George Bridgetower dear fellow!"). Beethoven also presented Bridgetower with his tuning fork, now held by the British Library. The pair fell out soon afterwards, Bridgetower having insulted a woman who turned out to be Beethoven's friend; Beethoven broke off all relations with Bridgetower and changed the dedication of the new violin sonata to the violin virtuoso Rudolphe Kreutzer, who never played it, saying that it had already been performed once and was too difficult — the piece is now known as the "Kreutzer Sonata". The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Rita Dove dramatized the relationship between Beethoven and Bridgetower in the book-length lyric narrative
Daniel Kreutzer German championship. A long-time DEG team captain, he appeared in a total of 1060 DEL contests, scoring 270 goals, while assisting on 529 more. He announced his retirement on August 17, 2017. Internationally, Kreutzer won 201 caps for the German men's national team, participating in the 2002 and 2006 Olympic Games and several world championships. Daniel Kreutzer Daniel Kreutzer (born October 23, 1979) is a German retired professional ice hockey forward who spent most of his career with Düsseldorfer EG of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). Having come through the youth ranks of Düsseldorfer EG, Kreutzer made his debut in