Thanks for using Atari's Pong graphics to bring this music to life. Just in case you suddenly awoke from a 35 year criogenic project, Microsoft os and Apple os are now considered top of the line. I regret to say the Comodore VIC 20, and the Atari 2600 are now considered outdated.
@m2inla I started this project in the 1970s (on long strips of paper) and started on the computer version of it on an Atari 800 in the early 1980s. I've experimented with lots of ways of showing scores, but this format has stood the test of time; videos using this format are used in music education in classrooms around the world. If you have a better way, you should consider making videos yourself.
@dondongo666 It's not an answer, but it is related to the answer. Beethoven could hear music in his head, just like you can hear words in your head when you read them. Being deaf wouldn't stop you from writing poetry, and it didn't stop Beethoven from writing music.
@smalin right... and he could hear music in his head (and feel it in his heart) because he wasn't deaf from birth so he knew how the musical notes sounded like. But still a BIG accomplishment considering that he had to put together a "puzzle" using those notes without hearing how it sounded as he was creating it as well as when it was all completed.
@chanytube Sure --- I'm not denying his accomplishment. But even before he lost his hearing, he composed music without hearing how it sounded (for example, he's known to have taken his paper and pen on walks out in the country). So did Bach, Mozart, etc. --- most of the great composers were able to write music straight from their imagination to the paper. Beethoven's deafness was a tragedy, but his ability to write music when he was deaf was no greater than before he was deaf.
@fiffylord827 I don't claim to know a lot about music, but from what I do know, I can tell that music is a lot similar to math; it's very formulaic. I can write down a melody or a chord progression and know how it will sound with out even playing it.
@fiffylord827 He didnt lose his hearing until he was 26 so he knew what music sounded like and had lots of experience with music before he became deaf.
@GeeksAreNotNerds I believe most, if not all, of his pieces are public domain. Individual performances from orchestras are usually always considered copyrighted (or the equivalent.) It's considered a service (live performance) or product (cd it's on.)
congrats on educating people of all ages, using rather interesting visuals to hold the attention span of the youth =] I wouldn't mind if this was how I learnt during my teens
Btw. My seven year old daughter and I love to watch your videos. I can clearly see your videos being used in the classroom in the near future. Good luck...
@EUDAJEDERNAMEINUSE The difference isn't between "songs nowaday" and music composed during Beethoven's life --- it's between popular music and "art" music (or whatever you want to call music written for a musical elite, to be performed in concert halls or for royalty or as part of a church service --- music that's typically called "classical" these days). The songs people were singing on the street in Beethoven's time were just as simplistic as they are today.
@smalin Eeeh, "Artistic" music today is often even dumber than "Commercial" music. Take, for example, the different variations of "Not playing anything for 8 minutes" that constitute several modern "classical" works.
If you want good modern orchestral music, you have to go to movies and videogames today.
But complaining that no one approaches Beethoven or Bach is like complaining no one approaches Shakespeare. Of course they don't.
@Darkside007 Neither John Cage's 4'33" nor the music in movie soundtracks or videogames is representative of the best that contemporary composers are doing.
@smalin well if you really sit down and listen it's not just music, it's a life story about the composer. if you had composed this song you would be very succesful. i'm not cricizing anyone but it's true
@Ibakecookiess No. And I wouldn't say that music composition is as much of an engineering discipline as software is, either. An apple is not as much of an orange as an orange is, and vice versa.
this is very useful to those that aren't musically trained, i find it enhances my appreciation of the music to be able to comprehend the underlying structure and see how the composition evolves
this song makes me think of finals/reports/ anything with a deadline really. the doom and gloom parts are when u realize "damn, i am screwed." as the music picks up, you realize time is running out. but then u start procrastinating :D and then u're happy (hence the happier music) until u realize "shit i really am screwed." (and welcome back to his memorable 4 notes).
A lot of people would say that you would ruin the music this way, software and all. I believe however, that this brings a new perspective as well as drawing many newcomers to classical music. The interaction of instruments as presented in your work makes me appreciate the composition and art more. This channel really turned me onto a love for the classics. Thanks.
