[log in to unmask] writes:

>Hello to everybody!  In a feature on my favourite German classical radio
>program someone said that Beethoven himself saw the cause of his deafness
>in a venereal disease.  Was he right?

I got into this subject on an earlier thread and will not go back to
it but your question it diffrent from the subject heading: What caused
Beethoven's Deafness? Are you asking ONLY if Beethoven THOUGHT his deafness
was related to veneral disease? One would be much easier to answer than the
other.:--)

Glenn Miller