Beethoven – Inspirational quotes about life and other stories

This is a brief compilation of the life and work of a great musician and composer, perhaps the greatest of all, or the most influential in the history of universal music. We will see beyond his music, the famous inspirational quotes about life and his great philosophical thoughts.

Let’s find out a bit about the secrets that are contained in your heartfelt views on various subjects related to the music and life of those who get carried away by their emotions and feelings in a totally personal way.

“When you hear your music, it’s impossible not to feel some form of emotion”

For Beethoven the composition was a natural gift given by God and perfected throughout his life with much study and observation of his own feelings.

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The great German master was a great thinker of his time and gifted us with valuable music quotes and important teachings on our feelings and emotions.

 

Beethoven actually considered music as a sacred thing, so he slowly created his compositions, always looking for perfection in each of his notes. Once, the famous French writer Victor Hugo uttered the following thought: “This deaf person heard the infinite.” Was he right? Find it out!

Beethoven – Famous and Inspirational Music Quotes

Most famous Beethoven quotes

“I have patience and I think: all evil brings with it some good.”

“There is no real intelligence without goodness.”

“Thousands of people cultivate music; but few have the revelation of this great art.”

“I recognize no other greatness than goodness.”

“The barriers that tell the genius have not yet risen: You shall not pass away from this!”

“There is nothing more beautiful than distributing happiness to many people.”

“True friendship can be based only on the union of similar ways of being”.

“There is nothing so beautiful as to approach the Divinity and spread its rays for the human race.”

“Music is capable of reproducing, in its real form, the pain that tears the soul and the smile that it inebriates.”

“To do all the good that one can love, above all, freedom, and even for a throne, never deny the truth.”

“Music is a revelation superior to all wisdom and philosophy.”

“Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.”

“Genius is composed of 2% talent and 98% persevering application.”

“Music is the bond that unites the life of the spirit to the life of the senses. Melody is the sensitive life of poetry.”

“Do not just practice your art, but force your way into your secrets, for it and knowledge can elevate men to the divine.”

“I will never forget the time I spent with you. I beg you to remain my friend, just as I will always be yours.”

“Musicians use all the freedoms they can.”

“The sensitive soul is like a harp that resonates with a simple breath.”

“Nothing is good enough. So let us do what is right, devote the best of our efforts to reach the unattainable, to develop to the maximum the gifts that God has given us, and never stop learning.”

“Never break the silence if it is not to improve it.”

“I can only think of you, my immortal beloved. I can only live fully with you or I can not live. Stay calm my life my everything Only with the calmness of our consideration of our existence will we achieve our purpose of living together. Oh! keep on loving me – And never misjudge the loyal heart of your beloved.”

“If Rossini had picked up more in childhood, he would have been a good composer”

“The vibration in the breath of God’s breath speaks to the souls of men. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close as men can be to God. We listen to your voice. We read his lips. We give birth to the children of God. We count your prayers. That’s what musicians are.”

“It must be something to look like something.”

“Good Morning! Yet my thoughts multiply in bed, my immortal beloved; so happy and sad, waiting to see if fate wants to hear us. To live alone is possible, or entirely with you, or completely without you. I want to go very far until I can fly into your arms and feel myself in a place that is ours alone, and can send my soul to the realm of the spirits wrapped with you. You will agree with me, the more you know my faithfulness, and that no other will ever possess my heart; never, never … Oh, God! Why live apart when you love each other?”

“My life, the same here as in Vienna: feeling lonely, anguished. You, my love, have made me both happy and unhappy. I’ve needed a certainty in my life for a long time. Would not that be a definition of our relationship? … Angel, I just heard that the mail goes out every day. And that makes me think that you will receive the letter next.”

“Stay calm. Looking confidently at our lives we will achieve our goal of living together. Stay calm, please me. Today and always, how much anxiety and how many tears thinking of you … in you … in you, my life … my everything! Goodbye … always want me! Never doubt the faithful heart of your lover Ludwig. Eternally yours, eternally mine, eternally ours. “

“With men who do not believe in me, I can not and do not want to associate”

“Whoever understands music will never be unhappy again!”

“Music is revelation, the electric ground on which our spirit lives, thinks and invents.”

“Music is like a dream. One that I can not hear.”

“I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.”

 

Some interesting facts about Beethoven’s life

 

