beethoven-sleuths-find-old-page-that-sheds-light-on-work-in-progress

Beethoven sleuths find old page that sheds light on a work in progress

By Luke Roney
Published January 11, 2016
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This photo shows the old Beethoven score.

This photo shows the old Beethoven score. (Bob Luckey Jr. /Hearst
Connecticut Media via AP)

Appraiser Brendan Ryan was at a house in Greenwich, Conn., to take a
look at furniture and other items the owner wanted to sell, but it was
a framed document hanging on a wall that caught his attention.

"I said to myself, 'Oh my God, that's Beethoven," Ryan tells [178]ABC
News. Beethoven's handwriting is "unmistakable," explains Ryan, who is
also a composer. His hunch panned out, and what turned out to be a rare
1810 Beethoven sketch leaf of Beethoven's opus 117, König Stephan,
[179]sold at auction in November for $120,000, the [180]Journal News
reports.

But before that could happen, the sketch leaf had to be authenticated
and the music identified, and Ryan is providing new details about the
weeks-long process.

“I equate it to trying to find a word in the dictionary without knowing
the first letter," says Ryan, who sought the help of his former music
professor, Mel Comberiati of Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY.
The pair pored over the digital archives of Beethoven's works from the
Beethoven Haus in Bonn, Germany. Most composers threw out their notes,
but luckily, "Beethoven didn’t throw anything out," Comberiati told
[181]Greenwich Time. One important clue came in the form of three small
holes on the side of the leaf that matched up perfectly with known
samples from the complete sketchbook. The sketch leaf sheds light on
Beethoven's process, showing ideas in pencil getting tweaked and then
made permanent with ink, reports ABC News. "It's kind of a mess,"
Comberiati tells the Journal News. "He's working out the music.

He writes a line, crosses it out." It's like the "moment you get to see
inside the composer's mind." (Beethoven's [182]heart arrhythmia may
have influenced his music.)

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