List of solo cello pieces
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This is a compilation of major pieces for solo cello. See also the entries on cello and the list of compositions for cello and orchestra. Ordering is by surname of composer.
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[edit] A
- Malcolm Arnold
- Fantasy for Cello (1987)
[edit] B
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Yaruch Bann
- From ages blanks
- Granville Bantock
- Sonata in G minor for solo cello (1924)
- Arnold Bax
- Rhapsodic Ballad (1939) ([1])
- Luciano Berio
- Les mots sont allés (1978) ([2])
- Ernest Bloch
- Suites 1–3 for solo cello (1956–7) ([3])
- Benjamin Britten
- Leo Brouwer
- Sonata for Solo Cello (1960) ([4])
[edit] C
- John Cage
- One8, for Cello Solo ([5])
- Gaspar Cassadó
- Suite for Solo Cello
- Armand Coeck
- Madreselva
- George Crumb
- Cello Sonata (1955)
[edit] D
- Henri Dutilleux
- Trois Strophes sur le Nom de Sacher (1976-82)
[edit] E
- Sven Einar Englund
- Suite for Solo Cello (1986)
[edit] G
- Domenico Gabrielli
- Seven Ricercari for solo cello (1689)
[edit] H
- Jonathan Harvey
- Curve with Plateaux for Helen Verney (1983)
- Paul Hindemith
- Several solo sonatas including opus 25#3
- Vagn Holmboe
- Solo Cello Sonata M. 241 (1968–9)
[edit] J
- Ben Johnston
- Toccata for Laurien Laufman (1984)
- David Johnstone
- Fantasy on a theme of J.S.Bach (1999)
- Tango Concierto (2001)
- Virtuoso Concert Pieces for Solo Cello (15 Pieces) rev.2006
[edit] K
- Mauricio Kagel
- Unguis incarnatus est
- Leon Kirchner
- For Cello Solo (1986) ([6])
- Zoltán Kodály
- Cello Solo Sonata op. 8 (1915)
- Ernst Krenek
- Suite for Cello Solo op. 84
[edit] L
- Yuriy Leonovich
- Fantasie-Impromptu, Op.58 (2004)
- György Ligeti
- Cello sonata
- Alvin Lucier
- Indian Summer (1993)
[edit] M
- Robert Muczynski
- Gallery: Suite for solo cello (on paintings of Charles Burchfield) (1966)
[edit] O
- Mark O'Connor
- Appalachia Waltz (composer's own transcription of original version for solo violin)
[edit] P
- Krzysztof Penderecki
- Capriccio per Siegfried Palm
- George Perle
- Cello Sonata (1947)
- Vincent Persichetti
- Solo Cello Sonata op. 54
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Solo Cello Sonata op. 133 (completed by Blok)
[edit] R
- Max Reger
- Three Suites for Solo Cello Op. 131c (1914)
- Heiner Reitz
- 12 Caprices für Violoncello Solo (recorded on Telos TLS 025)
- Edmund Rubbra
- Improvisation, for Solo Cello Op. 124 (published in 1967)
[edit] S
- Kaija Saariaho
- Petals (1988)
- Sept Papillons (2000)
- Giacinto Scelsi
- Voyages (1985)
- Roger Sessions
- Six Pieces for Solo Cello (1966)
- Bright Sheng
- Seven Tunes Heard in China
- Mark Summer
- Julie-O
[edit] T
- Boris Tchaikovsky
- Suite for Solo Cello (1960)
- Alexander Tcherepnin
- Suite for Solo Cello op. 76 (1946)
- James Tenney
- Cellogram for Joel Krosnick (1971)
- Augusta Read Thomas
- Spring Song (2002)
- Donald Francis Tovey
- Solo Cello Sonata op. 50 in D
[edit] V
- Moisei Vainberg see Mieczyslaw Weinberg
- Sándor Veress
- Sonata for cello solo (1935) ([7])
[edit] W
- William Walton
- Passacaglia (1980)
- Mieczysław Weinberg
- Solo Cello Sonata No. 1 op. 72 (1960)
- Solo Cello Sonata No. 2 op. 86 (1965)
- Solo Cello Sonata No. 3 op. 106 (1971)
- Solo Cello Sonata No. 4 op. 140 (1986)
- Egon Wellesz
- Cello Sonata op. 31 (1920)
- Suite for Cello Solo op. 39 (1924) ([8])
- David Wilde
- The Cellist of Sarajevo - A Lament in Rondo Form for Solo Cello, op. 12
- Richard Edward Wilson
- Lord Chesterfield to his Son (1987)
- Music for Solo Cello (1971)
- Charles Wuorinen
- Cello Variations to Fred Sherry (1970)
[edit] X
- Iannis Xenakis
- Kottos
- Nomos alpha
[edit] Y
- Eugène Ysaÿe
- Cello Sonata op. 28 (1924)
[edit] Z
- Bernd Alois Zimmermann
- Sonata for cello solo (1959-60)
- Four short studies for cello solo (1970) ([9])
