2 New Mozart Pieces Found

Two piano pieces surface in Austria
By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff
Posted Jul 23, 2009 5:00 PM CDT
2 New Mozart Pieces Found
Two new piano pieces by Mozart have been found.   (AP Photo / Photograph courtesy of Christie's')

Two pieces of music found in the vaults of the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, Austria, have been confirmed as the work of Mozart himself, the BBC reports. The compositions are for solo piano, but other details are being kept under wraps until a formal announcement next month, said a foundation spokeswoman. They will eventually be performed on Mozart's original fortepiano.
(More Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart stories.)

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