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How Beethoven’s Deafness Can Unlock Your Unstoppable Spirit
What Can We Learn about Resilience and Persistence from the Great Composer
Hands slick with hot sweat, I settled onto the piano bench, taking in the sleek black expanse of keys stretched before me. My heart pounded as I tried to steady my breathing.
Thoughts ricocheting around like “Do I really know this piece?” and “What if I mess up?” But all those worries melted away once my fingers touched the keys.
Closing my eyes, I began playing the first mournful notes. My fingers hesitating at first, stiff from anxiety. As the melancholic melody filled the hall, I forgot the audience, forgot my fears.
I lost myself in the ebb and flow of the music, expressing through the keys the song’s quiet despair slowly building into defiant hope. Such is the power of Beethoven.
The Musical Master Who Couldn’t Hear His Own Work
In case you’re not familiar, this musical genius, born in Bonn, Germany in 1770, blazed his way into musical immortality over the course of an astonishing career…
