Arpeggione
- Date
- 1823 · confidence high
- Place
- Vienna, Austria
- Credited to
- Johann Georg Stauffer and Peter Teufelsdorfer
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A six-stringed instrument shaped like a guitar but bowed and tuned like a cello, created by Viennese luthiers; remembered today mainly for the sonata Schubert wrote for it.
What it led to
- a brief vogue for bowed-guitar hybrid instruments
- Schubert's sonata D.821, its only notable repertoire
- later transcriptions for cello and viola
- a 21st-century revival of the instrument