I might suggest that Beethoven did not like what he perceived was Karl's emphasis on his deafness as the source of his genius. After all, he was a genius in music long before he lost his hearing. And the suggestion that he had to be afflicted in order to be original might not have sat well with him.
Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: Sea Turtles can live over 100 years. The oldest recorded age of a turtle was 250 years in India. Scientists though are still unsure how old some turtles get, especially endemic species such as the Galapagos turtle that have lived for years in isolation. It is difficult to measure the age since it takes centuries, some guess that some could be around 400 to 500 years old. Source(s): wikianswers.com.
Longevity Eastern box turtles live thirty to forty years in the wild and have been alleged to reach ages of one hundred years or more in captivity. A box turtle grows very rapidly for the first four or five years of its life reaching sexual maturity in four years but full adult size only by age twenty.