These manuscripts were also sold at Sotheby's, where they yielded proceeds of $1,576,000. In 1990, a University accountant discovered original music manuscripts by Mozart, Haydn, Meyerbeer and Spohr in a Seminary safe. A piece of music that Beethoven wrote many years ago sold this month for more than 1 million. Famed composer Ludwig van Beethoven lived in the early 1900s. Before reading, ask students to agree or disagree with each of the statements below. This is the second time that rare musical manuscripts have been found at Palmer (formerly Eastern Baptist) Theological Seminary. A 179-year-old manuscript by Ludwig van Beethoven was sold at auction on December 1. ∺lthough it may have been displayed once after it was donated in 1950, it disappeared until it was discovered among the Seminary archives by Ms. Autograph Musical Manuscript, sketch-leaf part of the score of the Scottish Songs, Sunset Op. a video with Bernstein showing the original manuscript of Beethovens 5th. According to Palmer Theological Seminary, the manuscript was probably bought by philanthropist and hymnologist William Howard Doane at that time and later donated to the Seminary by his daughter, Marguerite Treat Doane. to whoever had to decipher Beethovens handwriting (opus 111 manuscript). "It will further the Seminary's mission by reducing debt, improving our endowment, and helping to fund a creative program at Eastern University to provide Associate's degrees for urban young people."Īfter it appeared in an 1890 auction catalogue, the working manuscript which contains new material for one of the composers' most forward-looking works was lost to twentieth-century Beethoven scholars. Wallace Charles Smith in a public announcement released on Thursday. "We are pleased and delighted that the manuscript sold," said Palmer Seminary President Dr. Stephen Roe, Head of Sotheby's Manuscript Department. Jeffrey Kallberg, a musicologist at the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. The manuscript was discovered among archival materials by Circulation Supervisor Heather Carbo last July and authenticated by Dr. 134), one of the composer's last works, is one of Beethoven's few compositions for piano duet. The autograph manuscript of one of Ludwig Van Beethoven's most revolutionary works, recently discovered among missionary artifacts at Palmer Theological Seminary of Eastern University, was sold for $1.72 million to an anonymous buyer on Thursday at Sotheby's in London.Ĭonsidered a major find by music scholars, the Grosse Fuge in B flat major for piano four-hands (Op. Beethoven Manuscript Discovered At Palmer Theological Seminary Sold For $1.72 Million
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