MUSIC GIFT
March 1, 2006 | Read Time: 1 minute
Bruce Kovner, a hedge-fund manager who founded and runs Caxton Associates, in New York, donated a large gift of music manuscripts to the Juilliard School, reports The New York Times. The gift consists of 139 items, including autograph scores, sketches, composer-amended proofs and first editions of major works by Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, and other giants of the classical music canon. Secretly amassed by the donor over a period of 11 years, the gift is one of the largest of its kind by a private collector to an institution. Mr. Kovner said he would not attach his name to the compilation of documents, which will be called the Juilliard Manuscript Collection.
(Also: Read The Chronicle’s article about Mr. Kovner’s 2005 donation to Juilliard.)
