Example sentences for: beethoven

How can you use “beethoven” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Poet Adrienne Rich, for example, called Beethoven's Ninth "music of the entirely/ isolated soul/ yelling at Joy from the tunnel of the ego/ music without the ghost/ of another person in it."

  • In addressing the question of antenatal treatment of congenital diseases, he claimed that had we been able to treat congenital syphilis, we would have lost the genius of Beethoven.

  • He believes, as he put it in a conversation with me recently, that "no matter the size of the room, Beethoven always insists on banging his head on the ceiling and stubbing his toe on the floor."

  • Gardiner's conducting is so good (his Beethoven Symphony cycle is, to my ears, the one to own, and his Mozart and Handel performances are exemplary); Levin's playing is so dexterous, intelligent, and ardent; and the recording is so technically splendid (there are felicities of scoring, such as a solo cello line in the first movement I'd never noticed before) that, whatever its peculiarities, this release at least qualifies as best of breed.

  • I'll despise Kubrick forever for associating Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, "Singin' in the Rain," and some of the most glorious works of Handel and Purcell with sadomasochism and man's inhumanity to man.


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