Hello my friend, welcome back to the Classical Music
World. I am Chris.
Today, I am going to talk about the Ludwig van
Beethoven.
Can you imagine what it would be like to listen to
music, but not hear it at all?
Beethoven had become completely deaf. He could
sometimes be seen roaming around his town, making awkward faces and hand
movements. People considered him to be slightly insane, but they know it was
his genius at work. He would walk around coming up with music in his head until
he saw fit. Many musical historians today consider Beethoven’s late period to
be when he had written his best pieces of music.
Beethoven is an amazing inspiration to me, showing to
never give up, even if the challenges showed to be impossible. Listening to his
music today, I’m still amazed he wrote most of them, without ever really
hearing what they sounded like. The sad part was that he had never heard
anything he wrote in person. Was that really a bad thing though? It was in his
late period, when he was completely deaf, that he wrote his greatest pieces and
pretty soon, ended up being the bridge to Romantic music, my favorite era of
music. Maybe, in the end, being deaf could very well have been the greatest thing
that’s ever happened to him.
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