"This finding suggests an extrapair paternity event in his paternal line between the conception of Hendrik van Beethoven in Kampenhout, Belgium in c.1572 and the conception of Ludwig van Beethoven seven generations later in 1770, in Bonn, Germany," said Tristan Begg, a biological anthropologist now at the University of Cambridge in the UK.

Is this surprising? It seems people have not changed much in the past 600 years.
He had hepatitis when it was not curable. To think of the music we could have had if he hadn’t died so young!