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   Thursday, March 15, 2001
   Unknown Mozart score discovered

   Reuters News Agency

   London A previously unknown composition by Mozart has been discovered
   in a local authority office in the northern English town of Halifax,
   British newspapers reported on Thursday.

   Music professor Rachel Cowgill was quoted as saying she had unearthed
   the composition an adaptation by Mozart of Handel's oratorio Judas
   Maccabaeus as she was sifting through papers at the Calderdale Council
   office.

   "I opened the score and looked at the title page where it quite
   clearly said by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart," Ms.  Cowgill told the Times
   newspaper.

   Ms.Cowgill said the manuscript was not written in the Austrian
   composer's hand but she was convinced it was genuine because of
   stylistic techniques consistent with his other work.

   She said she was working on a project to reconstruct the library of
   William Priestley, a 19th-century collector of German music, when
   she found the manuscript.

   The manuscript is believed to date back to the 1780s, when Mozart
   was known to have adapted four other Handel pieces for contemporary
   tastes.

   Mr. Priestley may have obtained it through his connections with a
   church in Yorkshire, northern England, where a clergyman had bought
   several scores from Leipzig, Germany, in 1817, according to the Times.

   "It tells us much more about how Mozart responded to an earlier great
   master like Handel.  I couldn't put a monetary value on it, but in
   terms of scholarship it is extremely valuable," Ms.  Cowgill said.

   Handel wrote Judas Maccabaeus in 1746, 13 years before his death.

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