This article reminds me of a book I read many years ago, "The Mozart forgeries", by Daniel Leeson [1]. It tells the story of two forgers which create the autogr

This article reminds me of a book I read many years ago, "The Mozart forgeries", by Daniel Leeson [1]. It tells the story of two forgers which create the autographs of two Mozart's most beloved works for clarinet, the Clarinet Quintet K581 and the Clarinet Concerto K621 (the originals have long been gone), planning to sell them to some museum for a huge amount of money. In order to do this, they acquire the documentation needed to learn how music was written in the XVIII century was written. They start from the production of paper sheets, the engraving of a watermark, the creation of a quill from bird feathers, the production of ink and so on. I really enjoyed the book and suggest it to anybody which appreciated this article. (Or Mozart. Or both, like me.) [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4368020-the-mozart-forgeries https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4368020-the-mozart-forge...