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Ludwig van Beethoven, born in Bonn, Germany in 1770, was an outstanding composer whose works had a profound impact on classical and romantic music, regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of music.

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Famous Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes

“Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?”

Thinking Giving Music Damn Pathetic Violin

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.”

Thinking Art Entertainment Opera I Liked You

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.”

Source: Ludwig Van Beethoven for Classical Guitar - Tablature: Arranged for Guitar by John Trie

“I carry my thoughts about me for a long time, often a very long time, before I write them down; meanwhile my memory is so faithful that I am sure never to forget, not even in years, a theme that has once occurred to me.”

Thinking Writing Long Long Time My Thoughts

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“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.”

Thinking Knows Men Way Seems Causes Loss Secret Hearing Stubborn Hearing Loss Misanthropic

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

Thinking Knows World Doe Philosophy Eye Practice Higher Music Is Contrary Revelations Despise Sigh

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.”

Thinking Mind Spirit Creation Music Is Musical Soil Electric Electrical

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“I can do nothing but think of you... What have you done to me? Can't you remove the spell you have cast over me?”

Thinking Love I Can Done Can Do Inspiring Casts Remove Spells Think Of You

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

About the Author

Born: 1770
Died: March 26, 1827
Known for: Composer
Quotes: 146

Books & Sources

Beethoven: The Man and the ArtistRelated source material

Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own WordsRelated source material

Delphi Masterworks of Ludwig van Beethoven (Illustrated)Related source material

Beethoven's LettersRelated source material

Ludwig Van Beethoven for Classical Guitar - Tablature: Arranged for Guitar by John TrieRelated source material

The letters of BeethovenRelated source material

Beethoven Library of Piano Works: Bagatelles, Sonatinas, Piano Pieces, and VariationsRelated source material

Beethoven's Letters (1790–1826)Related source material

Beethoven, as Revealed in His Own Words: The Man and the ArtistRelated source material

Beethoven, the man and the artist: as revealed in his own wordsRelated source material

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