Beethoven's Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved

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Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great composer. In those days, it was customary to snip a lock of hair as a keepsake, and this Hiller did a day after Beethoven's death. By the time he was buried, Beethoven's head had been nearly shorn by the many people who similarly had wanted a lasting mement...more Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great composer. In those days, it was customary to snip a lock of hair as a keepsake, and this Hiller did a day after Beethoven's death. By the time he was buried, Beethoven's head had been nearly shorn by the many people who similarly had wanted a lasting memento of the great man. Such was his powerful effect on all those who had heard his music.

For a century, the lock of hair was a treasured Hiller family relic, and perhaps was destined to end up sequestered in a bank vault, until it somehow found its way to the town of Gilleleje, in Nazi-occupied Denmark, during the darkest days of the Second World War. There, it was given to a local doctor, Kay Fremming, who was deeply involved in the effort to help save hundreds of hunted and frightened Jews. Who gave him the hair, and why? And what was the fate of those refugees, holed up in the attic of Gilleleje's church?

After Fremming's death, his daughter assumed ownership of the lock, and eventually consigned it for sale at Sotheby's, where two American Beethoven enthusiasts, Ira Brilliant and Che Guevara, purchased it in 1994. Subsequently, they and others instituted a series of complex forensic tests in the hope of finding the probable causes of the composer's chronically bad health, his deafness, and the final demise that Ferdinand Hiller had witnessed all those years ago. The results, revealed for the first time here, are startling, and are the most compelling explanation yet offered for why one of the foremost musicians the world has ever known was forced to spend much of his life in silence.

In Beethoven's Hair, Russell Martin has created a rich historical treasure hunt, an Indiana Jones-like tale of false leads, amazing breakthroughs, and incredible revelations. This unique and fascinating book is a moving testament to the power of music, the lure of relics, the heroism of the Resistance movement, and the brilliance of molecular science.

An astonishing tale of one lock of hair and its amazing travels--from nineteenth-century Vienna to twenty-first-century America.(less)

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Published October 9th 2001 by Broadway (first published January 1st 2000)

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Feb 11, 2008 Melissa T rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: nonfiction

As boring as this may sound--I was fascinated! It was amazing to see the progression of "beethoven's hair" along to modern times when we actually were able to do testing on it to find out why Beethoven was deaf. Probably my favorite part of the book was when his hair was with a violin in Denmark during WWII--it had probably 40 pages full of the heroism of the Danes during WWII. Obviously that has nothing to do with Beethoven (except that apparently a lock of his hair experienced it!), but well w...more

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Feb 25, 2013 Deirdre rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: childrens-books, science-and-nature, music, biography

On the whole, I really liked this book. It told a fascinating story -- the journey of a lock of Beethoven's hair from Vienna to the United States, by way of Cologne, Germany, Gilleleje, Denmark, and London, England; and its subsequent scientific testing. The intertwined biographies of Beethoven and the people who loved him or interacted with him down the years were particularly fascinating.

So, why only three stars?

First, because of a certain apparent carelessness in some of the writing. For inst...more On the whole, I really liked this book. It told a fascinating story -- the journey of a lock of Beethoven's hair from Vienna to the United States, by way of Cologne, Germany, Gilleleje, Denmark, and London, England; and its subsequent scientific testing. The intertwined biographies of Beethoven and the people who loved him or interacted with him down the years were particularly fascinating.

So, why only three stars?

First, because of a certain apparent carelessness in some of the writing. For instance, in the description of the initial cutting, Beethoven's hair is described as "half-gray," (p.33), whereas later, the authors call it "quite gray." (p. 101) Maybe they do not mean "entirely" when they say "quite," but it does read that way, and it gave me pause. They could save young readers a bit of confusion by making their adjectives match, or, better yet, leaving them out altogether.

