> someone projected her beliefs You may be right about some projection going on, but your comment ignores the critical fact that she is one of presumably relat

> someone projected her beliefs You may be right about some projection going on, but your comment ignores the critical fact that she is one of presumably relatively few humans with experience as a composer with significant hearing loss. So her “projection” isn’t based on some random beliefs, but grounded in a relatively rare shared experience with the subject of her study. In addition, historians and anthropologists routinely project to varying degrees in trying to interpret the “why” of history in addition to the “what”. And the fact that there’s a lot of speculation going on, is my default expectation as reader. No need to write it into every article on historical interpretation. So I find her observations an interesting avenue of interpreting some aspects of Beethoven’s musical evolution.