'Lost' Mozart manuscript turns up in council records office in Yorkshire

From: The Evening Standard (London, England) | Date: March 14, 2001 | Copyright information

A PIECE of music written by Mozart in the 1780s has been discovered in a council records office.

The adaptation of Handel's oratorio Judas Maccabaeus was discovered when an academic researching an article on music in Georgian Halifax sifted through documents at Calderdale council's records office in West Yorkshire.

Mozart was known to have adapted four pieces written by Handel in the 1780s to make them more suitable to contemporary tastes.

Scholars had found references to an adaptation of a fifth Handel piece but no manuscript was ever traced. Dr Rachel Cowgill, researching at Leeds ...

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