@stratovarius47 thats my fave part too and its in the 1st violins which is the part i play :) performing it with the uni orchestra on thursday. so excited! x
@Davidstucke89 Pretty much. He wasn't completely deaf when he wrote it, and he conducted the premiere. It's been performed regularly ever since then, and people have been writing about those performances, comparing one to another. If there had been a significant change in how it was played, we'd know. There are some changes, of course, because the instruments have evolved. Some orchestras use instruments built like they were then; it makes a difference, but not a big one.
@hardcoded It's not meant to convey expression; it's meant to show you the structure --- like a score. If you want to see dynamics (which are part of expression), try my latest version (watch?v=yeRTxWCIEh0).
@AnneAlba1 The same way you could write a poem (and know what it sounds like) if you went deaf. Musicians learn how to hear music in their head by just imagining it, or seeing it in notation.
@smalin Musical theory? I also heard some people say that he perceived the music through the vibrations based on touch or something akin to echolocation, but not as crass an idea?
@asdfuogh I think you're misunderstanding what Beethoven did. When he was nearly deaf, he would put his ear up against a surface connected to the piano so that as much of the sound of the piano as possible would make it into his ear. He was not perceiving the music "based on touch." And once he was completely deaf, he just used his imagination. There was nothing like echolocation involved.
@AnneAlba1 Like smalin said if you grew up and composed music for your life you could play the music in your head even though he never got to hear it for hisself
@AnneAlba1 he didn't get compleatly deft untill his later years ... that's when he most struggles in his life ! but the simtoms got worse and worse as time went by
Respond to this video... around this time people began to wounder why he had became very angry ... and still the question comes asking people WHY is it that after the 5th he started makeing really really sad music rather then the butiful music befor the 5th !
@Safhata Ehmm no Beethoven had much trouble hearing things during his 9th symphony and he wascompletely deaf when he composed the Great Fugue. When he did the 5th symphony he could just hear normally like you and me
@vanburikwouter False dude. The Heligenstadt Testament (in which Beethoven says that he's completely deaf) was written in 1802. He had been going deaf since the mid 1790s.
@rkniffy Then I've been mistold. However, he should have had the ability when writing the first movement. He wrote it in 4 years and the deafness was a chronic disease(?) that took more then 20 years to make him completely deaf since the start of the 19th century. Since the revealing of his deafness in 1801 to his friends, it was still in the stadium of bad hearing. Not deafness. He wasn't deaf when he composed this, but you're right in the point that he already had trouble hearing. But deaf? no
@vanburikwouter he wasn't just hard of hearing at this point, he was GOING deaf, it was getting worse. He could still hear, he could still speak but it was begining to be troublesome.
@Safhata Beethoven was only actually completely deaf for the premiere of one symphony, the 9th. The conductor had to turn him around to see the standing ovation he received for it.
I don't know if this is just because I'm tired, but after staring at that video for the duration of the music, now it seems that all the icons, links, and images on my screen are floating around... slightly... it's bizarre. Did that happen to anyone else?
Seeing how complex the music looked based off the graphical score, it awes me how Beethoven, a deaf but brilliant man, discovered how to write such a great piece.
@LordvGum Beethoven only became deaf later in his life. He had a lot of experience with music before he stopped hearing, so afterwards he wrote from his memory.
I have a whole playlist filled with your videos that i listen to whenever i'm trying to do work. Sadly, though, it doesn't always work because i get so enthrolled in the music and the animation that i forget to work. Heck, i'm stalling right now.
4:18 lol STAR WARS??? :D
freeway996 5 hours ago
Now this is what you get when you upset an old gaming system. Loud music and Glitchy colors.
ShedinjaSoul 20 hours ago
pour moi c'est le plus beau morceau: MAGNIFIQUE
dacry75 2 days ago
1:30 best part
Simi419 2 days ago
@smalin thanks for posting this so much, i REALLY enjoyed it.
