Wednesday, 9. April 2003

Topic: MUSIK - on April 9, 2003 at 9:16:24 AM CEST

Beethoven Symphony Manuscript For Sale

Beethoven's final manuscript of the Ninth Symphony, marked with the composer's revisions and insults to the copyist who produced it, could fetch up to $4.6 million at a sale in London next month.

"This is one of the greatest works ever written by man, and it isn't likely there will be another complete Beethoven manuscript up for sale ever again; the rest are lost or in libraries," Stephen Roe, Sotheby's head of manuscripts, said Tuesday.

¬> AP

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