Perhaps somewhere along the way you’ve heard the story of Beethoven’s deafness. From the age of 30, the already hugely accomplished composer began going slowly deaf, until by the age of 45 he was ...

One of music history’s most haunting images is also one of its most revealing: Ludwig van Beethoven, nearly deaf, still bent over a score, still filling page after page with ideas that would outlive ...

At 7 p.m. May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven, then 53, strode onto the stage of the magnificent Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna to help conduct the world premiere of his Ninth Symphony, the last he ...

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 ...

A moving video shows the power of Beethoven’s music and message in 2020. “Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear,” Ludwig van Beethoven once said. By the end of Beethoven’s life, when he was ...

As a music major in college, I remember that a significant part of my music history class was devoted to Beethoven's work. A few years back, I had the chance to visit his house in Bonn, Germany. I was ...