By Krisztina Fenyo
BUDAPEST Wed Oct 1, 2014 1:24pm IST
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's aboriginal Anton-Walter-piano is pictured at Mozart's above accommodation in axial Vienna October 25, 2012.
Credit: Reuters/Herwig Prammer/Files
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Flipping through a arenaceous binder of anonymous music array in Budapest's civic library, Hungarian academic Balazs Mikusi's affection skipped a exhausted aback he came beyond four pages of the account of a acclaimed Mozart sonata - accounting bottomward by the artisan himself.
Mikusi, arch of the Hungarian Civic Szechenyi Library's music collection, told Reuters TV about the moment he realised what he had stumbled on.
"I of advance bethink the heartbeat. You are axis the pages of hundreds of sources which are acutely accounting by copiers, not the composer. And aback you see article that is a composer's autography - and it alike looks similar," he said a few canicule afterwards the arrangement was presented to the public.
"I said 'This looks like Mozart', and actual anon I realised this charge be Mozart because I started to apprehend the piece, and it happens to be one of the best acclaimed Mozart sonatas."
Mikusi bound cross-checked his award with Mozart experts, and they accepted his discovery. The four pages were the aboriginal account of the Piano Sonata in A Major, K.331, one of the composer's best-known sonatas.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote the sonata about 1783 and like best of his works, it was additionally affected down. This aboriginal account was believed to accept been lost. Only one folio is preserved in Salzburg.
"There were two bodies who I assurance actual abundant and whom I accept accepted for added than 10 years, one of them is Ulrich Leisinger, administrator of Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, he wrote aback actual anon adage yes this charge be Mozart's handwriting," Mikusi said.
On Sunday, Mikusi will present his award in Salzburg to the Mozart academic community.
He said abounding Mozart autographs alike about-face up at auctions, but the apple has continued accepted about those.
"What makes it actual absorbing is that it's new. Nobody has anytime apparent this or if not ever, in the accomplished 200 years," he said.
"Everybody is intrigued, all the pianists, alike boilerplate music lovers, and of advance Mozart scholars, of what is absolutely on this page, how should we re-interpret this sonata in the ablaze of this discovery," Mikusi said.
It charcoal a abstruseness how the account concluded up in the accumulating of the Szechenyi library.
Mikusi said for Mozart advisers the best absorbing affair will be to attending at the differences amid the aboriginal account and the copies that would accommodate affluence of agitation worldwide.
"In the menuetto there are a brace of passages that accept been abundant discussed, and abounding bodies started to actual the aboriginal edition, adage that Mozart's autograph could not possibly accept said that. And now we accept the autograph and it absolutely confirms the aboriginal edition," he said.
"So I anticipate Mozart advisers will accept to re-think what we accept Mozart could accept accounting bottomward and what not."
"There are absolutely several differences, but we should anamnesis that the aboriginal copy was apparently authorised by Mozart so it is not consistently the case that the autograph should over-write the aboriginal edition. One has to anticipate about that, in which case this could be a press mistake, or in added cases Mozart ability accept adapted something.
"So this is not to say that this autograph is the Bible and now we accept to chase this. This makes the accomplished bearings added complicated and it is one of the best important sources that we accept to accede from now on."
(Reporting by Krisztina Fenyo and Krisztina Than; Editing by Hugh Lawson, Larry King)
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