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The secret love Beethoven took to his grave: He was a brilliant but broke bachelor who chose brothels over marriage - but one woman did capture Ludwig’s heart, his Immortal Beloved, whose ...
It's not often a famous composer helps solve a 200-year-old mystery, but DNA from Beethoven's hair might actually do that. ... took his medical mysteries to the grave—or so everyone thought.
No composer left a mark on music quite like Ludwig van Beethoven. He took the popular forms of his time — symphony, string quartet, piano sonata, opera — and stretched them to their breaking ...
Beethoven died in 1827—but he was buried three times, finally resting in a grave in Central Cemetery. The first burial was in Währinger Ortsfriedhof, a cemetery a bit outside Vienna proper.
The classical composer who died almost 200 years ago, has been at the centre of a race debate for over a century; but does this mean we should disturb his grave? German singer, Roberto Blanco, has ...
In Beethoven’s case, ... This last problem, given his prodigious drinking, may have been the final domino that toppled him into the grave. Bedridden for months, he died in 1827, ...
Was Mozart Poisoned? Medical Investigations Into the Lives of the Great Composers By John O`Shea St. Martin`s Press, 247 pages, $18.95 How did Mozart die? Why did Beethoven go deaf? What caused Geo… ...
Joseph Karl Stieler, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain Most of Beethoven is still below ground, but several large chunks of his skull were removed from the rest of him in the mid-19th century.
Rock singer Falco and composer Ludwig van Beethoven are buried here, near running paths and a dedicated bus route: Vienna Central Cemetery is no ordinary graveyard - and that's not just because an ...