List of solo cello pieces


List of solo cello pieces


This is a list of notable solo cello pieces. It includes arrangements and transcriptions.

A

  • Joseph Abaco
    • (11) Caprices
  • Samuel Adler
    • Sonata (1965)
  • Kalevi Aho
    • Solo IV (1997)
  • Hugh Aitken
    • For the Cello (1980)
  • Franghis Ali-Zadeh
    • Ask Havasi (part of the cycle Silk Road) (1998)
    • Oyan (2005)
  • Maarten Altena
    • Figura (1993)
  • Mark Andre
    • iv 2 pour violoncelle solo (2007)
  • Georges Aperghis
    • Quatres Récitations (1980)
    • Sonate (1994)
  • Gilbert Amy
    • Quasi Scherzando
  • Tanya Anisimova
    • Sufi Suite
    • Song on Mt. San Angelo
  • Georgi Arnaoudov
    • Kells (1999)
    • Three Sonets of Michelangelo (2014)
  • Violet Archer
    • Improvisation (1983)
  • Malcolm Arnold
    • Fantasy (1987)
  • Daniel Asia
    • Cello Suite
  • Lera Auerbach
    • Sonata for Solo Violoncello, Op. 72 (2003)
    • La Suite dels Ocells [Homage to Pablo Casals] (2015)

B

  • Johann Sebastian Bach
    • Six Suites (c. 1720)
  • Nicolas Bacri
    • Suite , Op. 31, No. 1 Preludio e metamorfosi (1987–94)
    • Suite , Op. 31, No. 2 Tragica (1991–93)
    • Suite , Op. 31, No. 3 Vita et Mors (1991–93)
    • Suite , Op. 50, No. 4 (1994–96; written for Emmanuelle Bertrand)
  • Henk Badings
    • Sonata No. 2
  • David N. Baker
    • Sonata (1990)
  • Don Banks
    • Sequence (1967)
  • Gennady Banshchikov
    • Concerto for cello No. 3 for solo cello (1965)
  • Granville Bantock
    • Sonata in G minor (1924)
  • Rami Bar-Niv
    • Improvisation
  • Arnold Bax
    • Rhapsodic Ballad (1939)
  • Sally Beamish
    • Gala Water for solo cello (1988, for her husband Robert Irvine)
    • The Wise Maid
  • Conrad Beck
    • Epigrams (for Paul Sacher)
  • Grant Beglarian
    • Elegy for Cellist for solo cello (1979)
  • Paul Ben-Haim
    • Music (1974)
  • Richard Rodney Bennett
    • Partita (2001)
    • Sonata
    • Scena II (1973)
  • Niels Viggo Bentzon
    • Sonata, Op. 110 (1956)
    • Variations on "The Volga Boatmen", Op. 354 (1974)
    • 16 Etudes, Op. 464 (1984)
    • Sonata, Op. 110
  • Esteban Benzecry
    • Suite "Prisme du Sud" (1970)
  • Gunnar Berg
    • Suite pour violoncelle seul (1950)
  • Michael Berkeley
    • Iberian Notebook Suite (1980)
  • Luciano Berio
    • Les mots sont allés (1978; for Paul Sacher)
    • Sequenza VIb (1981)
    • Chanson pour Pierre Boulez (Song for Pierre Boulez) (2000)
    • Sequenza XIV (2002)
  • Christoph Otto Beyer
    • Sonate für Violoncello solo (2006)
    • Passacaglia e Fuga
  • Gunther Bialas
    • Romanze (for Hoelscher) (1987)
  • Jörg Birkenkötter
    • Solo für Violoncello (1986)
  • Ernest Bloch
    • Suite No. 1 (1956) (written for Zara Nelsova)
    • Suite No. 2 (1956) (written for Zara Nelsova)
    • Suite No. 3 (1957)
  • William Bolcom
    • Suite in C minor (1994)
  • Ennio Bolognini
    • Adagio and Allegro
    • Fiesta Baska - Lamada Montanesa
    • Seranata de Bolonini
    • Seranata del Eco
    • Serenata Del Gaucho
    • Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Purcell
    • Cello's Prayer
  • Nimrod Borenstein
    • "Soliloquy, Op. 59"
  • Sergei Bortkiewicz
    • Suite, Op. 41
  • Hans Bottermund - Janos Starker
    • Variations on a Theme by Paganini
  • Hendrik Bouman
    • Suite in D major (2003)
  • Reiner Bredemeyer (1929–1995)
    • Solo 1 (1973)
    • Solo 6 (1980; written for H.J. Scheitzbach)
  • Allen Brings
    • Sonata da chiesa for solo cello (1980, dedicated to Alexander Kouguell)
  • Benjamin Britten
    • Cello Suites (Suite No. 1, Op. 72 (1964), Suite No. 2, Op. 80 (1967), Suite No. 3, Op. 87 (1972))
    • Tema "Sacher" (for Paul Sacher)
  • Stephen Brown
    • Cello suites
Takkakaw Falls (2003, 2004)
Fire (2005, revised 2012)
There Was a Lady in the East (2007)
Lilies and the Roses (2011, revised 2013)
Magneto (2012)
Flowers of the Forest (2013)
  • Leo Brouwer
    • Sonata (1960)
  • Mikhail Bukinik
    • 4 Concert Etudes (No. 4 in F minor)
  • Sylvano Bussotti
    • Deborah Parker (1987)
    • Variazione
  • Yuri Butzko
    • Partita for solo cello

