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Of course Beethoven did his finest works (7th and 9th S.) while deaf. The thing is: he was already a very experienced composer by those days and, when you work at that level, you don't really need to hear sounds to make music: music is not the sounds (which are just the interpretation) but the formal relations established between certain signs within a tradition (polyphony, counterpoint, modes, tonality, microtonality, free atonality, integral serialism...) so music can very well be made, so to say it, "directly on paper". Do you think Bach used made the variations over his themes sitting in front of the clavichord? do you think he could even play most of his stuff himself? of course no: he had a first idea, which could come from experimenting on an instrument or from his imagination, and then he would develop it on the score with his knowledge of harmony and his craftsman experience on how certain effects "look like" on paper...