-- Frederick the Great
Johann Sebastian Bach,
Old Father of Fugues
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For years I have avoided almost all society, because I cannot tell people I am deaf. I have to appear as a misanthrope; I, who am so little of one.
-- Beethoven
Ludwig Van Beethoven
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-- Gounod
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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-- Schumann
Frédéric Chopin,
The Poet of the Piano
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------more than Homer of his age?
-- Cowper
Georg Friedrich Handel:
The Maker of The Messiah
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sound -- immortal Music sound! Bid the golden Words go round! Every heart and tongue proclaim Haydn’s power, and Haydn’s fame!
-- Barry Cornwall
-- Barry Cornwall
Francis Joseph Haydn
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Few instances can be found in history of a man so amply gifted with every good quality of mind and heart; so carefully brought up amongst good influences; endowed with every circumstance that would make him happy; and so thoroughly fulfilling his mission. Never perhaps could any man be found in whose life there were so few things to conceal and to regret.
-- Sir George Grove
-- Sir George Grove
Felix Mendelssohn,
Singer of the Songs Without Words
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Schubert, too, wrote for silence; half his work Lay like a frozen Rhine till summers came
That warned the grass above him. Even so His music lives now with a mighty youth.
-- George Eliot
Franz Schubert,
Master of the Lied
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-- Schumann