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
Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.
Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.
Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you. Oh how harshly was I flung back by the doubly sad experience of my bad hearing.
He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .
I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.
Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.
There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.
Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.
He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
I love a tree more than a man.
The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.
Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.