"It was not an enjoyable experience. First of all the piano was dreadfully out of tune, which did not trouble Beethoven in the least, since he could not hear it. Little or nothing remained of the brilliant technique which had been so much admired. In loud passages the poor deaf man hammered away at the notes crashing through whole groups of them so that without the score one lost all sense of the melody. I was deeply moved by the tragedy of it all. Beethoven's almost continual melancholy was no longer a mystery to me."
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Louis Spohr commenting on an invitation, in 1808, to attend a rehearsal by Beethoven of his D Major Piano Trio, Opus 70, no. 1.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
1770 – 1827
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