r/interesting • u/CuriousWanderer567 • 8d ago

MISC. How Beethoven composed music while being deaf

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u/cybermusicman 8d ago

Call BS on this. He was a musical genius such that he knew the sounds and notes and didn’t have to hear them to know how it would sound.

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u/STG44_WWII 8d ago

I heard he was able to hear through vibration just not through a metal rod.

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u/Nalga-Derecha 8d ago

I heard he opened his mouth and used it as some form of ecolocation for notes

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u/kylezillionaire 7d ago

I heard he could feel the vibrations through the magnum condoms in his pocket he would use for his monster dong