A short but previously lost piece by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was recently performed just last week on January 27th, Mozart’s 265th birthday. The brief allegro can be heard below:
A bit more about the piece from the Mozarteum Foundation:
The present Allegro in D major for piano was hitherto known only from 20th-century sales and auction catalogues, where it had been described as a “sketch for a composition for orchestra or chamber ensemble”. On the basis of this vague information, musicologist Alfred Einstein assigned the piece the number App. 109g/16 in the third edition of the so-called Koechel catalogue, which finally became K. 626b/16 in the sixth edition. A music-loving engineer bought the autograph manuscript in an antiquarian bookstore in Paris in the late 1920s; his descendants kept it in the Netherlands for 90 years. When the manuscript was offered to the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation it became immediately evident that it was not merely a sketch, but a complete work for piano in Mozart’s own handwriting, a piece unrelated to all known compositions. Finds of this kind have become extremely rare; the last comparable case was the rediscovery of the Allegro in F major for piano, K. 33B in 1937.
Although short, I think the work is ingenius. It’s quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that’s all. Just cut a few and it’ll be perfect.
We got 
a few days ago, and it’s quite fun and addicting. I’ll probably waste lots of time playing it. My sister kept encouraging me to cheat and give my Sims millions of dollars, but I don’t want to cheat! I want to slowly build my Sims into millionaires through lots of hard work. I haven’t explored nearly all the possibilities of the game yet; my family is a small poor family in a little house with not much furniture. But someday, generations later perhaps, they’ll be filthy rich!
. It takes a while, obviously, but it’s fun; it allows me to explore the CDs and go through them one by one, though I’m certainly not trying to listen to all of them quite yet. Right now I’m just listening to random tracks, and the works I know I enjoy. Unlike a huge collection of MP3s, having a tangible set of CDs is nice in that it allows you to really flip through the options, and perhaps get a sense of just how much music there is. Eh… hard to explain I guess. But I like the tangibility of it. Which is why I still like buying CDs in general, instead of just MP3s. Physical CDs are a lot more fun to collect and explore.
Yesterday I got my 
and 
and such, and hopefully someday I’ll buy them too, but I had to start out with Mozart.