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Comment by wvbdmp

6 days ago

Apparently this was an exercise book he made for a parisian tutee, who later fled the french revolution, leading to the confiscation of the notebook by the revolutionaries.

That's exactly what the article says... so yes apparently that's what it is

  • I have it on good authority that it is a handwritten notebook.

    • > I have it on good authority that it is a handwritten notebook.

      I'm suspicious. Didn't Mozart use a word processor?

      I mean, not a PC program, that would be ridiculous, but one of those dedicated stand-alone word processor systems (like Smith-Corona made) that they used in ancient times.

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    • Note-book, as in "book containing musical notes". I expected a regular notebook (for the other kind of notes, that people like you and me might write)...