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Robert Peters <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 27 Jan 2005 02:07:39 +0100
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Mike Leghorn wrote:

>Robert Peters wrote:
>
>>Beethoven would have written different music if he had had a loving wife
>>and no hearing problems or had lived just fifty years later.
>
>Robert, you're probably right (although there is no way to prove it).
>Do you know what Beethoven would have written?  Could you describe
>it to a composer so that the composer could transcribe it to actual
>compositions so we could hear what Beethoven would have written?

Of course I cant say what he would have written.  But we can now hear
what he heard (and its terrible).  The Beethoven-Haus in Bonn sells a
CD with Beethovens music, digitally modified to simulate Beethovens own
hearing.  A shocking experience.

Robert

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