La sonate à Bridgetower
Subtitle: (sonata mulattica) : roman
By: Emmanuel Dongala
Edition: 1re édition.
Series: "Domaine français"; Domaine français (Arles, France)
Publisher: Actes Sud
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Arles [France]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9782330072803
Subjects: Fiction; Violinists; History; Black Musicians; Racially mixed people; Slavery; Politics and government; Social conditions; Colonies; Sonatas (Beethoven, Ludwig van)
Description: The famous Sonata in Kreutzer was not composed for the violinist Rodolphe Kreutzer, who never interpreted it, but for a young musician who had fallen into oblivion. How this one became the friend to whom Beethoven dedicated one of his most virtuous pieces, here is the story that is told here. At the beginning of 1789, the prodigious violinist George Bridgetower, nine years old, arrived in Paris, and his father, a black man from Barbados, posing as a prince of Abyssinia. Arriving from Austria, where George followed the teaching of Haydn, they came to seek the gold and the glory that should assure to them the talent of the boy ... --Translation of back cover by Actes Sud : http://www.actes-sud.fr/catalogue/litterature/la-sonate-bridgetower.
Table of contents: title: Paris, 1789; title: Londres, 1789; title: Vienne, 1803.