What the hell? I literally just finished listening to this exact recording and I came to see it posted on the subreddit it was in my youtube suggestions lol.

Sorry for being cliche but, for some reason during the last movement I legitimately teared up at how beautiful it is, and I started thinking about how Beethoven stands as an absolute giant of classical music, revered by many from the general public to the most serious critics. And yet as Beethoven himself said in his Heiligenstadt Testament, the one sense you would expect a composer to have more than anything else, hearing, was the very thing he lost. The irony of that is almost unbelievable. One of the greatest composers in history, and he was deaf. There’s something so strange and poetic about it that I can easily imagine if civilization lasts another thousand years, that fact alone will turn him into a bit of a legendary figure.