Who is the person could not hear but composed some of the finest western classical muisic?

Well, Beethoven is an obvious choice, but here are 5 other composers who went deaf:

William Boyce (1711-1779) made his living as a church keyboardist, but was also a master composer—one of the best to come out of England during the 18th century. Boyce went deaf and had to quit his job as an organist, but went on editing works by well-known composers like William Byrd and Henry Purcell.

Ignaz Holzbauer (1711-1793) wrote about 70 symphonies and over half-a-dozen operas. During the last years of his life he was totally deaf.

Felix Draeseke (1835-1913) is most famous for his (remarkable facial hair) piano piece, Sonata quasi Fantasia, which was admired by Franz Liszt. Draeseke wrote operas and symphonies even though he suffered from a chronic hearing ailment that later left him almost completely deaf.

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) is best known for his gorgeous Requiem. Like Boyce, Holzbauer and Draeseke before him, Fauré went deaf later in life and had serious trouble hearing high and low frequencies.

Perhaps the best-known of the lesser-known composers to lose hearing late in life is the brilliant Czech composer Bedrich Smetana, who was already going deaf when he wrote his most famous piece, Má Vlast (My Country), a symphonic tone poem featuring a movement called Vltava, or “The Moldau.” As he lost his hearing, Smetana also suffered from chronic tinnitus, which eventually caused him to go insane. In 1884, he died in a mental hospital in Prague. Oh joy…

As the name implies, “The Moldau” paints a musical portrait of the famous river that twists through the Czech Republic.

its obvious!

ludwig van beethoven because he composed the finest, beautiful and revolutionary WESTERN classical music being deaf.he didnt born deaf, his deafness was progressive, he was totally deaf since he was 26 or 27.

he was a bridge between the clasic and romantic period, he was a genius!!

i could say a lot of things about him, but beethoven's life or work was not the question, good luck!

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig Van