The Saxon government has paid an undisclosed sum for Robert Schumann’s sketches for his first piano trio, offered for sale by a US dealer.
The 25-page notebook, dated 1847, once belonged to the town of Zwickau. The purchase price was in six figures.
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This was not “lost”–information about it and its whereabouts is well documented–it has merely changed hands.
The SLUB has a nice online presentation of this manuscript. The first image links to a digital version of the sketches. See: https://www.slub-dresden.de/sammlungen/musik/musik-spezialthemen/robert-und-clara-schumann/
His handwriting is a bit hard to read.