Why Did Beethoven Write Music He Couldn’t Hear Performed?

I've always been fascinated and made a couple videos about Beethoven's deafness the pieces that he wrote during that time period the late period of his life but the other thing I always thought about is why he would write music that he couldn't hear that he could only hear internally in in his head in his mind how he could write such beautiful music and why he would write such beautiful music I can't even imagine living through what he lived through at that time and to have this sense that he had this incredible sense of hearing that he grew up with having that taken away and still being inspired to write music is just really kind of the Triumph of the human Spirit right there that's the only thing I can think of I was just listening to a piece one of my favorite of the Beethoven piano sonatas now there's 32 Beethoven piano sonatas starting that I think believe you wrote the first one in 1795 Opus One which is an F minor and then the 32nd Piano Sonata Opus 111 which was finished in 1822 now Beethoven died in 1827 so this is right at the end of his life but I was listening to Opus 110 which is uh in a flat major and I was listening to Daniel Baron mom's version because it's his 80th birthday today Daniel barabaum is one of the greatest musicians of the last two centuries really and one of the greatest living pianists basically he and Martha argridge are the two remaining Giants of the piano and I thought it would be fitting since it's his 80th birthday to talk about and play him playing Beethoven because he was a genius he was a genius at playing all different composers music but Beethoven especially he was a master of he recorded all 32 piano sonatas which is a feat within itself the first person to ever perform the piano sonatas was a Pianist in the 19th century named Hans Von Bulow and he referred to the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas as the New Testament and the bach well-tempered clavier books one and two is the Old Testament which I think is pretty interesting pretty cool very few people can play these 32 piano sonatas and even less of them they can play him can play them from memory this particular one Opus 110 starts out beautifully let's listen to the beginning of it foreign [Music] perfect [Music] it's like rain [Music] oh beautiful as I play this imagine Beethoven hearing this in his head and writing it down and never actually hearing it through his ears I mean never ever experiencing this except in his mind just think about that as you're listening foreign [Music] beautiful phrasing dude ah I just love that I think that's the most beautiful [Music] the last movement which starts out with an arioso slow piece then it goes into a Fugue and then it goes back to an ariosa then it goes back to another Fugue first Fugue happens about four minutes in or so and it's absolutely beautiful foreign [Music] oh man wow ah beautiful when I listen to Beethoven's late music like why would he write it what would compel him to once he lost his hearing why didn't he just become despondent and not do anything anymore because he needed to put these ideas down that that's the only explanation that I can come up with how do you think of such beautiful music when you can't hear why does it my God people are I I just think of myself as being the laziest person in the world when I listen to this right and this is he's writing the late string quartets he's writing this you know Ninth Symphony all at the same time he's only got a few more years to live he died in 1827 right this is 1821 he got six more years of his life but it was this terrible six years Beethoven was an incredibly unhealthy guy he was always ill yet he wrote this beautiful music [Music] foreign music but I think of this and I think of the guy that wrote this was deaf at the time and when you think of all just the stuff that you hear when I do these top 10 countdowns on the pop charts or whatever and then you think of someone that can't even hear their own music that's compelled to write this is really once again the Triumph of the human spirit this is Daniel maribaum's version of The Piano Sonata Opus 110 Piano Sonata number 31 of Beethoven it's his birthday today happy birthday Maestro thanks so much for watching

Channel: Rick Beato

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Length: 9min 10sec (550 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 15 2022