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.
As one answerer has already pointed out, Beethoven may never have become stone deaf. Nevertheless, for a good part of his life he resorted to talking to people via paper and pen. Sadly, most (if not all) of his written responses to the questions which the inquiring minds of his day wanted answered are gone.