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Polish monastery claims possible new Mozart works

26.05.2008 14:00 Arts - Source: cbc.ca

Mozart created more than 600 music compositions before dying at age 35 in 1791 in Vienna.(Associated Press)

Polish and Austrian experts are working to determine whether three musical scores discovered at a Roman Catholic monastery in southern Poland could be attributed to composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Apparently, the scores — unearthed at the Jasna Gora monastery — have been identified as 18th century manuscript copies and "their character allows us to suppose Mozart was their author," musicologist Remigiusz Pospiech told Poland's Polska daily in a report published Friday.

Jasna Gora is the third-largest Catholic pilgrimage site in the world — home to the miraculous icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa, named after the town the monastery sits in. It is a national shrine in Poland.

Jasna Gora holds some 3,000 manuscripts of musical scores, collected over the centuries for its orchestra.

Experts in Vienna and Salzburg, Mozart's birthplace in Austria, have been told of the find and are expected to examine the documents soon.

Born in Salzburg in 1756, Mozart moved to Vienna in 1781 and remained there until his death at age 35. He composed more than 600 works, including symphonies, operas, choral and piano music.

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