/oss/taxonomy/term/1679/all en /oss/article/controversial-science-health-history-toxicity/composers-deaths-left-many-questions-unanswered <p>Both Beethoven and Mozart were spectacular talents whose music will live forever. That’s a fact. But when it comes to the composers’ deaths, facts give way to theories, some reasonable, some outlandish. Posthumous investigation in face of a lack of sufficient evidence amounts to no more than conjecture, so why even bother? Because the theories do offer an opportunity to discuss some interesting science.</p> Fri, 16 May 2014 00:25:45 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 2146 at /oss