Beethoven's Tenth

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ashes to AshesWhen the assistant manager of a hardware store in rural New Jersey shows up at the offices of Cubbage and not surprisingly. The title page of the document reads, "William Tell: A Dramatic Symphony" and is signed "Ludwig van Beethoven." The bearer of the composition claims he recently came upon it in an old attic trunk while cleaning out his lately deceased grandfather's home in Zurich; several accompanying documents suggest the work was written there during the summer of 1814.Since virtually all lovers of classical musicand many others who can't tell Stravinsky from Springsteenknow that Beethoven wrote nine sublime symphonies, and so evidence of a new-found tenth one by the supreme master of that musical form sets...