Concert « Autour de la sonate Arpeggione de Schubert »

Jeanne Mathieu, viola

Alain Roudier and Ekaterina Polyakova, Steingraeber D232 piano from Château de Bournazel

The Arpeggione is an experimental instrument created around 1820. Derived from the guitar, it

is played with a bow, like a cello. Inconvenient to use, it does not have

convinced neither the performers nor the composers and it was very quickly abandoned.

only work was composed for him (but a masterpiece!), by

Franz Schubert, in 1824.

Of this famous sonata, which will be played here on the viola, there is another version,

for piano four hands, previously unpublished. It will be presented at our concert,

as well as the sublime Fantasy in F minor for piano four hands.