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Russian librarian unearths lost Stravinsky score after century

A Russian librarian has discovered an important work by composer Igor Stravinsky that was believed lost for a century, an expert at Saint Petersburg Conservatory told AFP on Wednesday. “The Funeral Song, which Stravinsky composed in 1908 and regretted losing, seeing it as one of his best early works, has been miraculously found in our library,” said Natalia Braginskaya, a Stravinsky expert at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, a top music