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The Kreutzer Sonata (Russian: Крейцерова соната, Kreitzerova Sonata) is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The novella was published in 1889, and was promptly censored by the Russian authorities.
- Leo Tolstoy
- 1889
Jun 6, 2016 · To understand the title 'Kreutzer' we must know the circumstances of the first performance: this sonata was written for violinist George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower. He gave the premiere with Beethoven at the piano in Augarten, just outside Vienna, on 24 May 1803, at eight o'clock in the morning.
Sep 27, 2018 · That was more or less the end of the story until 1889, when Leo Tolstoy wrote a story entitled The Kreutzer Sonata. In Tolstoy's novella, a man describes how he and his wife became emotionally estranged and lived in constant tension.
It is commonly known as the Kreutzer Sonata (German: Kreutzer-Sonate) after the violinist Rodolphe Kreutzer, to whom it was ultimately dedicated, but who thoroughly disliked the piece and refused to play it.
Dec 15, 2023 · The Kreutzer Sonata was composed in 1803 at the start of Beethoven’s “middle period.”. During this time, he was afflicted with deafness and moved to Heiligenstadt, Austria for a quieter life. Here, he wrote a letter now known as the “Heiligenstadt Testament” to his brothers discussing his struggles and thoughts of suicide.
- Paul Cary
- 2020
Controversial upon publication in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy’s then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust and the hypocrisies of nineteenth-century marriage, and his thinking on the role of art and music in society.
Sep 21, 2022 · But he who wrote Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ knew well why he found himself in a certain condition. That condition led him to certain actions, and for that reason to him had a meaning, but to me none, none whatever.
