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Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.

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Ludwig van Beethoven
Age: 56 †
Born: 1770
Born: December 16
Died: 1827
Died: March 26
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Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.
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Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.
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To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.
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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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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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All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.
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Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king
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We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.
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The Music is the only corporeal introduction to the superior world of Knowledge.
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Hide your secret even from the closest friend learn to be silent.
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When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
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My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.
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It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.
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If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?
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From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.
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Oh 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. Oh how harshly was I flung back by the doubly sad experience of my bad hearing.
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Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life.
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Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
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There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.
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such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art it was that withheld me, - ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I had felt called upon to produce.
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