Mozart, Serenate ex C, "Ganz kleine Nachtmusik," K. 648

Classic FM reports on newly discovered Mozart compositions ...

The music was found in the collection of the Leipzig Municipal Library while researchers were completing a new edition of the Köchel catalogue of Mozart’s works.

Composed for string trio, the seven-movement piece is believed to have been written in the mid to late 1760s, when Mozart was a teenager. The manuscript features dark brown ink on off-white laid paper, with the title Serenate ex C.

Elisabeth Zimmermann, Vincent Geer, and David Geer of the youth symphony orchestra of the Leipzig School of Music "Johann Sebastian Bach" perform the piece ...