Beethoven Accomplishments

Music is a beautiful and powerful thing. Some people are more musically inclined than others, some people can even pick up an instrument and just learn how to play it on their own without any lessons. And other people can compose beautiful, innovative music once they have gone deaf as well. The last statement isn’t so common, unless you are Ludwig van Beethoven. Cursed with the start of losing his hearing at the young age of 25, and losing his hearing completely at the age of 46, he still managed to compose some of the finest composers that we know even still today (Hicks, 2013). Beethoven can be analyzed in terms of biology in three major components (which we highlighted in my presentation); how he may have went deaf, how his music changed …show more content…
Such songs that illustrate his low frequencies and slow tempos is Moonlight Sinatra, knowing this information you can hear how he is almost trying to go slow enough to feel the vibrations in each low note. To savor what little sound he had left to hear. As he lost his hearing entirely, he went back to using a range of frequencies in his music again, suggesting he wrote most of his music during that time by “imagination” (Weinberg, 2016), which will be discussed more later on. An example of a beautiful piano piece written by him in this time period of his life is the well known classic, Fur …show more content…
I like to think that the beautiful blessing of science was able to keep this brilliant artist performing, thus keeping him alive. He may have been susceptible to illness due to his hypersensitive hearing as it was, making it seem like one can not receive a gift as beautiful as his without facing some sort of detrimental repercussion. As hearing loss begin to run its natural course with Beethoven, he handled each stage with immaculate grace. Favoring to the low frequencies while those hair cells on the further end away from his cochlea while she still could. As he lost his hearing completely, compensatory and neuroplasticity stepped in, and Beethoven was still able to shine and write breathtaking compositions. He adapted by relying on what he knew his whole life, the neural pathways and muscle memory that seemed to never leave him, and his relying on the tactile sensation on the vibrations of the pianos as he banged away at the keys. Yes, clearly Beethoven is a outstanding biological phenomenon, and because of his brain’s ability to adapt and overcome, he will forever go down as a brilliant and fascinating