The new installation "Beethoven's Hearing Loss" can now be experienced in the Beethoven Room in the House of Music.

The installation

Ludwig van Beethoven spent half his life struggling with a worsening loss of hearing. In the last years of his life, he was no longer able to perceive his music and the world around him acoustically.
With the new installation "Beethoven's Hearing Loss", you can experience the stages of a path of suffering in which the great composer's difficult fate is also reflected in his music.

Ludwig van Beethoven's misfortune was to have been born too early. Today, the famous musician would no longer have to resign himself to this fate. He could hear thanks to state-of-the-art implantable hearing solutions. For the rest of his life. Find out more about the outstanding medical technology options for people with profound hearing loss here!

The Austrian family-owned company MED-EL is a global leader in the development of innovative solutions for hearing loss. More than 200,000 people around the world can hear again thanks to these systems.

In cooperation with Med-El.

In the photos at the opening of the installation: 

(left) Managing Director (Med-El) Ewald Thurner, (right) Director (House of Music) Simon Posch