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
Violin Sonata No. 2 (Hill) Violin Sonata No. 2 (Hill) Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor, Stiles 1.2.1.6 So2, is a sonata for violin and piano by Alfred Hill completed at the beginning of 1906. Its manuscript is at the National Library of Australia. It bears inscription: "Island Bay Wellington N.Z. 10th January 1906". The sonata is dedicated to an Australian violinist Cyril Monk ("Dedicated to my friend Cyril Monk"), Hill's pupil in theory and composition. Its approximate duration is 16 minutes. The Sonata was revised and arranged for oboe and piano, clarinet and piano (both in 1955: "revised and arranged for Oboe or