On March 27, 1827, the day after Ludwig van Beethoven's death, his associates uncovered a hidden trove of documents in his desk. Among them was the Heiligenstadt Testament, a letter written in 1802 to ...

Ludwig van Beethoven may have gone deaf from lead poisoning caused by a penchant for fish and wine, Harvard scientists suggest. The composer was beset by health issues throughout his life ...

On a day in March like today, but in 1827, Ludwig van Beethoven died after a long illness that left him bedridden for several months. A quarter of a century earlier, the musician w ...

Starting at the end, Georgia and Henry look at the report of Beethoven's post-mortem, carried out by Dr. Johannes Wagner in Vienna on the day after Beethoven died, 27th March, 1827. It makes grim ...

When the star singer Asmik Grigorian dropped out of the orchestra’s performance at Carnegie Hall, Beethoven’s Fifth and his ...

The Ariel Quartet will release the complete Beethoven String Quartets over two years, culminating in 2027, the 200th ...

Beethoven around 1804-5. Portrait by Joseph Willibrord Mähler There may have an element of that, but the unhelpful practices of public concert life in Vienna at the time – familiar enough to ...