1. 16:31 21st Dec 2011

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    jtotheizzoe: Beethoven chose lower-frequency notes ‘due to progressive deafness’ Beethoven’s deafness influenced the tones he highlighted in his later work, showing a gradual shift toward lower-frequency notes: Beethoven first mentioned his hearing loss in 1801 at the age of 30, complaining that he was having problems hearing the high notes of instruments and voices. By 1812, people had to shout to make themselves understood and in 1818, he started to communicate through notebooks. In his last few years before his death in 1827, his deafness was apparently total. Writing in the latest issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), a trio of scientists in the Netherlands dissected Beethoven’s string quartets. (via Telegraph)

    jtotheizzoe:

    Beethoven chose lower-frequency notes ‘due to progressive deafness’

    Beethoven’s deafness influenced the tones he highlighted in his later work, showing a gradual shift toward lower-frequency notes:

    Beethoven first mentioned his hearing loss in 1801 at the age of 30, complaining that he was having problems hearing the high notes of instruments and voices.

    By 1812, people had to shout to make themselves understood and in 1818, he started to communicate through notebooks. In his last few years before his death in 1827, his deafness was apparently total.

    Writing in the latest issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), a trio of scientists in the Netherlands dissected Beethoven’s string quartets.

    (via Telegraph)

     
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