Much Money for Mozart’s Musical Musings
December 4th, 2007 Posted in classical music, music
The BBC are reporting that a single page of Mozart’s draft for the Sinfonia Concertante has been sold at auction for around £110,900 (around $228,000 – the exchange rates are that awful. My student loans are exploding) While that’s an incredibly huge sum of money for a very old piece of manuscript, I can definitely understand the desire, if not so much the price. That’s minimal supply and maximal demand for you. I wonder how much less famous composer’s stuff goes for? If you could predict which ones will get rediscovered and fashionable in the near future, you could maybe make a killing.
December 5th, 2007 at 6:39 am
If I’d had the money, I would have easily given £420,000 for the autograph score of Mahler’s “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen”.
(though if there’s one with his orchestration… well, I’d have given double the ammount, as I like that version even more)
Here’s the story from 2004: http://www.gramophone.co.uk/newsMainTemplate.asp?storyID=2124&newssectionID=1