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 ...

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 ...

High levels of lead detected in authenticated locks of Ludwig van Beethoven’s hair suggest ... poisoning was solely ...

Fired by ambitions to turn his gifted son into a second Mozart, Johann van Beethoven would keep him slaving at the piano all night, raining blows on him when he made a mistake. Young Ludwig was an ...

Ludwig was partial to an alcoholic ... 132 String Quartet, written two years before his death. That his illnesses caused Beethoven torment is undeniable. In a letter to his brothers, he wrote ...

Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach, by Elias Gottlob Haussmann, 1746; Ludwig van Beethoven by Joseph Karl ... He noted that there is another Beethoven year in 2027, the 200th anniversary of his death.