“A unique manuscript by Ludwig van Beethoven that was lost for more than a century was sold at auction on Thursday for £1.13 million ($1.95 million) to an anonymous buyer. The final price was at the low end of the pre-sale estimates of up to £1.5 million… Discovered in July at the bottom of a dusty filing cabinet at a religious school in Philadelphia, the manuscript sold Thursday is a work in progress for the Grosse Fuge in B flat major — one of Beethoven’s most revolutionary works… Sotheby’s said it was the most important Beethoven manuscript to have come to market in living memory and would prompt a complete reassessment of the German composer’s works.”