"His ideas came so profusely that he always had several works going on at once, and he always meditated and thought over them for a long while before he brought them to completeness. His practice was to jot down the ideas roughly as they came into his head in little sketch-books which he carried in his pocket, and he then polished and improved these original ideas time after time, sometimes for years, before he worked them up into complete works."
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C. Hubert H. Parry, Studies of Great Composers, published 1904
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Ludwig van Beethoven
1770 – 1827
deutscher Komponist
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