Beethoven As He Edited

A Beethoven manuscript missing for 115 years has resurfaced. “It was a working manuscript score for a piano version of Beethoven’s “Grosse Fuge,” a monument of classical music. And it was in the composer’s own hand, according to Sotheby’s auction house. The 80-page manuscript in mainly brown ink – a furious scattering of notes across the page, with many changes and cross-outs, some so deep that the paper is punctured – dates from the final months of Beethoven’s life.”