Batool N. Asha

[Nico @E0_DS0_Omega]

beethoven couldn't hear the ninth symphony. when it premiered in vienna on may 7, 1824, the audience erupted. he kept conducting until a contralto named caroline unger physically turned him around so he could see them clapping. he wept on stage.

he had been losing his hearing for almost thirty years. it started at twenty six. by thirty two he had written a letter to his brothers about how close he came to giving up over it, and decided he could not leave the world until he had written the music inside him. he never sent that letter. it was found in his desk after he died.

he composed by biting a wooden rod and pressing it against the piano. he felt vibrations through his jawbone. he broke pianos by hitting the keys too hard, trying to feel sound he could no longer hear. people communicated with him by writing in notebooks. four hundred of them survived. most are mundane requests. some are people quietly mocking him while he sat across the table unable to hear.

his face was pockmarked from smallpox he had years before. he avoided mirrors. he wrote love letters to a woman he never named, found in his desk along with the letter about wanting to stop, never sent either of them.

he spent his last decade in a six year custody battle over his nephew karl. karl's collapse in 1826 broke him. eight months later beethoven was dead at fifty six. an autopsy of his hair a century later found heavy lead. it may have been poisoning him for decades.

on march 29, 1827 his funeral drew over twenty thousand people to the streets of vienna. schubert was one of the torchbearers. schubert died the next year.

the man who could not hear sound shaped what sound would mean for the next two hundred years.

[Batool N. Asha @itsbatoolasha_]

Cairo 🇪🇬

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Istanbul 🇹🇷

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Lübeck 🇩🇪

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Hamburg 🇩🇪

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@ecomkhalid @Nadeen82610643

[كورت @Kurtkem_]

لاينتهي الشتاء وأنت ماشفت هذي الأفلام

[عبدالله بن الحسين @KingAbdullahII]

شاهدنا الأردنيين على قلب واحد، منتخب وجمهور يعكسان كل ما هو جميل في هذا الوطن، فيرى الأردني في المنتخب نفسه، أصيلا صلبا ومحبا. حظ الأردن بكم كبير يا نشامى، وكلنا فخورون بكم وبما حققتم. الحمد لله على سلامتكم ونورتم وطنكم.
شكرا للدوحة التي جمعت الأشقاء العرب، ومبارك للمغرب الشقيق

[RHC @RHCJO]

سمو الأمير الحسين بن عبدالله الثاني ولي العهد، يكرم الفائزين بجائزة الحسين بن عبدالله الثاني للعمل التطوعي في دورتها الثالثة، خلال حفل عقد في قصر الثقافة بمدينة الحسين للشباب
#الأردن

[Stranger News @StrangerNews11]

All of us on December 31st 👀

[RHC @RHCJO]

جلالة الملك عبدالله الثاني يفتتح مبنى "هنجر 7" الجديد للشركة الأردنية لصيانة الطائرات (جورامكو)، الذي تتجاوز مساحته 12 ألف متر مربع، ويطلع جلالته على خدمات صيانة وإصلاح وتجديد الطائرات التي تقدمها الشركة لأكثر من 60 شركة طيران دولية
#الأردن

[RHC @RHCJO]

His Majesty King Abdullah II inaugurates JORAMCO’s new ‘Hangar 7’, which extends over an area of 12,000 square metres, and is briefed on its services of aircraft maintenance offered to over 60 international airlines
#Jordan

[Batool N. Asha @itsbatoolasha_]

@StrangerNews11 Eddie for sure

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

OMG 🤣

[𝑲𝑼. @_kivo3]

الأغنية الشهيرة Night Changes تخطت
حاجز المليار مشاهدة على اليوتيوب

[Batool N. Asha @itsbatoolasha_]

@StrangerNews11 Can’t wait

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@squidgame @netflix Never 😆

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That’s the way life is—no one wins twice

[tobi ⊗ @erikscharlesx]

me staring at the netflix logo after watching s3: