Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
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I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.
I don't think Beethoven expresses religious truth. He expresses a human truth.
Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people.
Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.
Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
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