• Nobody knows his exact date of birth, he was born in December 1770 – but his father’s attempts to make the musical prodigy look younger led him to believe for years that he was born in 1772.
• His father forced him to practice day and night. He studied for hours on a bench to reach the keyboard.
• Its earliest known composition is a set of nine piano variations that were composed in 1782, Beethoven used the C minor tonality, this was not very common for the time.
• On his first trip to Vienna in 1787, Beethoven planned to meet and perform for Mozart. But we do not know for sure what happened. Legend has it that in fact the two geniuses of the music met, on this occasion Mozart would have spoken to the young pianist: “he will give the world something to speak”.
• For a short time. Beethoven took composition lessons with Joseph Haydn another great Austrian composer.
• During the time that he lived in Vienna Beethoven made several notes in his diary of tasks.
• The musicians who preceded Beethoven, liked to compose for Cravo, but he decided to dedicate himself to a little-known new instrument called Piano.
• He began to become deaf around 1796, at age 25. Thanks to his great musical talent Beethoven could feel the sound vibrations emitted by his compositions. This helped him to perceive the music in a totally original way.
• He was 30 when his No. 1 symphony was performed in Vienna on April 2, 1800.
• In 1802 he referred to his deafness with these words: “I would have finished my life, it was only my art that brought me back.”
• The bagel Für Elise is best known among its pieces for piano, This small piece for piano was dedicated to the opera singer Elisabeth Röckel.
• Beethoven composed only a single opera entitled Fidelio.
• Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is especially famous for its final movement, which brings together chorus and soloists to interpret verses from Ode to Joy.
• Regent Herbert von Karajan suggested that the recording of the ninth symphony should allow listening without the need to “turn the disc”. In this way the CD was released in 1982 with a capacity extended to 74 minutes.
• Beethoven was German, but built his career in Vienna in Austria. It left about 240 works, among which symphonies, concerts, string quartets and other chamber pieces and only an opera.

Beethoven’s music is divided into three distinct phases. The first musical phase shows his early career and the influences he received from Haydn and Mozart. The second phase presents us with its more intimate, romantic and sentimental side. The third phase the great composer realizes his last works.

History shows us that Beethoven was deaf when he composed some of his incredible compositions. He many elements of his imagination, observation and creativity to give us with works of deep melodic and sentimental value.

Let’s go to the listening exercise, I prepared a very generous list with some of the wonderful songs of the great German genius.

Know here the main compositions of Ludwig Van Beethoven:

Beethovenian’s revolutionary symphonies:

• Symphony No. 1
• Symphony No. 2
• Symphony No. 3 “Eroica” – It marks the end of the classical period and the beginning of the romantic period.
• Symphony No. 4
• Symphony No. 5 – One of Beethoven’s most famous and creative compositions. Here he shows all his genius when creating one of the icons of classical music.
• Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral” – A programmatic song that influenced and inspired many composers such as Sibélius, Dvorak, Brahms and many others.
• Symphony No. 7
• Symphony No. 8
• Symphony No. 9 – Considered his great masterpiece, everyone should know this song, however if you do not remember this work, listen and enjoy at least the last movement that is the great moment of this symphony. Ode a given Freude (Ode to Joy) At Christmas this melody is also considered a Christmas carol 

The 32 piano sonatas of Beethoven:

Here we have simply some of the most important and equally beautiful piano compositions in the history of music. They are famous classical piano pieces composed by Beethoven, many of these songs became references and influenced generations of pianists around the world.

• Piano Sonata No.1 in F minor
• Piano Sonata No.2 in A major
• Piano Sonata No.3 in C major
• Piano Sonata No.4 in E-flat major
• Piano Sonata No.5 in C minor
• Piano Sonata No.6 in F major
• Piano Sonata No.7 in D major
• Piano Sonata No.8 in C minor “Pathetique “
• Piano Sonata No.9 in E major
• Piano Sonata No.10 in G major
• Piano Sonata No.11 in B-flat major
• Piano Sonata No.12 in A-flat major
• Piano Sonata No.13 in E-flat major
• Piano Sonata No.14 in C-sharp minor “Moonlight sonata “
• Piano Sonata No.15 in D major “Pastoral”
• Piano Sonata No.17 in D minor “The Tempest”
• Piano Sonata No.18 in E-flat major
• Piano Sonata No.19 in G minor
• Piano Sonata No.20 in G major
• Piano Sonata No.21 in C major “Waldstein “
• Piano Sonata No.22 in F Major
• Piano Sonata No.23 in F minor “Appassionata”
• Piano Sonata No.24 in F-sharp major
• Piano Sonata No.25 in G major
• Piano Sonata No.26 in E-flat major “Les Adieux “
• Piano Sonata No.27 in E minor
• Piano Sonata No.28 in A major
• Piano Sonata No.29 in B-flat major “Hammerklavier “
• Piano Sonata No.30 in E major
• Piano Sonata No.31 in A-flat major
• Piano Sonata No.32 in C minor

The main compositions for violin

• Violin Sonata No. 1 in D, Op. 12
• Violin Sonata No. 2 in A, Op. 12
• Violin Sonata No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 12
• Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23
• Violin Sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24
• Violin Sonata No. 6 in A, Op. 30
• Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor, Op. 30
• Violin Sonata No. 8 in G, Op. 30
• Violin Sonata No. 9 in A, Op. 47 (“Kreutzer”)
• Violin Sonata No. 10 in G, Op. 96
• Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61

5 magistrais concerts for piano and orchestra

• Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major Op. 15
• Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Flat major Op. 19
• Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor Op. 37
• Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major Op. 58
• Piano Concerto No. 5 in E Flat major Op. 73 “Emperor”

Other well-known works of Beethoven:

• Opera – Fidelio
• Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor, WoO 59 “Für Elise”:
• Egmont, Op. 84: Egmont Overture
• Rondo a Capriccio in G Major, Op. 129
• Minuet in G major No. 2
• Duet for Clarinet and Bassoon

Well then this is it. My intention was just to present a little bit about Beethoven’s life. Your music, classical music quotes, thoughts and other interesting and inspiring facts.

I hope you have enjoyed it, we will soon cover facts and curiosities about the life of another great composer of classical music.

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