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DNA From Beethoven's Hair Reveals a Surprise 200 Years Later
On a stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness.
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 ...
DNA from strands of Beethoven’s hair is helping to uncover what may have caused his death, researchers say. The composer was plagued with health issues for most of his life. On March 26, 1827, he ...
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 ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Two hundred years ago this week, Beethoven conducted his final symphony. He died three years later, and the cause has been relatively unknown... until now. Who knew that a ...
DR LUIS DIAS In 2020, a friend and I had made elaborate plans to visit Vienna for the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth. We had booked flights, hotel and concert tickets for his ...
A genetic study conducted on locks of Ludwig van Beethoven's hair revealed more details about the composer's death at a relatively young age in March 1827. The University of Cambridge biological ...
The all-Beethoven concert features Kate Ransom (violin); Victor Asuncion (piano) and Charae Krueger (cello). The program ...
Some years ago, I was stopped at a traffic light and heard Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 1 on the radio. It dawned on me (after many times listening and playing it in orchestras on the violin) that ...
It’s one of Beethoven’s best-known works – but the identity of its dedicatee has been the subject of years of confusion. Who actually was Elise? Beethoven’s Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor is rarely ...
As one of the most sampled works in classical music history, Beethoven’s Fifth symphony has been famously remixed by Walter Murphy, Busta Rhymes and others. Now listeners - musically trained or not - ...
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