Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the greatest composers of all time, but he was plagued throughout his life by myriad health problems, most notably going mostly deaf by 1818. These issues certainly ...
Ludwig van Beethoven is just as famous for his music — and his hair — in death as he was in life. Beethoven died 196 years ago, almost to the day, at the age of 56 A team of scientists sequenced his ...
New research published in the journal Current Biology uses DNA sequencing to uncover that the great composer did not die from lead poisoning after all... In 1802, at the age of just 32, Ludwig van ...