Ludwig van Beethoven may have gone deaf from lead poisoning caused by a penchant for fish and wine, Harvard scientists ...

It's not often a famous composer helps solve a 200-year-old mystery, but DNA from Beethoven's hair might actually do that.

However, "no definitive cause has been found for Beethoven's deafness or gastrointestinal ... around 1572 and the conception of Ludwig van Beethoven seven generations later, in 1770, in Bonn ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist ... Beethoven's fate sadly being deafness. Listen out for: The opening motif, it is repeated many times throughout the movement.

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 ...

His deafness deepened the conflict he felt ... Which is why, even at 250, we need Ludwig van Beethoven. Every time we hear his music this year, we should feel the knife-edge of Beethoven’s ...