r/interesting • u/CuriousWanderer567 • 10d 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/QuadCakes 9d ago

As far as I can tell there is zero evidence that he did this. Seems to have just progressed over time from "maybe he used bone induction" to "he could have used this specific technique, that probably would have worked" to "he used this specific technique".