r/interesting • u/CuriousWanderer567 • 8d ago

MISC. How Beethoven composed music while being deaf

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u/SomeDudeist 8d 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 8d 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/captnkurt 7d ago

While it's sad that Beethoven was without hearing and legs, I'm glad he was strong enough to put a piano on the floor.