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  I wasnt very clear, but I wanted to say that we dont know how they sounded like when playing because there are no recordings of them playing
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  But their music lives on forever! We can still appreciate the genius of these composers by listening to their timeless masterpieces. >
  
  Just as interesting, there was literally a time where in order to ever hear their music you had to manually play or have someone else play it on a piano, since there was no recorded music. >
  
  Bold of you to assume I haven’t been alive since the invention of dirt >
  
  Is it death music? Do people perish upon hearing it? Am I some eldritch entity immune to the infernal murder music? 
  Or did you mean no one alive today has ever heard Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, or Chopin playing in person.