Mozart letter fetches $217k

A LETTER that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed to a friend has sold at auction for $217,000.

The Boston- based RR Auction house says the one-page German note was written in 1786 to botanist Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, a close friend. It asks Jacquin to send a messenger to return three scores: ‘the Quartet in G minor, the Sonata in E flat and the New Trio in G’.

The auction house did not disclose the identity of the buyer.