As if that weren’t enough, bones believed to be fragments of Beethoven’s skull — long stashed in a tin marked “Beethoven” by ...

Research also suggested that within Beethoven’s family tree, a child may have been born from an affair, according to the AP. IRA F. BRILLIANT/Center for Beethoven Studies, Sa/AFP via Getty ...

(The composer never had any known children.) This could be a sign that the hair is inauthentic. Or, more likely, one of Beethoven’s direct ancestors on his father’s side had a child outside of ...

This suggests that somewhere in the family’s history, there was an extramarital affair on Beethoven’s father’s side that resulted in a child. “Through the combination of DNA data and ...

Genetic data from Beethoven and five living relatives revealed there had been a child resulting from an extramarital relationship on his father's side of the family in the generations before the ...

All those attending stood for a moving performance of Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’. The performance was sung by the French Army Choir with musicians of the French Navy playing in accompaniment. In a ...

Beethoven’s genome was made publicly available ... Harvard Medical School and director of clinical chemistry at Boston Children’s Hospital. “If you walk into any emergency room in the ...

Beethoven’s polygenic index (PGI ... that DNA tests cannot give us a definitive answer about whether a given child will end up being musically gifted.” However, the findings don’t discount ...