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A 12-minute piece of music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been discovered in a library in Germany. Researchers think the composer wrote the previously unknown piece — called Serenade in C — when he was a young teenager.
The composition was hidden in the collections of Germany’s Leipzig Municipal Libraries — some 280 miles north of Salzburg, Austria, where Mozart was born in 1756. By the age of 5, he was a child prodigy who toured Europe performing for royals and aristocrats (贵族). As a teenager, he built a reputation as a composer, spending a few years in Salzburg and Vienna before moving to Italy in 1769.
Mozart probably wrote the recently discovered composition in the mid- to late-1760s, according to a statement from the Leipzig Municipal Libraries. Library researchers were producing an edition of the Köchel catalog, a comprehensive collection of Mozart’s work, when they unexpectedly found a mysterious manuscript containing a handwritten composition in brown ink. The composition is believed to “Wolfgang Mozart.” The handwriting, however, is not Mozart’s, suggesting that the manuscript is a copy of the original composition. Researchers think it was made around 1780.
Serenade in C consists of seven miniature movements (微型乐章) for a string trio (two violins and a bass), according to a statement from the International Mozarteum Foundation, a Salzburg-based nonprofit dedicated to Mozart’s life and work. Researchers say the music fits with other works from the 1760s in style, when Mozart was between the ages of 10 and 13.
The newly discovered Serenade in C has been renamed Ganz kleine Nachtmusik in the Köchel catalog. On September 19, when the new catalog was revealed in Salzburg, a string trio played the rediscovered work. The composition was performed again for the audience at the Leipzig Opera on September 21.
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