Can you imagine just stumbling upon an old Beethoven working manuscript score of his Große Fuge, Op.133, composed in 1825-6! Can you imagine being Heather Carbo, the librarian at the Palmer Theological Seminary outside Philadelphia, who found it while cleaning out an archival cabinet one hot afternoon in July.
Yes, I can imagine! Mom was our Beethoven and Mozart and every famous composer ever. True, she didn't write their kind of music but she could have and she played them. After she "passed over" to join them and we were left to settle the estate, guess what I grabbed!
Beethoven's score is "expected to fetch $1.7 million to $2.6 million. (The seminary's president, Wallace Charles Smith, said funds from the "Beethoven blessing" would be added into its $3 million endowment and eventually put toward scholarships, a training program in West Virginia and the repayment of debts.)"
You couldn't pay me twice that much to give up Mom's (though I might think about it, ha)! Besides, I can picture them all right now sitting around somewhere, having a good chuckle.
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