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Beethoven composed his Ninth Symphony while almost totally deaf

It premiered in Vienna in 1824

Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with its choral finale based on Schiller's Ode to Joy, premiered in Vienna on 7 May 1824. By then he was almost completely deaf. A singer is said to have turned him around at the end so that he could see the audience applauding.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: It premiered in Vienna in 1824. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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