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
Ludwig van Beethoven quotes about
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
The amount of money one needs is terrifying...
I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its narrowness, its height and depth.
Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.
Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.
Don't regard yourself as too divine to improve, occasionally, your own works.
If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?
Handel, to him I bow the knee.
Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes.
I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.
From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.
It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.
Wherever you are, I am there also.
I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.