Take a dive into chapters of Beethoven history, from botanicals to famous pianists to mysteries about purported skull bones. Maybe even go on a trip to walk in his footsteps!
Beethoven’s Lead Poisoning (May 6, 2024)
Introduction To see recent articles on the lead study in The New York Times and the Viennese Der Standard, see:…
The Inauthenticity of the Hiller Lock of “Beethoven’s” Hair: A Close Examination of Its Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Data
In the March 22, 2023, Current Biology publication on analyses of Beethoven’s genome, “Genomic Analyses of Hair from Ludwig van…
The Famous Pianist Egon Petri on Beethoven
Alfred Kanwischer’s Egon Petri, Musician to the World, Interviews and Commentary, published by Cuvillier Verlag Göttingen, 2019 (154 pp., can…
Heine’s Schindler “Visiting Card” Canard
Question: Did Anton Schindler—Beethoven’s volunter assistant from roughly January 1823 through May 1824 and from December 8, 1826, till the…
The Romeo Seligmann Skull Fragments Donated to the Josephinum Medizinhistorisches Museum Wien
William Meredith On Thursday, July 20, 2023, California businessman Paul Kaufmann donated the two large and remaining very small Romeo…
Beethoven’s Daylily, and Other Plants
Thousands of new daylily crosses are created each year but only a few are considered worthy of being named if…