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There was, and still is, a lot of speculation about what caused Beethoven's hearing loss. As with most medical conditions, there can be influences from genetic and environmental factors.
The study authors do not believe the lead poisoning was solely responsible for Beethoven’s death or deafness. But he experienced symptoms of lead poisoning throughout his life, including hearing ...
Beethoven's compositional process would then be to compose a bar and base the entirety of the piece around the motif in the first bar. The pieces in the middle period (1803–1812) have a much darker feel than the pieces in the first period. During this time, Beethoven was suffering from depression. [4] It was also the start of his hearing loss ...
The Heiligenstadt Testament is a letter written by Ludwig van Beethoven to his brothers Carl and Johann at Heiligenstadt on 6 October 1802. It reflects his despair over his increasing deafness, even his contemplation of suicide, and his continued desire to overcome his physical and emotional ailments to complete his artistic destiny. Beethoven ...
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The historian Owen Jander discusses the symbolism embedded within Beethoven's fifth symphony and the portrait, hypothesizing that both works were a "ritualized confrontation" – a public yet veiled declaration of the composer's growing deafness, as a means of learning to accept it. [10]
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However, the squamous of Beethoven’s occipital is also listed among the cranial elements recovered during Beethoven’s second exhumation in 1888, and salient features of the squamous of Beethoven’s occipital (e.g. the curvature of the squamous on the horizontal plane; the overhang of the occipital) are likewise described in this same 1888 ...