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22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery'

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post #7

I love his handwriting style. I wonder if it was the first draft or a copy [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkqfpkTTy2w

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

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post #7

I love his handwriting style. I wonder if it was the first draft or a copy [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkqfpkTTy2w

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

You've named one composer who is. I don't see where the inductive step applies.

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post #9

Let's hope it is more authentic than the Hitler Diaries[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Diaries

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

Color me sceptical

Re: 22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery'

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post #2

Apparently this was an exercise book he made for a parisian tutee, who later fled the french revolution, leading to the confiscation of the notebook by the revolutionaries.

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

Re: 22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery'

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post #2

Apparently this was an exercise book he made for a parisian tutee, who later fled the french revolution, leading to the confiscation of the notebook by the revolutionaries.

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

I have it on good authority that it is a handwritten notebook.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I have it on good authority that it is a handwritten notebook.

Note-book, as in "book containing musical notes". I expected a regular notebook (for the other kind of notes, that people like you and me might write)...

Re: 22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery'

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

You've named one composer who is. I don't see where the inductive step applies.

The composers who didn't have neat handwriting are forgotten today because nobody could read their (musical) notes...
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