The kreutzer sonata tolstoy5/10/2023 ![]() Kreutzer Sonata: Expressions of Human Anguish in Music, Literature and Beyond (Marja Karelia, Simon Fraser University) Nobody, it is true, directly disputes the proposition that debauchery should not be practiced, either before or after marriage, that it is wrong artificially to destroy childbirth, that children are not to be made playthings, and that amatory union ought not to be placed higher than anything else, - in short, nobody denies that chastity is better than looseness of morals. ![]() Never a great fan of Beethoven’s music, Kreutzer found the Sonata “outrageously unintelligible” and said, that “one would have to be in the grip of a kind of aesthetic and artistic terrorism, not to find in this work clear renewed proof of the fact that for some time now this composer has been indulging in whims, above all striving to be absolutely different from other people.” The Sonata was dedicated to the French violin virtuoso Rodolfe Kreutzer, who refused to play it. ![]()
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