Question

At what age did the composer Beethoven lose his hearing and what symphony was he working on?

Answer 1

Beethoven was 31, and was working on symphony no. 2

Answer 2

Around the age of 26, Beethoven began to hear buzzing and ringing in his ears. In 1800, aged 30, he wrote from Vienna to a childhood friend - by then working as a doctor in Bonn - saying that he had been suffering for some time: "For the last three years my hearing has grown steadily weaker.