February 19, 2010
DId Beethoven’s deafness contribute to his ability to create more harmonically complex pieces?
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My wife raised an interesting point after we watched Immortal Beloved.
She said it seemed that his compositions of real genius and originality were composed after the onset of his deafness. I told her that did not make any sense and that it was strictly related to his maturation as a composer and musician.
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My wife raised an interesting point after we watched Immortal Beloved.
She said it seemed that his compositions of real genius and originality were composed after the onset of his deafness. I told her that did not make any sense and that it was strictly related to his maturation as a composer and musician.
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Comments on DId Beethoven’s deafness contribute to his ability to create more harmonically complex pieces? »
Edik @ 12:20 am
I don’t think so. What’s amazing is that he was able to create more harmonically complex pieces IN SPITE OF his deafness. He knew what this stuff would sound like — he didn’t need to physically hear it in order to know how it would sound.
wendy_da_goodlil_witch @ 1:52 am
I think it was his genius, not his hearing. he would have composed the same music with or without his hearing.
? @ 6:15 pm
In some ways, Beethoven’s deafness impeded his ability. In his later works, there is a marked revisitation of counterpoint and other principles that he learnt earlier in his career. Having said that his deafness may have forced him to extend those principles and increased harmonic complexity may have been the result. It is always difficult for us mere mortals to truly understand the mind of the genius.