Ludwig van Beethoven

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Biography : German composer and pianist.
Born: 1770 - Died: 1827
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Germany

Ludwig van Beethoven - Quotes

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Melody gives a sensible existence to poetry.
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poetry

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
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Blessed is he who has overcome all passions and then proceeds energetically to perform his duties under all circumstances careless of success! Let the motive lie in the deed, not in the outcome.
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Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
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art

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
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happiness

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
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music

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
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heart

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Ludwig van Beethoven