モーツァルトの未発表曲、ドイツで発見 「ガンツ・クライネ・ナハトムジーク」

【ライプチヒＡＦＰ＝時事】１８世紀オーストリアの作曲家ウォルフガング・アマデウス・モーツァルトが、１０代前半に作曲したと思われる未発表曲の楽譜がドイツの図書館で発見された。研究者らが１９日、発表した。（写真は１８世紀オーストリアの作曲家ウォルフガング・アマデウス・モーツァルトが１３歳の頃の肖像画）
　ライプチヒ市立図書館の声明によると、１７６０年代半ばから後半にかけて作曲されたとみられるこの作品は、７つの小楽章から成る弦楽三重奏曲で、演奏時間は約１２分。
　モーツァルトの作品を作曲年代順に並べたケッヘル目録の最新版を研究者らが編さんしていた際に発見されたという。新目録には「ガンツ・クライネ・ナハトムジーク（Ｇａｎｚ ｋｌｅｉｎｅ Ｎａｃｈｔｍｕｓｉｋ、とても小さな夜の曲）」として記載された。
　発見された楽譜自体はモーツァルト自身が書いたものではなく、１７８０年頃に書かれた写しだと考えられている。
　この作品は１９日、オーストリア・ザルツブルクで行われた新しいケッヘル目録の発表会で演奏された。ドイツでは２１日、ライプチヒ・オペラで初演される。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/09/20-18:34）

A previously unknown piece of music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when he was probably in his early teens has been uncovered at a library in Germany, researchers said Thursday.
The piece dates to the mid- to late-1760s and consists of seven miniature movements for a string trio lasting around 12 minutes, the Leipzig Municipal Libraries said in a statement.
Born in 1756, Mozart was a child prodigy and began composing at a very early age under his father's guidance.
Researchers discovered the work at the city's music library while compiling the latest edition of the so-called Koechel catalogue, the definitive archive of Mozart's musical works.
The newly discovered manuscript was not penned by Mozart himself but is believed to be a copy made in around 1780, the researchers said.
The piece was performed by a string trio at the unveiling of the new Koechel catalogue in the Austrian city of Salzburg on Thursday.
It will receive its German premiere at the Leipzig Opera on Saturday.
The piece is referred to as Ganz kleine Nachtmusik in the new Koechel catalogue, according to the Leipzig libraries.
The manuscript consists of dark brown ink on medium-white handmade paper and the parts are individually bound, they said.
The Koechel catalogue describes the piece as preserved in a single source, in which the attribution of the author suggests that the work was written before Mozart's first trip to Italy, according to the municipal libraries.
The young Mozart had been known to researchers up until now mainly as a composer of piano music, arias and symphonies, Ulrich Leisinger of the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg said in a statement.
A list by Mozart's father had alerted academics to the existence of many other chamber music compositions by the young artist, which were all thought to have been lost until the emergence of the string trio, Leisinger said.
Since the inspiration for this apparently came from Mozart's sister, it is tempting to imagine that she kept the work as a memento of her brother, Leisinger said.