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Hoping to find why he (Beethoven) went deaf at an early age, heirloom collections of strains of his hair were analyzed and they found some surprising things they weren’t looking for
the david knight show (9 minutes)
Further reading:
Beethoven’s Cause of Death Revealed From Locks of Hair – via scientificamerican.com
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Tonight’s musical offering:
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, 2nd Movement ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Andrés Orozco-Estrada
Beethoven photo credit: By W.J. Baker (held the expired copyright on the photograph) (Library of Congress[1]) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Dispatches from the Asylum 