deafness

     

A hearing impairment or hearing loss is a full or partial ecrease in the ability to detect or understand sounds. Caused by a wide range of biological and environmental factors, loss of hearing can happen to any organism that perceives sound.

Trivia about deafness

  • Beethoven tried all the latest scientific methods including sulphur vapors to cure this
  • In the will-like "Heiligenstadt Testament" to his brothers in 1802, Beethoven lamented this infirmity
  • "Betrayed in the hope of getting better", Beethoven was "forced to face the prospect of a permanent malady"--this
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in a practice room with a string quartet at the Juilliard School in New York.) In a tragic moment in Smetana's quartet titled "From My Life" a high note depicts the ringing that preceded this affliction, a terror for composers