"For Balazs Mikusi, a young Hungarian musicologist, it was the find of a lifetime. Leafing through folders of unidentified manuscripts at the National Szechenyi Library in Budapest recently, he came across four pages of what looked to him like Mozart’s handwriting."

"Mikusi quickly cross-checked his finding with Mozart experts, and they confirmed his discovery. The four pages were the original score of the Piano Sonata in A Major, K.331, one of the composer's best-known sonatas."

"As he looked through a folder of unidentified music scores, among the many copies and unremarkable scores he suddenly noticed a page that made his heart jump."

"News has just come to light of a major Mozart discovery, of a priceless manuscript that had lain in the musty depths of Budapest’s National Szechenyi Library for who knows how many decades, only to be rediscovered by a Haydn scholar making one of the most fortuitous Mozartian tangents of all time."

"When I first laid eyes upon the manuscript, the handwriting already looked suspiciously 'Mozartish'," said Mikusi, head of the music collection at Budapest's National Szechenyi Library. "Then I started reading the notes, and realised it is the famous A Major sonata... My heart rate shot up," he told AFP as he proudly showed off his precious discovery.

"Balazs Mikusi of the National Szechenyi Library holds a newly discovered manuscript of one of the most recognized tunes by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Budapest on Wednesday."

"The original score of Mozart's famed Piano Sonata No.11 has been found in a Hungarian library. Balazs Mikusi of the National Szechenyi Library found the manuscript in a dark corner of the building, and, working with an expert, determined that it was an original. "

"Balazs Mikusi's heart started racing when he realised what the papers he held in his hand were: the long-lost original score of a famous Mozart sonata scribbled by the composer himself. "When I first laid eyes upon the manuscript, the handwriting already looked suspiciously 'Mozartish'," said Mikusi, head of the music collection at Budapest's National Szechenyi Library. "Then I started reading the notes, and realised it is the famous A Major sonata... My heart rate shot up."

"I started reading the notes, and realised it was the famous A Major sonata... My heart rate shot up."

"Mozart (1756-1791) is not believed to have ever set foot in Hungary. It is therefore a mystery how the manuscript wound up in the national library, established in 1802 by Count Ferenc Szechenyi, a rich aristocrat. "The Szechenyis had good contacts in Vienna and in the music world too, but it basically could have ended up here anytime in the past 200 years," Mikusi said."

"A Mozart score, which had been missing for over 200 years, has been found in Budapest by accident. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s widely known melody, “Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major,” was found on old yellowing pages in the lonely corners of Budapest’s National Szechenyi Library. Balazs Mikusi, head of the music collection at the library, could hardly believe his eyes when he realized the original score was in Mozart’s own handwriting. "

"“Of course remember the heartbeat. You are turning the pages of hundreds of sources which are obviously written by copiers, not the composer. And suddenly you see something that is a composer’s handwriting – and it even looks familiar.” "

"Mozart’s Piano Sonata in A Major, No. 11 K331 is one of the great musical genius’s most recognisable pieces. However aside from a single page, which is preserved in a Salzburg museum in Austria, the composer’s birth place, the original manuscript penned by Mozart was thought lost, until now. After five years of tirelessly cataloguing previously unidentified historical documents in the Szechenyi Library in Budapest, the institution’s Head of Music, Balazs Mikusi has claimed to have stumbled upon four yellowing pages written in Mozart’s hand. "

"The original score for the composer's No. 11 in A Major was confirmed late last month in a library in Hungary. Although the last page of the composition, containing the famous rondo alla turca movement, is safe and sound in Salzburg, the world had no idea where the rest of the score was. Balazs Mikusi, a musicologist and head of the music section at the National Szechenyi Library, has been working on cataloguing yet uncatalogued material for the last five years when he made the discovery earlier this year. "

"This photo taken on September 17, 2014 shows head of the music collection Balazs Mikusi of the National Szechenyi Library presenting a manuscript of one of the most recognised tunes of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the A major sonata in Budapest. "