Most expensive manuscript page of music sold at auction

The greatest amount a single-page musical manuscript has been sold for is £1,326,650 million ($1,932,398), paid by an anonymous telephone bidder at Sotheby's, London, UK on 17 May 2002 for the earliest draft of Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770-1827) Ninth Symphony. The Symphony, also known as the Choral Symphony, was first performed in Vienna in 1824 and was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society. The manuscript bears an inscription by Gustav Nottebohm, the 19th century scholar of the German composer and had been expected to fetch between £150,000 and £200,000.