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1770–1827 Germany
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17 1770, died March 26 1827) was a German composer and pianist who lived predominantly in Vienna, Austria. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers.
Also known as: Beethoven, Beethoven, Ludwig van, Beethoven’s, Ludwig von Beethoven, Beethovens
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O you miserable scoundrel, what I shit is better than anything you ever thought.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ich werde im Himmel hören! (I will hear in heaven!)
Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life.
The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.
Only the pure in the heart can make a good soup.
Do not merely practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; it deserves that, for only art and science can exalt man to divinity.
100 according to Maelzel, but this must be held applicable to only the first measures, for feeling also has its tempo and this cannot entirely be expressed in this figure.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works, and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is, one must be half a tradesman.
I want to seize fate by the throat.
Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.
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I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
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Everybody is always talking about the C-sharp minor sonata; surely I have written better things. There is the Sonata in F-sharp major—that is something very different.
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To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable
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