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
Sonata (play) 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 freedom. Not only do they have an aura of sophistication but each of them is also successful at work. The women aligned themselves with the Woman's movement but 30 years later abandon it and retreat for into their private world of reality and fantasy, opting for the conventional lifestyle of