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From Under a Bed . . . : A draft of four string quartets by Franz Joseph Haydn, kept under a bed by an Australian woman, fetched a record $1.04 million at Sotheby's in London. The working draft for the String Quartets, Opus 50, Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 6, published in 1787, was bought by a German antiquarian book dealer. Scholars thought it was lost until the woman showed it to experts at a Haydn festival in 1982 and then put it in a bank vault. Sotheby's said the previous highest price paid for a manuscript by the 18th-Century composer was $219,800 in 1993 for six pages of Haydn's unfinished last quartet.
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