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Beethoven's Deafness Beethoven started his life in Bonn, Germany. His family passed on the gift of music to him. As a child, Beethoven started to play music and was taught by Christian Neefe. Beethoven started his musical career by obtaining money from private lessons and small musical performances here and there. Beethoven had studied with Mozart in Vienna, but his mother was very ill so he had to come back home to care for her. Not only was his mother sick, but his father had been drinking for a while. That meant that Beethoven had to fend for himself while arranging his musical education. Since boyhood, Beethoven had to look out for his family and for himself. Beethoven wrote a lot of music but compared to other great composers, he wrote very little. Towards