A chance discovery underneath the floorboards of a quaint brothel in Weimar has produced a long lost treasure of classical music. According to Proffessor Dr. Hoerekaum from the University of Wiesbaden, the piece in question is Franz Liszt's Années de pèlerinage 1.25. Liszt (1811-1886) is known to have taught in Weimar between 1848 and 1861, after which time he moved to Bethesda, Maryland to become an accountant.
It has long been known that during his tenure in Saxony, Liszt fell in love with Annaliese , the cousin of his neighbour's wife's brother's mother-in-law.

The two of them could often be seen arm wrestling at the local tavern "Das Alte Europa" . Exactly how the manuscript found itself underneath the mattress of the bordello and why it had not been discovered in over a century remains a mystery. What is known, however, is that mattresses produced in Germany around that period did not have the "turn every three months" stickers sown onto them , perhaps providing a clue as to why the three sheets that comprise the handwritten score were in almost pristine condition.

The Fibber had the good fortune to have a first hand look at the document. For reasons of copyright, no parts of the actual score can be reproduced for this article. However , the new work's opening notes sound something like this: " Dam, Dam, Dam, dudledum, ti……. ti …. Taaaaah. Ta darararadaladararalaaahhhhhhhhh ". These opening bars ( in E minor) clearly demonstrate that by 1849 Czerny's influence of Liszt's work is but a distant memory . Here we have a composer whose maturity is reflected in the conviction of the task at hand , namely to seduce the public right from the very first note, only to lead them astray a few bars later., comprising , in essence, the genesis of a technique that would later be used by his son-in-law Wagner, whales, the Clash and Kelvin Klein.

Fans of Liszt around the world will soon be able to hear the work performed live for the first time as the St. Jerome's High School band from Kitchener, Ontario will include it in their repertoire when they start touring Liechtenstein in the fall.

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The Fibber can't help but wonder what Mad Max Mel is up to these days: $40 million dollars to make a flick about a chap who, according to legend, was rather fond of the poor. Admittedly, it's been some time since the testaments have been read by this scribe, but it would stand to reason that the object of Mel's passion would have found a better use for all those green backs .
On a side note, the Fibber lives in lovely Halifax with a port barely large enough to fit Mr. Gibson's yacht when he popped by for a visit a few years ago. Mel, old mate, what happened to the donkey?