This is an amazing find.

This is an amazing find. The manuscript was only known from a brief description in a catalogue in 1890 and it has never before been seen or described by Beethoven scholars. Its rediscovery will allow a complete reassessment of this extraordinary music. Sotheby's has been very fortunate in selling a large number of Beethoven manuscripts in recent years, including a previously unknown composition, but this is even more interesting. It is a completely lost autograph of a major work and such a visually exciting and extraordinary manuscript.

A lot of us weren't ready for it. I'm thankful that we have a guy like Joe that will come out and push us to do it, not just someone who tells us to do it and walks away. He pushes you to work, and that's what everybody needs.

It's so touching. It means he played it.

Maybe, ... I'll be back next year.

[In another spot, Beethoven puts in numbers to signify the fingering.] It's so touching, ... It means he played it.