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

a team of scientists wanted to fulfill Beethoven's words as accurately as possible through genetic analysis of his DNA. Through the composer's hair, which has been identified as his own ...

NEW YORK: Nearly 200 years after Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, researchers pulled DNA from strands of his hair, searching for clues about the health problems and hearing loss that plagued him.

Beethoven's Hair traces the unlikely journey of a lock of hair cut from Beethoven's corpse and unravels the mystery of his tortured life and death. The film begins in modern times, when a pair of ...