ArchAngel028 5 days ago
"Meu nome é Éneias!"
gustavoipassos 5 days ago
excuse the french but 6:57 got sum balls listen to that with your volume on high and your headphone in your ears
monkeypaw09 6 days ago
lol
chickenpeople360 1 week ago
Thanks for using Atari's Pong graphics to bring this music to life. Just in case you suddenly awoke from a 35 year criogenic project, Microsoft os and Apple os are now considered top of the line. I regret to say the Comodore VIC 20, and the Atari 2600 are now considered outdated.
m2inla 1 week ago
@m2inla I started this project in the 1970s (on long strips of paper) and started on the computer version of it on an Atari 800 in the early 1980s. I've experimented with lots of ways of showing scores, but this format has stood the test of time; videos using this format are used in music education in classrooms around the world. If you have a better way, you should consider making videos yourself.
smalin 1 week ago
@m2inla And yet, the guy who "awoke from a 35-year cryogenic* project" managed to create this video with more than 2.9 million views.
*the proper way to that word
kanjiguy106 1 week ago
how can he write music when he is deaf?
fiffylord827 1 week ago
@fiffylord827 Could you write poetry if you were deaf?
smalin 1 week ago
@smalin ...that's not a real good answer, lol
dondongo666 1 week ago
@dondongo666 It's not an answer, but it is related to the answer. Beethoven could hear music in his head, just like you can hear words in your head when you read them. Being deaf wouldn't stop you from writing poetry, and it didn't stop Beethoven from writing music.
smalin 1 week ago
@smalin right... and he could hear music in his head (and feel it in his heart) because he wasn't deaf from birth so he knew how the musical notes sounded like. But still a BIG accomplishment considering that he had to put together a "puzzle" using those notes without hearing how it sounded as he was creating it as well as when it was all completed.
chanytube 5 days ago
@chanytube Sure --- I'm not denying his accomplishment. But even before he lost his hearing, he composed music without hearing how it sounded (for example, he's known to have taken his paper and pen on walks out in the country). So did Bach, Mozart, etc. --- most of the great composers were able to write music straight from their imagination to the paper. Beethoven's deafness was a tragedy, but his ability to write music when he was deaf was no greater than before he was deaf.
smalin 5 days ago
@fiffylord827 I don't claim to know a lot about music, but from what I do know, I can tell that music is a lot similar to math; it's very formulaic. I can write down a melody or a chord progression and know how it will sound with out even playing it.
preaseme 6 days ago
@fiffylord827 In fact, this should be very clear to you just by watching this video or others like it.
preaseme 6 days ago
@fiffylord827 He didnt lose his hearing until he was 26 so he knew what music sounded like and had lots of experience with music before he became deaf.
Nobodiesproblem 6 days ago
great on shrooms
QW5ub255bW91cw 1 week ago
@QW5ub255bW91cw Are you going to send me some so I can try it?
smalin 1 week ago
Does anyone know if this specific composition is public domain?
GeeksAreNotNerds 1 week ago
@GeeksAreNotNerds The composition is, but the recording and the video are not.
smalin 1 week ago
@smalin Thanks, glad to see your dedication to your viewers! :D
GeeksAreNotNerds 1 week ago
@GeeksAreNotNerds I believe most, if not all, of his pieces are public domain. Individual performances from orchestras are usually always considered copyrighted (or the equivalent.) It's considered a service (live performance) or product (cd it's on.)
dondongo666 1 week ago
@dondongo666 Alright, I had a feeling it would be. Guess I got to stick to those good ol' commentaries... lol
GeeksAreNotNerds 1 week ago
This is awesome!
blooper5li 1 week ago
fuckin love it
gastoncitobolso 1 week ago
Bugs Bunnys best epidode :D
Talisa20 2 weeks ago
This graphical representation is the best: the simple lines. Bravo!
mosesmosestv 2 weeks ago
Amazing! This is how I "see" music when I hear it! No matter what kind of. Can't thank you enough.
brocanova 2 weeks ago
hey just as a request can you upload the whole symphony?
duquesteven 2 weeks ago
Zajebiste
TheSiwy96 2 weeks ago
an absolute masterpeice
FortyCHIKENS 2 weeks ago
this has to herbert von karajan and the berlin philharmonic
b0doob0d 2 weeks ago
@b0doob0d If you watched all the way to the end you would see its the RFMC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Keith. J. Salmon
schaefer1697 2 weeks ago
congrats on educating people of all ages, using rather interesting visuals to hold the attention span of the youth =] I wouldn't mind if this was how I learnt during my teens
Calvinios 3 weeks ago
@Calvinios People with long attention spans can benefit from my videos too ...
smalin 3 weeks ago
@Calvinios true that! i am rehearsing this piece for the national youth orchestra, and this helps me learn this piece..WHICH IS QUITE FAST!!
