A previously unknown piece of music likely composed by a teenage Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was recently uncovered at a library in Germany. The piece, which dates to the mid- to late-1760s, consists of seven miniature movements for a string trio. It lasts around 12 minutes, researchers with the Leipzig Municipal Libraries said in a statement.

The 12-minute piece by Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is called "Ganz kleine Nachtmusik" and was likely written when he was a teenager sometime in the mid-to late-1760s. Leipzig Municipal Libraries revealed the good news in a statement and that the piece will have its debut on Saturday at the Leipzig Opera.

Archivists discovered it while compiling the latest Köchel catalogue of Mozart’s works, which refers to the piece as Ganz kleine Nachtmusik; researchers know of many undiscovered chamber-music compositions by Mozart, due to a list compiled in the ...

Turns out there’s at least one piece of music by Mozart that has not been studied and performed to death. As The Guardian reports, a previously unknown composition by Mozart has been discovered in a German library.

A previously unknown piece of music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when he was probably in his early teens has been uncovered at a library in Germany, researchers said Thursday.