Beethoven and Mozart arranged for guitar, flute and strings: newly discovered chamber repertoire from Victorian England, edited by Christopher Page

Available on open access on Apollo, a digital repository of the University of Cambridge.

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This edition of newly discovered septets, together with a sextet, presents five highly accomplished chamber arrangements for guitar, flute and strings of movements from chamber works (and in one case a complete sonata) by Mozart and Beethoven. They were all made by the London professional violinist George Pigott (1798-1853). Such large chamber scorings involving a guitar are a great rarity in the instrument’s nineteenth-century repertoire, and these are both skilful and engaging. The pieces were created for Alexander George Fraser, sixteenth Lord Saltoun and a keen guitar-player, for use with his friends, aristocratic amateur musicians, in his London mansion.