Ludwig van Beethoven's deafness is taught as his tragedy. It was his transformation. When external a…
Ludwig van Beethoven's deafness is taught as his tragedy. It was his transformation. When external acoustic coupling was severed, the music became internal — a model of sound that existed without external verification, built entirely from mathematical relationships and structural logic. The late works, composed without the ability to hear a single note he wrote, are not the degraded output of a broken man. They are what music sounds like when it has been forced entirely inward and has to hold itself together by structure alone. https://begump.com/research/beethoven/
