One stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness.

Nearly 200 years after Beethoven’s death, scientists have analyzed DNA from his preserved hair, uncovering startling ...

Talking to RNZ Concert host Bryan Crump, Professor Lambert said some people can not imagine sound - a condition called ...

One of the world’s most influential composers, Ludwig van Beethoven changed the course of Western music. Despite losing his hearing, he created some of history’s most celebrated works, and his ...

Beethoven was going deaf, struggling with his identity as a musician, and very much wanted to sort of find a path forward, a meaning, a reason to live. - I think one of the things that makes ...

But, as music’s first true star and with the world seemingly before his feet, a terrible shadow was hanging over Beethoven - his encroaching deafness, which saw him becoming more and more anti ...

Erster Satz.” Beethoven, absolutely deaf, once said: “He who can enter into the spirit of my music will be beyond the reach of the world’s misery.” His “Ninth” sublimates his own ...

The symphony, composed in 1802, is surprisingly jolly for something written when Beethoven feared the worst: he was becoming deaf. After seeking a cure, the composer was advised to journey to the ...

At the age of 40, Ludwig van Beethoven was deaf, but that did not stop him from composing the iconic Symphony No. 9—a masterpiece that would go on to shape classical music for centuries to come.

They are now displayed in the Beethoven House, Bonn. World Hearing Day was established by the World Health Organization in 2007 to raise awareness about hearing loss and deafness prevention and is ...

Beethoven composed his fifth and final piano concerto in 1809. At this point he was completely deaf, so he was unable to perform. For the Vienna premiere in February 1812, the soloist was instead ...