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
I shall hear in heaven.
Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.
such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art it was that withheld me, - ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I had felt called upon to produce.
What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
To play without passion is inexcusable!
Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
Music can change the world.
Love demands all, and has a right to all.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent...
An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?