PT Journal
AU Betka, J
TI Bedrich Smetana's Deafness
SO Musicologica Olomucensia
PY 2018
BP 83
EP 90
VL 27
IS 1
DI 10.5507/mo.2018.006
DE Bedrich Smetana; deafness; hearing problems and their cure
AB The study reconstructs the sequence of events leading to B. Smetana's deafness. It re-examines the autopsy report and analyses the preserved bones of Smetana's middle ear for the possibility of an infectious disease. The study considers the maximum number of factors, including the exceptional surge in creative activity in the last decade of Smetana's life, in order to draw a definite conclusion in the form of a medical image - deafness as a consequence of a veneric infection.
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