Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Beethoven, Ludwig van 1770-1827. German composer. Among the greatest composers in history, he began to lose his hearing in 1801 and was deaf by 1819. His music, which formed a transition from classical to romantic composition, includes 9 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, a violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, several other sonatas, 2 Masses, and an opera.
Wiktionary
- n. A surname, usually applying to Ludwig van Beethoven
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Ludwig van Beethoven, a renowned German composer, born 1770, died 1827.
- n. the music of Beethoven.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the music of Beethoven
- n. German composer of instrumental music (especially symphonic and chamber music); continued to compose after he lost his hearing (1770-1827)
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“The Quebec City trio with deep Regina roots (both Lowe and Lofgren hail from here) played with precision and panache in Beethoven's rarely-heard Triple Concerto.”
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“In the silence, she said, 'To think that Beethoven is dead and there are so many jerks still alive.”
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“In perhaps the most logistically demanding portion of the concert, Rivas collaborated with a youthful Markus Groh in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2.”
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“And, before I get accused of being one of those coastal intellectual elites, who I am to judge whether Beethoven is better than Jay-Z or Fellini is better than Atpow; to each his own.”
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“Every note we know about Beethoven is from the page.”
“As you might imagine, Beethoven is a composer of particular interest for such revisionism, given both the encrusted consensus on interpreting his music and the highly-charged political atmospheres both in which he worked and in which his music has been used (and misused) ever since.”
“Option no. 3 — and Beethoven is fertile ground for this — is to explain how what everybody thinks about Great Masterpiece A is totally, totally wrong, and the better interpretation is one that's far more troubling/interesting/off-the-wall.”
“The only “creationism” being discussed in this thread, Beethoven, is you creating your own little la-la-land to hide in because you are too intellectually dishonest and cowardly to factually back up your opposition to Southers.”
“Although the name Beethoven conjures thoughts of high-powered masterpieces, he didn't produce works of earthshaking quality across the board.”
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“The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor “Quasi una fantasia”, Op. 27, No. 2, by Ludwig van Beethoven is better known as Moonlight Sonata.”
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