Beethoven scores

An 80-page handwritten script by Beethoven, which was missing for 115 years, has sold for £1.1m at auction. . .

London auctioneers Sotheby's had expected the manuscript to fetch up to £1.5m but a spokeswoman said it had still achieved "an excellent price".

It had not been seen in public since an auction in 1890, before it was found by a librarian at a US religious school. . .

Manuscripts by Mozart were discovered at the seminary in 1990.

Posted by David on December 1, 2005 2:10 PM