UK: Manchester professor revives Beethoven classic

A lost Beethoven masterpiece has been painstakingly reconstructed by an expert more than 200 years after it vanished, writes Tom Brooks-Pollock for the Manchester Evening News.

The German composer wrote the 'slow movement' of his String Quartet in G, Opus 18 Number 2, at the end of the 18th century. But the original score was lost and entered classical musical folklore. The work has been now been restored by Manchester University Professor Barry Cooper, and the university's string quartet will give the first public rendition of the completed piece for centuries.

Cooper, a renowned expert on Beethoven, used early notes written by the composer to piece together how the work would have sounded.
Full report on the Manchester Evening News site