18478yoo 3 weeks ago
You should update this version someday.
Btw. My seven year old daughter and I love to watch your videos. I can clearly see your videos being used in the classroom in the near future. Good luck...
skinfaan 3 weeks ago
@skinfaan My videos are used in classrooms now.
smalin 3 weeks ago
@smalin Ok, nice to hear. Congratulations. At what level?
skinfaan 3 weeks ago
@skinfaan Every level, from elementary (as part of the music curriculum) through college (mostly in music appreciation classes).
smalin 3 weeks ago
@smalin Just found your DVD on your homepage and ordering it next week if there are any left :)
Anyway...thank you for your respons and videos...
Peter from Denmark
skinfaan 3 weeks ago
@smalin Haha, I showed my conductor this and he loved it. He thought it was absolutely brilliant.
calebaren 2 weeks ago
@smalin studying 4 midterms and listening 2 this helps a lot
blowinstuffup1 1 week ago
been staring at that for 7 minites, now everything i move at looks to the right
rainbowave777 3 weeks ago
like like like like like like like
MOHAMEDFAROUK1994 4 weeks ago
when you listen to this you are like "ohh whats next i hope it doesnt end now" and when its finished you are like "whaaat over already??? :("
when you listen to songs nowaday after 1 min you kinda got the main theme and then listen like 3 times to the same repeating chorus again haha
EUDAJEDERNAMEINUSE 1 month ago
@EUDAJEDERNAMEINUSE The difference isn't between "songs nowaday" and music composed during Beethoven's life --- it's between popular music and "art" music (or whatever you want to call music written for a musical elite, to be performed in concert halls or for royalty or as part of a church service --- music that's typically called "classical" these days). The songs people were singing on the street in Beethoven's time were just as simplistic as they are today.
smalin 1 month ago
@smalin Eeeh, "Artistic" music today is often even dumber than "Commercial" music. Take, for example, the different variations of "Not playing anything for 8 minutes" that constitute several modern "classical" works.
If you want good modern orchestral music, you have to go to movies and videogames today.
But complaining that no one approaches Beethoven or Bach is like complaining no one approaches Shakespeare. Of course they don't.
Darkside007 1 month ago
@Darkside007 Neither John Cage's 4'33" nor the music in movie soundtracks or videogames is representative of the best that contemporary composers are doing.
smalin 1 month ago
@smalin well if you really sit down and listen it's not just music, it's a life story about the composer. if you had composed this song you would be very succesful. i'm not cricizing anyone but it's true
rejectgirl1 3 weeks ago
would you say software engineering is as much of an art as music is?
Ibakecookiess 1 month ago
@Ibakecookiess No. And I wouldn't say that music composition is as much of an engineering discipline as software is, either. An apple is not as much of an orange as an orange is, and vice versa.
smalin 1 month ago
am high with this one ... Woow
akramyani 1 month ago
Appreciate your Amazing Job Beethoven ( 5th Symphony )..!!! <3
akramyani 1 month ago
Beethoven was a Genius!!...
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StuderSpeedole 1 month ago
this is very useful to those that aren't musically trained, i find it enhances my appreciation of the music to be able to comprehend the underlying structure and see how the composition evolves
nubl37 1 month ago
@nubl37 Yes, you put into words my thoughts :-)
BreezyBluefields 1 month ago in playlist Classical/Opera
this song makes me think of finals/reports/ anything with a deadline really. the doom and gloom parts are when u realize "damn, i am screwed." as the music picks up, you realize time is running out. but then u start procrastinating :D and then u're happy (hence the happier music) until u realize "shit i really am screwed." (and welcome back to his memorable 4 notes).
pearlwhite21 1 month ago
Beautiful.
mjshi2 1 month ago
Dec 16 is beethoven's birthday!!!!
SuperNerdee 1 month ago
wow respect.
cwalkingweasle 1 month ago
Beethoven was a BAMF
ymom11 1 month ago
@ymom11 yes yes he was
mikulover444 1 month ago
This is real music :)
KiraMusic4lacorda 1 month ago
Guess i shouldn't like it because I'm 16 but I do....
