keyboard player, performed the two pieces at a Mozart residence on Mozart’s own fortepiano.
Mr. Leisinger said in a telephone interview that the pieces were probably composed in 1763 or 1764, when Mozart was 7 or 8. If truly by him, they would serve as an important link between his simple earliest compositions and his first major works, Mr. Leisinger said.
Neal Zaslaw, a Cornell University music professor and Mozart expert who was not involved in the discovery, said the attribution to young Wolfgang was “highly plausible,” although it was not likely that it could be proved “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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