Homo sapiens
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.
ENA first public
2024-09-28
External Id
SAMEA111408271
INSDC center name
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
INSDC last update
2022-09-28T15:10:29Z
INSDC status
public
Submitter Id
TU513
collected_by
Anton Felix Schindler (1795-1864)
common name
human
geographic location (country and/or sea)
Austria
sample name
TU513
scientific_name
Homo sapiens
sex
male
tissue_type
Hair