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Starnberg, February 27, 2020 (ah): Being hard of hearing is a major challenge in itself. Losing your hearing as a composer must be like a nightmarish condition: Ludwig van Beethoven, whose hearing organ continuously deteriorated from the age of 29 and who eventually became deaf, once described his hearing loss as “banishment”. What was meant by this was probably the characteristic social isolation of the hearing impaired and the failed opportunity to participate in the hearing world. Would be the exception …
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