Hacker News

At least they didn't use quotation marks for "emphasis".

That looks pretty engaging - all the right people hate it.

Mozart lived for 35 years

Lehrer did 97

They aren’t making more Mozart notebooks so probably.

That's exactly what the article says... so yes apparently that's what it is

Seven previously unknown compositions for flute and harp is not minor

More than you can possibly imagine. There are warehouses full of unread papers. Any one of which could contain a reference to somebody or something important.

There was a recently discovered letter, possibly to Shakespeare's wife, which would completely change our understanding of their marriage, and even the way his plays depict women. The only way to find such things is by hordes of grad students trudging their way through fragile paper and messy handwriting.

Composers were also handwriting masters. Bach also had incredible handwriting, there's a youtube channel about it.

french radio "France Musique" aired it the other day, i don't know if its available outside of france though

Perhaps here:

https://youtu.be/wk-sIeh7BcI?si=188fGFMD_f3DrkXP

Any time something of popular historical interest like this pops up I think about that.

If you've not read it then Robert Harris's (factual) book about the affair is entertaining, not least because such a broad sweep of dislikeable characters were undone by greed and folly!

Confiscated during the revolution, kept by the national library. That's a bit different to "forged on schoolbooks with a Bic pen" provenance-wise.

Even inside the tiny niche of the classical music history world, a book of daily exercises - written for some now-obscure student, and owned by a national library - is actually a pretty minor thing.

Very few counterfeiters bother doing nickles and dimes.

> By coincidence, Goy had been looking at other documents Mozart had written for teaching just weeks earlier

Color me sceptical