FAQ About Beethoven (Ludwig van Beethoven)

By the time Beethoven composed his Ninth Symphony in the early 1820s, he was almost entirely deaf. Despite this severe hearing impairment, he was able to compose with an extraordinary internal sense of sound and music theory. Beethoven’s ability to envisage and create such complex and groundbreaking work without the ability to hear it in traditional ways is seen as a testimony to his genius as a composer.