Ludwig Van Beethoven's Deafness

Below are all remarks made by Beethoven about his deafness and his progress with it. He wrote it in several different journal entries to a close friend, Karl Amenda.
"...Know that my noblest faculty, my hearing, has greatly deteriorated…”(Ludwig Van Beethoven's Biography,n.d.)
“...How sad is my lot, I must avoid all things that are dear to me…”(Ludwig Van Beethoven's Biography,n.d.)
“...Oh how happy I should be if my hearing were completely restored, then I would hurry to you…;”(Ludwig Van Beethoven's Biography,n.d.)
“...I beg of you to keep the matter of my deafness a profound secret to be confided to nobody, no matter whom…”(Ludwig Van Beethoven's Biography,n.d.)
“...My hearing has grown steadily worse over the last three years, which was …show more content…
Beethoven being deaf was not what made him great as a composer and a pianist. His family had a huge influence on him growing up. He had seven siblings including step-siblings. The one that had the most influence on Beethoven and helped him grown as a pianist was his father, Johann van Beethoven. Johann van Beethoven was a very strict music teacher. He was said to be “extremely strict, even tyrannical,” and made “corporal punishment a regular part of Ludwig’s early musical education.”(Prointernet.de | Agentur für Internet und Design, n.d.)
At a very young age, Johann had started Ludwig on piano. Even though Ludwig had to sit on a footstool to even reach the piano keys he had still very much enjoyed playing the piano and soon after started messing around and making his own song. At the age of 5! Most pianist cannot do that at the age of 21. Beethoven’s dad was also a heavy drinker. When Johann would get drunk and have his drinking buddies over he would go and wake Beethoven up out of his sleep to go and entertain him and his guest. If he were to refuse to play for everyone he would suffer from beatings (Ludwig van Beethoven