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Welcome to another episode of History's Not Boring with your favorite hosts, Mira and Finn! Today, we are traveling all the way back to Germany in the 1770s to meet one of the greatest musical geniuses who ever lived: Ludwig van Beethoven! Did you know Beethoven started playing the piano when he was just four years old? He practiced and practiced until he became the most famous composer in the whole wide world! But then, something unimaginable happened. Slowly, Beethoven started losing his hearing, until he was completely deaf! How could a composer write music if he couldn't even hear it? It sounds impossible, right?! But Beethoven didn't let that stop him! He used his incredible brain and memory to write his masterpiece, the Ninth Symphony, entirely in silence! At the big premiere, he actually conducted the orchestra himself. When the magnificent music stopped, the audience went completely wild, cheering and clapping! But Beethoven couldn't hear them! Someone had to gently turn him around so he could see the amazing standing ovation! Tune in to discover the incredible true story of the music that conquered silence!