Beethoven (disambiguation)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) was a German composer and pianist.

Beethoven may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Beethoven (film), a 1992 family film
  • Beethoven (franchise), a series of eight films
  • Beethoven (TV series), an animated show loosely based on the film
• Beethoven (band), a late 1980s band formed by former members of the Irish band Five Go Down to the Sea?
• "Beethoven (I Love to Listen To)", a 1987 song by Eurythmics
• "Beethoven" (song), by Union J
• "Roll Over Beethoven", a 1956 song by Chuck Berry

Outer space

• Beethoven quadrangle, an area of the planet Mercury
  • Beethoven (crater), a crater within the quadrangle
• 1815 Beethoven, an asteroid

People

• Johann van Beethoven (1740–1792), father of Ludwig
• Johanna van Beethoven (1786–1869), sister-in-law of Ludwig
• Kaspar Anton Karl van Beethoven (1774–1815), brother of Ludwig
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1712–1773), grandfather of Ludwig
• Beethoven Javier (1947-2017), Uruguayan football player
• Michael V. (Beethoven del Valle Bunagan, born 1969), Filipino television personality

Other uses

• Beethoven (horse) (born 2007), a Thoroughbred racehorse
• Van Beethoven (train), a train linking Amsterdam and Bonn

See also

• Bettenhoven, the ancestral village of the musical family