An unpublished Mozart work has been discovered in Germany

A previously unknown piece of music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, probably composed when he was a teenager, has been discovered in a library in Germany. The municipal libraries of Leipzig announced the news, claiming that the piece dates back to the mid- to late-1760s and consists of seven miniature movements for a string trio lasting about 12 minutes.

Researchers discovered the work in the city’s music library while compiling the latest edition of the so-called Koechel catalogue, the definitive archive of Mozart’s musical works. The newly discovered manuscript was not written by Mozart himself, but is believed to be a copy made around 1780.