A more troubling example occurs on page 82, where the authors describe the initial scientific research on the lock of hair. The current owners of the hair choose Dr. William Walsh to conduct an examination, and he sends samples out to other scientists, including Walter McCrone, whom the authors describe as follows:

It was McCrone who had demonstrated conclusively in the 1970s that the outline of a figure on fabric known as the Shroud of Turin had been painted in the fourteenth century and was not, therefore, the burial cloth of Jesus, as some had claimed, but was an historical hoax instead.

Well! That gave me pause for more than one reason -- not least because I had seen The PBS Special about the Shroud of Turin recently. So, I knew that McCrone's research, though interesting, was not actually conclusive. And the whole topic of the Shroud of Turin is quite (meaning extremely!) controversial, so why drag it into a children's book unnecessarily, especially by means of such a clunky sentence?

Unfortunately, writing like this occasionally mars an otherwise fascinating story.

Episodes of awkward writing aside, there are also problems with the book design. And the main problem is that there is no color. This is a children's book, and needs to be attractive to children. The book has a wealth of beautifully chosen illustrations, but they are generally poorly reproduced (oddly, the purely photographic illustrations are even grainier than the art reproductions), and not a single one is in color.

And then there is the cover. Scary! Not to mention that poor Beethoven (as shown) has no hair whatsoever. (But maybe that was the point?)

I did think the story was fascinating, and I gained great respect for the two men, Alfredo "Che" Guevara and Ira Brilliant, who acquired the lock of hair and set about trying to honor Beethoven's dying wish by means of it. And the Danish section of the story, and the characters throughout, are fascinating.

In sum: I did like the book, & I enjoyed reading it, but it could have (& should have) been better. A bit more attention to editing and design, and I would have awarded it another star -- maybe even 2.(less)

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Aug 25, 2010 Jon Cox rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: history-politics, non-fiction

There is only one answer to my observation that all "Bestseller" books that I have read are extremely poorly written: there must be a list you can pay to get your book put on called the "Bestseller" list. Seriously. Beethoven's Hair, Colapse, Three Cups of Tea, and others, all claim to be "Bestsellers," and they are are pieces of trash. This book is so poorly written that I groaned out loud at some of the sentences. Take this one on page 97 for example:

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Aug 10, 2011 kingshearte rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011, non-fiction

Although this book had an interesting story to tell, I had some issues with the way Martin chose to tell it.

For starters, the structure of the book was a little off-putting. He alternated chapters concerning the journey and fate of the hair with chapters about Beethoven's life, and I found that kind of jarring, somehow. I also found that he repeated himself a lot, and went into greater detail about seemingly minor incidents than felt necessary. Frankly, a lot of it felt like filler. This book co...more Although this book had an interesting story to tell, I had some issues with the way Martin chose to tell it.

For starters, the structure of the book was a little off-putting. He alternated chapters concerning the journey and fate of the hair with chapters about Beethoven's life, and I found that kind of jarring, somehow. I also found that he repeated himself a lot, and went into greater detail about seemingly minor incidents than felt necessary. Frankly, a lot of it felt like filler. This book could easily have been half the length, or perhaps just a feature article in a decent magazine.

One such example is the whole Gilleleje story. Denmark and its people were truly heroic during WWII, I will acknowledge. The story of how, as a country, they accepted Nazi rule up to a point, but when the line was crossed, pretty much unanimously stood up and said "No way. Not cool," and proceeded to help get hundreds of Jews out of the country to safety in Sweden is remarkable and really inspiring. It's the kind of story that helps restore your faith in humanity after so much else in the world shatters it, and I'm glad to have been made more aware of it. However, I think it was given more importance in this story than it really needed. I was particularly vexed by the oft-repeated notion that the lock played some kind of key role in the Gilleleje escape. Yes, it somehow made its way there, and once there, was given to the doctor, but to say that it played a significant role almost implies that Dr. Fremming wouldn't have helped otherwise, or maybe even would have deliberately hindered, and I just don't think that's true. He was there, he was helping, and someone happened to give him this thing. I understand that it's a step in the hair's journey, and that understanding that step would be very interesting to those directly involved with the hair, but I feel like it was given more importance than it really merited, simply because it's a mystery.

