[Smt-talk] Beethoven's inner ear

[Eytan Agmon]

Martin Braun wrote:

 

“What Beethoven heard via his “inner ear” has never been known to anybody.” 

 

Trivially this is of course true. Our subjective experiences are known only to ourselves. Nevertheless, human beings have always tried to communicate these experiences to others. In Beethoven’s case, I have always assumed that the scores he produced are testimony to what he heard in his “inner ear.”

 

Eytan Agmon

Department of Music

Bar-Ilan University 

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