News at Eleven: The black man's perceived affront so angered Beethoven

that he destroyed the sonata's dedication to Bridgetower and renamed it the "Kreutzer Sonata," thereby consigning the violinist to a life of fading obscurity. That is, until [Rita] Dove places the rise and fall of this little-known virtuoso at the heart of "Sonata Mulattica," a book-length narrative poem and Dove's 12th collection.

from The Los Angeles Times: 'Sonata Mulattica: Poems' by Rita Dove

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