Schubert - Arpeggione Sonata in A minor (played on the arpeggione), D. 821 (1824)

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Uploaded by on Jun 13, 2011

Sonata in A minor for arpeggione and piano, D. 821 (1824)

I. Allegro moderato [0:00]
II. Adagio [11:37]
III. Allegretto [15:51]

A work of chamber music by Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828). This sonata is very well known in transcriptions for cello and piano or viola and piano, but it is rarely played in its original version for arpeggione and piano. The arpeggione is a now defunct six-stringed bowed instrument with frets (essentially a bowed guitar), and Schubert's sonata is the only substantial composition for the instrument, which had been invented just one year earlier. Schubert's friend Vincenz Schuster, a virtuoso of the arpeggione, commissioned the sonata. This recording was made between 2000 and 2001 using a copy by Henning Aschauer of a 19th-century arpeggione built either by J. G. Staufer or by Anton Mitteis (part of the collection of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) and the 1824 Conrad Graf pianoforte from the Beethoven House in Bonn.

Arpeggione: Alfred Lessing
Piano: Jozef De Beenhouwer

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  • Oh, and three cheers to musicanth, both for making this publicly available, and the classy use of the score.

  • Give me a cello anytime.

  • Now hearing it on an instrument it's meant to be played on is a rarity!

  • Sorry! Yui hav very god instrumen, but this is dry and not Schubert!

  • nice song is awesome please sheet music i need to learn the piano thanks for read this comment

  • thanks!

    

  • Many, many thanks for this utmost beautiful composition ~ and on top of it played on the instrument which it was written for!

    And one more thanks for the sheet music! Great pleasure to read along!

    Wonderful, just wonderful! You made my day!

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