A physician received the bone fragments in 1863 after Beethoven’s body was exhumed for research in part to learn what made the composer go deaf in one ear.
She lived in a town in the south of France.
Inside, wrapped in tissue, were fragments of a skull thought to belong to one of the greatest composers the world has known.For the next 30 years Kaufmann tried to answer that question. “And we later learned that the investigator just, you know, was very excited about it.” Kaufmann said. Seligmann received the bone fragments in 1863 after Beethoven’s body was exhumed for research in part to learn what made the composer go deaf in one ear.“And it was then handed down, all these 170 years to me, as the only survivor in the family,” Kaufman said.
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