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  Sure we'll never be able to hear baroque and classical composers playing their own music, but a few romantic composers were alive to be able to record themselves playing their own compositions. It's amazing to hear Rachmaninoff play his own piece, to be able to study his own interpretation and see how it's different to modern players.
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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. >
  
  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 >
  
  I was just yanking your chain. Don't mind me. >
  
  But someone must have been listening to Schwarzenegger saying "I'll be Bach" whilst Choppin' Mozarella to bake Beets in the oven >
  
  Sure we'll never be able to hear baroque and classical composers playing their own music, but a few romantic composers were alive to be able to record themselves playing their own compositions. It's amazing to hear Rachmaninoff play his own piece, to be able to study his own interpretation and see how it's different to modern players. >
  
  it's truly amazing to hear the masters at their crafts >
  
  Chopin and Beethoven were still alive when Jonathan the Tortoise was born. Unfortunately they probably never traveled to Seychelles or St Helena. >
  
  Maybe one of those superold turtles or tortoises heard some Chopin.