Was beethoven death?

what was the causes?

His deafness came on slowly, starting around 1796, becoming quite problematic around 1801, until he became completely deaf.

No one knows for sure the cause. However, at his autopsy, it was noted "The ear cartilage is of a huge dimension and an irregular form. The scapho茂de dimple, and above all the auricle, were vast and had one and a half times the usual depth."

Later, some posited it was a lesion in the ear.

yes he was

beethoven was DEAF..not DEATH

Beethoven was not death. Death existed long before him. I believe he may have been deaf however. That is usually what you call it when people cannot hear.

Oh my heavens! It's getting worse and worse. Dictionary.com is very easy to access: "death"-vs."deaf"?
And yes, he was totally deaf upon his death; but the onset I believe, first began in mid-life, and was progressive.

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Beethoven wasn't born deaf. It is written in many contemporary accounts that his growing hearing loss was incredibly frustrating, as he could compose, but never hear it. His deafness is thought to have been from lead poisoning, possibly due to the practice of adding lead to wine to take bitterness from the flavor.

Go to this website, it will tell you everything you want to know about his deafness:

http://www.lvbeethoven.com/Bio/Biography...

He was not born deaf, he slowly progressive became worse.

Some of those extended V-I-V-I codas sound like death, but no, Beethoven was not the grim reaper.

i think he was deaf....
dont rely know...

A recent exination on a string of his hair showed dangerous levels of mecury, but his father would hit him over the ears every time he made a mistake on Piano. His father wanted him to be the next Mozart as in child prodigy, but he wasn't in fact he was fairly bad with music as a kid. I think Beethoven going deaf was the greatest thing that happened in music history. He began to write violent music trying to fight his fate and when he finally goes totally def he writes literally the most amazing music that was calmer and almost accepting of his fate. The Ninth was after he was completely deaf and obvious, but so were so many other great works like his last four piano sonatas and the last few of his string quartets.

No, Beethoven was not Death. Death was an early death metal band from Florida from the mid 1980's to the early 2000's, and Beethoven was a musical composer in the late 1700's to the early 1800's. They were both awesome.

That put aside, it has been said that he died from lead poisoning.

He became deaf later in life but he continued to write compositions (songs).

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He was DEAF. It helps if you use the right words in your questions!

Modern scholarship has surmised that Beethoven's deafness was caused by lead poisoning from utensils he used. A lock of his hair recently analysed shows very high levels of lead.

Not on your Tod (only understandable if you are into Cockney Rhyming Slang)

he's dead and he's deaf, so take your pick which one you want to use. : )

No he was deaf. I think his mother had syphalis and he was born deaf. Try wikipedia.org for more info.