Thoughts about rare sheet music

As Aristotle said in his Rhetoric, “What is rare is a greater good than what is plentiful. Thus, gold is a better thing than iron, though less useful: it is harder to get, and therefore better worth getting.” And, of course, nobody will deny that rare sheet music is a huge cultural treasure of the whole mankind keeping on its old ragged sheets of paper deepest emotions and creative impulse of a composer which could be beyond recall, but for some real music lovers who preserved it carefully for posterity. And the greatest happiness for them is to share these priceless treasures with people who will do full justice to their beauty and play each note with bated breath making the piece flourish delighting the ears and the hearts of all listeners.