The Lost Mozart: A Novel

A college music student discovers a long-lost Mozart sketch and sets out to finish the piece and give its world premiere.

Noah Wideman is an overqualified music student trying to graduate with a degree no one asked for. It’s 1987. His parents had hoped for medicine or law—anything with a parking space—but instead, he’s scraping by on odd jobs and the kind of hope only a twenty-one-year-old with a library card can muster. One of those jobs is at Allegro FM, the local classical station, where ...