How can Beethoven Create music though he was Deaf?
Actually people sometimes make too much about him going deaf. Composers often become so well trained in music, that they can hear it just by looking at the paper. In fact many composers prefer to write while away from a piano or other instrument, so they can only hear it in their heads. Beethoven’s deafness is unique though. Partly because he was very secretive about it, till he couldn’t hide it anymore, and it added to his strange character. At one point, in 1801, he even planned to kill himself over it, but changed his mind and continued to write twice as hard as before. Had he not been deaf, his music would still be amazing today, but the idea that he wrote and went deaf- the one sense that the musician loves the most- only adds to the interesting image we have of him.
