funny...

Hahahah love it!!

Well by the time he was deaf he kinda already made it. But yeah lol

hahaha, very clever

Great comment. Im honored to be the man who made your comment reach 200 likes. 😌👍🏻

*wonders how you seem to be everywhere*

He's magical

*YEAH* 😅😉 👨‍🏫🗣🎹🎶🧮

Beethoven sang along to the lyrics "I heard it thru the grapevine"

Everyone gangsta until Just Some Guy without a Mustache appears in the comments.

I think by running a ssi scam by pretending he was deaf. Proof when the hooker said 10 or 20 for around the world ole Beethoven pulled out a 20

Ronald Macintyre what

Man was the first twitch streamer lol

I dont think people underrate him hes been known as one of the greatest composers of all time for about 200 years

I doubt many if anyone underrates his achievements, or would attempt to belittle them in any way. After all, around the world to this day we still know his name, we still perform his many works and composers still look to him and his contemporaries for guidance and inspiration. But the great question still remains, how would his compositions have developed had he not lost his hearing? Would they have continued to amaze and impress us in the same style as his first period or would they have naturally evolved as they did? Or perhaps even evolved into a much higher plane then anything he gifted us with during his life.

@@sparkplug1018 well I feel like it couldnt have been as amazing cause we wouldnt have had the 9th symphony which is his most known work even if you've never heard the name Beethoven you've heard the 9th symphony

@@cameronvandygriff7048 Thats very posible. Its also possible his works would have evolved into an entirely different plane that we can't even imagine. Kind of an interesting thought really.

That's what I was gonna say

In a community orchestra I played the 3rd trombone part. To be at the back of the orchestra and in front of the chorus and with my ears being totally surrounded by the most beautiful music ever written is indescribable.

I almost cried reading this comment alone, i cannot imagine what would i do if i were there. I need to go to Vienna

That is amazing! Happy for you, honestly amazing. 🙏🏼

Omg ! Would love to do that.

@@Jhein I know how that feels my friend 😭

You should post this on FB...better yet...make. Meme of it....💁

Yeah and look at modern "music"... Humans are fucked

Lol exactly

@@dunxy Yep 😂

What have you done which makes you superior to them?

Very interesting -- could you hear (interpret vibrations as music) or only tact (tempo)

For me it was a different vibration for music than other noises when I used to not hear.( I can now)

So was it like just vibrations or could you somehow actually hear it in your head. I can't begin to imagine really

It's like when you put your hands in water and there's resistance for music. For words I thought in my head what they wer.

Same here

Lois Walsh ~ actually, that’s not true. Urban legend. Sorry.

Joseph Izzo hmm. I’ve heard something similar but I can’t name the source so you might be right. I do know that when working with a quartet he would feel the floor vibrations to tell if they keeping proper time. When they lost time he would smack things with his cane & Occasionally the musicians.

Erin Murphy ~ it’s true he would go by feel at times. But as far as sawing legs off piano to feel vibration, nah. Plus, people don’t realize, he understood music and the rules behind it. He knew the sounds. He (and many other ‘greats’) wrote the pieces based on the rules of writing and knew what it would sound like before performing it.

I'm glad you could share that with your aunt. 🙂 I had a friend that would sit on\ touch the speakers at music concerts in order to join in on the fun. But she could also feel other vibrations, like through the floor.

Hi. No I never did that. Sorry

He could could probable look at the notes and knew what they sounded like.

So sad

TonyZed68 my music teacher lost half her hearing but she wasn’t nice before she lost her hearing so everyone quit

I don't have to imagine it :(

@@SuperTicklemonsters sorry for you maybe you can get one of those new fangled ear horns they call hearing aids. If not at least you can live online in a world of text and closed captioning.

@@SuperTicklemonsters Oh... :(

greatest symphonies are written with vibrator

Wished Simon you had included audio {or video} clips of examples of his work. 😥👨‍🏫🎹🎶🧮🎭

I'll miss you too

Nicholas Baum , I saw that movie, and have been wanting to get my husband to watch it with me.

Oldman did a great job, though the story was less than truthful.

Cute movie....about as accurate as a 5 year old playing darts.

Bob's your uncle Fanny's your aunt.

You do know that Google exists, right? "Bob's your uncle" is a phrase commonly used in United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries that means "and there it is" or "and there you have it." Typically, someone says it to conclude a set of simple instructions or when a result is reached. The meaning is similar to that of the French expression "et voilà!" or the American "easy as pie" or "piece of cake". Origin Robert "Bob" Cecil The origins are uncertain, but a common theory is that the expression arose after Conservative Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury ("Bob") appointed his nephew Arthur Balfour as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1887, an act of nepotism which was apparently both surprising and unpopular. Whatever other qualifications Balfour might have had, "Bob's your uncle" was seen as the conclusive one. I'm actually more curious as to why "piece of cake" is an expression now. Edit: It turns out "piece of cake" comes from the term "a cakewalk" which comes from the fact that cakes were often prizes for things in the 1800s.

@@Richard_Nickerson Cool...tks for the info. Have a good day.

@drew pedersen As one should.

Completed in 1812. My hearing was close to gone, but not fully

I'm also wondering how the cops got called the fuzz or the 5-0

@@best_bud1 5-0 originated with the original run of the show Hawaii 5-0. 5-0 was just a reference to Hawaii being the 50th state, but because it's a cop show, it became synonymous with cops. The Fuzz comes from derogatory slang in the 60s and 70s. What I've found says it started in England because cop hats were covered in felt. While on the topic, you may know that the term cops comes from coppers... some believe this stems from police uniforms having copper buttons, but it appears to stem from the verb "to cop" meaning "to arrest." So, coppers were people who copped. Also, Google is your friend. It took me less than 10 minutes to teach myself all this.