1995MRapocalypse 1 month ago
Easily my favourite symphonic work of all time. Just classic and iconic.
Nickster63 1 month ago
amazing!!
kalinowskiadrian2 1 month ago
i love this song
wardlive 1 month ago
@wardlive yes me to
wardlive 1 month ago
@wardlive Lol it's not a song xD
XxKcookiez29 1 month ago
Beethoven rox
TheLilballer04 1 month ago
ba ba ba bam!
kontekzt 1 month ago
Marvellous!
Creampuffilicious 1 month ago
lol brilliant piece. 0:24 dog!
345everything 1 month ago
bello , magnifivo. relajante es un sueño
charlie153caba 1 month ago
Smalin be Ballin'!
JoetheePro 1 month ago
For some reason at about a minute in it always reminds me of bugs bunny's the hair de seville
ChaoticDraco619 1 month ago
Does the software you use only work with Classical, or can you do that animate graph thingy with all instrumentals?
TheBritishBen 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
@TheBritishBen The inputs to my animation are audio and matching MIDI. If I have those, I can make a video.
smalin 1 month ago
Listened to it so many times over ... It kind of reminds me of battle themes from star wars ... Love what you do
anthonypearse1 1 month ago
polska rządzi
Skabra99 1 month ago
so beautiful
hairylegsbrad 1 month ago
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NieuwsteHypercam 1 month ago
The videos count is just a tad bit fast. But other than that, I love how you did that.
DiabolicalDamsel 1 month ago in playlist Enjoy Death
Great! Love this!
hotsauce75o 1 month ago
ah... everything is moving to the left now
TheBadbilliam 1 month ago
That is brilliant and beautiful. It adds a whole new dimension to enjoying this masterpiece. Thank you Smalin
johnarmand1028 1 month ago
A lot of people would say that you would ruin the music this way, software and all. I believe however, that this brings a new perspective as well as drawing many newcomers to classical music. The interaction of instruments as presented in your work makes me appreciate the composition and art more. This channel really turned me onto a love for the classics. Thanks.
WOWZERS805 1 month ago
hey smalin i've been watching your videos for a long time, especially when i'm working. i really like them
coolioyoyomo 1 month ago in playlist Classical Music
watching te movement actuall make me appreciate the peice:D COLORS
QTPieDream 1 month ago
Absolutely outstanding! Never a dull moment, always swept along in the majesty of chord and melody.
JenEssitBroughman 2 months ago
make lux aeterna of clint marshel, it's amazing song too
bbruunnooo 2 months ago
what the name of the software?
it's incredible tool!
bbruunnooo 2 months ago
just good work ;-)
MrKrvo 2 months ago
you can really see the way he builds up complex harmonies and then deconstructs them, most music looks rather boring by comparison i expect :)
AtomosDemocritus 2 months ago
4:55-5:10 sounds like something from a batman movie
TheVideosrule 2 months ago
I love tracking them as they go along :D
TheVideosrule 2 months ago
AWESOME!
imisspresidentreagan 2 months ago
How could one man have written this entire song? Beethoven must have been a fuckin genius!
Bart1893 2 months ago
@Bart1893 Indeed he was.
ElderSavior 2 months ago
Amazing. Beehtoven was truly gifted.
186mjn 2 months ago
Does anyone else remember this from Fantasia 2000?
motherfan55 2 months ago
absolutely powerful
MrGeokal 2 months ago
..._ is morse for V (which means 5 ^-^)
thepianoaddict 2 months ago
6:05 is the start of the most epic moment of your life!
stratovarius47 2 months ago
@stratovarius47 thats my fave part too and its in the 1st violins which is the part i play :) performing it with the uni orchestra on thursday. so excited! x
musicallytalented2 2 months ago
we are playing all of beethoven's 5th movement for our band concert :) what fun :)
maddeegirl1 2 months ago
This is the song that plays when England cooks... o.o *is a hetalian*
TobiTheNinjaKitten 2 months ago
amazing!!!!! *O*
laylakyoyama 2 months ago
How do you make these?
