title: Kreutzer Sonata
text: # Kreutzer Sonata
  
  Kreutzer Sonata or Kreutzer's Sonata may refer to:
  
  ## Music, literature and stage
  
  * Violin Sonata No. 9 (Beethoven), Ludwig van Beethoven's 1803 sonata Op. 47, dedicated to Rodolphe Kreutzer
  * Any of the sonatas composed by Rodolphe Kreutzer, the dedicatee of Beethoven's sonata
  * Any of the sonatas composed by Conradin Kreutzer
  * The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy's 1889 novella, taking its title from Beethoven's sonata
  * Di Kreytser sonata (The Kreutzer Sonata), a 1902 stage adaptation of Tolstoy's novel by Jacob Gordin
  * String Quartet No. 1 (Janáček), subtitled Kreutzer Sonata, Leoš Janáček's 1923 composition inspired by Tolstoy's novel
  
  ## Film
  
  * The Kreutzer Sonata (1911 film), a Russian silent film directed by Pyotr Chardynin
  * The Kreutzer Sonata, a 1914 Russian film directed by Vladimir Gardin
  * The Kreutzer Sonata (1915 film), an American silent film directed by Herbert Brenon
  * The Kreutzer Sonata (1920 film), an Italian silent film directed by Umberto Fracchia
  * The Kreutzer Sonata (1922 film), a German silent film directed by Rolf Petersen
  * The Kreutzer Sonata (1927 film), a Czech silent film directed by Gustav Machatý
  * The Kreutzer Sonata (1937 film), a German film directed by Veit Harlan
  * La Sonate à Kreutzer, a 1956 French short film directed by Éric Rohmer
  * The Kreutzer Sonata (1987 film), a Soviet film directed by Mikhail Shveytser
  * The Kreutzer Sonata (2008 film), an American film by Bernard Rose
  