To the owner, this was worse than not doing it at all! And a real embarrassment to any company that came. So a servant was called clumsy or inept by their employer. Today the term means anyone (floors or not) who irritates others by a clumsy word or action.
In the evening Mozart took a turn for the worse, and his doctor, Thomas Closset, was summoned from the theater but sent word that he would come once the show was over. When he arrived, he ordered cold compresses applied to Mozartâs head, which witnesses said caused the patient to shudder.
TW '14 - '16. Views Â· Most Viewed Writer in. Classical Music with 360+ answers. To be clear, it is not certain that Beethoven was ever totally deaf, but by 1814 - 1815 or so â his mid-forties â he was functionally deaf for all intents and purposes and could no longer publicly perform or carry on spoken conversation.