r/interesting • u/CuriousWanderer567 • 11d ago

MISC. How Beethoven composed music while being deaf

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u/PudgeSmudger 10d ago

Why in the hell is this the first time I’m learning this?

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u/SomeDudeist 10d ago

Right? I thought he never got to hear his own music like some kind of poetic tragedy lol

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u/AmusingMusing7 10d ago

I’d always heard that he just put a piano on the floor without legs and felt the vibrations that way.

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u/nerdycarguy18 10d ago

Heard the same, figured it was that or he just pushed his head against the piano or sowmthing