"The original manuscript for Mozart's Clarinet Concerto is lost,
but a few fragments survive. The autographs of this Clarinet Quintet,
however, has disappeared completely. Mozart wrote music for the clarinetist
Anton Stadler. Did Stadler pawn them to pay his bills? Did the local
fishmonger use them to wrap fish?"
A new novel called THE MOZART FORGERIES by Daniel Leeson, will
lead you on a merry caper over these manuscripts. And it's fiction...or
IS it? You'll find yourself wondering which parts AREN'T true. The
MOZART FORGERIES by Daniel Leeson. You can check it out on our website,
npr.org.
. . . Marty Ronish, Staff, National Public Radio