Beethoven script heads to auction
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 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.
For the record:
12:00 a.m. Oct. 15, 2005 For The Record
Los Angeles Times Saturday October 15, 2005 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 0 inches; 23 words Type of Material: Correction
Beethoven manuscript -- A Quick Takes item in Friday’s Calendar section about a discovered manuscript referred to Beethoven’s “Grosse Fuge” as “Gross Fuge.”
It was found by a librarian clearing out old archives at the Palmer Theological Seminary in Wynnewood, Pa., and displayed briefly at the seminary Thursday.
The discovery was kept hidden since July while the bound manuscript was authenticated and appraised. It will be auctioned by Sotheby’s Dec. 1.
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