Beethoven’s Ninth manuscript could fetch £3m

Charles Davis writes \”The final manuscript of Beethoven\’s Ninth Symphony, scribbled with the composer\’s revisions and comments, including splutters of rage at the unfortunate copyists, will be auctioned in London next month, estimated to make up to £3m.

Sotheby\’s head of manuscripts, Stephen Roe, described it yesterday as \”an incomparable manuscript of an incomparable
work, one of the highest achievements of man, ranking alongside Shakespeare\’s Hamlet and King Lear.\”
It is a sale to make collectors swoon: last year a single leaf of a Beethoven manuscript, entirely in his own hand, was sold to a private American collector for £1.3m almost 10 times the highest estimate – which makes the estimated £3m for the 575 pages of the complete Ninth quite a bargain.

More at
The Guardian \”

Jen Young points to CNN As Well.

April 9, 2003 by Uncategorized 0

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