I played the andante con moto from Mozart String Quartet in E flat major K.428. The tone of the piano was bright, clear, bell- like but resonant. It was kept perfectly in tune. I truly felt like I was in heaven! While I was playing, violinist Bill Henry sauntered in with two young women -one on each arm! Frau Haupt-Stummer walked up to me then and said, “Now I have something special to show you but you must come upstairs.” Noticing the three Americans who just walked in, she asked me, “Are those your friends?” When I nodded she said “Well, of course, they may come upstairs as well!” The two young women with Bill were the Ciesinski sisters- Kristine and Katherine. The four of us walked upstairs to a little room with a small table in the middle. We waited about fifteen minutes. Dr. Haupt-Stummer then brought in a very thick stack of maybe 50 large individual pages of manuscript paper with very neat ink writing on them. She apologized and said that these were just fragments and sketches of pieces Mozart never finished. They turned out to be a great deal more than that. There were first movements of instrumental pieces and substantial sections of music that Mozart seemed to have written out neatly, rapidly but not always legibly. It was as if the composer was in such a hurry that he didn’t have time to write down all the music he heard in his imagination. Bill and I looked at this manuscript of part of K.487 (?) and though we were
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