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TIL the original signed manuscripts of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto were nearly lost in WWII when being transported for safekeeping to Prussia by train in the care of a librarian. The train came under aerial bombardment and the librarian escaped to a nearby forest with the scores hidden in his coat.

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