Richard Witts with the score for the Edinburgh Symphony that he uncovered in the University’s Main Library.
To celebrate the discovery, undergraduate music student and harpist Julia Somerville performed an extract from the symphony at the University's Main Library. Richard Witts came across the lost score while he was researching the archive of Sir Donald Francis Tovey, a former Reid Professor of Music at the University. Professor Tovey, who once described Röntgen as "one of the greatest masters of absolute music” was founder of the Reid Symphony Orchestra, which rehearsed at the Reid Concert Hall.
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