C

  • John Cage
    • One8 (1991)
    • 59½ Seconds (1953)
    • Atlas Eclipticallis (1961)
    • Solo For Cello (1958)
    • Variations I (1958)
    • Etudes Boreales (1978)
  • Elliott Carter
    • Figment (1994)
    • Figment No. 2, Remembering Mr. Ives (2001)
  • Gaspar Cassadó
    • Suite (1926)
  • Geghuni Chitchjan
    • Sonata for solo cello (1983)
  • Frédéric Chopin
    • Etude in A♭ major, Op. 25, No. 1 (trans. Cassadó)
  • Nigel Clarke
    • Spectroscope (1987)
  • Grant Colburn
    • Sonata in D minor for baroque cello or viola da gamba (2009)
  • Michael Colgrass
    • Wolf (1975)
  • Giuseppe Colombi (1635–1694)
    • Chiacona a Basso Solo (1670)
    • Toccata da Violone Solo (Toccata ) (1670)
  • John Corigliano
    • Fancy on a Bach air (1997; premiered by Yo-Yo Ma)
  • Henry Cowell
    • Gravely and Vigorously (Hymn & Fuguing Tune No. 17) (1963; in memory of Kennedy)
  • George Crumb
    • Sonata for Solo Cello, (1955)

D

  • Luigi Dallapiccola
    • Adagio (1947)
    • Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagio (1945)
  • Jean-Luc Darbellay
    • Solo (1997)
  • Michael Daugherty
    • Jackie's Song (2000)
  • Johann Nepomuk David
    • 2 Solo Sonatas
  • Mario Davidovsky
    • Synchronisms No. 3 (1964), and electronic sound
  • Robert deMaine
    • Twelve Études-Caprices, Op. 31 (1999)
    • Unaccompanied Sonata
  • Edison Denisov
    • Cadenzas for two cello concertos in D major and C major by Haydn (1982)
  • Patrick van Deurzen
    • Monologue (2011)
  • David Diamond
    • Sonata for Violoncello Alone (1959)
  • Friedhelm Dohl
    • Fantasie - Kadenz
    • Klezmeriana for solo cello (1983)
  • Franco Donatoni
    • Lame (1982)
  • Friedrich Dotzauer
    • 113 Etudes for Cello
  • John Downey
    • Lydian Suite (1975)
  • Zsolt Durkó
    • Solo Suite No. 1 (1979)
  • Henri Dutilleux
    • Trois Strophes sur le Nom de SACHER (1976–82) (for Paul Sacher)

E

  • David Eby
    • Celtic Passage
  • Gerald Eckert
    • Nôema (1992/93)
  • Søren Nils Eichberg
    • Variations on a theme by Niccolo Paganini (2005)
  • Jose Elizondo
    • Unter dem Sternenhimmel des Rheins (Under the starry sky of the Rhine) (2020)
    • Cantabrigian Reflections (2020)
    • Danzas Latinoamericanas (Latin American Dances) (1997)
    • Otoño en Buenos Aires (Autumn in Buenos Aires) (1997)
    • Pan de Azúcar (Sugar Loaf mountain) (1997)
    • Atardecer Tapatío (Sunset in Guadalajara) (1997)
    • Baroque Dances (1997)
    • La alborada de la esperanza (The Dawn of Hope) (2018)
    • Limoncello (2018)
    • Crepúsculos (Twilights) (2018)
    • Princesa de hadas (Fairy Tale Princess) (1995)
    • Excursión a la montaña (Excursion to the Mountain) (1995)
  • Hans Ulrich Engelmann
    • Mini-music to Siegfried Palm, Op. 38 (1970)
  • Sven Einar Englund
    • Suite (1986)
  • Gottfried von Einem
    • Music, Op. 108 (1996)
  • Iván Erőd
    • Hommage à Beethoven, Op. 24 (Rhapsodie für Violoncello solo über Themen der Sonate, Op. 102/1 von Ludwig van Beethoven) (1977)
  • Rudolf George Escher
    • Sonata for solo Violoncello (1945–48)
  • Pozzi Escot
    • Sonata (2002)
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F

