MUSIC

A long-lost fragment of an early symphony by 19th-Century German composer Richard Wagner has been discovered in Munich and will receive its world premiere in October. Robert Muenster, musical director of the Bavarian State Library, told Reuters on Tuesday that he stumbled across the manuscript while sifting through documents from a private collection. West German maestro Wolfgang Sawallisch will conduct the Bavarian State Orchestra in the first performance of the symphony at a ceremony in October, he said. The original manuscript, giving only a brief outline of the work, appeared in 1887, four years after the composer’s death, in a Berlin antique shop. Wagner’s widow, Cosima, asked conductor Felix Mottl to score it for full orchestra, but the planned performance never took place.