Title: La sonate à Bridgetower
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Violinists, History, Black Musicians, Racially mixed people, Slavery, Politics and government, Social conditions, Colonies, Sonatas (Beethoven, Ludwig van)
Places: Europe
People: George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Time periods: 18th century