Newly Found Music Linked to Mozart

An Iowa music history professor has found portions of two little-known Viennese operas he says were written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the New York Times reported. The discovery was made by David J. Buch, a professor of music history at the University of Northern Iowa last year in the archives of the City and University Library in Hamburg, Germany. Mozart’s compositions are included in “The Philosopher’s Stone” and “The Beneficent Dervish.” Buch’s findings raise the possibility that there are other Mozart passages tucked away somewhere. Buch unearthed the Mozart link to the operas while researching a book.