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Previously Unknown Mozart String Trio Composition Discovered in German Library

A previously unknown Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart string composition for trio was recently discovered in a German library.

While the vaunted classical composer died in 1791 at age 35, according to Agence France-Presse a previously unknown piece of music experts believe was written by a teenage Mozart was recently discovered at a library in Germany. Researchers reportedly discovered the piece at Leipzig’s music library when they were compiling the latest edition of the so-called “Köchel” catalogue, an exhaustive, chronological list of all of Mozart’s known compositions. The Köchel catalogue described the piece as “preserved in a single source, in which the attribution of the author suggests that the work was written before Mozart’s first trip to Italy” in December 1769 when the child prodigy composer was just 13-years-old.

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