Professional paper
Hundred blind and sight impaired composers (nearsightedness excluded unless complicated), with two more extensive patographies (Bach J.S., Handel G. F.)
Darko Breitenfeld
; Croatian Physicians ́ Music Society
Silva Butković – Soldo
; School of Medicine, University of Osijek
Hrvoje Raguž
; Croatian Physicians ́ Music Society
Darko Kristović
; Croatian Physicians ́ Music Society
Mecuria Zenebe
; Croatian Physicians ́ Music Society
Ankica Akrap
; Croatian Physicians ́ Music Society
Abstract
This paper presents an overview of composers with impaired sight (Bach J.S., Handel G. F.) in the last five hundred years, according to the data obtained from the biographies of more than ten thousand com posers and over a thousand patographies. This is, to our knowledge, the world’s largest processed sample so far. Diseases unveiled and comorbidities have had an impact on lives and (ability to) work of affected composers. Successful sight-impaired (96) composers are more often represented than the deaf (43) composers, indicating that blindness is a lesser handicap than deafness regarding the creativity of composers.
Keywords
blind composers; Bach JS; Handel GF
Hrčak ID:
160024
URI
Publication date:
16.6.2016.
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