Rodolphe Kreutzer Rodolphe Kreutzer Rodolphe Kreutzer (15 November 1766 – 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), though he never played the work. Kreutzer made the acquaintance of Beethoven in 1798, when at Vienna in the service of the French ambassador, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (later King of Sweden and Norway). Beethoven originally dedicated the sonata to George Bridgetower, the violinist at its first performance, but after a quarrel he revised the dedication in
Sonata (play) 2008. In January 2010, it was also staged at the British Council auditorium in Dhaka and co-produced by Tara Arts, the British Council and International Theatre Institute, Bangladesh. In 2017, Aparna Sen adapted the play into a Bengali feature film of same name, starring Sen, Shabana Azmi, and Lillete Dubey. Sonata (play) Sonata is a one-act play by Indian playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar about friendship between three women. "Sonata" is about three single working women, living in Mumbai, a journalist, a teacher of Sanskrit and one employed in a big post in a multinational. They share a life of solidarity and