His hearing loss

Hi! Here you can find some interesting information about Beethoven.

Beethoven started losing his hearing in this early 30s. By 1819, he was completely deaf, but he composed some of his most renowned works during this time.

Beethoven completed thirty-two piano sonatas and seventeen string quartets. He wrote nine symphonies, five sonatas for the cello and piano, ten for violin and piano, five piano concertos, one violin concerto, one concerto for piano, violin and cello, ten overtures, two masses, one opera, and a ballet.

There is one thing we do know: he accepted his condition, but it depressed him. He wrote in a letter to his friend Franz Gerhard Wegeler: "... For two years I have avoided almost all social gatherings because it is impossible for me to say to people 'I am deaf.' If I belonged to any other profession it would be easier, but in my profession it is a frightful state..." 

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