"I still find it hard to grasp how his music advanced more radically after the onset of deafness. There must be a lesson in that." maybe since you can't listen to the outer world, the only way is inward?
"I still find it hard to grasp how his music advanced more radically after the onset of deafness. There must be a lesson in that." maybe since you can't listen to the outer world, the only way is inward?
Yes it is how a composer works, but what changed in BeethovenтАЩs music with the onset of his deafness: the introduction of a totally radical sense of time spans, middle-ground rhythm, how long you stay with a chord (the opening to the Waldstein, and it only becomes more radical from there).
Agreed. Radical, novel, narrative, epic. I look at the factors--the suffering, unrequited love, turmoil--to apply some meaning/causation but then realize everyone suffered back then in horrifying ways and how subjective any suffering is. Beethoven's music has kept me from being truly secular/materialist.
"I still find it hard to grasp how his music advanced more radically after the onset of deafness. There must be a lesson in that." maybe since you can't listen to the outer world, the only way is inward?
He could hear it in his mind and knew how each written note, progression and chord would sound It is how a composer works.
Yes it is how a composer works, but what changed in BeethovenтАЩs music with the onset of his deafness: the introduction of a totally radical sense of time spans, middle-ground rhythm, how long you stay with a chord (the opening to the Waldstein, and it only becomes more radical from there).
Agreed. Radical, novel, narrative, epic. I look at the factors--the suffering, unrequited love, turmoil--to apply some meaning/causation but then realize everyone suffered back then in horrifying ways and how subjective any suffering is. Beethoven's music has kept me from being truly secular/materialist.
He might have been really motivated to compensate for his blindness.