Ludwig van Beethoven · every age
What was Ludwig van Beethoven doing at 43?
Started going deaf at 28, wrote the Ninth hearing nothing
- c. 1814
Played the piano on stage for the last time at 43
His hearing had gotten too bad to perform.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Portrait: Portrait: Joseph Karl Stieler (1820), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source