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Johann van Beethoven [2] [3] ( c. 1739 or 1740 [4] [5] – 18 December 1792) was a German musician, teacher, and singer who sang in the chapel of the Archbishop of Cologne, whose court was at Bonn. He is best known as the father of the celebrated composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827). Johann became an alcoholic later in his life and was ...
He died on 18 December 1792, one month after Ludwig had left Bonn for Vienna. One neighbour described Johann as a tall, handsome man who wore powdered hair in his later years. Another wrote that he was 'of medium height, longish face, broad forehead, round nose, broad shoulders, serious eyes, face somewhat scarred, thin pigtail'.
May 13, 2024 · Beethoven-Haus Bonn. 42. Last year, researchers sequenced the genome of famed composer Ludwig van Beethoven for the first time, based on authenticated locks of hair. The same team has now analyzed ...
Mar 22, 2023 · An autopsy identified severe liver damage (evidence of cirrhosis) as the likely cause of death and significant dilation of the auditory nerve.
May 8, 2024 · A centuries-old lock of hair that turned out to be from an unknown woman and advanced genomic sequencing technologies in 2023 debunked a long-running theory that German composer Ludwig van Beethoven had died from lead poisoning.
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Apr 10, 2023 · Beethoven died at age 56 on March 26, 1827, after which, as Meredith put it, a “gruesome” autopsy was performed in which “they really roughly cut off the top of his head,” as well as his ear...
There is dispute about the cause of Beethoven's death; alcoholic cirrhosis, syphilis, infectious hepatitis, lead poisoning, sarcoidosis, and Whipple's disease have all been proposed. In 2008, Austrian pathologist Christian Reiter asserted that Beethoven's doctor, Andreas Wawruch, accidentally killed him by giving him an overdose of a lead-based ...
