Mozart?

Subject: BS: Mozart?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 01:43 PM

Unknown score written by Mozart found in France

28 minutes ago



NANTES, France (Reuters) - A French municipal library has discovered a musical score handwritten by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in its archives, the Nantes town hall said on Thursday.

The one-page work, donated to the town by a private collector at the end of the 19th century, was until recently thought to be a copy rather than an original.

The unpublished score, measuring 16 cm by 29 cm (6.5 by 11.5 inches), is thought to have been written around 1787, according to an expert musicologist from the Mozarteum university in the composer's native city of Salzburg in Austria.

The score is undergoing a second round of expert investigations, Nantes authorities said.

"A Mozart autograph is hugely valuable. There are lots of them in the vaults of Swiss banks," said Michel Noiray, head of the French centre for research on musical heritage.

Mozart was one of the most prolific classical composers. He died in 1791 at the age of 35, leaving over 600 known pieces of music.

Subject: RE: BS: Mozart?
From: Amos
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 01:45 PM

Damn, there's a bright spot on a gray sort of day!! Thanks, Bruce!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Mozart?
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 04:06 PM

I have a fantasy that one day I'll be looking through a yard sale in some old womans house and I'll find an original Mozart or Beethoven score, or failing that a 1954 gold top gibson Les Paul.

Subject: RE: BS: Mozart?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 04:09 PM

Well, I have found a 1934 $10 bill ( In a box of books) and an 1804 gold sovereign ( in a bag of old coins (it was a tar lump until I cleaned it))


One takes what one can get.

Subject: RE: BS: Mozart?
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 04:39 PM

Wow! My brother will be excited to hear this, too. Mozart is his hero, being a composer himself and all. Thanks, BB!

Subject: RE: BS: Mozart?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 07:39 PM

Last time I checked, MOZART counts as MUSIC and should be ABOVE the line!

Subject: RE: BS: Mozart?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 07:54 PM

This one is very exciting, it says underneath:-


I'll get you for this Wolfgang. I'm sending the boys round.

signed

Salieri

Subject: RE: Mozart?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 10:18 PM

That scenario was created for the play/movie. Salieri had a better reputation than the film suggested.

SRS

Subject: RE: Mozart?
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Sep 08 - 10:52 PM

He's just kidding, SRS.**bg**

Subject: RE: Mozart?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 20 Sep 08 - 04:13 AM

Yeh ...just kidding.

The way I heard it - it was just another drugs deal that went wrong.

'Big Tony' Salieri, self styled King of the Salzburg Hoodies, took a contract out on fellow gang member and tough guy 'Wolfgang the Hammer' Deus Mozart. They were both rappers as well as their other activities.

If they don't get them in the first 48 years, the police don't tend waste a lot of time on these things.

A shame really cos some people reckoned 'The Hammer' might have made as big a conribution as Snoop Doggy Dog, if only he'd lived longer.

Wild talk if you ask me, and anyway - its how these people live.

Subject: RE: Mozart?
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 20 Sep 08 - 04:30 AM

LOL, WLD :-)

Does anyone know what sort of piece it is? Keyboard, voice, ensemble part?

Subject: RE: Mozart?
From: Newport Boy
Date: 20 Sep 08 - 06:01 AM

It's about 16 bars of church music, possibly a credo. Guardian report and photo of the score here

Phil

Subject: RE: Mozart?
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 20 Sep 08 - 06:13 AM

Well done Newport boy - nice to actually see it.

Subject: RE: Mozart?
From: Bernard
Date: 20 Sep 08 - 07:02 AM

Apparently they found Mozart's grave a few years ago, and he was sitting up in his coffin with a score, crossing notes out.

When asked what he was doing, he replied 'I'm decomposing!'...

Okay, I've already got me coat... byeee!

Subject: RE: Mozart?
From: Peter T.
Date: 20 Sep 08 - 07:59 AM

There is also a new portrait of him (looks quite unlike the boyish other ones), and a photograph of Costanze that was just found.

Everything seems to be coming up Mozart.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: Mozart?
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 20 Sep 08 - 08:05 AM

Any links, Peter? I'd love to oust the images of Amadeus from my mental projector -

Subject: RE: Mozart?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 20 Sep 08 - 08:37 AM

In a way Sarah Palin is McCain's Constanze......

She will be his helpmate and inspiration as we plunge into a life of debt and squallor.

is that the sort of thing, Bonnie....?

Subject: RE: Mozart?
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 20 Sep 08 - 09:00 AM

Yikes, swap Elizabeth Berridge and implant Sarah Palin instead??!!!! Worse than an earworm. Thanks a bunch, WLD ;-)