George Bridgetower, British musician and composer (died 1860)

George Bridgetower

British musician (1778–1860)

George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower was a British musician, of African and Polish descent. He was a virtuoso violinist who lived in England for much of his life. His playing impressed Beethoven, who made Bridgetower the original dedicatee of his Kreutzer Sonata after they…