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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 10:21 AM
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Beethoven score worth more than $2 million discovered
http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/2005101337

A working manuscript of one of Beethoven’s final compositions has been rediscovered in a seminary library and could fetch more than $2 million at auction.

The 80-page manuscript of Beethoven’s “Gross Fuge” for piano duet was created when he was deaf and is filled with editing and notations from the composer’s own hand. Never before seen by scholars, it was written a few months before the composer’s death in 1827.

It was found by a librarian clearing out old archives at the Palmer Theological Seminary and displayed briefly at the seminary Thursday in a glass case and under the eyes of several plainclothes guards.


all I can say is WOW!
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 10:22 AM
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1. Yeah, I heard about that a few weeks ago.
Pretty amazing.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 10:26 AM
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2. Yep... this is very cool!
Edited on Fri Oct-14-05 10:53 AM by arwalden
I love reading stories like that!
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Coventina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-14-05 10:29 AM
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3. woohoo! Let's hear it for the Gross Fudge!!
:woohoo:
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