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Ludwig van Beethoven

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.


— Ludwig van Beethoven


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


— Ludwig van Beethoven


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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.


— Ludwig van Beethoven


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Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.


— Ludwig van Beethoven


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


— Ludwig van Beethoven


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This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.


— Ludwig van Beethoven


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The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, "Thus far and no farther."


— Ludwig van Beethoven


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


— Ludwig van Beethoven


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Although tradition has it that Johann van Beethoven was a harsh instructor and that the child Beethoven "made to stand at the keyboard was often in tears" the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians claimed that no solid documentation supported this and asserted that "speculation and myth-making have both been productive. Memorials
The Beethoven Monument Bonn was unveiled in August 1845 in honour of his 75th anniversary. Works from this period are characterised by their intellectual depth their formal innovations and their intense highly personal expression.

hoːfən] ([Image] listen); baptized 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Born in Bonn then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of the Holy Roman Empire Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and Christian Gottlob Neefe. He also composed other chamber music choral works (including the celebrated Missa Solemnis) and songs.

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