Music: The Baroque Biber
Longform (but not super long) on the history of a Baroque masterpiece. It was found in the 1870s by choirmaster Innocenz Achleitner. He found the work being used as grocery wrapping. He recognized that the paper was older and was a complicated musical score. He took it to the the Salzberg music archivists who believed it to be a work by Baroque Italian composer Orazio Benevoli. It was named the Missa Salisburgensis. In 1969, Ernst Hintermaier started to study the piece and concluded that the hand was the same as other works by an artists known as "Copyist No. III." By comparing pieces and analyzing paper, Hintermaier narrowed the composer to two Baroque composers: Andreas Hofer or Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber. Most musical archivists believe the piece to be composed by Biber.
I found this so interesting for a variety of reasons. Finding out the composer from analyzing paper from 300 years ago is amazing. Also, Biber is truly an interesting composer. His works are varied and unique. When I used to sing (an eon ago), I sang a beautiful piece by Franz Biber called Ave Maria {linke opens a video}. Damn That's Interesting: The Greatest Composer Never Known Wikipedia for the Missa Salisburgensis Wikipedia for Franz Biber
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