And finally, I found his writing style odd. For one thing, he seemed to feel it was necessary in the "history of the hair" chapters to use the pluperfect tense. I don't know why he felt this way, but I think it was a bod choice. For starters, it adds unnecessary complication to all your sentences, and usually renders them less clear, so that's a mark against it. It also leaves you with nowhere to go when you want to refer to something father back than your baseline. And it's one of those tenses that is hard to use consistently when it's your main tense. Some verbs and sentence constructions just sound very weird with that tense, and Martin got around that by simply using the simple past in those cases. Which is inconsistent, and frankly, just plain sloppy writing.

His use of adverbs is also unusual. I understand that there are those who are fanatical supporters of the ideal of no split infinitives, and that's fine. But there's no cause I'm aware of not to split the auxiliary verb from the main one. In fact, the Oxford Online specifically states that the adverb should fall between the auxiliary verb and the main verb. I don't have a US style manual handy (Chicago online requires a subscription), so I don't know what the deal is there, but in any case, my point is simply that Martin's insistence on putting his adverbs before his auxiliary verbs is weird and awkward to read, making me stumble pretty much every time I came to one.

The upshot is that while this book and its subject matter were interesting, I wish they'd been tackled by a better writer.(less)

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Sep 17, 2011 Cathy rated it 5 of 5 stars

It was very interesting to learn more about Beethoven and that time period. It was especially enthralling to read about Denmark's success in protecting Jewish people from persecution in WWII -- with doctors in Copenhagen organizing safe havens in hospitals & clinics; boat ferries and even liners secreting Jewish away to Sweden from the northern fishing villages; political interventions and pressures that kept Danish Jews from being sent away from safe camps to be killed in others. And, the J...more

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Oct 19, 2012 JennEllen rated it 3 of 5 stars

I would love to give this book a higher rating because the content was extremely interesting. The biographical information about Beethoven was very basic and nothing I didn't already know (though that, too, might be interesting to the reader without a degree in musicology), but that's not where the bulk of the story lies--it is, after all, called Beethoven's HAIR, not just Beethoven. And the journey of the hair is an interesting one, indeed. Unfortunately that story is somewhat hampered by the w...more

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Apr 13, 2012 Jeffrey rated it 3 of 5 stars

Recommended to Jeffrey by: a patient, Irwin G.

Shelves: general-reading

It got a bit repetitive at the end. The "conceit" of this book, to follow a lock of hair and in doing so tell about the life of a great composer, from whose head it was taken after death, and the times he lived in, was an interesting beginning. It turned into a mystery as the lock got lost for a few years as it left Germany during WWII and then reappeared in Denmark. I am glad I read it, as it helped me to see Ludwig V. Beethoven as a man, and, as a medical mystery. The mystery of Beethoven's il...more

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Jan 16, 2010 Sharon rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

What a great, true story! A young music student visits Beethoven's deathbed and clips a lock of hair, which stays in his family until WWII. In the 90's, it shows up for auction at Sotheby's and is bought by two American Beethoven afficianados, who subject the hair to various tests in an effort to determine what actually led to his deafness and multiple other medical problems. A virtual who's who of 19th and 20th century historical figures, as well as a concise biography of Beethoven. Marred slig...more

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Apr 02, 2011 Paul rated it 4 of 5 stars

The mysteries of Beethoven's hair / Russell Martin and Lydia Nibley- good enjoyable read; A page turner and a real mystery. Reading the book prompted me to download a number of Beethoven pieces from iTunes.I enjoyed the mystery of this particular lock of hair – When it was clipped; who owned and treasured the locket; how it was rescued from the Nazis by an unknown Jewish individual who gave the locket to a Danish doctor. From there, the story recounts how the locket eventually found a home at th...more

