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 ...

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 ...

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: “Oh you men who think or say that I am ...

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 ...

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