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March 01, 2006: Collector Donates Music Manuscripts to Julliard
"A COLLECTOR who has spent the past decade anonymously acquiring some of the world’s most revered musical manuscripts stepped out of the shadows yesterday to make an astonishing gift to the Juilliard School in New York, the leading US conservatoire."
"Bruce Kovner, one of the world’s highest-earning investment managers, gave more than 140 manuscripts — together worth tens of millions of pounds — to the school."
"They include the score for Beethoven’s piano version of his Grosse Fuge, bought for £1.12 million in London in December; the working manuscript of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, found in a vault after 150 years and bought for a record £2.1 million in 2003; the original manuscript of Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony, discovered in a cellar after almost a century; and the earliest manuscript of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. "
