The sketch leaf later sold for $120,000 at auction. Manhattanville College Music Professor Carmelo Comberiati, right, and appraiser Brendan Ryan speak about a Beethoven score that belonged to a ...

Ludwig van Beethoven died in 1827, three years after completing his Ninth Symphony, which many consider his masterpiece. He had started to work on a 10th Symphony, but the deterioration of his state ...

Appraiser Brendan Ryan was at a house in Greenwich, Conn., to take a look at furniture and other items the owner wanted to sell, but it was a framed document hanging on a wall that caught his ...

Original manuscripts by Beethoven, Bach and Rameau are to be auctioned in October at Sotheby's in Paris. The manuscripts all come from the collection of André Meyer, who died in 1974, and include a ...

On the surface, Mel Comberiati and Brendan Ryan make an unlikely pair of sleuths: a passionate professor of music and his former student, a composer of classical music. What they share is a deep love ...

(GREENWICH, Conn.) — The professional appraiser who found a piece of work by Ludwig van Beethoven said the discovery was the “highlight of my career.” “It was just sort of hanging in a hallway and I ...

(ABC News) -- The professional appraiser who found a piece of work by Ludwig van Beethoven said the discovery was the "highlight of my career." "It was just sort of hanging in a hallway and I saw it ...