This archive report was first published on 18 November 2019.
On November 18, 2019, a rare Mozart manuscript sold for a staggering 372,500 euros at a Paris auction, more than double its estimated value of 200,000 euros.
The manuscript, an unpublished and autographed score of Mozart's "Six Minuets K.164," contains corrections and minor modifications, including some that may be in the hand of Mozart's father, Leopold.
The score, the only one of its kind still in private hands, was part of the extensive music collection of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig and had been kept in Mozart's birthplace Salzburg by his sister, Nannerl.
The manuscript was sold at the Paris auction, where it fetched a significant price, ahead of an offering by rival auction house Christie's of a rare portrait of Mozart, made when the musical genius was just 13.
