High levels of lead detected in authenticated locks of Ludwig van Beethoven’s hair suggest ... poisoning was solely responsible for Beethoven’s death or deafness. But he experienced symptoms ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He wrote nine symphonies. A symphony is a long piece for orchestra usually split into four sections known as movements. His Symphony No. 5 ...

Beethoven was born in 1770 in Bonn, Germany. He was born into a musical family, learnt the piano and violin, and was performing publicly at the age of just 8. Beethoven was a brilliant keyboard ...