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110,900 pounds for a single page of Mozart genius

One of two surviving leaves from a Mozart manuscript has been sold for a record £110,900 at auction.

The page from a draft for the Sinfonia Concertante - regarded by many as the composer's first masterpiece - went under the hammer at Sotheby's in London.
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)