SHORT TAKES : Mozart Manuscript Is Sold
A Mozart manuscript that had been locked away in a Philadelphia seminary since the early 19th Century sold for $1.7 million at a London auction today.
In Salzburg, Austria, Mozart’s birthplace, the International Mozarteum Foundation said it had purchased the manuscript with financial support from the Austrian government and the city.
The price for the manuscript of the Fantasia and Sonata in C Minor equaled the world record for a single musical work set in 1989 for the score of a Schumann piano concerto.
The manuscript, dating from 1784-85, was discovered in the safe of the Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. The proceeds will be used by the donor, Marguerite Doane, to continue the seminary’s work.
The Mozart manuscript, auctioned by Sotheby’s, was bought by London antiquarian book dealers Otto Haas on behalf of the foundation. The price included the buyer’s premium.
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