How did Beethoven write such great music when...!


Question: How did Beethoven write such great music when!.!.!.
He was deaf, and couldn't hear what he wrote!. How did he know what sounded good, and what didn't, when he couldn't hear a thing!?Www@Enter-QA@Com


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He wasn't always deaf!. His hearing was fine until he was in his mid-twenties, and he was completely deaf until he was in his thirties!.

According to Wikipedia, he used to bite on a rod attached to the piano so he could feel the vibrations, which increased his sensitivity to sound!.

And by the time he went deaf, he was already a musical genius, so he'd spent his life listening to his music and he knew what was good so he could still continue to write it!.

I bet loads of people had a whale of a time saying 'I told you so' after telling him he'd be deaf by the time he was thirty :P

(Bad joke sorry :P)
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Not to take anything away from a compositional genius - but ALL good musicians can audiate - that is, hear the music in their head!. Only in cheap movies do people compose , sitting at the piano!. They either sit at a desk, looking like they could be doing their taxes, or at a computer!. We do not RAMBLE around the instrument, then write down what we just heard ourselves play - we PLAN ahead of time!. Someone wrote on this forum, and I did NOT answer, that they had written out the first violin part of a string quartet, and did not know how to write the other parts!. Betcha she wrote a melody SHE wanted to play - and had no idea that the OTHER parts are not expected to dog-trot along, but are INHERENT in the composition!.

So - he may have been deaf, but he certainly could HEAR - just internally!. Any pianist will tell you that the later sonatas are really thick in the LH - probably due to all the contrivances he used to TRY to *hear* through bone conduction!. If he had used less physics and more brain, his writing would have had more clarity!.

At least he had hearing in his formative years - there have been NO composers that were BORN deaf, incurably!. Www@Enter-QA@Com

Another thing to note, Beethoven may not have even been completely deaf!. There is a lot of conflicting evidence, and many scholars now believe he wasn't completely deaf even by the end of his life!. And yes, any serious musician--especially a composer/genius--is able to hear music in great detail just in their head!. A common story about Mozart (whether it is true or not) is that he could write an entire symphony in his head while writing out a different one he had already composed!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

Well, he didn't begin to lose his hearing until his late twenties so he had heard music up until that point!. More importantly, he was able to "hear" the music in his head!. He had that innate understanding of music that made him a great musician and composer to begin with and which also allowed him go on playing and composing after his hearing loss!.
Here's a quickie bio: http://www!.biographyshelf!.com/ludwig_van!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

It is not hard if you have studied enough solfa, compositio, harmony, etc!. I usually compose without playing or even having an instrument with me!. The notes are in your head!. Besides, Beethoven had not been deaf all his life!.!.He knew what the notes sounded likeWww@Enter-QA@Com

He wasn't born deaf, his hearing loss happened gradually, later in life!. He learned composing long before that , so he could "hear" mentally what the notes he was putting down on paper would sound like!.



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It is said that he saw it in his mind and would rest his head against the piano and feel the vibrations!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

He was not born deaf and could mentally picture the music!.Www@Enter-QA@Com



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