R Nickerson Some people ask questions they know has interesting answers, why they dont just post the info idk

Jason Brown I’ve never heard of that. I think the closest saying I’ve heard is “cat’s ass”... which means great?

@@molly.dog8brooke792 there is most definitely old "jive" talk where they would say phrases such as, "That sure is the cats pajamas!" or "That is the Bee's knees".

Oh he simply had notebooks he would write stuff into and the people he'd talk to also used this notebook to reply to him

It was Mozart who was the first musical superstar.

@@SafetySpooon haydn?

Hm, based on the reviews it seems being open to interpretation to such a point no conclusion could be made regardless of it was an active descision made for the piece was what people did not like. I guess music just had to relate to something

Because of freedom under the laws of physics.

To suggest that no one should make derivative works from these artists works is what would truly make them angry and depressed. The idea that in the future no one would feel free to perform and improve on them means their true death. If asked before his death if he thought that 200+ years down the road people would not only continue to enjoy, but make derivative works from these pieces, I think he truly would have answered yes. And encouraged it.

Neither of you made any sense, or said anything that has to do with my comment. I said that people should not profit off of their works after their deaths. I said nothing about derivatives or whatever the hell you are talking about. FYI, you should know the definition of a word before you say it so many times. Derivative (Google it and read the Entire definition). So no, I don't thin that these Masters of their professions would appreciate this very much, but again Not what I said, Not even close.

Your point is bizarre. You are suggesting that after a composer dies all his music should be entombed and no one should play it or be inspired by it? As a musician, I can think of nothing worse. He's dead, he doesn't care if someone profits from his work, because he is dead. If he could have an opinion, why should you think it would be anything other than relief that someone else does not have to face financial ruin as he himself did? I imagine his pride would be rewarded to know that his work has grown and withstood the test of time, not falling into obscurity with the majority of things he would recognize. Music is not like a painting, it cannot live behind glass, it cannot inspire without being heard. Why should the people who keep it alive do so out of pure charity? Should professional musicians and conductors and concert halls not exist if they cannot compose their own music? The dissemination of music is as valid a work as it's creation. Musicians and their cohort are not thieves. If they know where their inspiration come from they will say so. If they borrow from one another intentionally, they will credit it. I suppose I should concede that record labels can be quite greedy and predatory, but they have little to do with classical music. And on the note of modern contrivances: works predating 1900 are not copywrite and therefor no one collects royalties on the use of Beethoven's work, the work of his contemporaries, or their predecessors.

Relative pitch and pitch memory, combined with a good handle on transcription skills could get you a long way. I believe this had a great deal to do with Beethoven doing so well after his hearing loss.

So sorry about this. i can’t imagine how frustrating it must be. I wonder if Beethoven’s personal story is more inspiring or daunting? Either way, keep at it, as long as this remains your dream.

@@nickcharles6530 Yeah, I should pick theory study back up. I haven't done much, if any, of that since leaving college.

@@MendTheWorld I'd say it's a bit of both. I'm no prodigy the way Mozart and Beethoven were, so it can be daunting in the sense that it means more work for me in all aspects. But it's still inspiring that a man who couldn't hear at all, nor keep accurate time on top of that, could still compose such a beautiful piece of music that's over an hour in length. It shows that *knowing* is as important, if not more so, than being able to hear what you're writing.

The most annoying part of the tinnitus at this stage is trying to fall asleep, or when I blow my ear out listening to something too loud (which I can't know is too loud until it happens). But trying to sleep with that _eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee_ is awful. Actually, so far it's been helpful with relative pitch because it's a perfect c, so it's more like a constant _cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc_

He wouldn't have access to speakers in his day. That stuff wasn't invented for like another century after his death. He cut the legs off his piano and used the vibrations through the floor though.

I notice how you refer to him just like Alex in A Clockwork Orange.

He undoubtedly possessed a talent that few are blessed with. The same way some chess players can play an entire game blindfolded, and recall all of the moves made in games others played. Similarly I believe that even though he couldn't hear the notes played, he knew what they should sound like in his mind.

@@thejudgmentalcat Well even murdering psychopaths can have good taste in music lol

I'd really recommend his late sonatas and string quartets, those being the string quartets 12-16 and the sonatas 28-32

Easy for you to say...

@@hellwardclxvi1207 It was easy for me to type....

Haydn was a COWARD at teaching!! Though his compositions are marvelous!

@@ludwigvanbeethoven8050 Such a shame you and Papa Haydn didn't get along better :)

Ive lost all sense of smell after smoking tobacco for 20 years. God I miss smelling things

@@RegulareoldNorseBoy Have you stopped smoking?

@@Richard_Nickerson well Tried several times Longest time off was last month but started up again.

twocvbloke id pick my sense of smell if I had to chose which to lose. It seems to be the least important. But than I’d probably die from a gas leak so 🤷🏻‍♂️

EH??? You disregard the Eroica???

@@ludwigvanbeethoven8050 No. Do you disregard the late quartets and sonatas?

No I didn't. That was the convention at the time due to the tempering of the fortepianos. I wasn't seeing colors

Ludwig van Beethoven ~ Hold the phone! You look great for your age. But also, that doesn’t fall in line with what you called the Db, which should have been a type of green. Can you clarify. In fact, those with synesthesia had a different color spectrum individually. Bach, Schubert, none of you referred to them in the typical color spectrum the same, despite what was taught, there was no consistency to your references.

You’re scaring me.

I bit down on a pencil and pressed it to the piano. I tried EVERYTHING to hear