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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
Muskan Singh

One detail in a 248-year-old notebook changed everything for music historians

Nearly two and a half centuries after it was written, a small notebook kept in the National Library of France has revealed an extraordinary musical secret. It first appeared to be an anonymous manuscript but turned out to contain the unmistakable handwriting of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The discovery has given musicians and historians a rare opportunity to hear previously unknown compositions for the very first time, as per a report by Smithsonian Magazine.

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