Mozart is alive! by Barbora Misakova

Imagine you work in a library. When you are not a real and passionate book lover, then it could be said, that your job is perfectly boring, you hate it and if you could, you would leave it immediately. Sorting books, putting them back to the shelves and cleaning them from dust is really not the work you thought you could ever be doing. Unfortunately, not everyone can be so lucky to have a job he really likes. Days are passing by, but your work is still the same, and you think, that it will be like this forever. But then something happened. Something what changed your life and also your point of view on the work you were doing day after day. You found something what will be written in a human history. You found…new Mozart piece of music! One day you were just cleaning some shelves, as a part of another (of course quite boring for you) cataloging. And as all those books and sheets of papers were going through your hands, you just found it. You found a piece of paper full of notes handwritten by someone, later identified as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart!
This piece of paper was sent to the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, Austria, to authenticate it. As Ulrich Leisinger, head of research at this foundation said, there is no doubt that this piece of music was written by the composer himself! Leisinger also said that “handwriting is absolutely clearly identifiable” and even though there is no “harmony and the instrumentation” there, it is brand new music piece you can make a sense out of anyway! It seems that Mozart was working on lot of other side projects, which he unfortunately was not able to finish. And this one piece is probably one of those works. As the experts say this new music handwriting is some kind of preliminary draft of a musical composition. Even though some parts are missing and we don’t actually know how Mozart would orchestrate it, some experts say they can clearly hear the composition’s feeling. There is no doubt, that this is very important and precious finding, and I would bet, that a library employee who found it, really loves his work now. Sometimes it is really funny how precious things are hiding in the shadows and just waiting on their right time to appear.


related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_en_mu/eu_mozart_discovery;_ylt=Ai5BhXW1gGQVckLoQmGpNjOs0NUE

by Barbora Misakova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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