More from Ludwig van Beethoven

  1. The day-to-day exhausted me!
  2. Another equally true saying of Schumann is that, compared with Beethoven, Schubert is as a woman to a man. For it must be confessed that on…
  3. Ich werde im Himmel horen! (I will hear in heaven!)
  4. 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…
  5. Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
  6. 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…
  7. The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse - it will not submit to th…
  8. Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

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