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==''The Moldau''== | ==''The Moldau''== | ||
[related: Bedřich Smetana] | '''[related: Bedřich Smetana]''' | ||
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Placid and listlessly mellifluous symphonic tone poem by the 18th-century Czech composer Bedřich Smetana. Smetana composed ''The Moldau'' in complete silence during an extended period of debilitating misophonia <ref> Condition in which the subject experiences psychotic levels of anger and/or sexual arousal when exposed to sounds made by other humans, esp. lip-smacking, breathing heavily, and other mouth sounds (esp. re: sex stuff). </ref> that led eventually to full deafness in both ears (and, subsequently, a state of violent mania for which the composer was later forcibly institutionalized until his death). | Placid and listlessly mellifluous symphonic tone poem by the 18th-century Czech composer Bedřich Smetana. Smetana composed ''The Moldau'' in complete silence during an extended period of debilitating misophonia <ref> Condition in which the subject experiences psychotic levels of anger and/or sexual arousal when exposed to sounds made by other humans, esp. lip-smacking, breathing heavily, and other mouth sounds (esp. re: sex stuff). </ref> that led eventually to full deafness in both ears (and, subsequently, a state of violent mania for which the composer was later forcibly institutionalized until his death). | ||
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The Moldau
[related: Bedřich Smetana]
Placid and listlessly mellifluous symphonic tone poem by the 18th-century Czech composer Bedřich Smetana. Smetana composed The Moldau in complete silence during an extended period of debilitating misophonia [1] that led eventually to full deafness in both ears (and, subsequently, a state of violent mania for which the composer was later forcibly institutionalized until his death).
- ↑ Condition in which the subject experiences psychotic levels of anger and/or sexual arousal when exposed to sounds made by other humans, esp. lip-smacking, breathing heavily, and other mouth sounds (esp. re: sex stuff).