Violotta

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**Violotta**
Classification

Bowed instruments
Related instruments
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A violotta is a tenor viola (or tenor violin) invented by the German luthier Alfred Stelzner and patented in 1891. It is tuned in G D A E, an octave below the violin. Other instruments called "tenor violin" were tuned a step lower: F C G D (a fifth below the viola).

It is rarely used by composers. One of the few works where it is used is the String Quintet in A by Felix Draeseke. It is also used in Max von Schillings' opera Der Pfeifertag (1899).

[edit] References

Kory, Agnes (1994). "A Wider Role for the Tenor Violin?" The Galpin Society Journal, v. 47 (March 1994, pp. 123-153.
Segerman, Ephraim (1995). "The Name 'Tenor Violin'." The Galpin Society Journal, v. 48 (March 1995), pp. 181-187.

[edit] Discography

1971? - Hurst, Alberta. Alberta Hurst, Tenor Violin. LP. Los Angeles, California: Crystal Records. (Contains music arranged for tenor violin by Boccherini, Bach, Telemann, and Gal.)