February 12, 1981 (Thursday)
- The discovery, of a previously unknown symphony by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was announced in Munich by Dr. Robert Münster, a spokesman for the Bavarian State Library. Written 216 years earlier, in 1765, when Mozart was nine years old, Symphony in F major, K. Anh. 223 (19a) was purchased by the library from an unidentified seller who had found it "among some private papers in Bavaria last fall".
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