A single page article in which musical historian W.S.B. Mathews considers the three musical styles of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) and entirely dismisses the possibility that his deafness in later years effected his compositions not one jot:
“Then we come to a third style, embracing works written after Beethoven had become stone-deaf, and could, therefore, no longer correct his writing by the evidence of his ears…Seriously, the idea that Beethoven’s style suffered from his being unable to hear is most absurd.”
Pictured above are Beethoven’s various hearing aids.
