Sotheby's to auction 'substantial' lock of Beethoven's hair [Reuters (UK)]
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Sotheby's to auction 'substantial' lock of Beethoven's hair - Reuters 2 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) - British auction house Sotheby’s plans to sell on Tuesday what it says is a “substantial” lock of Ludwig van Beethoven’s hair that the German composer himself cut off and gave to a pianist friend in 1826. The lock is expected to fetch up to ÂL15,000 but the director of books and manuscripts at Sotheby’s, Simon Maguire, said it could end up selling for more than that. “There’s already been quite a lot of interest,” he said. Recounting the story behind the item, Maguire said Austrian pianist Anton Halm had asked for a lock of hair to give to his wife as a keepsake but Beethoven’s servant had instead sent the hair of a goat, infuriating the composer. “And he then gave (Halm), in a piece of paper, a lock of hair that he had just himself cut from the back of his head, a substantial lock. And he said this one at least you can be sure is genuine,” Maguire said. Halm later gave the lock to a pup
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