B11 Beethoven’s life and career were colored by an_____
USUAL
B12 tragedy that gave him no_____ but to change and adjust;
CHOOSE
He gradually lost his hearing in the early 1800s and remained deaf for the rest of his life. Although he could no longer_____
PERFORMANCE
B13_____ in public and for a time he even contemplated suicide.
B14 Beethoven could still____. Some of his COMPOSITION
greatest works were written during and after the time of his hearing loss.
B15 In___ some scholars believe that FACTUAL
the composer’s greatness came not in spite of his________
DEAF
B16 but because of it as it freed him to experiment with new forms
