It’s rare to discover a lost work by a master composer, but ‘new’ works by Classical-era composers do turn up in the archives. To discover a lost work by a famous 20th-century composer is even more unexpected, but that was
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Over the course of listening to Beethoven’s early and middle period string quartets, music lovers have the privilege of hearing a brilliant young composer step into the tradition of Haydn and Mozart – then begin to innovate beyond it. Written
