Tinnitus-Trio (2006)

'Tinnitus-Trio – Scene with Beethoven' deals in a subtle and parodistic manner with the question as to how Beethoven wrote his late works despite his deafness. Legend has it that he had the legs of his grand piano removed in order to transfer the vibrations directly to the ground and feel them through his body. Even Hiller's original composition which is interspersed with shreds of sound from Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Op. 31 to Op. 111 like fragments could be played on a grand piano with removed legs, but this is not obligatory.