This is what Russell Smith, a Canadian author, says about the beauty of the German language:
"I doubt that there can ever be any consensus on what makes a word pretty. And our perception of sound is always biased by meaning. Many English speakers have a perception of German, for example, as a harsh and ugly language. Nothing could be farther from the truth: when spoken softly, particularly by a female voice, every sentence can sound like a particularly, lulling and melancholic poem. Obviously, the negative perception comes from dated clichés of German culture, which are inescapable to those listening to the language"
Russell Smith, Beauty is in the thesaurus of the beholder, Globe and Mail, 02/12/04.
Russell Smith is also an author of several novels: How insensitive, Noise, Young Men, The Princess and the Whiskheads, Muriella Pent, Men's Style: The thinking Man's Guide to Dress