July 3, 2026
Once-Forgotten Music Notebook by Mozart Was Discovered in Paris After 230 Years
Embed from Getty Images Deep in the storerooms of France’s National Library in Paris, curators uncovered a small 44-page notebook that would soon reshape part of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s early history. The manuscript, written in 1778 when Mozart was 22 and working in Paris as a music teacher, sat unidentified for more than 230 years, miscatalogued among centuries of archival material.