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Mar 10, 2010 Becky rated it 4 of 5 stars

Recommended to Becky by: Robyn

Shelves: non-fiction

A wonderfully written, compelling book about Beethoven. The author focuses on a lock of Beethoven's hair, cut after his death in 1827 and preserved in a glass locket. The book skillfully weaves together three narratives: Beethoven's life, the history of the glass locket, and the scientific analysis of the hair in the locket. I found the biography of Beethoven very interesting. I didn't realize before reading that he suffered many medical problems and started to go deaf while only in his twenties...more

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Apr 02, 2010 lysslyss rated it 5 of 5 stars

The travels of a few pieces of Beethovens hair? How could that be even SOMEWHAT attractive? Okay, so it's a little weird. It starts off by describing the whereabouts (or should I say "hairabouts"?) of Beethoven's hair during the 1940's--before the possessor realized it's worth and had it tested...

Incredibly, this piece of the infamous composer was protected and handed down from the day Beethoven lay on his deathbed in 1827 I believe, to the current situation. Revealed are speculations about the...more

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Aug 10, 2012 Martha rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is the non-fiction version of Revolution about Beethoven's life instead of the French Revolution. The book covers some of Beethoven's life, though it is mostly about a lock of hair that was cut from his head after he died. The hair traveled through time to the present where it is being tested in order to gain knowledge about Beethoven's life and perhaps death.
The book reads like a mystery at points because the hair "appeared" without the giver being identified.
I'd recommend this book to stu...more

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Jan 02, 2012 Kate rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: book-club

Very interesting non-fiction read that tells the story of a lock of Beethoven's hair clipped at his death by a young musical protegy and what happens to the lock over the next 200+ years. The mystery surrounding how the lock ended up in Denmark during the Nazi occupation and subequent explusion of Denmark's Jewish population was quite interesting, as was the mystery surrounding how the lock of hair ended up in Denmark. Filled with lots of interesting information about Beethoven, including the mo...more

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Apr 29, 2009 Kris rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: youngadult, bookreviewcenter

This is the intriguing story of a lock of Beethoven's hair, cut at his deathbed and preserved by a Viennese musician, which turns up at auction in the 1990's and is scientifically analyzed. The reader learns about Beethoven's life and circumstances, where the lock of hair traveled before ending up in Arizona, and infomation about hair and bone analysis. Notes from the authors at the end discuss the process of researching the book and offer advice to young writers. There is no bibliography, but t...more

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Feb 23, 2009 Jen rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: own

I'm a musician, and I love Beethoven. But I also love good writing.

There are enough facts on record regarding the author's subject--and he knows this; he's included them in the book--to avoid having to make any wild suppositions about the lives of his real-life characters. It's bothering me no end.

I'm also irritated by the complete lack of chronology here. It's a non-fiction book purporting to follow the life of a lock of hair; I don't mind a bit of jumping around, but I find myself irritated...more

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Jun 11, 2012 Kristen rated it 4 of 5 stars

I know some reviewers of this book have grammar complaints, but I was not distracted by the writing quality at all because the story was engaging. It begins when two men bought a lock of Beethoven's hair at a Sothby's auction. This is a story, as best is known, of how the lock was cut just before Beethoven's death in 1827 by a music student and how it passed through each owners hands and the speculation of what happened to it during WWII. It was a story of the passion for Beethoven the two men h...more

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Apr 25, 2013 Eddy Allen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: arts-and-historical

Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great composer. In those days, it was customary to snip a lock of hair as a keepsake, and this Hiller did a day after Beethoven's death. By the time he was buried, Beethoven's head had been nearly shorn by the many people who similarly had wanted a lasting memento of the great man. Such was his powerful effect on all those who had heard his music.

