After 1822, he gave up seeking treatment for his hearing. He tried a range of hearing aids, such as special hearing trumpets, like this one: If Beethoven couldn't hear, how did he write music?

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Ear doctor Alex Chern, a 2024 STAT Wunderkind, researches how music influences cognition and how hearing aids affect music appreciation. ... He loved playing Beethoven, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 200 years after Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, researchers pulled DNA from strands of his hair, searching for clues about the health problems and hearing loss that ...

Hearing aids are often lightweight, Dr. Honaker said. Her patients will sometimes forget they’re wearing them, and accidentally hop into the shower with the aids still on.