Arpeggione Sonata

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The Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano, D. 821, was written
by Franz Schubert in Vienna in November 1824. The sonata is the only
substantial composition for the arpeggione (which was essentially a bowed
guitar) which remains extant today. The sonata was composed in November
1824, about a month after he had returned to Vienna from his second stay
in Zseliz.

Contents

 1History
 2Movements
 3Noted arrangements
 4Media
 5Notes
 6References
 7External links

History[edit]
The piece was probably commissioned by Schubert's friend Vincenz Schuster,
who was a virtuoso of the arpeggione, an instrument which had been invented
only the previous year. By the time the sonata was published posthumously
in 1871, the enthusiasm for the novelty of the arpeggione had long since
vanished, together with the instrument itself.[1]
Today, the piece is heard almost exclusively
in transcriptions for cello and piano or viola and piano that were arranged after
the posthumous publication, although versions that substitute other instruments
—including double bass, flute, euphonium and clarinet for the arpeggione,
or guitar or harp for the piano part—are also performed. Transcribers have
attempted to address the problems posed by the smaller playing range of these
alternative instruments, in comparison with the arpeggione, as well as the
attendant modifications in articulation (4 versus 6 strings).
The work has been recorded in the original version by the following musicians:

 Klaus Storck and Alfons Kontarsky (1974, LP No

2533 174 on the Archiv Produktion label). Klaus
Storck played an arpeggione attributed to Anton
Mitteis, a student of the instrument's
inventor, Johann Georg Stauffer; Alfons
Kontarsky played a Brodmann fortepiano built in
Vienna ca. 1810.
 Alfred Lessing and Jozef De Beenhouwer (2000–
2001, Ars Produktion FCD 368 392). Played on a
copy by Henning Aschauer of an early 19th-century
instrument built either by J. G. Staufer or by Anton
Mitteis, at present in the Musical Instrument
Collection of the Prussian Cultural Heritage
Foundation and on the 1824 Conrad
Graf pianoforte from the Beethoven House in Bonn.
 Gerhart Darmstadt and Egino Klepper (2005,
Cavalli Records CCD 242)
 Nicolas Deletaille and Paul Badura-Skoda (2006–
2007, Fuga Libera FUG529). This recording was
made in Florence (Accademia Bartolomeo
Cristofori) on a Benjamin Labrigue arpeggione
(2001) and the fortepiano is a Conrad Graf (ca.
1820)
 Nicolas Deletaille and Alain Roudier (2012, Ad
Libitum)[full citation needed]

Movements[edit]
The work consists of three movements. A typical performance takes just over
20 minutes.

1. Allegro moderato
2. Adagio in E major
3. Allegretto in A major

Noted arrangements[edit]
 Gaspar Cassadó – cello and orchestra
 Göran Söllscher – violin and guitar
 James Galway – flute
 Dobrinka Tabakova – viola and string orchestra[2]
 David Werden – Euphonium and Piano

Media[edit]
Arpeggione Sonata
1. Allegro Moderato

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2. Adagio and 3. Allegretto

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Performed by Hans
Goldstein (cello) and Clinton
Adams (piano)

3. Allegretto

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Performed by Elias
Goldstein (viola) with the
Advent Chamber Orchestra

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Notes[edit]
1. ^ see also: AQUINO, F. Avellar de. "Six-Stringed Virtuoso".
The Strad Magazine, Harrow, Middlesex, UK, v. 109, n.
1297, p. 500-507, 1998.(on the Arpeggione and Schubert's
Sonata)
2. ^ Haylock, Julian (2011-09-29). "Schubert: Arpeggione
Sonata in A minor D821 (arr. Tabakova). Tchaikovsky:
Variations on a Rococo Theme op.33 (arr. Rysanov). Bruch:
Romance in F major op.85". The Strad. Archived from the
original on 2018-02-24. Retrieved 2018-02-23. Dobrinka
Tabakova’s arrangement for viola and string orchestra of
the Arpeggione Sonata...

References[edit]
 Aquino, F. Avellar de. "Six-Stringed Virtuoso". in
The Strad Magazine, Harrow, Middlesex, UK, v.
109, n. 1297, p. 500-507, May 1998. (Article about
the Arpeggione and also on Schubert's Sonata)
 Sadie, Stanley, ed., The New Grove Dictionary of
Music and Musicians, vol. 16, 6th. ed., London:
Macmillan Press Limited, 1980. s.v. “Schubert,
Franz” by Maurice J. E. Brown.
 Tree, Michael, “Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata.”
The Strad Magazine, vol. 105, February 1994,
p.142. (Master-Class on the Sonata)

External links[edit]
 Authority file (Wikidata): Q2915782
 Arpeggione Sonata: Scores at the International
Music Score Library Project
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