New Mozart/Salieri composition discovered

A score of a new composition by Mozart has been discovered, the music to an opera libretto.  And he wrote it in collaboration with Antonio Salieri, whom the play Amadeus accused of murdering Mozart!

I can’t find a recording of what the piece of music sounds like.  Let us know if you come across one.

From Long-lost Mozart score discovered tucked away in Czech museum, The Independent:

A long-lost musical composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been discovered in a museum.

The collaborative effort, a libretto, between Antonio Salieri and Mozart was found tucked away in the reserve collection of the Czech national museum, according to The Local.

“It’s a joint composition by Mozart and Salieri, a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte put to music,” Sarka Dockalova, the museum’s spokeswoman, told AFP.

Salieri, a key figure in the development of late 18th-century opera, was described by Mozart in various letters as a “favourite” Italian composer of the Emperor of the time, Joseph II, and his rival in musical terms.”

It’s a really valuable work […] long thought to have been lost,” said Ms Dockalova.

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Strange:  This British tabloid says that the discovery of Mozart’s collaboration with Salieri might bring back the theory, dramatized in the play Amadeus, that maybe the lesser composer did kill Mozart.  I suppose the evidence that they worked together meant that they might have gotten on each other’s nerves.  But this classical music site says the opposite, that this collaboration should further discredit that speculation.

HT:  Mary Moerbe