Beethoven's last movement: based on DNA from hair clipping that survived Auschwitz hidden in prisoner

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Beethoven's last movement: Composer creates song based on DNA from hair clippings that survived Auschwitz hidden inside prisoner's body

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...-Sothebys.html

By Rob Waugh

14th February 2012

German composer Beethoven has produced another masterpiece, almost two hundred years after his death in 1827.

A Scottish composer has written a score based on Beethoven's DNA from the composer's hair clippings.

The hair was passed down through the generations - and even survived Auschwitz, being hidden from guards inside a prisoner's bottom.

The composers used a sample of Beethoven's DNA to create a 'graph' which formed the basis of the music. The musicians added lyrics from a love letter by Beethoven.

Musician Martin Aelred said 'It’s been an amazing project to be involved with and to basically produce a new composition by Ludwig van Beethoven almost 200 years after he died.'

'It’s amazing to think that all this was made possible because the strand of hair was hidden up someone’s bottom at Auschwitz. If the guards had found it, they would almost certainly have destroyed it.'

After the camp was liberated at the end of the war, the prisoner retrieved the hair and it was eventually sold at Sotheby’s in 2009.

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[Monster]

I'm sitting in front of my computer, speechless and waving my arms. All of these fantastical holo stories and people go to jail for not believing them?

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Originally Posted by Monster

I'm sitting in front of my computer, speechless and waving my arms. All of these fantastical holo stories and people go to jail for not believing them?

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"Beethoven himself, a hater of tyranny, would no doubt be honoured if he knew the means by which his genetic memory was preserved in def-iance of even far worse such tranny than Napoleon's".

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[brother number three]

Goodness, that story beats the one about the prisoner who swallowed the diamonds and plucked them out of her feces on a daily basis.

I'm waiting to see one of these crafty survivors pull a 'lost' painting by one of the masters out of their arse.

[Empress Cheesatine]

Sotheby's sold asshairs?

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Originally Posted by Empress Cheesatine

Sotheby's sold asshairs?

Sacred relics of Auschwitz, dingleberries and all.

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Originally Posted by Empress Cheesatine

Sotheby's sold asshairs?

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Those wafting the Odour of Martyrdom's Sanctity, yes. Lean in close, please everyone.

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