Beethoven biography deafness

Irina Krasnopolskaya Great Beethoven, whose summer anniversary is celebrated this year, created his famous "Ninth Symphony" and other famous works, almost completely losing his hearing. How is it possible? This later led to deafness. The causes of the composer's disease are unknown. However, the studies of German scientists have shown that in the hair and bones of Beethoven, the content of lead, which fell into the body, was probably from glasses for wine, in the walls of which was lead, or from the wine due to the additives of lead, used at that time as an amplifier of taste.

Lead caused chronic intoxication, the manifestation of which was the defeat of the auditory nerves, as well as the liver and kidneys. This was discovered at an autopsy. And the great deaf was dead at the age of only 55 years! The question arises: how, without hearing sounds, you could write and perform music? To answer you need to know that when exposed to sound on the ear, there are two types of conductivity.

Air - when the auricle, the auditory passage, the eardrum, the auditory bones transmit fluctuations on the fluid of the inner ear. And bone - when fluctuations in bone capsules of the labyrinth are transmitted to the liquid components of the inner ear. Therefore, when checking hearing, tuning forces or on an audiometer, we note the values ​​of both air and bone conductivity.

If you take a tuning fork and attach it to the bones of the skull or to the front teeth, we will feel the vibration and hear the sound. This will be the result of bone conductivity. It was this way that the great and deaf composer took advantage of. At first, he used a special "ear horn" with an extension at the end. And then he began to take a wooden wand into his clenched teeth, which rested on the front panel of the piano with the second end!

Thus, he distinguished sounds. Beethoven had extraordinary musical abilities that allow him to compose music “mentally”, and then record notes. Among the large musicians there are people who are also able to "play music mentally." However, only brilliant Beethoven was capable of doing this with almost complete deafness! If the poets have thoughts in poetry, then the large musicians have melodies in their heads.

This is a gift from above. A gift granted to nature. These are innate abilities that can become the basis of genius. Therefore, the task of parents and teachers is to understand and develop these makings, direct them in the right direction, and then, perhaps, a brilliant composer, singer or violinist will appear! By the way, at present, people with a pronounced hearing loss are carried out, and with its ineffective, a hearing aid is selected, which can also be used to improve hearing as air in the auditory passage or by bone to the Lnight region, or in a combination of these methods of sound transmission.

In addition, one of the modern methods of helping deaf patients is cochlear implantation, when a special implant is installed in the tissues of the skull and transfers sound waves directly to the inner ear.

Probably, today Beethoven could help hearing his music now specialized help with hearing impaired and deaf patients at a decent level and is able to improve hearing to the vast majority of patients. It is a pity that Beethoven did not live to this day! Probably, he could help hear his music even without the help of a wooden stick in his teeth.