Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Musik ist höhere Offenbarung als alle Weisheit und Philosophie.
Musicians
Ludwig van Beethoven
Born in Bonn in 1770, Ludwig van Beethoven bridged the Classical and Romantic eras, expanding the emotional and structural boundaries of music itself. Composing through progressive deafness, he produced the Ninth Symphony, the Moonlight and Appassionata sonatas, and the Eroica, a work that fundamentally redefined the symphony's scale and ambition. His influence on every subsequent composer remains incalculable.
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Ludwig van Beethoven's Other Quotes
I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.
Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
What I have in my heart and soul must find a way out. That's the reason for music.
Related Quotes
I do not copy nature; I reveal it.
-- Caravaggio
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought.
-- Franz Liszt
Music is the silence between the notes.
-- Claude Debussy
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
-- Claude Debussy