High levels of heavy metals detected in Ludwig van Beethoven's hair reveal that he may have had lead poisoning, possibly contributing to his deafness and other illnesses, a new study finds.

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

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 ...

In letters to his friends, Beethoven wrote that he led a miserable life and avoided social functions because he found it hard to tell people that he was deaf. Despite suffering from hearing loss ...