2024-09-28
ENA first public
ERC000011
ENA-CHECKLIST
SAMEA111408271
External Id
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
INSDC center name
2022-09-28T15:10:29Z
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public
INSDC status
ERS13501936
SRA accession
TU513
Submitter Id
Anton Felix Schindler (1795-1864)
collected_by
human
common name
A lock of Beethoven's hair cut while Beethoven was on his deathbed, on March 24th, 1827, by his sometime secretary, Anton Schindler. The hairs were on that day mailed to London-based pianist and composer, Ignaz Moscheles. Following Ignaz’ death in 1870, the lock was inherited by his son, Felix. By the time of Felix’s death in 1917, the chain of custody is no longer intact. The lock resurfaced in 1940 in the posession of Ukrainian-American violin virtuoso, Louis Krasner, affixed to a provenance note bearing the signature of Ignaz Moscheles. The circumstances of Krasner’s acquisition of the Moscheles Lock remain unknown. The Moscheles Lock was then acquired by members of the American Beethoven Society from direct descendants of Louis Krasner via the antequariat dealer, J&J Lubrano, in the fall of 2010.
description
Austria
geographic location (country and/or sea)
Homo sapiens
organism
Homo sapiens
scientific_name
Male
sex
Hair
tissue_type
Moscheles Lock
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