11 Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes on Music

Ludwig van Beethoven quotes on music

6. Ich werde im Himmel horen! (I will hear in heaven!)

9. 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 one's attitudes towards him is almost always that of sympathy, attraction, and love, rarely that of embarrassment or fear. Here and there only, as in the Rosamund B minor Entr'acte, or the Finale of the 10th symphony, does he compel his listeners with an irrestistible power; and yet how different is this compulsion from the strong, fierce, merciless coercion, with which Beethoven forces you along, and bows and bends you to his will.

11. 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 pupil. She has found a refuge but no occupation with the inexhaustible Haydn; through him she wishes to form a union with another. With the help of assiduous labor you shall receive Mozart's spirit from Haydn's hands.

13. A colossus beyond the grasp of most mortals, with his totally uncompromising power, his unsensual and uningratiating way with music as with people.

14. Anyone who understands my music will never be unhappy again.

18. I can't think about your miserable violin when I am speaking to my God!

19. Music is........ a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

20. Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

21. Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

27. There lies somehing revolutionary in the music.

30. To sing a wrong note is insignificant, but to sing without passion is unforgivable.