Schubert was trained as a chorister in the Imperial Chapel and later qualified as a school teacher, occasionally helping his father.
The arpeggione, for which Schubert wrote his sonata, had six strings tuned like a guitar and 24 metal frets.
This recording features the Arpeggione Sonata performed on the arpeggione, the instrument for which it was originally written.
Franz Schubert, the composer, was the twelfth of fourteen children, and only the fourth to survive infancy.
The first public concert of Schubert's music, including the Piano Trio No. 2, was given on March 26, 1828, the first anniversary of Beethoven's death.
Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata was written for the arpeggione, a newly invented bowed guitar by Viennese maker Johann Georg Staufer in 1823.
The Piano Trio No. 2 was first performed at a private party in January 1828 to celebrate the engagement of Schubert's school friend Josef von Spaun.
