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

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 substanti