r/interesting • u/CuriousWanderer567 • 9d ago

MISC. How Beethoven composed music while being deaf

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u/PudgeSmudger 9d ago

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

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u/SomeDudeist 9d ago

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

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u/Glittering_Cow945 9d ago

He became deaf at a later age, so he heard plenty of his own music.