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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 ...
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.
Ludwig van Beethoven composed the following violin sonatas between 1797 and 1812. Violin Sonata in A major (Beethoven), Hess 46 (fragmentary) Violin Sonata No. 1 in D, Op. 12, No. 1; Violin Sonata No. 2 in A, Op. 12, No. 2; Violin Sonata No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 12, No. 3; Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23; Violin Sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24 ...
The Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23 is a three-movement work for violin and piano composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1801. It was published in October that year, and dedicated to Count Moritz von Fries .
Title page of Beethoven's symphonies from the Gesamtausgabe. The list of compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven consists of 722 works [1] written over forty-five years, from his earliest work in 1782 (variations for piano on a march by Ernst Christoph Dressler) when he was only eleven years old and still in Bonn, until his last work just before his death in Vienna in 1827.
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.
Like Mozart's, Beethoven's musical talent was recognized at a young age, [3] and these three piano sonatas give an early glimpse of the composer's abilities, as well as his boldness. Beethoven was writing in a form usually attempted by older, more mature composers, [4] as the sonata was a cornerstone of Classical piano literature. Since they ...
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 ...