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6 apr 2009 · The Sonata Mulattica echoes repeatedly the words of Schuppanzigh, director of the Augarten concerts: "I see you brought along your shadow." From metaphorical assaults and the pain of racism mitigated by society upon a mulatto musician, who played for The Prince of Wales and Beethoven, the intense pain of darkness permeates the contrasts of light and darkness within the poems.
- Rita Dove
14 feb 2020 · Sonata mulattica : poems by Dove, Rita, author. Publication date 2010 Topics Racially mixed people -- Poetry, Racially mixed people Publisher New York ...
The Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47, by Ludwig van Beethoven, is an 1803 sonata for piano and violin notable for its technical difficulty, unusual length (around 40 minutes), and emotional scope. It is commonly known as the Kreutzer Sonata ( German: Kreutzer-Sonate) after the violinist Rodolphe Kreutzer, to whom it was ultimately ...
9782330072803. The Bridgetower Sonata (Sonata Mulattica) is a historical fiction novel written by Grand Prix Littéraire de l'Afrique Noire recipient Emmanuel Dongala [1] [2] about the child prodigy violinist George Polgreen Bridgetower. It was originally published in French under the title La Sonate à Bridgetower by Editions Actes Sud in 2017.
Dove’s deeply researched and vividly imagined book Sonata Mulattica is a biography in verse of the nineteenth-century violinist and composer George Bridgetower. Known in part as the original dedicatee of Beethoven’s iconic “Kreutzer” violin sonata, Bridgetower’s long career spanned a pivotal age, from the eighteenth-century palace of Prince Esterhazy to mid-nineteenth-century London.
Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former U. S. Poet Laureate, is the only poet honored with both the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of Arts. Her recent works include Playlist for the Apocalypse, Sonata Mulattica, and the National Book Award-shortlisted Collected Poems: 1974-2004. In 2021 she was awarded the Gold Medal for ...
7 mag 2013 · Dove, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, former U.S. poet laureate and a member of U.Va.’s Creative Writing Program faculty, published “Sonata Mulattica” in 2009 to wide critical acclaim. Bridgetower, born to a Polish-German woman and an Afro-Caribbean man who claimed to be an African prince, was a child prodigy violinist and later a friend and then enemy of Ludwig van Beethoven.
