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PARIS, France (AP) -- A French museum has found a previously unknown piece of music handwritten by Mozart, a researcher said Thursday. The 18th-century melody sketch is missing the harmony and instrumentation but was described as an important find.

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19 responses // New Mozart piece discovered

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    woah this is so cool!

    cassandrajl
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    Amazing! I can't wait to hear it. Is it something that can be played, even without the harmony and instrumentation?

    abbym0308
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    A new collection is coming out, "Mozart: The Lost Performances".

    I wonder what it sounds like...

    UrbanGypsy
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    I love Mozart!

    mattbrawn
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    Mozart, so well known and supposedly loved... died poor and was buried in a potter's field for all of his notoriety then. Sad. So this is a great find, and I hope they can orchestrate the melody so we can hear what he wrote.

    JanforGore
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    That is a great find.

    Brockie
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    Brilliant! I hope they'll be able to adapt it for people to hear at some point. It'll be nice to get away from all those over-played pieces that have turned Mozart into sloshy easy-listening.

    purplefox
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    joshuaheller
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    I hope it's either the theme tune to Dynasty or the hook to a Tupac song.

    AceHardchester
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    Neato.

    J_Jammer
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    you know what this means. this means i need to find a copy of the music so it can be played and electronified :D

    CalgarC
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    whats a mozart?

    neutralmilkhotel
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    I really want to hear this. Anyone have a link of the piece being played?

    AlbeeYap
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    hmmm...my synesthesia must be "unclearly" kickin in cuz this "sounds" fishy:

    "The fact that an entirely new sheet shows up is extremely rare," he said.

    The sheet was bequeathed to the library by an autograph collector in the 19th century and was catalogued back then as part of the library's collection, he said.

    But it was later "entirely forgotten," essentially becoming lost to scholars for more than century, and was only rediscovered by the library as it re-catalogued its archives in recent years. It was unclear what happened to the library's 19th century catalogue."

    echoz
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    they should carbon date it like they did with the shroud of turin.....

    regjoeschmo
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    Big fan. outstanding!

    DaKineHawaii

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