A rediscovered sonata, as Mozart intended

BUDAPEST: Balazs Mikusi’s heart started racing when he realised what the papers he held in his hand were: the long-lost original score of a famous Mozart sonata scribbled by the composer himself. “When I first laid eyes upon the manuscript, the handwriting already looked suspiciously ‘Mozartish’,” said Mikusi, head of the music collection at Budapest’s National Szechenyi Library. “Then I started reading the notes, and realised it is the famous A Major sonata... My heart rate shot up,” he told AFP as he proudly showed off his precious discovery.  The four yellowed pages that Mikusi found in a dark corner of the library earlier this year were nothing short of a sensation. How they came to be there is a bit of a mystery.–AFP

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