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Composer and pianist · 1770–1827 · Music
Began losing his hearing in his twenties and wrote his greatest music deaf, including a Ninth Symphony he could not hear performed.
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“I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.”
Beethoven, letter to Franz Wegeler, 1801
Beethoven came from Bonn to Vienna at twenty-one, studied briefly with Haydn, and made his name first as a pianist with a startling gift for improvisation. By his late twenties he noticed a ringing in his ears. The 1802 Heiligenstadt Testament, a letter to his brothers that he never sent, records how close the deafness brought him to suicide and why he kept going. The Eroica Symphony followed a year later and broke the scale of what a symphony was. He worked through conversation books as his hearing failed, quarrelled with patrons and with his nephew's guardianship, and at the 1824 premiere of the Ninth had to be turned around to see the applause.
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