Mozart manuscript uncovered

Pianist and music historian Robert Levin claims that the manuscript of the piece is a more faithful impression of how Mozart would have performed such music The Guardian reported.

Levin says the manuscript of note is not to modern taste, but more authentic. The musician is planning to perform the piece with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London next week.

He also noted that the manuscript was embellished by the portrait of Ployer, daughter of a Viennese tax collector who was regarded by her friends as an outstanding performer.

Levin has collected all the versions of the score, which were separated during World War II for safety reasons.

The original Piano Concerto No 23 ended up in Paris. The manuscript for No 12 with new clarinet parts for No 23 on the same sheet was taken to Krakow, and the performance part with the embellishments for No 23 was taken to Berlin, Levin added.

Born in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the most influential and enduringly popular of classical composers.