

Ludwig van Beethoven is a composer whose last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.



Ludwig van Beethoven is eternal — everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
Ludwig van Beethoven is a composer who embraced the universe with the power of his spirit.

Ludwig van Beethoven is of such greatness that even to follow in his footsteps transcends one's strength.

Beethoven could still hear after going deaf thanks to a process called bone conduction. While composing, he would simply bite a metal pole connecting to the piano and he could 'hear' the music perfectly well
Ludwig van Beethoven is a composer whose music always sounds like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.