One stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness.

Nearly 200 years after his death, Ludwig van Beethoven’s final ... This suggests that at some point between 1572 and Beethoven’s birth in 1770, an extramarital affair took place, introducing ...

Beethoven was convinced that the ‘van’ in his name indicated noble birth and he allowed the rumour to circulate that he was the love ... In a document dated 1802 and not discovered till after his ...

Nearly 200 years after Beethoven’s death, scientists have analyzed DNA from his preserved hair ... This suggests that at some point between 1572 and Beethoven’s birth in 1770, an extramarital affair ...

Beethoven requested that upon his death, his condition be documented and ... predating Ludwig’s birth by seven generations. This genetic revelation aligns with Beethoven’s German ancestry ...

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On a day in March like today, but in 1827, Ludwig van Beethoven died after a long illness ... his relatives to make public the details of his death and the illnesses he had suffered Now, almost ...

The legacy of this composer and conductor may not be in his rarely performed works, but in how we think about music itself.

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The doubters after the premiere conceded that it might easily become a landmark in the history of choral music, and so it has. Where Tippett has the enslaved and the oppressed stealing away to Jesus, ...