The Kreutzer Sonata (2008 film) performance of the Kreutzer Sonata. The Kreutzer Sonata (2008 film) The Kreutzer Sonata is a 2008 film directed by Bernard Rose based on the novella by Leo Tolstoy. It is Rose's second collaboration with Danny Huston (after "Ivans XTC") and his third adaptation of a work by Leo Tolstoy, following 1997's "Anna Karenina" and 2003's "Ivans XTC". "The Kreutzer Sonata" is the name commonly given to Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Sonata no. 9 in A major. Director Bernard Rose had previously directed "Immortal Beloved", a film on the life of Ludwig van Beethoven, in which there is a major (and
Cello Sonata No. 1 (Brahms) Härtel, who turned it down. He had however also sent the sonata to Simrock describing it, in one of the most mendacious statements made by a major composer about his own work, as "a violoncello sonata which, as far as both instruments are concerned, is certainly not difficult to play", and they published it in 1866. The work was championed in Europe and London by Robert Hausmann. In gratitude, Brahms dedicated his Second Sonata to Hausmann. There are three movements: This movement is in a long-lined sonata form, opening with solo cello over chords in the keyboard, a melody that