That's interesting because I think his Ninth (most famous for his use of the poem Ode to Joy) is just incredible, well, so does everyone else in the world too I

That's interesting because I think his Ninth (most famous for his use of the poem Ode to Joy) is just incredible, well, so does everyone else in the world too I guess. But he was already at his peak deafness in 1812, six years before the Ninth. I always thought of it as a big ol' F-U to his deafness. On the other hand, perhaps the Moonlight Sonata, in 1802, was sad because that's when he started to lose his hearing, and by 1818 he had accepted it.