For a century, the lock of hair was a t...more Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great composer. In those days, it was customary to snip a lock of hair as a keepsake, and this Hiller did a day after Beethoven's death. By the time he was buried, Beethoven's head had been nearly shorn by the many people who similarly had wanted a lasting memento of the great man. Such was his powerful effect on all those who had heard his music.

For a century, the lock of hair was a treasured Hiller family relic, and perhaps was destined to end up sequestered in a bank vault, until it somehow found its way to the town of Gilleleje, in Nazi-occupied Denmark, during the darkest days of the Second World War. There, it was given to a local doctor, Kay Fremming, who was deeply involved in the effort to help save hundreds of hunted and frightened Jews. Who gave him the hair, and why? And what was the fate of those refugees, holed up in the attic of Gilleleje's church?

After Fremming's death, his daughter assumed ownership of the lock, and eventually consigned it for sale at Sotheby's, where two American Beethoven enthusiasts, Ira Brilliant and Che Guevara, purchased it in 1994. Subsequently, they and others instituted a series of complex forensic tests in the hope of finding the probable causes of the composer's chronically bad health, his deafness, and the final demise that Ferdinand Hiller had witnessed all those years ago. The results, revealed for the first time here, are startling, and are the most compelling explanation yet offered for why one of the foremost musicians the world has ever known was forced to spend much of his life in silence.

In Beethoven's Hair, Russell Martin has created a rich historical treasure hunt, an Indiana Jones-like tale of false leads, amazing breakthroughs, and incredible revelations. This unique and fascinating book is a moving testament to the power of music, the lure of relics, the heroism of the Resistance movement, and the brilliance of molecular science.

An astonishing tale of one lock of hair and its amazing travels--from nineteenth-century Vienna to twenty-first-century America.(less)

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Aug 14, 2012 Randy Rosso rated it 4 of 5 stars

A fascinating story mostly told well. The bit near the end about the Beethoven Center at San Jose State University felt a bit like reading that organization's website, on the "about us" page. But the journey of this precious lock of hair through time and across Europe is interesting and at times even thrilling, particularly for Beethoven fanatics. Plus I'm glad the Beethoven Center exists, because it hosts my favorite internet radio station: Beethoven Only, which plays nothing but Beethoven, 24...more

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Jan 20, 2012 Cory rated it 4 of 5 stars

A very interesting read, the author did a fabulous job in researching and describing the life and times of Beethoven's era. What a sad and painful end to a man who produced such beautiful music. The best part of the book is how many different people and lives and events the author had to cover in his research, from the moment of Beethoven's death to the Jews' flight from Germany during Hitler's reign on into the 60's and 70's. It's not just about Beethoven but the many people who played a small...more

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Dec 02, 2012 Christine rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction, jf-ya

This is a fast, easy and interesting read for grades 5-8. The book explains Beethoven's fame, physical and emotional maladies and, finally his death. His student cuts a lock of hair from his head after his death. The chain of custody of this lock of hair is as interesting as the hair itself - owned by Jews fleeing Hitler, it finds it's way to Denmark. Eeventually, the hair ends up in Arizona where it will be analyzed to fulfill Beethoven's wish that one day the cause of his illness, and deafness...more

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Feb 07, 2013 Shanidar rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2013

Taking as an excuse the analysis of a Beethoven's lock of hair, "Beethoven's hair" is the biography of the musician, but also of all these people who owned the lock and the History through which it traveled.

It is a very emotive story, full of hypotheses and subjective novelization mixed with facts and data.

But in spite of all that, it is not a pleasant reading.
The text is full of exceedingly complex subordinate sentences (some of them 9 lines long with commas, dashes and additional comments,) f...more

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Oct 17, 2010 Laura rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: yanonfiction

This fascinating book is based on the adult book Beethoven's Hair also by Russell Martin. I've read both, and found that this one really had the details that I wanted. Of course, this book is intended for yound adult audiences so the sentence structure is less complicated as is the vocabulary.

