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'I detest him'... 'The most sublime music ever'... 11 of the best quotes about Beethoven

Famous quotes about the great composer from other great minds and creatives
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Lord Berners: a true English eccentric

Geoff Brown tells the story of the maverick composer Lord Berners, whose flamboyant lifestyle went hand-in-hand with a major talent
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‘The music spoke directly to my loneliness’ – how Bruckner helped me through a mental health crisis

Almost uniquely, Bruckner seems to inspire either deep devotion or total dislike. Stephen Johnson marks the Austrian’s bicentenary by explaining why, for him, the symphonies have become firm friends
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'How Beethoven has guided me through the best and worst of times' – John Suchet

The former war correspondent and news anchor discusses the Beethoven works that have helped him through difficult times
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Leonard Bernstein: memories of the showman and visionary with the car number plate you couldn't miss

Memories of an extraordinary conductor, composer and communicator of the joys of music
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Ferruccio Busoni: the underrated Italian composer who 'breathed the air of other planets'

Although the piano virtuoso’s roots lay firmly in the Romantic era, Busoni’s instinct for pushing musical boundaries won him the respect of Schoenberg and Webern, says Erik Levi
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Beethoven: the astonishing force of nature who dragged music into the Romantic era

John Suchet profiles Ludwig van Beethoven - the composer who sparked a musical revolution
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Benjamin Britten: a captivating balance of tradition and innovation

The English voice of Europe
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Alban Berg: from lush Romanticism to the wilder shores of Serialism

Read on for an introduction to the life and work of the Austrian composer who travelled from rich Romanticism into the austere Serialism of his teacher Schoenberg
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Bartók: folk music alchemist

Hungary's genuine folk artist
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Berlioz: a revolutionary Romantic with deep Classical roots

Hector Berlioz: the revival of an outlandish romantic
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Samuel Barber: last great American Romantic

Johannes Brahms: a great Romantic

Meet Johannes Brahms, the Janus-like face of Romanticism
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Vincenzo Bellini: the well-travelled bel canto composer whose life was cut short

Alexandra Wilson explores the short but lavishly successful life of an opera composer feted from Milan to Paris and far beyond
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The 'Pink Peril': Lili Boulanger, Grażyna Bacewicz, and glass ceilings

Soprano Katharine Dain looks at how misogyny has stood in the way of some wonderful female composers getting their due
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Johann Christian Bach: Classical pioneer and mentor to Mozart

Adventurous and inventive Johann Christian Bach, the pioneering ‘English Bach’, proved a major inspiration to the young Mozart, as Chris de Souza explains
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Buxtehude, the Danish composer who inspired Bach

Dieterich Buxtehude was a composer so original that JS Bach felt compelled to walk hundreds of miles just to hear him at work. Paul Riley salutes one of choral and organ music’s early geniuses
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Grażyna Bacewicz: one of Poland's finest composers of all time

One of Poland’s most brilliant composers, Bacewicz is finally taking her rightful place on the international stage, says John Allison
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William Byrd: Elizabeth I's Catholic composer

Meet William Byrd, Queen Elizabeth's Catholic composer
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