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Re:I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music by idoubtit on Saturday January 16, 2021 @05:28PM (#25806117)
His most famous sonata were published in 1798, 1801 (Moonlight), and 1803. By then, he suffered from tinnitus and knew he was to loose his audition, but he could still hear. He gradually lost his audition during the 1810s and was deaf by the end of the decade.

TL;DR Beethoven wrote his masterpieces sonata at a time were he could certainly hear them.

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Re:I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music by andrepd on Saturday January 16, 2021 @05:55PM (#25806303)
Many of Beethoven's greatest works were composed when he was fully deaf (most famously his 9th Symphony, but also the Late Quartets, Grosse Fugue, etc.)
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Re:I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music by darkerside on Saturday January 16, 2021 @07:53PM (#25807049)
This is useful context. His sonatas are truly masterpieces, not to say that his other incredible works are not.
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Re:I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music by ec123 on Sunday January 17, 2021 @06:08AM (#25809815)
His greatest sonata “Hammerklavier” was written when he was almost completely deaf in 1818. I think this commenter’s insinuation that Beethoven’s best work happened while he could hear is largely false. Op 132, op 132, grosse fuge, 9th etc
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Re:I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music by darkerside on Sunday January 17, 2021 @09:02AM (#25810692)
I think it was more of an argument against there being any correlation at all, which I think is a reasonable one
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