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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Composition & Classical Music · Playing & Producing Music

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Must it be? It must be! in my last quartet
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Seize Fate by the throat, it shall not crush me
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I write for a later age, not for the first audience

When the violinist Felix Radicati said my Razumovsky quartets were "not music", I told him they were for a later age. My most demanding works were judged by the future of music, not by their premieres.

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Composing does not need the ear that performing needs

My hearing began to fail in 1798. It ended my career as a performing pianist by 1814, yet my most ambitious music — the middle period and the Ninth Symphony — was composed after it began.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

I compose, conduct and play the piano. I trained in the Classical style and my music drove the move into Romantic music, expanding the symphony, the piano sonata and the string quartet.

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