British poet Ruth Padel tries to fathom this mystery, and other long-mythologized strands of the composer's life story, in "Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life," recently published in the United ...

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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 two of the locks for toxic ...

Nearly 200 years after his death, Ludwig van Beethoven’s final request has been fulfilled in a way he never could have imagined. A team of scientists has analyzed the genetic material from ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Ruth Padel tells the great composer’s life story, more profoundly than most biographies, in “Beethoven Variations.” By Anthony ...

Poem series articulates variations of Beethoven's life June 6, 2021 at 2:07 a.m. by Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times ...