More from Ludwig van Beethoven

  1. A colossus beyond the grasp of most mortals, with his totally uncompromising power, his unsensual and uningratiating way with music as with…
  2. Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
  3. Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
  4. Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
  5. You are going to Vienna in fulfillment of your long-frustrated wishes. The Genius of Mozart is mourning and weeping over the death of her p…
  6. Do you think I worry about your lousy fiddle when the spirit moves me?
  7. When his friends, says Czerny, speak to him of his youthful renown, he replies: 'Ah, nonsense! I have never thought of writing for renown a…
  8. I can't think about your miserable violin when I am speaking to my God!

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