HOW TO PRONOUNCE
beethoven
/ˈbeɪˌtoʊvən/
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What does beethoven mean?
proper noun
- A surname from German [in turn from Dutch], usually applying to Ludwig van Beethoven.
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When Thea sat down to take her first lesson from him, she had never heard a work by Beethoven or a composition by Chopin.
She desired that Rachel should think, and for this reason offered books and discouraged too entire a dependence upon Bach and Beethoven and Wagner.
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Edna went forward and opened the stove door, and Mademoiselle rising, took a letter from under the bust of Beethoven and handed it to Edna.
The elder brother was an admirable performer on the violoncello, and he treated us during these Saturday evenings with noble music from Beethoven and Mozart.
Ah, some time or other it will be over with it!--but who can doubt that it will be over still sooner with the intelligence and taste for Beethoven!