BUILDING FIRE DESTROYS RARE MUSIC COLLECTION

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, January 26, 1992                   TAG: 9201260108
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: BURBANK, CALIF.                                LENGTH: Short
BUILDING FIRE DESTROYS RARE MUSIC COLLECTION
Original scores by Mozart and Beethoven were destroyed when fire swept through a building housing a multimillion-dollar music and art collection, officials said Saturday.
The three-alarm blaze was reported late Friday and burned for two hours, Fire Chief Richard Fischer said.
The fire collapsed the roof of the 100-by-200-foot commercial building. No injuries were reported. The building was home to the Deutsch and Rigler Foundation, which owned the antiquities, and a venture capital business called Ledler Corp., Fischer said.
Besides compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the collection also contained a letter written by Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini.
Fire officials estimated damage at $3 million to the building and $4.5 million to its contents. - Associated Press

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB