Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven; baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer. 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. His best-known compositions include 9 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, 1 violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, his great Mass the Missa solemnis and an opera, Fidelio...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth16 December 1770
CityBonn, Germany
CountryGermany
We all make mistakes, but everyone makes different mistakes
I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
I can live only wholly with you or not at all.
My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.
In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them with my hands - out in the open air, in the woods, while walking, in the silence of the nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tones that sound and roar and storm about me till I have set them down in notes.
I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.
Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king
Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.