The main question of the book revolves around "What caused Beethoven's deafness and his many periods of severe illess in his life?" Beethoven himself hoped that the question would be solved by someone post...more

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Dec 26, 2009 Aida rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Beethoven's life was plagued with illness, despite this he is remembered as one of the greatest composers to have ever lived. During his lifetime the cause of his illness was never known. Fast forward a few centuries and science has found the answer to the mystery of his illness and ultimately his cause of death. All this occurred because of what today would be called a "fan" of the great composer clipped a lock of his hair. This book is fast-paced and is written in such a way that the reader is...more

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Sep 08, 2009 Linda rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is the story of a lock of Beethoven’s hair, tracing its authenticity and provenance from Beethoven’s death until the year 2000 when DNA testing was done to try to determine the causes of Beethoven’s poor health and of his death. In Beethoven’s last days, his composer friend Johann Nepomuk Hummel, accompanied by Ferdinand Hiller, one of his students, visited Beethoven. When they returned after Beethoven’s death, Ferdinand asked permission to take some hair from Beethoven’s head. (This was a...more

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May 03, 2009 Susan rated it 5 of 5 stars

Remember a couple years ago when a lock of Beethoven's hair was sold? This is the story of that lock of hair. It is an interesting investigation into the provinence of the hair and into the determination of what caused Beethoven's mental condition and death.

But the best part is where the history of the hair intersects with WW II. It illuminates a fascinating and under-reported story of human kindness, compassion, and bravery in the face of evil.

The writing is good but not literary.

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Sep 06, 2008 Rodger rated it 3 of 5 stars

In 1827 a budding musician cut a lock of hair from the body of a recently deceased Ludwig Von Beethoven.

In 1995 two Americans employed scientists to open a simple locket that contained a lock of hair, purportedly from the great musician, Beethoven.

This book deals with two questions. 1. How did this lock of hair make the journey from early 19th century Vienna to a late 20th century London auction house, and 2. what does the examination of the hair tell us about the life and death of Beethoven....more

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Apr 23, 2013 Brianna rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ece-3601, science, fourth-grade, fifth-grade, scientists, music, inquiry, scientific-method

Grade Levels: 4-6
This interesting story tells of a strange but true journey made by a lock of Ludwig van Beethoven’s hair. From this lock of hair, scientists discovered the cause of Beethoven’s death, which had been in question for many years by scientists and musicologists. This book can be used to help explain and to demonstrate what it means to engage in scientific inquiry, encouraging students to pose questions, find evidence, evaluate the evidence, and create conclusions or rationales based...more

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Jul 15, 2011 Monica! marked it as never-to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: no-dragons-so-it-must-be-true, i-find-you-strangely-disturbing

There are two reasons this book will never be read by me.

First off, I'm not a big enough fangirl. I read one page, where I was greeted by the words:

“For someone to have that many maladies and to suffer to greatly and yet produce superhuman music, music that can actually elevate the spirit to a much different plane than the ordinary plane we live in, is quite phenomenal. To get this close to a man who was able to do this… for me it’s a personal triumph. Acquiring the hair already has changed my l...more

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Jul 25, 2011 Becky rated it 3 of 5 stars

Disappointing. I thought this would be fascinating - My favorite composer, and the mystery of how a locket of his hair ended up in a doctor's possession, probably from a Jew escaping the Nazis in Dennmark.

I found the present story about how two men in Arizona bid on this strange item, chased down the mystery and then used forensic science to learn about Beethoven's illnesses. However, the history of Beethoven and the Ferdinand Hiller who snipped a lock of his hair after Beethoven's death for a...more

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May 07, 2009 Adam Ulrich rated it 5 of 5 stars

Really enjoyable book. Discusses a lot about one of the greatest composers of the entire world cause of death.
Compliments the story of how this one hair has been able to travel so much with the story of Beethoven's life chronicled as well. While it might not be no Thayer's Life of Beethoven, it is nonetheless a very enjoyable book and definitely worth reading.

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