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 and List of compositions for cello and piano.
Ordering is by surname of composer.
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[edit] A
- Violet Archer
- Improvisation for Solo Cello (1983)
- 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
- 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
- Daron Hagen
- Suite for Solo Cello (1985)
- Higher, Louder, Faster, an editorial etude (1987)
- Handel arr. Halvorsen
- Theme and Variations
- 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])
- Julius Klengel
- Suite in d-minor, op.56
- Caprice in a Form of a Chaconne (Theme by Robert Schumann) Op.43
- 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)
- Witold Lutosławski
- Sacher Variation (1975)
[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, for solo cello (1968)
- Per Slava, for solo cello (1986)
- Divertimento, for solo cello (1994)
- George Perle
- Cello Sonata (1947)
- Vincent Persichetti
- Solo Cello Sonata op. 54
- Carlo Alfredo Piatti
- 12 Caprices, Op. 25
- Capriccio op. 22 for cello solo on the aria, cavatina, "I tuoi frequenti palpiti", from Niobe by Giovanni Pacini
- 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)
- Bruce Craig Roter
- Sonatine Solo Cello
- 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])
- Mihaly Virizlay
- Sonata for Unaccompanied Cello (1965)
[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])