MUSIC

Schumann Manuscript Gets Top Dollar: A 150-year-old manuscript of Robert Schumann’s only finished piano concerto sold at auction in London on Wednesday for a record $1.38 million. Oxford book dealer Albi Rosenthal, who beat two rival bidders, said the signed manuscript will go to a library in West Germany where music scholars will have access to it. The concerto, started in 1841, was written by Schumann for his wife, Clara Wieck, a piano virtuoso, who first performed it four years later in Dresden. The previous record for a single music manuscript, $471,000 for Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring,” was broken at the start of the sale when an anonymous bidder paid $673,000 for a Bach Cantata. But the record lasted for less than two hours before Rosenthal made his bid for the Schumann work.