Harmony Quote by Johannes Brahms

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…

— Daniel Barenboim

All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a…

— Andris Nelsons

“It was Haydn and Mozart who really cracked the sonata, but it was Beethoven who reinvented it, just as he reinvented the symphony. Bach…

— Rachel Joyce

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind…

— Jascha Heifetz

I always see Beethoven as having been influenced by Haydn. Yet he started a revolution - not just to be different, but also because…

— Andris Nelsons

Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it…

— Smokey Robinson

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

— Ringo Starr

Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

— Daniel Barenboim

In my early music-loving days, I thought Beethoven was a bit bombastic, a bit heroic, a bit, well, big.

— Sheila Hancock

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

— Michael Tilson Thomas

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

— Slavoj Žižek

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart…

— Ernest Newman