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What Beethoven did, being calm (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

composed

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'calm' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)

'what beethoven did being' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'being' could be 'mp' (MP is an example) and 'mp' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for composed that I've seen before include "What poet did" , "What Gershwin did" , "Calm and collected" , "Made a score" , "Settled" .)

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