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— posted 10 June 2009 —

The BBC site reports that a recently discovered piano duet score by Gabriel Fauré was sold for £20,000 at an auction at Sotheby's last Wednesday. The composition for piano duet stems from around 1870.

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8093731.stm for more information. The site also allows you to listen to a fragment of a recording of the composition.

[Source: news.bbc.co.uk]

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