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- Hacker News
- While interesting. Is it a 'Major discovery' ?
- Why wouldn’t it be? Heck, how could it not be?
- Mozart is among the most famous Western composers, and, like others of his stature, all his extant manuscripts have been cataloged and studied extensively. To find a previously unknown manuscript is a major event in that scholarship.by cvoss
- They aren’t making more Mozart notebooks so probably.by Mistletoe
- The library where the discovery was made:
https://www.bnf.fr/en/actualitesEN/discovery-unpublished-aut...
I’m hoping that a full scan appears in the archive linked at the bottom of the page. I’m a composer and still hand-notate in a notebook. It’s so cool to the penmanship of someone writing in notebooks so quickly yet cleanly. In case you didn’t read, the contents are primarily exercises in composition where Mozart began a passage, the student continued, and Mozart corrected / guided the students work where needed. So there’s a higher percentage of Mozart in the pieces here than not. Like Brundlefly.
by listenfaster - I hope we get to hear his new/old music. That would be amazingby K2Short
- french radio "France Musique" aired it the other day, i don't know if its available outside of france thoughby nasso_dev
- Perhaps here:by throwpoaster
- 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 Discovery of an unpublished manuscript by Mozart at the BnF: behind the scenes of an extraordinary operation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
- That's exactly what the article says... so yes apparently that's what it is
- > the Duke failed to pay Mozart for his work
You stiffed Mozart!? A curse on your ghost!
by gcanyon - Worse could happen.
The Duke could have thrown him in the castle jail.
by Waterluvian - Turns out "technical debt" also applies to national archives.by mpfect
- I found a copy of the oldest film ever shot in China in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) library in London. The camera had been personally loaned to the French administrator in question by the Lumiere Brothers. The film had been entered in to the catalogue but nobody had looked at it in decades and they didn't have equipment to do so. The university wound up digitizing it with funds donated by the alumni and I was invited on my return from the US to address the alumni association on my research.
- More than you can possibly imagine. There are warehouses full of unread papers. Any one of which could contain a reference to somebody or something important.
There was a recently discovered letter, possibly to Shakespeare's wife, which would completely change our understanding of their marriage, and even the way his plays depict women. The only way to find such things is by hordes of grad students trudging their way through fragile paper and messy handwriting.
by jfengel - Hear perhaps here:by throwpoaster
- Perhaps?by copperx
- 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...
- At least they didn't use quotation marks for "emphasis".by Insanity
- 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 - First step for a great features: movies hated by people you despiseby neves
- That looks pretty engaging - all the right people hate it.by thrill
- "It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years."
Tom Lehrer.
by LeoPanthera - Mozart lived for 35 years
Lehrer did 97
by NooneAtAll3