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'Lost' Beethoven manuscript fetches 1 million pounds at auction

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20051202
Author:ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer

ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
12-02-2005
Dateline: LONDON
A "lost" manuscript of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Grosse Fuge" for piano _ possibly the most important Beethoven discovery in more than a century _ has sold for 1 million pounds (euro1.46 million US$1.72) to an anonymous buyer, Sotheby's auctioneers said.

Sotheby's described the manuscript, discovered in a seminary library in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, as "an astounding and important discovery," and possibly the most substantial Beethoven manuscript to come up for sale in more than a century.

"In all the Beethoven ...

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