This is the anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth. Beethoven is renowned as a great composer. Many people across the world know his name, that he wrote his best music after he became ...

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 ...

The composer would outlive his doctor by nearly two decades, yet close to two centuries after Beethoven's death a team of ...

death and re-birth of the seasons. It's music that folds us into the wider spirals of creation, and for as long as it lasts, Beethoven’s inner world and the outer world mirror one another in a f ...

Previous studies have struggled to pin down the cause of Beethoven’s death, mainly because the hair samples used for analysis have been of dubious origin. One previous study, for example ...