How did Beethoven know what he was playing if he was deaf?
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Do you know how “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley goes? Can you hear it in your head? Ok, now imagine you went deaf. Do you still remember how it goes? Can you still hear it in your head?
Does it count as a RickRoll if the victim only hears it in their head? Anyways, that’s the idea. Except Beethoven knew how to write music, and music theory, and knew a LOT of songs and parts of songs and could use that knowledge to invent new songs, but it’s the same process whether you’re deaf or not. You imagine how the song goes, and write it down.
In fact, no symphonic composer before modern computers could hear their composition before it was performed. It’s not like they had a symphony sitting in their parlor. They imagined it in their head with their knowledge of music, music theory, and imagination.
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