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Friday, 14 October 2005
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A handwritten, working manuscript of one of Beethoven's most
revolutionary works had been rediscovered after 115 years by a
librarian in Pennsylvania, triggering fevered excitement among music
historians.
Fantastic stuff, the thing of
great interest to composers (me for example) is that this piece has
Beethoven's own corrections on it, so it shows his compositional
process, not just the product. Invaluable.
It is a very mature work from late in his life, being a transcription
of a movement of one of the great string quartets for piano duet.
[ABC News: Entertainment (with Mpeg1)]
5:43:37 PM 
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