Sonata mulattica: a life in five movements and a play, poems by

Prologues: Bridgetower

Prologue of the rambling sort. Prodigy: (Re)naissance

Capriccio

Friedrich Augustus Bridgetower discovers the purposes of fatherhood

Lines whispered to a pillow

Recollection, preempted

Paris, panting

What doesn't happen

Windsor

Mrs. Papendiek's diary (1)

Marine Pavilion, Brighthelmston

Wardrobe lesson

Mrs. Papendiek's diary (2)

Seaside concerts

Disappearance. Bread & butter, turbans & chinoiserie: Hear ye!

Lesson: adagio

Black pearl

Ode to the moon

Janissary rap

Concert at Hanover Square

Pulling the organ stops

Black Billy Waters, at his pitch

Haydn, overheard

Mrs. Papendiek's diary (3)

Dressing

African prince sings songs of love

Abandoned, again

Mrs. Papendiek's diary (4)

Transaction

Undressing

Ode on a Negress head clock, with eight tunes

Intermezzo

Tafelmusik (1)

Brothers in spring

Salomon concerts

Haydn leaves London

Seduction against exterior pilaster, waning gibbous

Pretty boy

New century aubade. Sturm und drang: Petition

To the continent

Old world lullaby

Floating requiem

Ach, wien

Ludwig van Beethoven's return to Vienna

First contact

Vienna spring

Polgreen, sight-reading

Beethoven summons his copyist

Augarten, 7 AM

Performer. Volkstheater: a short play for the common man: Georgie Porgie, or A Moor in Vienna. "All is ashes:" Tail tucked

Rain

Esterhaza, prodigal

Home again

Eroica

Tafelmusik (2)

Countess shares confidences over Karneval chocolate

Andante con Variazioni

Haydn serenades the Napoleonic Honor Guard

Regency fete

Cambridge, Great St. Mary's Church

Panopticon

Last Frost Fair. Nomadia: Half-life

Life in London, now playing at the Adelphi

Moor with emeralds

Vanities

Haydn's head

Birthday stroll on the Pall Mall

Staffordshire figurine, 1825

Nomadia

Self-eulogy

#8 Victory Cottages, Peckham, 1860

Witness. Epilogues: Queen's wardrobe keeper

All that jazz

Composer's coda

Haydn's skull

Name game

Instrumental

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