Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the greatest composers of all time, but he was plagued throughout his life by myriad health problems, most notably going mostly deaf by 1818. These issues certainly ...

A lost work by Ludwig van Beethoven was performed for what could have been the first time at the University of Manchester in northern England on Thursday. The piece of music, composed by Beethoven in ...

High levels of lead detected in authenticated locks of Ludwig van Beethoven’s hair suggest that the composer had lead poisoning, which may have contributed to ailments he endured over the course of ...

Is Beethoven the “greatest composer in musical history”? Is his Ninth Symphony his greatest masterpiece ? What would one think of this great work, if one could hear it today for the first time? No one ...

It seems fitting that Beethoven composed his First Symphony at the dawn of a new century, 1799-1800, for even contemporaries realized that his symphonies changed the conception of the genre. Beethoven ...

At the time, lead was also used in glassmaking to give glassware a more clear and appealing appearance.Beethoven also loved to eat fish, and at the time, the Danube River was a great source of ...