Arguably the longest a song has been an ID for. In your face, Eric Prydz!
If you ever thought, “I was born too late to enjoy a new piece of Classical music“, sit down, you’re not going to believe this. In what might just be the world record for the most years a track has stayed an ID, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart just put out a new tune — over two entire centuries after his time as a famous composer.
A few days ago, Leipzig municipal libraries in Germany revealed their discovery of a previously unknown work by the great Austrian composer. This piece was found in Leipzig’s Municipal Library, while researchers worked on the next edition of the Köchel catalogue of Mozart’s works.
The chances of finding something new were really slim, but they certainly weren’t zero. Composed for string trio, the seven-movement piece is believed to have been written in the mid to late 1760s, when Mozart was a teenager. They found it under the title Serenate ex C.
The 12-minute composition was renamed Ganz kleine Nachtmusik, and they’ve been performing it at the composer’s birthplace in Salzburg. People are forming long queues ahead of each performance to witness history in the making.
[H/T] Classic FM