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
Sonata for Solo Violin (Bartók) and uses the full gamut of violin techniques: several notes played simultaneously (multiple stops), artificial harmonics, left-hand pizzicato executed simultaneously with a melody played with the bow, and wide leaps between pitches. Sonata for Solo Violin (Bartók) The Sonata for Solo Violin Sz. 117, BB 124, is a sonata for unaccompanied violin composed by Béla Bartók. It was premiered by Yehudi Menuhin, to whom it was dedicated, in New York on 26 November 1944. Violinist Yehudi Menuhin commissioned a work for solo violin from Bartók in November 1943. It was written in New York and in Asheville, North Carolina, where