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Beethoven

       
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Beethoven's ear trumpets are painful testament to the fact that he never gave up the struggle to hear his music.
There's a story about Beethoven holding a pencil or a piece of wood between his teeth, and touching it to the keyboard at one point, because if he did that while he was playing, he would enhance his hearing.
Profoundly deaf for the last nine years of his life, Beethoven supplied notebooks to people so they could communicate with him in writing. The gossip, malice and humour in these conversation books revealed that Beethoven's final years were not all isolation and misery.
After about 1818, Beethoven became a much more reclusive figure, a much more obviously eccentric character. He paid much less attention to his dress, to his external appearance even to his cleanliness, even being arrested as a tramp around 1820.