LvB Meets Adversity Head On
A deaf composer: Beethoven did indeed lose his hearing. It was around the time that he was working on the third symphony of the Eroica that he noticed that his hearing was fading. He knew he was becoming deaf, and in fact, we now know that he became all the way deaf during his lifetime as a composer.
Did that stop him?
No.
He wrote most of his most inspirational and influential works subsequent to his deafness. How did he do it? Well, technically how he did it is still a mystery to me. But inspirationally how he did it was through a sort of resolve that is entirely consistent with the psychology of Stoke. He had to reinvent himself. He had to understand that he could no longer hear, and that his music would have to come from his mind rather than his ears. The works he composed as a deaf man transcended anything that it come before it, and remains among the best of the classical music repertoire to this day.
How did he do it? He didn't give up.
(Beethoven didn’t write this…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53a3QBcELvE).
How do YOU do it? Never, never, never give up!
But he did write the 9th Symphony whilst completely deaf…