New report says lead poisoning could be the culprit of Beethoven's deafness 

I have a hearing loss so it is almost unbelievable to understand how anyone could create anything that beautiful without being able to hear it. And so sad that he wasn't able to hear the audience applauding.

The Ode to Joy scene that Gina describes is beautifully depicted in “Copying Beethoven” (Ed Harris, Diane Kruger) . Worth seeking out.

I always thought it might be due to his father boxing his ears too much and too hard. This is such a huge discovery in the world of music. Thank you for reporting on this!! 💞 He was, to me, the most amazing and best composer of all time. And he was completely deaf for much of his life. A-MAZ-ING. I ❤ Beethoven

It a wonder any of our ancestors surrvived long enough to pass DNA forward.

Positive. For heavy metal, lol

Wow. This is just incredible.

Things like pewter drinking mugs and lead crystal glasses (since the 1700s) certainly didn't help.

03:14. The Ninth's premiere was not conducted by Beethoven. He was unable to do it. "Although the performance was officially directed by Michael Umlauf, the theatre's Kapellmeister, Beethoven shared the stage with him. However, two years earlier, Umlauf had watched as the composer's attempt to conduct a dress rehearsal for a revision of his opera Fidelio ended in disaster. So this time, he instructed the singers and musicians to ignore the almost completely deaf Beethoven. At the beginning of every part, Beethoven, who sat by the stage, gave the tempos. He was turning the pages of his score and beating time for an orchestra he could not hear." (Wikipedia, supported by multiple contemporary and academic sources.) Also, the alto singer Caroline Unger is credited as the one who made Beethoven to turn around to watch the ovations.

They say Beethoven could hear out of his left ear a little, leading up to his death. 🤷

There is a really great and moving movie named "Copying Beethoven " in which he is struggling whilst composing the "Ninth Symphony ". He is joined by a young aspiring composer named Anna to help him finish this masterpiece which is performed towards the end of the movie. Anna is the one who grabbed his arm to turn around and see a rapturous audience applause. For anyone interested, this is a very moving and beautiful movie.

Sad 😢

I can't believe that people care this much about some dead guy. We have more important things we should be worried about.

In that day lead was widely used in everyday dining ware and also plumbing. The Homeopathic remedy from lead describes these exact symptoms.

Wow, MSNBC is really on top of the news 300 years later.

I strongly suspect that much of the madness of the past few centuries can be attributed to heavy metal toxicity. May we all learn to be less toxic, both literally and figuratively. Respectfully submitted.

How very sad!!

Fascinating

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Lead is such a heavy cross to bear when you are a rock and roll hipster with chicks a plenty looking for a place to sneak off and imbibe of all those most passionate fruits, sweet to the taste and refined to eternally fascinate he who would never release thy bosom might he have one foot in his grave, and one hand for the teet of freedom firmly attached to the very soul itself. 🎻🎹🎸🎺🎷📯🎹🎻🎺🎷📯

When looking back at the most prestigious Artists/Painters/Sculptors/composers Etc. You'll findout that most of them suffered from some form of disability/pain. And by creating their masterpiece, was their way of releasing that pain, even if it was for a short second. 🤷

I’ve got one question Is student loan forgiveness given before or after death to America?

I just watched a team of dudes and a Shetland pony plow out Stormy's backdoor. She's such an inspiring actor/actress/act-person. Definitely a class act.

Beethoven would have wanted trump in prison but today they all are scared of trump.

who's been spending their time wondering about this besides nobody, ever?

Yes just what we needed reporting on

Stormy Daniels had a Zoom call with Beethoven last month.

I’ve had time to get over it

News!😂😂😂😂

Isn't Mika the one who called people anti vaxers while back

No evidence of any crime yet 😂😂

Breaking news

Donald trump will be In court next month for this

The Msnbc viewership has been whittled down to people who just come on the laugh at their nonsense and people who have TDS

I'm shocked they didn't blame it on Trump. Or Putin

I thought it was climate change

I'm sorry, could you repeat that?

All this music stuff is too uplifting. Is there anyway we can get back to the 24/7 x 9 year long MSNBC Trump advent calendar. I have a little time to modify it again. 🤷

Not just wrong but outright lies. The story of Beethoven conducting while being completely deaf and needing to be "tugged" to turn around is completely false. That's the fictional scene that was in the movie "Immortal Beloved." It NEVER happened in real life. By the time his 9th was written it was a well known fact by everyone that he was stone deaf. He had been using conversation books for years at that point. And NO ONE other than 2-3 close friends EVER got a lock of Beethoven's hair while he was alive. But at his funeral his coffin was mobbed by fans that literally shaved his corpse's head bald STEALING any of hair that they could get their hands on. One detail MSNBC sort of got right was the use of lead. Lead was used widely for drinking goblets, plates that people ate off of, utensils for eating, containers for food and drink. Lead was cheap and VERY easy to get and work to make items people used every day. It something made of lead broke it was easy to fix. And most people did not wash all that often. And those that did wash their hands before eating simply poured cold water over their hands then used either their clothes or whatever cloth was available to dry them. IF they bothered to dry them at all. Read your Solomon if you really care to know about Beethoven.

What ? Huh?

Someone needs to study Trumps hair. He might be the last Neanderthal.

Donald puts the lotion on its skin