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  • 10 - Deafly Performing Beethoven’s Last Three Piano Sonatas

  • Edited by Keith Chapin, Cardiff University, David Wyn Jones, Cardiff University
  • Book:
    Beethoven Studies 4
    Published online:
    26 September 2020
    Print publication:
    17 September 2020, pp 209-238

  • Summary

    This essay takes a practice-based approach to the relationship between Beethoven’s Broadwood piano and the aural world of the last three piano sonatas. In order to maximize his residual hearing Beethoven had a ‘hearing machine’ constructed by Stein that rested on top of the piano in front of the player. With colleagues Tom Beghin has re-created that ‘hearing machine’ to simulate Beethoven’s experience as a deaf player and composer. As well as detailing this process the author explores some of the expressive consequences of this hearing experience in the last three piano sonatas.