The composer would outlive his doctor by nearly two decades, yet close to two centuries after Beethoven's death a team of researchers set out to fulfill his testament in ways he would never have ...

On March 27, 1827, the day after Ludwig van Beethoven's death, his associates uncovered a hidden trove of documents in his desk. Among them was the Heiligenstadt Testament, a letter written in ...

Distorted claims about a Brazilian study on the effects of music on lab cell cultures spread on internet for years.

132 String Quartet, written two years before his death. That his illnesses caused Beethoven torment is undeniable. In a letter to his brothers, he wrote: “Oh you men who think or say that I am ...