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** To name an example, several unique manuscripts of Haydn were lost when the opera house at Esterhaza (where he was employed) burned down in 1979.

* [[Felix Mendelssohn]] mentioned in various correspondences that he was writing a cello concerto at around the same time he composed his famous violin concerto. The manuscript is said to have fallen off the back of a coach while Mendelssohn was travelling to present the concerto to its dedicatee; it was never recovered.

* What is now known as Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No.9 in E-flat major is actually the second version of the work. Shostakovich told Beethoven Quartet first violinist Dmitri Tsyganov that the first version was "based on themes from childhood", but he became dissatisfied with the work and destroyed the manuscripts in a fit of depression in 1961.

* The French composer Paul Dukas, best known for "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", was an ardent perfectionist and destroyed the manuscripts of pieces which he felt were not up to standard; his surviving works only constitute around half of his total output. Among the lost works are several operas and ballets, a symphony, and a violin sonata.

* Powerman 5000's ''Anyone For Doomsday?'' similarly got pulled from official release two weeks before it was planned to hit stores. This was such a late development that review copies had already been sent out, ''Rolling Stone'' and Allmusic had already published reviews and the album's first single, "Bombshell" was already climbing the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart (it reached a peak of #26 before being quietly pulled). In this case though, the band themselves decided not to release it. Rumor had it that this was because the album title started seeming [[Too Soon]] after 9/11, but frontman Spider has said it was just because he felt it was too similar to their previous album. For several years, "Bombshell" was the only song from the record legally available (it eventually found its way onto the soundtrack album for the 2003 film ''[[Freddy vs. Jason]]''), but the whole album became available for purchase on iTunes some time in the late 2000's.

* When [[The Minutemen]]'s double album ''Double Nickels On The Dime'' was released on cd, it was missing three songs from the original release ("Mr. Robot's Holy Orders", "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love", and "Little Man With A Gun In His Hand"): The album ran too long to be compatible with all cd players, so the band personally picked their three least favorite songs and cut them. The songs aren't available as digital downloads either, at least not the versions that were on the album. To hear these missing songs you have to either buy the still-in-print vinyl version, or settle for different version of them on other albums (live versions of "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" and "Mr Robot's Holy Orders" are on ''Post-Mersh Vol 3'' and ''Ballot Result'' respectively, while an earlier recording of "Little Man With A Gun In His Hand" is on ''Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat''). Or of course you can [[Keep Circulating the Tapes|find digitized versions of the record out there]].

* [[Kraftwerk]]'s ''Techno Pop''. A few of the songs were moved on to ''Electric Cafe'', and the single "Tour de France" became the basis for its own album nearly two decades later.

* Happens quite a bit with almost any artist you can mention. When they record an album, a lot of them start off with about 20-30 songs to choose from, which is then whittled down to the 10-20 that actually make it on to the album. A few of them become B-Sides, but a lot of the rest simply disappear, either unrecorded or as rough demos. For one example, when Rachel Stevens was recording her second album, ''Come and Get It,'' a song called "Nothing in Common" was recorded but didn't make the cut, which led to a few whispers among Rachel's fans about wanting to hear it, since her previous collaboration with producer Richard X had given Rachel her biggest hit, "Some Girls." Six years later, Richard X, [http://blackxmelody.blogspot.com/2011/07/rachel-stevens-nothing-in-common.html leaked the demo] on one of his websites.