Missing Beethoven music score for London auction
Published October 13th, 2005
An 80-page handwritten manuscript by Beethoven which was missing for 115 years has been put up for auction.
The score of Grosse Fuge, which has the composer’s changes, was found by a librarian at a US religious school.
It is expected to fetch up to £1.5m when it goes on sale at Sotheby’s auction house in London on 1 December.
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