Ludwig Van Beethoven Zitate

Carl Czerny: Anekdoten und Notizen über Beethoven [Manuskript, 1852]. In: Über den richtigen Vortrag der sämtlichen Beethoven'schen Klavierwerke, Hrsg. Paul Badura-Skoda, Universal-Edition, Wien 1963, S. 19 books.google https://books.google.de/books?hl=de&id=Cl8YAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22schillers+dichtungen%22
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Letzte Worte, er kann die letzte Lieferung Wein nicht mehr genießen, 26. März 1827

Ludwig van Beethoven, zu einem Violinisten, der sich über eine seiner Meinung nach unspielbare Passage beschwerte

Tagebuch, Dezember 1826, nachdem er von Johann Andreas Stumpff 40 Bände der "Arnoldschen Prachtausgabe" von Händels sämtlichen Werken geschenkt bekam. Ulrich Tadday: Händel unter den Deutschen. 2006. S. 40 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=drAHAQAAMAAJ&q=gestelle

Zu Gering, aus: Romain Rolland: Ludwig van Beethoven, Zürich/Leipzig 1930

Carl Czerny: Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben. Hrsg. von Walter Kolneder, Baden-Baden 1968, S. 47. Hier zitiert nach beethoven-haus-bonn.de http://www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=82464. Mit abweichendem Wortlaut:
"Ach, Unsinn", sagte er, "ich habe niemals daran gedacht, für den Ruf und die Ehre zu schreiben. Was ich auf dem Herzen habe, muß heraus, und darum schreibe ich." - bei Ludwig Nohl: Beethoven. Nach den Schilderungen seiner Zeitgenossen. Cotta Stuttgart 1877. S. 37 archive.org https://archive.org/stream/beethovennachde01nohlgoog#page/n63/mode/2up/search/niemals. Erstmals in englischer Übersetzung als "Recollections of Beethoven. By Carl Czerny" in Cock's Musical Miscellany vol. 1 (London 2. August 1852) und Dwight's Journal of Music vol. 1 (Boston 18. September 1852 Seite 186 archive.org https://archive.org/stream/dwightsjournalof12dwig#page/n195/mode/2up/search/nonsense): "Oh! nonsense," he said, "I never thought of writing for fame or honor. What is in my heart must come out, and that is why I write."
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an Luigi Cherubini in Paris (Konzept), Wien, um den 12. März 1823 (BGA 1611). beethoven-haus-bonn.de http://www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=82466

Brief an Emilie M. zu H., 17. Juli 1812. Beethovens Briefe S. 287 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=sEAPAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA287&dq=emilie; beethoven-haus-bonn.de http://www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=82466

Not found in Beethoven's known works. It may be a summary of the following description of Beethoven from his piano pupil Ferdinand Ries: "When I left out something in a passage, a note or a skip, which in many cases he wished to have specially emphasized, or struck a wrong key, he seldom said anything; yet when I was at fault with regard to the expression, the crescendo or matters of that kind, or in the character of the piece, he would grow angry. Mistakes of the other kind, he said were due to chance; but these last resulted from want of knowledge, feeling or attention. He himself often made mistakes of the first kind, even playing in public."
Disputed
Quelle: "When Beethoven gave me a lesson" https://books.google.com/books?id=j8RIq67v51cC&pg=PA294&dq=%22when+beethoven+gave+me+a+lesson%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMI7Yyz0PiNyQIViDuICh1YIAzR#v=onepage&q=%22when%20beethoven%20gave%20me%20a%20lesson%22&f=false

Not found in Beethoven's known works. It may be a summary of the following description of Beethoven from his piano pupil Ferdinand Ries: "When I left out something in a passage, a note or a skip, which in many cases he wished to have specially emphasized, or struck a wrong key, he seldom said anything; yet when I was at fault with regard to the expression, the crescendo or matters of that kind, or in the character of the piece, he would grow angry. Mistakes of the other kind, he said were due to chance; but these last resulted from want of knowledge, feeling or attention. He himself often made mistakes of the first kind, even playing in public."
Disputed
Variante: To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable

As reported by Elizabeth Brentano (Bettina) in a letter to Goethe, 27 May 1810.
Quoted in Edwin Burgum The new criticism (1930), p. 179

Conversations (March 1820)

Fahre fort, übe nicht allein die Kunst, sondern dringe auch in ihr Inneres; sie verdient es, denn nur die Kunst und die Wissenschaft erhöhen den Menschen bis zur Gottheit.
Letter to Emilie, July 17, 1812.
Quoted in Musical news, Vol. 3 (1892), p. 627

Attributed to Beethoven by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe (28 May 1810); Goethe's Correspondence with a Child http://books.google.pt/books?id=UC8HAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA210&dq=%22+music+is+indeed+the+mediator+between+%22&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ei=sF40VL3AIILwaIThgNgL&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=%22%20music%20is%20indeed%20the%20mediator%20between%20%22&f=false (1837)

Musik höhere Offenbarung ist als alle Weisheit und Philosophie.
http://books.google.com/books?id=W2k6AAAAcAAJ&q=%22Musik+h%C3%B6here+Offenbarung+ist+als+alle+Weisheit+und+Philosophie%22&pg=PA193#v=onepage
As reported by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe, 28 May 1810.
Goethe's Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde: Seinem Denkmal, Volume 2, Dümmler, 1835, p. 193.
Variante: Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

"A meeting of minds", The Guardian, 18 November 2005. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/nov/18/classicalmusicandopera.thomasstearnseliot
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Variante: Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Said on his deathbed, 1827

Letter to F.G. Wegeler, 16 November, 1801.

on his death bed
Original: Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.

To Mme. Streicher, in 1817, or 1818, after having dismissed an otherwise good housekeeper because she had told a falsehood to spare his feelings. in Beethoven: the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words http://www.fullbooks.com/Beethoven-the-Man-and-the-Artist-as-Revealed2.html by Ludwig van Beethoven, edited by Friedrich Kerst
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Variante: Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.