One topic that has long been surrounded by mystery and speculation is the untimely death of Ludwig van Beethoven. The renowned German composer died in 1827 at the age of 56. In the years before ...

It is believed that Beethoven died from liver and kidney disease at age 56. But the process of understanding what caused his ...

Johannes Wagner in Vienna on the day after Beethoven died, 27th March, 1827. It makes grim reading. Wagner describes being able to “pass the quill of a goose through the excretory duct of Beetho ...

his middle period Beethoven died around 15 years after the mask was taken in 1827, aged 57 There is also a death mask of Beethoven, taken two days after he died After his death there was big ...