Thursday, October 13, 2005

Woman Finds Handwritten Beethoven Score


This is simply stunning news:

"Heather Carbo, a no-nonsense librarian at an evangelical seminary outside Philadelphia, was cleaning out an archival cabinet one hot afternoon in July. It was a dirty and routine job. But there, on the bottom shelf, she stumbled across what may be one of the most important musicological finds in years. It was a working manuscript score for a piano version of Beethoven's "Grosse Fuge," a monument of classical music." Read the rest here.
It was a working manuscript score for a piano version of Beethoven's "Grosse Fuge," a monument of classical music.

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