Crate of Birthday Cards Yields Bach Composition
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A previously unknown work by Johann Sebastian Bach has been discovered in a crate of 18th century birthday cards, researchers said in Germany.
They said the aria for soprano and string or keyboard accompaniment composed for a duke’s birthday in 1713 is the first music from the renowned composer to surface in three decades.
Michael Maul of the Bach Archive Foundation found the composition last month in the eastern city of Weimar. The foundation said Bach wrote the two-page score at age 28.
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