{"id":50101,"date":"2024-11-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d29fbb9f-5769-45f2-9af1-43fe0ac459a6"},"modified":"2024-11-24T12:09:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T11:09:20","slug":"i-detest-him-the-most-sublime-music-ever-11-of-the-best-quotes-about-beethoven","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/i-detest-him-the-most-sublime-music-ever-11-of-the-best-quotes-about-beethoven\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I detest him’… ‘The most sublime music ever’… 11 of the best quotes about Beethoven"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>

By <\/p>

Published: Sunday, 24 November 2024 at 10:00 AM<\/p>

\n\n

Read on to discover 11 quotes about Beethoven – from those who admired and loved him, to those who despised him…<\/strong><\/p>

Most big personalities divide opinion, and Beethoven<\/a><\/strong> was no exception. He was, after all, a figure known as much for his passionate, sometimes difficult, temper as for his equally passionate \u2013 and often difficult \u2013 music. Add to this his huge impact on the story of classical music, helping to usher in the Romantic era, and it’s unsurprising that his peers and critics developed strong opinions about him.<\/p>

Best of Beethoven – the 20 greatest works and the recordings you need<\/a><\/strong><\/li> <\/ul>
Below you will find 11 quotes about Beethoven by those who loved – and hated – the man and his music…<\/p>
Quotes about Beethoven… Johannes Brahms, composer<\/h3>
\u2018You can\u2019t have any idea what it\u2019s like always to hear such a giant marching behind you!\u2019<\/em><\/p>
Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer in 1922<\/h3>
\u2018I detest Beethoven!\u2019<\/em><\/p>
Igor Stravinsky… again in 1962<\/h3>
\u2018At 80, I have found new joy in Beethoven\u2019<\/em><\/p>
Quotes about Beethoven… EM Forster, English author<\/h3>
\u2018It will be generally admitted that Beethoven\u2019s Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man\u2019<\/em><\/p>

<\/div> <figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> Herbert von Karajan conducts Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony <\/figcaption> <\/figure> <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/beethoven-funeral\">His head crowned by a garland of white roses’: how thousands attended Beethoven’s funeral<\/a><\/strong><\/li> <\/ul> <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Victor Hugo, French author<\/h3> <p><em>\u2018[In Beethoven\u2019s music] the dreamer will recognise his dreams, the sailor his storms, and the wolf his forests\u2019 <\/em><\/p> <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mikhail Bakunin, Russian revolutionary<\/h3> <p><em>\u2018Everything will pass and the world will perish but Beethoven’s Ninth [Symphony] will remain\u2019<\/em><\/p> <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quotes about Beethoven… Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher<\/h3> <p><em>\u2018At a certain place in Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony, one might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome\u2019 <\/em><\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"> <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beethoven 9 - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Riccardo Muti\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rOjHhS5MtvA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/> <\/div> <figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> Riccardo Muti conducts Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony <\/figcaption> <\/figure> <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">John Ruskin, English art critic<\/h3> <p>\u2018<em>Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there also a dropped hammer\u2019<\/em><\/p> <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/articles\/what-drove-beethovens-nephew-to-attempt-suicide\">‘My uncle tormented me too much’: what drove Beethoven’s nephew to attempt suicide?<\/a><\/strong><\/li> <\/ul> <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Albert Einstein, German physicist<\/h3> <p><em>\u2018It would be possible to describe absolutely everything scientifically, but it would make no sense. It would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure\u2019<\/em><\/p> <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quotes about Beethoven… Martin Luther King, Jr, US minister and activist<\/h3> <p><em>\u2018If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Beethoven composed music\u2019<\/em><\/p> <h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer<\/h3> <p>Apocryphally, having heard Beethoven play and improvise at the piano…<\/p> <p><em>‘Mark my words, the world will hear from that young man’<\/em><\/p> <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/heiligenstadt-testament\">A document of despair: how Beethoven’s anguished Heiligenstadt Testament revealed his advancing deafness<\/a><\/strong><\/li> <\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Published: Sunday, 24 November 2024 at 10:00 AM Read on to discover 11 quotes about Beethoven – from those who admired and loved him, to those who despised him… Most big personalities divide opinion, and Beethoven was no exception. He was, after all, a figure known as much for his passionate, sometimes difficult, temper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":50102,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"3"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/i-detest-him-the-most-sublime-music-ever-11-of-the-best-quotes-about-beethoven.jpg",1200,800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/i-detest-him-the-most-sublime-music-ever-11-of-the-best-quotes-about-beethoven-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/i-detest-him-the-most-sublime-music-ever-11-of-the-best-quotes-about-beethoven-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/i-detest-him-the-most-sublime-music-ever-11-of-the-best-quotes-about-beethoven-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/i-detest-him-the-most-sublime-music-ever-11-of-the-best-quotes-about-beethoven-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/i-detest-him-the-most-sublime-music-ever-11-of-the-best-quotes-about-beethoven.jpg",1200,800,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/11\/i-detest-him-the-most-sublime-music-ever-11-of-the-best-quotes-about-beethoven.jpg",1200,800,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Published: Sunday, 24 November 2024 at 10:00 AM Read on to discover 11 quotes about Beethoven – from those who admired and loved him, to those who despised him… Most big personalities divide opinion, and Beethoven was no exception. He was, after all, a figure known as much for his passionate, sometimes difficult, temper…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/50101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

Quotes about Beethoven… Johannes Brahms, composer<\/h3> \u2018You can\u2019t have any idea what it\u2019s like always to hear such a giant marching behind you!\u2019<\/em><\/p>

Quotes about Beethoven… Johannes Brahms, composer<\/h3>
\u2018You can\u2019t have any idea what it\u2019s like always to hear such a giant marching behind you!\u2019<\/em><\/p>