![]() This is a thesis piece and Tolstoy means literally what he says. She, a gifted pianist, had started to practise with the violin virtuoso Trukhachevsky, and the summit of their playing took place during Beethoven's The Kreutzer Sonata. The tale is an account during a train ride by the nobleman Pozdnyshev who has killed his wife. The patriarch of a big family - his wife gave birth to 13 children - preaches abstinence from sex. Re-read in anticipation of getting to see the film adaptation by Gustav Machatý the borderline crazy povest (tale) by Leo Tolstoy. Karisto (Kariston klassillinen kirjasto), 1959. Read in a Finnish translation by Valto Kallama. ![]() Notes: Adrian Daub (2014) "The Sonic Hearth and the Piano Plague" in Four-Handed Monsters: Four-Hand Piano Playing and Nineteenth-Century Culture, Oxford University Press, pp. Sotheby's, New York, 19th Century European Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture, 12 October 1994 Lot 146. ![]() ![]() René-Xavier Prinet (1861–1946): La Sonate à Kreutzer. ![]()
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