September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English

It’s hard for most of us to fathom, but Beethoven was almost completely deaf when he wrote his magnificent Ninth Symphony. As the story goes, while he was directing the symphony’s tempo at its premiere, Beethoven could not hear the performance and, having lost his place in the movement, continued to wave his baton even after the musicians had stopped playing. It wasn’t until a singer turned him around and he saw the sea of clapping hands that he ...
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