Friday, October 14, 2005

Roll Over Beethoven!

In June I posted a piece called "You never know what you'll find at the library" about an archivist at the Anna Amalia Library in Weimar, Germany who discovered an unknown Bach aria that is over 300 years old.

Not to be outdone Beethoven's ghost must have done a little shaking of the stack dust motes at the Palmer Theological Seminary library in Philadelphia because archivist Heather Carbo has uncovered a lost working manuscript of one of Beethoven's final compositions estimated to be worth $2 million!

Sometimes weeding can be a good thing.

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