A variant spelling or alternate form relating to Beethoven or his musical compositions and dramatic style.
Variant of 'Beethovenian,' showing the flexibility of English in anglicizing foreign names—similar to how 'Beethoven' itself appears in different spellings in English texts from different periods.
Beethoven's name got Anglicized in so many ways that different dictionaries actually recorded different adjectival forms—'Beethovian' is one spelling variant that reveals how English speakers adapted the composer's German name to their own phonetic comfort.
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