w6zra mowi:

Apr 24, 2011 - Beethoven's hearing was NOT impaired in Music!

rsr789 mowi:

Apr 30, 2011 - Awesome! Thanks for posting this!

LiliaMarkova mowi:

May 5, 2011 - adorable, this incorporation of Music!!!

mahler151 mowi:

May 18, 2011 - I love Beethoven and I love dissonance. Super.

hendritube mowi:

May 25, 2011 - A stunning expression of anger, joy, frustration, confusion, consolation... what a mixture of feelings! ... this fugue somehow reminds me of Conway's 'Game of Life'. Very subtle ^^

CuriosityRoads mowi:

Jun 14, 2011 - Um, no. Music should be able to evoke all emotions, not just positive ones. This is more emotive than any "charming" Mozart piece I've heard, for example.

mikrowavr mowi:

Jun 29, 2011 - This was made for pot. Awesome!

ThinkingManNeil mowi:

Jul 22, 2011 - This is the first time I've heard this piece and I'm quite taken with it. It's surprisingly modern and contemporary sounding considering its era and astonishingly sophisticated. Without the external inputs and auditory distractions of the surrounding natural world and soundscape it's as if Beethoven had discovered the clear and precise harmonies, dissonances, and capabilities of each instrument and was able to express them separately and together with an almost mathematical purity and clarity.

spiritfool mowi:

Jul 23, 2011 - I really wonder how he perceived tuning in his head, because he might have been tuning intervals perfectly, or whether his perception of the pitch and harmonics of instruments changed... but that we will never know. For some reason, this sounds like a symphony sketch to me. As intricate as it might be, It still got Beethoven all over it though :-)

Schuiram mowi:

Sep 18, 2011 - I dont think you can say that that easy ;) But I would tend to it too :)

ClassicNovel mowi:

Oct 1, 2011 - Thank you, Mozart, but music is not (and should not be) limited to only flattering and charming emotions. It was well and good for composers like Mozart (don't misunderstand me, I do love his music as well), but Beethoven broke out of that era. Its philosophies do not apply to him, because he made his own.

jeffamarie mowi:

Nov 5, 2011 - I don't hear dissonance... I hear the tension that resolves perfectly at every juncture and yet stays within character enough to make you question whether what you're hearing is both grotesque and beautiful. : P

jebsievers mowi:

Nov 8, 2011 - cool. i like that.

Dronkmoi mowi:

Dec 12, 2011 - i love you !!!!!!!!!!!

histrionical mowi:

Dec 28, 2011 - Ive been listening to the 'late' quartets for forty years. What I hear is beauty in aural form. I admit that 40 years ago what I mostly heard was a lot of wrong sounding notes thrown randomly together. Deaf and blind too? I wondered?

ai1888 mowi:

Feb 7, 2012 - Why do you have to be so rude, to such an excellent and genuine question? It is because of people like you, who exhibit such cockiness that the classical music loving community get the reputation of being "snobs".

ai1888 mowi:

Feb 7, 2012 - That is a very good question, one I have pondered for a lot of days. Too bad the uploader cuts you off with rude replies. :(

jebsievers mowi:

Feb 7, 2012 - :)

perfectlydissonant mowi:

Feb 16, 2012 - Beethoven didn't need to be able to hear to know whether or not his music was consonant or dissonant. He knew what he was composing as most musicians can know exactly how a piece will sound simply by looking at it. At this point he was most interested in counterpoint and linear motion. And for the record, Mozart wasn't exactly the most consonant composer either, consider the introduction to String Quartet #19 in C, K. 465. Remember not all music is or has been created to be "emotional".

VodKaLogic mowi:

Feb 17, 2012 - The animation helped me understand how terrifyingly technically demanding this piece is. I'm breathless and my arms hurt just thinking about the hell the Quartet is going through to execute this masterpiece ...

cratosian mowi:

Mar 10, 2012 - I did a report on Igor Stravinsky in 7th grade.

Mahgar mowi:

Apr 17, 2012 - It is a bad interpretation, intonation is bad. Difficult piece to play, but not to listen. Normally.

quepp42 mowi:

Apr 19, 2012 - Considering how non dissonant the 9th was (which I believe he wrote while completely deaf?), I would think he knew exactly what he was doing.

shutupfriki mowi:

May 12, 2012 - He Was Expressing Emotions. Not just Sounds. Just Think How Hewas feeling. When He was Composing.. That is the meaning. what you feel inside.

pmchsaini mowi:

May 22, 2012 - certainly one of the most genius pieces ever written! the themes are magnificent and the fugue does not any of its contrapuntal value although it's written on a clearly classical style. now every composer should wish become deaf...