Dvořák Symphony No. 1 in C minor, 'The Bells of Zlonice'

This is the first symphony Dvořák wrote, in February and March of 1865, at age 24. It's said he sent the score to a composition contest in Germany and never got it back, though the source of that story isn't certain. Dvořák believed the piece was lost, and he never heard it performed in his lifetime.

But in 1882, a scholar named Rudolf Dvořák, an unrelated person who just shared his surname, bought the score at a secondhand bookshop in Leipzig and kept it. It came to light only in 1923, and it was premiered in Brno on October 4, 1936, 71 years after it was composed. The subtitle 'The Bells of Zlonice' isn't in the score; it comes from the name of the village where Dvořák studied music as a teenager.