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Beethoven Manuscript at Sotheby's Auction
By Frank Metzger

Hi all: I thought some of you would find this really fascinating.
Perhaps some of you will bid and then give the item (if you get it)
to the MBSI?!

Frank Metzger

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Sotheby's [London]       Date     25:05:01 Phone 0207 293 5000
34 - 35 New Bond Street  Time     10.30 am Buyer Premium 17.5%
London                            1st lot  1  Fax   0207 293 5989
W1A 2AA                  Sale Name L01315 "FANTASIA"

Viewing : 21st to 24th May 9am - 4.30pm.
Fax for Bids: 020 7293 6255

 19  Beethoven, Ludwig van.  Autograph manuscript transcription by
Beethoven of part of Mozart's Fantasia in F minor for mechanical organ,
K.608, the transcription relating to bars 55 and 171-207; notated in
a dark brown ink on three four-stave systems per page, 35 bars in all,
the bar-lines written in a lighter brown ink, a working study
manuscript, with numerous abbreviations, deletions, revisions and
corrections, the first bar of the transcription (= bar 55 of K.608)
annotated by Beethoven ("etc) above the first stave 2 pages, oblong
4 to 233 x 320mm), 12-stave paper, later pencil manuscript annotations
at head of recto   E30000-40000


(Message sent Fri 11 May 2001, 14:03:04 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

Key Words in Subject:  Auction, Beethoven, Manuscript, Sotheby's

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