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Offline pianistimo

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beethoven manuscript sold for 2.3 million
on: December 20, 2005, 04:08:29 PM
here's an article on a recent sale of a newly discovered manuscript of beethoven's 'grosse fuge.'  interesting how much it sold for!

www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2005/s1522653.htm

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Re: beethoven manuscript sold for 2.3 million
Reply #1 on: December 20, 2005, 06:30:20 PM
hahah, if Beethoven could've known. What else was neat is that Beethoven made notes in a red crayon :D I wonder if he owned a pair of crayola safety scissors?

...A piano duet arrangement, hopefully that eventually finds its way to recording, I'd like to hear that.

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Re: beethoven manuscript sold for 2.3 million
Reply #2 on: December 20, 2005, 06:47:59 PM
hahah, if Beethoven could've known. What else was neat is that Beethoven made notes in a red crayon :D I wonder if he owned a pair of crayola safety scissors?


Don't know but his E-Z Bake oven has been discovered in an attic in Bonn... :)
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Re: beethoven manuscript sold for 2.3 million
Reply #3 on: December 20, 2005, 11:38:24 PM
must protect my beloved beethoven from such sacrilige.  so what if he used a red crayon.  chopin scribbled. 
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New Piano Piece by Chopin Discovered – Free Piano Score

A previously unknown manuscript by Frédéric Chopin has been discovered at New York’s Morgan Library and Museum. The handwritten score is titled “Valse” and consists of 24 bars of music in the key of A minor and is considered a major discovery in the wold of classical piano music. Read more
 

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