Mozart lived for 35 years

Lehrer did 97

That's exactly what the article says... so yes apparently that's what it is

Composers were also handwriting masters. Bach also had incredible handwriting, there's a youtube channel about it.

french radio "France Musique" aired it the other day, i don't know if its available outside of france though

Any time something of popular historical interest like this pops up I think about that.

If you've not read it then Robert Harris's (factual) book about the affair is entertaining, not least because such a broad sweep of dislikeable characters were undone by greed and folly!

Confiscated during the revolution, kept by the national library. That's a bit different to "forged on schoolbooks with a Bic pen" provenance-wise.

> By coincidence, Goy had been looking at other documents Mozart had written for teaching just weeks earlier

Color me sceptical

Even inside the tiny niche of the classical music history world, a book of daily exercises - written for some now-obscure student, and owned by a national library - is actually a pretty minor thing.

Very few counterfeiters bother doing nickles and dimes.