  • Morton Feldman
    • Projection I (1950)
    • Intersection IV (1953)
  • Richard Festinger
    • Upon The Viol (2012)
  • Ross Lee Finney
    • Chromatic Fantasy in E (1957)
  • Graciane Finzi
    • Theme and Variations to el cant dels ocells
  • Elena Firsova
    • The Rest is Silence (2002)
  • Luboš Fišer (1935–1999)
    • Sonata (1987)
  • Thomas Flaherty
    • Semi-Suite (1990)
    • Remembrance of Things Present (2006)
  • Alexandra Fol
    • Almost Serial (1999)
  • Carlo Forlivesi
    • Più Mesto for 2-bow solo cello (2003)
  • Wolfgang Fortner
    • Suite (Schott) (for Paul Sacher)
    • Zum Spielen für den 70. Geburtstag: Theme and Variationen (1976)
  • Ilse Fromm-Michaels
    • Suite, Op. 15 (Sikorski)
  • Rudolf Escher
    • Sonata (1955)

G

  • Domenico Gabrielli
    • Seven Ricercari (1689)
  • Hans Gál
    • Sonata for violoncello solo op.109a (1982)
  • Orlando Jacinto Garcia
    • Crystalline Sounds of the Night
  • Ada Gentile
    • Pervioloncellosolo () (1996)
  • Michael Gielen
    • Weitblick Sonata (1991)
  • Alberto Ginastera (1916–83)
    • Puneña No. 2, Op. 45 (Hommage à Paul Sacher)
  • Detlev Glanert
    • Fünf Wüstenlieder (five Desert Songs) (1999)
  • Philip Glass
    • Songs and Poems (in 7 movements) (2007)
    • Orbit (2013)
  • Friedrich Goldmann
    • Cellomusik (1974)
  • Marin Goleminov
    • Sonata (1969)
  • Osvaldo Golijov
    • Omaramor (1991)
  • Andrei Golovin
    • Elegy for solo cello (1988)
  • Yevgeny Golubev
    • 2 Etudes for solo cello, Op. 46 (1961)
    • Concert Aria for solo cello (1961)
  • Leonid Grabovsky (Hrabovsky)
    • Hlas I (1990)
    • Voices for solo cello (1990)
  • Olivier Greif
    • Solo from Nô, Op. 154, for Christoph Henkel (1981) for solo cello
  • Jorge Grundman
    • Terezin Through the Eyes of the Children for Solo Cello (2012)
  • Sofia Gubaidulina
    • Ten Preludes (1974)
    • Quaternion for solo cello

H

  • Alois Haba
    • Fantasy in quarter-tones (1924)
  • Daron Hagen
    • Suite (1985)
    • Higher, Louder, Faster, an editorial etude (1987)
  • Cristobal Halffter
    • Variations on the theme eSACHERe (for Paul Sacher)
  • Hermann Haller
    • Trois pieces pour violoncelle seul (3 pieces )
  • George Frideric Handel
    • Air and Variations "The Harmonious Blacksmith" from Suite for Harpsichord in E major, HWV 430 arr. Cassadó
    • Passacaglia - Theme and Variations (arr. Zinoviy Dynov based on the Halvorsen version)
  • John Harbison
    • Suite (1994)
  • Jonathan Harvey
    • Curve with Plateaux for Helen Verney (1983)
  • Teppo Hauta-aho
    • Improvatio (1971)
  • David Philip Hefti
    • Ritus - 4 Dance Collages (2007)
  • Bernhard Heiden
    • Variations on "Lilliburlero"
  • Paavo Heininen
    • Cantilena I, Op. 24c (1970)
    • Cantilena II, Op. 26 (1970)
    • Poesie des pensées, Op. 23 (1970)
  • Hans Werner Henze
    • Serenade (1949)
    • Capriccio (for Paul Sacher) (1976/1981)
  • Michael Hersch
    • Sonata No. 1 (1994)
    • Sonata No. 2 (2001)
  • Kenneth Hesketh
    • Die hängende Figur ist Judas (Drei Perspektiven) (1998)
    • IMMH (2014)
  • Jacques Hétu
    • Variations, Op. 11b (1967)
  • Gilad Hochman
    • Rhapsody (2003)
    • Ponderings on a Memory (2005)
  • Jennifer Higdon
    • Suite (2002)
  • Paul Hindemith
    • Sonata, Op. 25, No. 3 (1923)
  • Joel Hoffman
    • Concert-Study (Fantasie) (1977)
    • unaccompanied minor (2007)
  • Robin Hoffmann
    • Schleifers Methoden für Violoncello solo (2005)
  • York Höller
    • Sonata (1968)
  • Heinz Holliger
    • Chaconne (for Paul Sacher) (1975)
    • Trema (1981)
  • Vagn Holmboe
    • Solo Cello Sonata, M. 241 (1968–69)
  • Imogen Holst
    • Fall of the Leaf
  • Joaquim Homs
    • Arbres al vent (1992)
    • Soliloqui num. 4 (1994)
    • Capvespre vora el mar (1994)
  • Arthur Honegger
    • Paduana in G major, H.181 (1945)
  • Michael Hoppé and Martin Tillmann
    • Solo Cello Characteristics
  • Alan Hovhaness
    • Yakamochi, Op. 193 (1965)
  • Edgar Hovhanessian (Oganesyan)
    • Sonata for solo cello (1970)
  • Klaus Huber
    • Transpositio ad Infinitum für ein virtuoses Solocello (for Paul Sacher)
  • Nicolaus A. Huber
    • Der Ausrufer steigt ins Innere (1984)
  • Tobias Hume
    • Kleine Stücke für Cello solo (Small pieces ) Book 1 (originally for Gamba) (arranged by Sabina Lehrmann)
    • (Cello solo pieces) Book 2
  • Bertold Hummel
    • Fantasia I in G, Op. 77d1 (1952)
    • Fantasia II in memoriam Pablo Casals, Op. 97a (1993)
    • Farewell (2002)

