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Locks of Beethoven’s Hair Offer New Clues to the Mystery of His Deafness https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/health/beethoven-deaf-lead-hair.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

I read many articles. But I have slacked as of late. Until today. I read an article in The New York Times about the composer Beethoven.

How that a tormented man who started loosing his hearing in his 20s and tried to conceal it is problematic at best. To have sawed off the legs of the piano as to feel the revirbation through the floor to compose rhythm, I’ve heard the old wives tales.

As I have heard the ninth symphony. As we all have but just don’t know it until we go holy shit this was composed by a deaf man. Beloved for his passions. Beethoven was affilicted with alcoholism and died in his early 50s.

It’s said they would bring drams of wine in spoonfuls and that his death was horrible.

His last words were, “pity, pity-too late.”
Lead poisoning from the ignorance metal lead in wine win making may have contributed to this his deafness, what Beethoven heard in the dark was hope. As did Heller Keller as she wrote,
“the magnificent symphony which broke like a sea upon the silent shores of his soul and mine,” describes Beethovens impact completely.

It solidifies that passion and heart over come what the mind is capable of. Those rare instances.