The Kreutzer Sonata least next door to hating humanity, for you pity humanity because it is human." "The Kreutzer Sonata" has been adapted for film well over a dozen times. Some of these include: The novella, inspired by Beethoven's music, in turn gave rise to Leoš Janáček's First String Quartet. In 2000, the Carolina Ballet, with original choreography by Robert Weiss and combining the music of Beethoven, Janáček, and J. Mark Scearce, mounted an innovative production combining dance and drama, with a narrator/actor telling the story and flashbacks leading into the ballet segments. The novella inspired the 1901 painting "Kreutzer Sonata" by René
Violin Sonata (Dvořák) Violin Sonata (Dvořák) The Sonata for Violin and Piano in F major, Op. 57 (), is a violin sonata by Antonín Dvořák. The work was composed between 3rd and 17th March 1880. At the time, Dvořák was also working on his violin concerto, and it seems that the composer explored different aspects of the violin in the two pieces. The sonata is naturally the more intimate of the two works, and appears in places to be influenced by Johannes Brahms. Dvořák played the work on 31 March 1880 with the famous violinist Joseph Joachim, who reacted positively (a contrast to