Librarian at a Philadelphia seminary finds a Beethoven manuscript. The piece is "Grosse Fuge", originally written for string quartet, here a four-hand piano version. The scribbled, "self-edited" manuscript (and others) is important because it gives "insight into [the composer's] working methods" and is also from late in his life, when he was already deaf.

It expected to fetch $1.7 - $2.6 million (USD) at a Sotheby's auction. The money goes back to the seminary.

A Historic Discovery, in Beethoven's Own Hand
By Daniel J. Wakin
Published: October 13, 2005