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Beethovenian

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adj.1.of or pertaining to Ludwig van Beethoven.
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Adj.1.Beethovenian - of or relating to Ludwig van Beethoven or his music


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Too much of Taneyev's orchestration sounds perverse, with its Beethovenian string chorales and vulgarly flamboyant trumpet writing.
Zehetmair might have called up a little too much from the brass in the Adagio, but the point was well made about those startling Beethovenian contrasts.
Hummel's Trumpet (Concerto, far better known at present than anything else he wrote, is certainly a curious blend: its outer movements rattle along as cheerfully as those of Haydn's piece for the same instrument (intended for the same soloist), but its middle movement is shot through with Beethovenian pathos wholly unlike anything in the Haydn.
 
 
 
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