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Weimar, Germany (dpa) - Researchers in Germany have found two handwritten music scores that composer Johann Sebastian Bach copied when he was a 15-year-old, archivists said Thursday.
The head of the Bach archive in the eastern German city of Leipzig, Christoph Wolff, described the find as "a sensation" and said the documents would be put on display from September 20.
The documents are copies of organ compositions by Dietrich Buxtehude and Johann Adam Reinken that Bach made when he was an apprentice to the organist Georg Boehm at the end of the 17th century.
They are the earliest know handwritten examples from Bach, who was born in 1685 and died in 1750. Experts say they provide valuable new information on Bach's early life.
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