PARIS: Musicians this weekend will for the first time publicly interpret music for flute and harp that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote as a 22-year-old while teaching an aristocratic French student. The unprecedented concert on Sunday at France’s National Library (BnF) comes after what it has called a “major discovery.” Francois-Pierre Goy, a curator in the library’s music department, stumbled across the treasure as he examined a pile of anonymous manuscripts he wanted to get through before retirement. “I never imagined what I was about to find,” he told AFP.

Un cahier de composition de Mozart, sept pièces pour flûte et harpe et des leçons qu’il donnait à la duchesse de Guînes, a été retrouvé grâce à la persévérance d’un conservateur…

Le cahier de musique retrouvé dans les réserves date du dernier séjour du compositeur à Paris, en 1778. Les sept courtes pièces pour flûte et harpe qu’il comprend seront diffusées…