SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Two hundred years ago this week, Beethoven conducted his final symphony. He died three years later, and the cause has been relatively unknown... until now. Who knew that a ...

This photo provided by the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose State University in March 2023, shows the Moscheles Lock, from composer Ludwig van Beethoven, with an inscription ...

The DNA found in Ludwig Van Beethoven's hair provides clues as to what was the cause of death that befell the late music composer on his untimely death back in 1827. At the time, the German composer ...

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. They weren't able ...

VIENNA -- Did someone kill Beethoven? A Viennese pathologist claims the composer’s physician did -- inadvertently overdosing him with lead in a case of a cure that went wrong. Other researchers are ...

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The exact cause of Ludwig van Beethoven’s death has remained a mystery for centuries. While the specific cause of death has remained unconfirmed for some time, what’s certain is that the composer had ...

Beethoven had asked in an 1802 letter to his brothers that his health problems, particularly his hearing loss, be described after his death. “He had the wish to be studied post-mortem,” Krause said.