Has anyone else heard about this? It’s like a classical music version of “Antiques Roadshow.” As a former book dealer, I speak from experience: you never know what you’re going to find in people’s attics or when rummaging around their basements.

http://m.greenwichtime.com/news/article/Beethoven-composition-discovered-in-Greenwich-6709891.php

PHOTO: Kind of a bait-and-switch, since it isn’t really the document described in the article, but rather a literal shopping list scrawled by Beethoven. Among the desired items: soap, a mousetrap, a knife, and a metronome.