“Mostly” Mozart

The play—which told the story of Rosamunde, a royal heiress, who was brought up incognito as a shepherdess by a mariner’s widow but sought to reclaim her throne—has not survived. Neither had the Schubert score until Grove and Arthur Sullivan, who had gone to Vienna specifically to research Schubert, found it in 1867. Grove said he discovered the score in the bottom of a cupboard, tied with cord, and covered by the dust of almost a half century. ...