The composer spent over 30 years in Vienna, where the premieres of all his symphonies took place, including the Ninth Symphony, completed in 1824. Beethoven was already completely deaf at that time, he could not conduct himself, but he stood next to the conductor with his back to the audience and "conducted" too - with his hands, his arms, his whole body. After the song ended, when there was applause, one of the performers turned the master towards the audience, so that he could at least see the hall and the audience's admiration. Beethoven had this music in his head, he heard it through his musical imagination.
