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Ir is known that the paper prepared for photogrs-
phie drawing k blackened by the light. A young
printer at Berlin, M. Schell, proposes to utilise this
property of the photographic paper for the purpose
of determining the intensity of the solar light. He
has succeeded in establishing a scale of all the dark
nuances which the light produces on the photogra-
phic paper. Humboldt. Littnow, Dove. and Pongen-
dont' have approved the discovery. which may be of
great utility, not only for scientific researches, but
also for an infinite number of domestic and rura
operations.

OCTOBER 1, 1853.

Pusic.

THE MOZART POSTHUMOUS SCORE MSS.
1r is not, perhaps, universally known that Mozart
died in Vienna in great obscurity and almost
poverty. As the French revolution was then raging
0790 in ita greatest intensity, the funeral wok
place with such privacy that when, of late years, the
plan for a monument of his was made, the spot—
nay, even the locality—where he might have been
buried, could not be ascertained. Already during
Mozart's lifetime he hail been connected with the
great musical firm of Andre, at Offenbach on the
Nlaine, at whose house Goethe also had been a guest.
When, therefore, the late Hofrath Andre died, there
came forth a collection of •.-111 original MSS. of the
principal compositions of the great musician. The
heirs wish to dispose of this treasure, on which they
put the comparatively small value of 15,000 Rhenish
tiorino 040014. This collection is most important,
on more than one account. Many of the MSS. have
never been published ; and this relates not merely to
some youthful productions or incomplete morceaux,
lint to perfectly matured and completed musical eompo
sitions. Some works out. of the present collection
had been published of late years by Messrs. Andre,
and proved to be perfectly classical produc-
tions—such, in fine, as Mozart could not have
issued perfecter during his lifetime. On time
ether hand, it is clear that a thorough correction
and revision of the works of Mozart ought now to
take place, as in the various editions, made at so
many different places and offices, a number of typo-
graphical errors, mistakes, and mutilations have
crept in, which cannot he corrected too soon. On
ell these accounts it is most desirable that the Mozart
Manwieripts be purchased by some great institution,
to be accessible to the inspection and use of the
musical public of all the civilised nations of the
world. It is a fact uncontrovertible, that the historical

art culture, so to speak, of many of our younger
composers and amateurs is, at present, a rather in-
sufficient one, and hence, therefore, a study of the
complete works of such a surpassing talent. the only
possible antidote. Still, the stigma is undeniable
that these MSS. have remained half a century
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insed. M. Hilliger, a musician of Frank-
fort, has, within these few days, published a specific
catalogue of the posthumous Mozart MSS. f hie may
there learn with astonishment that amongst those
there are still two operas 0!) and three theatrical
sonatas, eleven sonatas for the organ, with the ac•
companiment of other instruments, a litany, with
choruses and airs, S-c., which await a long-delayed
publication, and which would not only fully repay the
expense of that purchase, but add to the honour 4,f
any institution acquiring such a valuable treasure.