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The Kreutzer Sonata, painting by René François Xavier Prinet (1901), based on Leo Tolstoy's 1889 novella, The Kreutzer Sonata. After its successful premiere in 1803, the work was published in 1805 as Beethoven's Op. 47, with its re-dedication to Rudolphe Kreutzer, which gave the composition its nickname. Kreutzer never performed the work ...
Sonata in G minor for cello and strings (This is actually a sonata for viola da gamba and figured bass and not a string quintet. The version for cello and strings is a transcription. This sonata is also often played in a transcription for cello and piano.) Aleksandr Glazunov (1865-1936) String Quintet in A major, Op. 39 (1891-2)
Rodolphe Kreutzer (15 November 1766 [1] – 6 January 1831) was a French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas, including La mort d'Abel (1810). He is probably best known as the dedicatee of Beethoven 's Violin Sonata No. 9 , Op. 47 (1803), known as the Kreutzer Sonata , though he never played the work.
Violin Sonata No. 4: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project; Glass, Herbert. "Program Notes - Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23". Los Angeles Philharmonic. Performance of Violin Sonata No. 4 by Corey Cerovsek (violin) and Paavali Jumppanen (piano) from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (11 October 1778 – 29 February 1860) was a British musician, of African and Polish descent. He was a virtuoso violinist who lived in England for much of his life. [1]
Beethoven's Manuscript, page 1 Violin Sonata No. 10, 1815, musical autograph. The Violin Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 96, by Ludwig van Beethoven was written in 1812, published in 1816, and dedicated to Beethoven's pupil Archduke Rudolph Johannes Joseph Rainier of Austria, who gave its first performance, together with the violinist Pierre Rode.
It was inspired by Leo Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata, which had itself been inspired by Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 9, known as the "Kreutzer" after its dedicatee, Rodolphe Kreutzer. The premiere was given on 17 October 1924 by the Czech Quartet at a concert of the Spolek pro moderní hudbu (Contemporary Music Society) at the ...
The work's opening movement is the first of Beethoven's sonata first movements that does not repeat the exposition. [1] The development section contains a theme not found in the exposition (this happens in earlier compositions such as the fourth violin sonata also). [2] The work takes approximately 26 minutes to perform.