Unique Beethoven manuscript to be auctioned	贝多芬手稿惊现美教会学校 拍卖在即价值连城
A unique manuscript by Ludwig van Beethoven that was lost for more than a century will go on sale in London in December priced at over one million pounds. A unique manuscript by Ludwig van Beethoven that was lost for more than a century will go on sale in London in December priced at over one million pounds. Discovered in July at the bottom of a dusty filing cabinet at a religious school in Philadelphia, the manuscript is a work in progress for the composer's Grosse Fuge in B flat major -- one of his most revolutionary works. "This is an amazing find," said Stephen Roe, head of auction house Sotheby's manuscript department. "The manuscript was only known from a brief description in a catalog in 1890 and it has never before been seen or described by Beethoven scholars." Not only is the 80-page document a working manuscript for the only piano version of a major work by Beethoven, it is one of his few compositions for a piano duet. Sotheby's, which will auction the document on December 1, said it was the most important Beethoven manuscript to have come to market in living memory and would prompt a complete reassessment of his works. It is the second time very rare musical documents have been found by chance at the former Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary -- now renamed the Palmer Theological Seminary. A Mozart manuscript was discovered there in 1990. The German composer who continued to work as he went slowly deaf, wrote the work in 1826 -- one year before his death -- as the finale for his String Quartet in B flat major. The manuscript is written in brown and black ink and includes annotations in pencil and red crayon . The document contains multiple deletions and corrections and has places where the paper is rubbed through as Beethoven continuously tried and rejected different variations. Because it is so obviously a working document, it is not easy to read and has no printer's marks. Sotheby's said it was clear this was not the finished version and as such would give deep insight when compared with the published work.   (Agencies)	一份遗失了一个多世纪的贝多芬仅存的手稿今年12月将在伦敦拍卖，拍卖价将超过100万英镑。 这份手稿是今年七月在美国费城的一所教会学校满是灰尘的档案柜底部发现的，是贝多芬创作的降B大调大赋格曲中的部分手稿，降B大调大赋格曲是贝多芬最有创造性的作品之一。 “这个发现太惊人了。这份手稿仅在1890年的一份目录中略有记载。在此此前，研究贝多芬的学者们从来没有见过或描述过这份手稿。”纽约苏富比拍卖公司手稿部负责人斯蒂芬·罗说。 这份长达80页的手稿不仅是贝多芬的一部主要作品的唯一钢琴演奏版，也是他创作的为数不多的钢琴二重奏乐谱之一。 纽约苏富比拍卖公司将于今年12月1日拍卖这份手稿。拍卖行表示这是记忆中至今为止面世的最重要的贝多芬手稿，这份手稿的出现将促进研究者们对贝多芬作品做全面的再评估。 这已经是前美东浸信会神学院第二次偶然发现非常罕见的音乐手稿，这所学院现已改名为帕尔默神学院。1990年，这里发现了一份莫扎特的手稿。 尽管听力越来越差，这位德国作曲家仍然坚持工作，并于1826年创作了这部作品。一年后他就离开了人世。他的最后一部作品是降B大调弦乐四重奏。 这份手稿是用棕色和黑色墨水写的，还有一些用铅笔和红色粉笔做的注解。 这份乐谱中有许多删减和修改的地方，还有些地方由于贝多芬反复尝试和舍弃不同的变调，把纸都擦破了。 这份手稿显然是创作时留下来的，因此读起来非常费力，而且也没有打印的痕迹。苏富比拍卖公司表示这很明显不是已经完成的版本，就这一点而言，它比已经出版的作品更有意义。 （中国日报网站薛晓文译）