GUY RAZ, host: You're listening to a piece of music by Mozart that, until now, wasn't heard for more than 200 years. It was found in the collections of the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg. It's an early work, a very early work, in fact. Researchers believe Mozart composed this piece when he was just seven or eight years old.</s>GUY RAZ, host: Scholars say the music is written in the hand of Mozart's father, Leopold. But because of what they call technical mistakes, clumsy moments, it couldn't possibly be Leopold's composition. They figure the young Mozart didn't know musical notation, so he asked dad for help.</s>GUY RAZ, host: Today, the music came to life once more, played for the first time in public on Mozart's own piano in a house where he once lived.
We hear one of the recently discovered compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The keyboard pieces were identified by the International Mozarteum Foundation in Austria. It is believed they were composed when Mozart was 7 or 8 years old.