KrE3Ed 2 months ago
@KrE3Ed I wrote software to do it.
smalin 2 months ago
This is so great! You really appreciate the complexity of the piece...
jadet911 2 months ago
what was the symphony that was like TIRIRI tiriririri in a dark kind of way. They used it in the game peggle for the halloween pumpkin.
fastdude4ever 2 months ago
Do you have the other movements?
x3jamez3x 2 months ago
@x3jamez3x Sorry, no.
smalin 2 months ago
@smalin I use it for that exact reason
x3jamez3x 2 months ago
why can't all concert pieces be in this format? I'm using this to study for a music appreciation exam, and it works great!
bl00dbl0ss0m 2 months ago
@bl00dbl0ss0m My videos (now on DVD) are used in a lot of music appreciation classes.
smalin 2 months ago
It's amazing how much this kind of music relaxes the mind
Goldenfury12 2 months ago
Je met pouce vert sans hésitation .
Yarida75 2 months ago
FREAKIN AWESOME!!!! <3 I LOVE HIM!!
Catlver1 2 months ago
@smalin keep up the good work! This is by far the best version on youtube!
jjgreen555 2 months ago in playlist Piano
I wonder if this is actually what he wanted it to sound like..
Davidstucke89 2 months ago
@Davidstucke89 Pretty much. He wasn't completely deaf when he wrote it, and he conducted the premiere. It's been performed regularly ever since then, and people have been writing about those performances, comparing one to another. If there had been a significant change in how it was played, we'd know. There are some changes, of course, because the instruments have evolved. Some orchestras use instruments built like they were then; it makes a difference, but not a big one.
smalin 2 months ago
I think youre channel will be my palylist
Arikiatrukido 3 months ago
what an honor it would have been to be in that orchestra
xxPWNAGE1212xx 3 months ago
that is the best beethoven symphony
denniskroeger 3 months ago
When I first heard this song I thought it was amazing then I saw this video and nothing changed.
MascotOfAGeneration 3 months ago
i love this video hahah it looks like my atari is broken!
tyrantsfaceisred 3 months ago
This song is best listened too by dancing around and making hand motions like a madman. Trust me it gives the song even more power.
brooktini9131 3 months ago
Listening to this while doing my homework :)
thecheesecake82 3 months ago
That's neat and all but it doesn't convey expression. Run this graph on a sequencer and it will sound like crap.
hardcoded 3 months ago
@hardcoded It's not meant to convey expression; it's meant to show you the structure --- like a score. If you want to see dynamics (which are part of expression), try my latest version (watch?v=yeRTxWCIEh0).
smalin 3 months ago
@smalin Ooh... That's more like it :)
hardcoded 3 months ago
Beutifull
RedNekLabz 3 months ago
nice
DaeleRyan 3 months ago
I have a question, how was he still able to compose music if he couldn't hear it?
AnneAlba1 3 months ago
@AnneAlba1 The same way you could write a poem (and know what it sounds like) if you went deaf. Musicians learn how to hear music in their head by just imagining it, or seeing it in notation.
smalin 3 months ago
@smalin yeah but he never heard what he maked of his own music right
Furius111 3 months ago
@smalin Musical theory? I also heard some people say that he perceived the music through the vibrations based on touch or something akin to echolocation, but not as crass an idea?
asdfuogh 3 months ago
@asdfuogh I think you're misunderstanding what Beethoven did. When he was nearly deaf, he would put his ear up against a surface connected to the piano so that as much of the sound of the piano as possible would make it into his ear. He was not perceiving the music "based on touch." And once he was completely deaf, he just used his imagination. There was nothing like echolocation involved.
smalin 3 months ago
@AnneAlba1 He also cut the legs off of his piano so he could feel the vibrations through the floor.
MorganW10 3 months ago
@AnneAlba1 Like smalin said if you grew up and composed music for your life you could play the music in your head even though he never got to hear it for hisself
Jelyjiggler 3 months ago
@AnneAlba1 he didn't get compleatly deft untill his later years ... that's when he most struggles in his life ! but the simtoms got worse and worse as time went by
1037lex 3 months ago
@1037lex It's symptoms, but yes, true.
TheWWEB 3 months ago
@TheWWEB HAhaha sorry my engish no good!-lehks
1037lex 3 months ago
Respond to this video... around this time people began to wounder why he had became very angry ... and still the question comes asking people WHY is it that after the 5th he started makeing really really sad music rather then the butiful music befor the 5th !
