Very recent scholarship suggests Beethoven's deafness was less profound than is widely assumed: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/01/beethoven-not-comp

Very recent scholarship suggests Beethoven's deafness was less profound than is widely assumed: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/01/beethoven-not-completely-deaf-says-musicologist https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/01/beethoven-not-...