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Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven
also: the World-completer
German composer (1770–1827), deaf in his later years. Malte reads his death-mask — 'the knowing face' — beside the smiling mask of the drowned girl, and addresses him as the 'World-completer' whose music the venal age can no longer receive.
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- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §129 his knowing face
Beethoven, whose mask hangs beneath the drowned girl's; 'one whose hearing a god has closed' — the deaf composer in whom the clarity of sound survived soundlessly.
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