Ludwig van Beethoven
composer · Bonn · Vienna · 1770–1827
He began to lose his hearing at about thirty. After that he still wrote seven of his nine symphonies.
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October 6, 1802 · While he was hiding the fact that he was going deaf
Oh! ye who think or declare me to be hostile, morose, and misanthropical, how unjust you are, and how little you know the secret cause of what appears thus to you!The "Heiligenstadt Testament," written to his two brothers · in place of the original: the English translation by Lady Wallace (1866)
thought to be July 6, 1812
MY ANGEL! MY ALL! MY SECOND SELF! Only a few words to-day, written with a pencil (your own). My residence cannot be settled till to-morrow. What a tiresome loss of time! Why this deep grief when necessity compels?--can our love exist without sacrifices, and by refraining from desiring all things?The unsent letter "To the Immortal Beloved" · in place of the original: the English translation by Lady Wallace (1866)
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