As if that weren’t enough, bones believed to be fragments of Beethoven’s skull — long stashed in a tin marked “Beethoven” by ...

"This finding suggests an extrapair paternity event in his paternal line between the conception of Hendrik van Beethoven in Kampenhout, Belgium in c.1572 and the conception of Ludwig van Beethoven ...

Ludwig van Beethoven lived a life of pain. His suffering was so great that in ... "Whichever way you cut it," he says, "it really comes as no surprise he died of cirrhosis, ultimately, at the ...

In the autumn of 1802, some 25 years before his death, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote a letter to ... More than two centuries on, researchers have come the closest yet to honouring that wish.

At 7 p.m. on May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven ... Eventually he and his colleagues ended up with five locks that were confirmed by a DNA analysis to have come from the composer’s head.