{"id":2445128,"date":"2019-06-09T13:31:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T19:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=846095"},"modified":"2019-06-09T13:31:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T19:31:54","slug":"substantial-lock-of-beethovens-hair-heads-to-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/substantial-lock-of-beethovens-hair-heads-to-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Substantial\u2019 Lock of Beethoven\u2019s Hair Heads to Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lock of Ludwig van Beethoven\u2019s hair, which the composer cut off himself and gave to a pianist in 1826, will hit the auction<\/a> block this Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Sotheby\u2019s will auction off the unique item, an oval frame containing a \u201csubstantial\u201d lock of Beethoven\u2019s gray and brown hair. The hair has a pre-auction estimate of $15,000 to $19,000.<\/p>\n

According to the auction house<\/a>, Beethoven personally gave the lock of hair to pianist Anton Halm in 1826, a year before Beethoven\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHalm told Beethoven\u2019s great biographer A.W. Thayer that, while at work on the Grosse Fuge<\/em> in 1826, he had asked Beethoven\u2019s factotum Carl Holz to secure a lock of Beethoven\u2019s hair for his wife Maria.  The hairs arrived a few days later, supposedly Beethoven\u2019s, but in fact cut from a goat,\u201d Sotheby\u2019s said of the item.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he had finished his arrangement of the fugue, Halm brought it and the hair to Beethoven. The composer was furious that his friend had been deceived, and promptly snipped off some hair and gave it to him, declaring it to be genuine.\u201d<\/p>\n

As CNN notes<\/a>, this marks the second auction of Beethoven\u2019s hair: In 1994, two Beethoven enthusiasts purchased a lock of hair to determine why the composer suffered from poor health. The hair was cut from Beethoven\u2019s head upon his death in March 1827 at the age of 56.<\/p>\n

Based on current pre-auction estimates, Beethoven\u2019s hair is expected to fetch less than John Lennon\u2019s, as a lock of the then-Beatle\u2019s hair that a hairdresser snipped off in 1966 sold for $35,000<\/a> in 2016. That same year, a lock of David Bowie\u2019s Let\u2019s Dance<\/em>-era blonde hair sold for $18,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lock of Ludwig van Beethoven\u2019s hair, which the composer cut off himself and gave to a pianist in 1826, will hit the auction block this Tuesday. Sotheby\u2019s will auction off the unique item, an oval frame containing a \u201csubstantial\u201d lock of Beethoven\u2019s gray and brown hair. The hair has a pre-auction estimate of $15,000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 13:55:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}