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- The podcast is in French, but you can hear the first public performance of the works here:
> Discovery of an unpublished manuscript by Mozart at the BnF: behind the scenes of an extraordinary operation
https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/podcasts/l-invite-e...
by nelox - 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.by wvbdmp
- > the Duke failed to pay Mozart for his work
You stiffed Mozart!? A curse on your ghost!
by gcanyon - Turns out "technical debt" also applies to national archives.by mpfect
- Hear perhaps here:by throwpoaster
- 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...
- 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.
by genxy - "It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years."
Tom Lehrer.
by LeoPanthera