1037lex 3 months ago
@AnneAlba1 He lain on the floor and felt the vibrations of the music.
tenshiuve 3 months ago
@AnneAlba1 he imagined how would it sound
popstar2083 2 months ago
Damn, now it's all moving right in my eyes.
KorsarNik 3 months ago
For a deaf guy, he was fucking BRILLIANT!
AdamSKHaj 3 months ago
@AdamSKHaj He wasn't deaf when he wrote this.
smalin 2 months ago
@smalin he wasn't completely, but he was already too much damaged...
dethNiCk 2 months ago
@smalin Didn't he made this out of frustraion fo being deaf?Cuz that's what my teacher told us when she was showing us this on television.
Safhata 2 months ago
@Safhata If your teacher has documentation of that, I'd like to see it. It sounds apocryphal to me.
smalin 2 months ago
@smalin It wasn't a documentation, it was a disc that goes with our workbook, called "Boost!"
Safhata 2 months ago
@Safhata I'd like to know what the source of that information was.
smalin 2 months ago
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Safhata 2 months ago
@Safhata Ehmm no Beethoven had much trouble hearing things during his 9th symphony and he wascompletely deaf when he composed the Great Fugue. When he did the 5th symphony he could just hear normally like you and me
vanburikwouter 2 months ago
@vanburikwouter False dude. The Heligenstadt Testament (in which Beethoven says that he's completely deaf) was written in 1802. He had been going deaf since the mid 1790s.
rkniffy 2 months ago
@rkniffy Then I've been mistold. However, he should have had the ability when writing the first movement. He wrote it in 4 years and the deafness was a chronic disease(?) that took more then 20 years to make him completely deaf since the start of the 19th century. Since the revealing of his deafness in 1801 to his friends, it was still in the stadium of bad hearing. Not deafness. He wasn't deaf when he composed this, but you're right in the point that he already had trouble hearing. But deaf? no
vanburikwouter 2 months ago
@vanburikwouter he wasn't just hard of hearing at this point, he was GOING deaf, it was getting worse. He could still hear, he could still speak but it was begining to be troublesome.
sstuddert 2 months ago
@sstuddert Well it seems then it's a matter where you speak of 'going deaf' or 'hearing bad which grows to deafness'. I think we mean the same;)
vanburikwouter 2 months ago
@Safhata Beethoven was only actually completely deaf for the premiere of one symphony, the 9th. The conductor had to turn him around to see the standing ovation he received for it.
FroggerbobT 2 months ago
@AdamSKHaj i hear fine and i'm not half of it! he's just godlike!
dethNiCk 2 months ago
@AdamSKHaj Deaf or not, he is still motherfucking brilliant
TheKyukun 2 months ago
I don't know if this is just because I'm tired, but after staring at that video for the duration of the music, now it seems that all the icons, links, and images on my screen are floating around... slightly... it's bizarre. Did that happen to anyone else?
lotsathoughts 3 months ago
This is my favorite ever.
hrolvnir 3 months ago
Seeing how complex the music looked based off the graphical score, it awes me how Beethoven, a deaf but brilliant man, discovered how to write such a great piece.
LordvGum 3 months ago
@LordvGum Beethoven only became deaf later in his life. He had a lot of experience with music before he stopped hearing, so afterwards he wrote from his memory.
MrJohn11905 3 months ago
@NicholasPalmeseF I saw that there were a lot of views coming from there, but I couldn't find the page until now; thanks for the pointer!
smalin 3 months ago
Beethoven used to write directly in MIDI.
bcoco85 3 months ago
I have a whole playlist filled with your videos that i listen to whenever i'm trying to do work. Sadly, though, it doesn't always work because i get so enthrolled in the music and the animation that i forget to work. Heck, i'm stalling right now.
:)
Drakethatsme 3 months ago
pure genius
MsDice26 3 months ago
i now have complete and utter respect for the complexity of classical music.
FeindishArtwork 3 months ago
adore this. makes me appreciate the music so much more
marinersrev3nge 3 months ago
Easier to read than music notes^^
MajorStupidoZwo 3 months ago