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A recently rediscovered piece of music by Mozart and Antonio Salieri has been performed for an audience at the Czech Museum of Music:
A piece of Mozart music considered lost for more than 200 years has been performed for the first time since being rediscovered. It was co-written by him and Antonio Salieri, usually considered a rival, as well as an unknown composer, Cornetti.
The four-minute cantata was found in the archives of the Czech Museum of Music in November 2015 and played on harpsichord for an audience on Tuesday. A museum spokesperson, Sarka Sockalova, said it was "a really valuable work". The score, written in 1785, was acquired by the museum in a collection of material in the mid-20th century but its composers were identified in a code that has only recently been deciphered.
[...] The cantata's name, "Per la ricuperata salute di Ophelia", translates into English as "For the recovered health of Ophelia". It was written to celebrate soprano Nancy Storace's recovery after an illness. The text to the piece was written by a Viennese court poet called Lorenzo Da Ponte, who often worked with Salieri. Mrs Leisinger said the piece is "not great" but "really sheds new light on Mozart's daily life as an opera composer". "It is clearly the original piece and there is no reason to doubt it is genuine. "We don't know when any other piece by Mozart is discovered, it could be soon but it could also be after another 100 years." Several Mozart pieces have been re-discovered in recent years, several of them thought to have been written when he was a young boy.
Also at The New York Times .
(Score: 4, Insightful) by E_NOENT on Wednesday February 17 2016, @02:48PM
So it sounds as if the composition itself is rather mundane, probably a well-crafted but unremarkable piece of music.
This part caught my eye.
The score, written in 1785, was acquired by the museum in a collection of material in the mid-20th century but its composers were identified in a code that has only recently been deciphered.
I'd love to read more about the code and how it was deciphered. If you spend some time studying Classical Music, you might be surprised find the hacker mind is alive and well with these people, and clever tricks abound.
I'm not in the business... I *am* the business.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 17 2016, @03:17PM
Where is the full recording without voiceovers?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 17 2016, @06:07PM
Do you mean the karaoke version?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 17 2016, @10:49PM
They have more of a hacker mind than most of the computer programmers and scientists I've met in my life.