Beethoven's Hair

Beethoven's HairBy: Russell Martin The basis for the movie of the same name, an astonishing tale of one lock of hair and its amazing travels from nineteenth century Vienna to twenty first century America. When Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great composer, snipping a lock of Beethoven's hair as a keepsake as was custom at the time in the process. For a century, the lock of hair was a

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