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    "description": "Hearing Beethoven: A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery - Robin Wallace\nWe\u2019re all familiar with the image of a fierce and scowling Beethoven, struggling doggedly to overcome his rapidly progressing deafness. That Beethoven continued to play and compose for more than a decade after he lost his hearing is often seen as an act of superhuman heroism. But the truth is that Beethoven\u2019s response to his deafness was entirely human. And by demystifying what he did, we can learn a great deal about Beethoven\u2019s music. Perhaps no one is better positioned to help us do so than Robin Wallace, who not only has dedicated his life to the music of Beethoven but also has close personal experience with deafness. One day, at the age of forty-four, Wallace\u2019s late wife, Barbara, found she couldn\u2019t hear out of her right ear\u2014the result of radiation administered to treat a brain tumor early in life. Three years later, she lost hearing in her left ear as well. Over the eight and a half years that remained of her life, despite receiving a cochlear implant, Barbara didn\u2019t overcome her deafness or ever function again like a hearing person.",
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