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A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

~Ludwig Van Beethoven

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Music comes to me more readily than words.

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Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

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

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O, 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, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

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Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

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When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

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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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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Composer

Born: December 17th, 1770

Died: March 26th, 1827

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