A symphony's score had to be rebuilt twiceSourced
Its score was lost at sea.
The reconstruction was lost in war.
Kōsaku Yamada composed Japan's first symphony in 1912. He said the score was lost in a maritime accident after a US performance and reconstructed it from surviving parts. That version was destroyed in the bombing of Tokyo; another reconstruction appeared in 1997.
The music survived
two vanished scores.
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