Famous Quotes by Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (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.
He was a born artist who published his first major work ‘9 Variations in C Minor for piano’ at an early age of 12 and was seen as the ‘young Mozart’ or ‘new Mozart’ by the majority.
It is believed that during the premiere of ‘Ninth Symphony’, his last composition, Beethoven had become completely deaf and was unable to hear the audience clapping.
Famous Quotes by Ludwig van Beethoven
“Music can change the world.”
“I love a tree more than a man.”
“Love demands all, and has a right to all.”
“A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.”
“Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.”
“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
“Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.”
“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”
“Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king.”
“Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.”
“We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.”
“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.”
“I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.”
“Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.) [on his death bed]”
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