Sanatta Esinlenme Süreçleri, Beethoven'dan Tolstoy'a Tolstoy'dan Günümüze: Kreutzer Sonat
Inspiration Process, From Beethoven To Tolstoy, From Tolstoy To Today: Kreutzer Sonata

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to examine how Ludwig Van Beethoven’s 9th Violin and Piano Sonata, also known as Kreutzer Sonata, has influenced the creation process of the works of many artists in the world. The best example to this is probably Lev Tolstoy’s long story named also “The Kreutzer Sonat” written in 1889. This long story is about destructive love, burning anger and deadly jealousy that destroy the life of an unhappy couple. This important work by Tolstoy has been seen as an attempt to question the role and the place of the woman, as well as the way the society expected or understood their relation to love, to marriage and to family life in the 19th century aristocratic culture and religion. The fact that Lev Tolstoy has given to his famous long story the same title as Beethoven’s Sonata is almost a tribute to Beethoven’s revolutionary demeanor in his “Kreutzer Sonata”. Tolstoy the author, has probably attributed several implications and meanings to the word ‘Kreutzer” which can always be analyzed in literature. The creative process of this long story that transcends all the formal, periodical, and intellectual obstacles makes us aware of the fact that Tolstoy has followed Beethoven’s attitude as a free and creative and protest artist. Nikolai Rubinstein, a close friend of Tolstoy’s, has probably played an important role by drawing Tolstoy’s attention to the first part of Beethoven’s “the Kreutzer Sonata”, which breaks the accepted patterns of the sonata form. Beethoven’s Sonata and Tolstoy’s long story bearing the same name; “Kreutzer Sonata”, both in their ways, continue to affect the creativity processes of young artists’ minds all over the world.

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