I

  • Jacques Ibert
    • Etude-Caprice pour un tombeau de Chopin (1949)
    • Ghirlarzana (1950)
  • Yoshirō Irino (1921–1980)
    • Three Movements (1969)
  • Airat Ichmouratov (1973)
    • Praeludium in G Major for Cello Solo, Op. 69 (2021)

J

  • Karl Jenkins
    • Benedictus - The Armed Man (2001)
  • Jan Jirásek
    • Dilema (1987)
  • Ben Johnston
    • Toccata for Laurien Laufman (1984)
  • Betsy Jolas
    • Scion (1974)
    • Episode cinquième (1983)
  • Andre Jolivet
    • Suite en Concert (1965)
  • Christian Jost
    • Laulos (2005)
  • Gordon Jacob
    • Serenade
    • Divertimento
  • Jurgis Juozapaitis
    • Sonata for solo cello

K

  • Dmitry Kabalevsky
    • Études in Major and Minor, Op. 68 (1961)
  • Mauricio Kagel
    • Siegfriedp‘ (1971)
  • Giya Kancheli
    • Having Wept for solo cello (1994)
  • Nikolai Kapustin
    • Introduction and Scherzino for solo cello, Op. 93 (1999)
    • Suite for cello solo, Op. 124 (2004)
  • Faradzh Karayev (aka Faraj Garayev)
    • Terminus for solo cello (1985)
  • Hugo Kauder
    • Suite (1925)
    • Second Suite (1924)
  • Frederick Kaufman
    • Inner Sanctum (1999)
  • Tālivaldis Ķeniņš
    • Sonata for Cello Solo (1981)
  • Jin Hi Kim
    • Kee Maek #4 (1995)
  • Natalie Klouda
    • Suite for Solo Cello (2017, revised 2019)
  • Volker David Kirchner
    • Und Salomo sprach (‘’And Salomo spoke”) (1987)
    • Aus dem Buch der Konige 3 meditations (2000)
    • Threnos (written for the Feuermann Competition 2006)
  • Aram Khachaturian
    • Sonata-Fantasy in C major, Op. 104 (1974)
  • Adam Khudoyan
    • Sonata No. 1 (1961)
    • Sonata No. 2 Elegiac (1984)
    • Sonata No. 3 Pathetic (1993)
  • Mark Kilstofte
    • You [unfolding] for solo cello (1996)
  • Julius Klengel
    • Suite in D-minor, Op. 56
    • Caprice in the Form of a Chaconne (with free use of a Theme by Robert Schumann), Op. 43
  • Alexander Knaifel
    • Lamento for solo cello (1967)
    • Capriccio for solo cello (1994)
  • Zoltán Kodály
    • Solo Cello Sonata, Op. 8 (1915)
    • Capriccio (1915)
  • Nikolai Korndorf
    • Passacaglia (1997)
  • Irena Kosíková
    • Stopy (2004)
  • Ernst Krenek
    • Suite, Op. 84 (1942)
  • Hanna Kulenty
    • Sinequan: for violoncello (amplified and delay) (1993)
    • Still Life with a Cello (1998)
  • György Kurtág
    • Pilinszky János: Gérard de Nerval (1986, for Zoltán Kocsis) for solo cello
    • 19 Jelek, játékok és üzenetek (Signs, Games and Messages) (1987–2008) for solo cello
    • Schatten (Shadows) (1999, for Miklós Perényi)
    • Az hit (Faith)
    • Hommage à John Cage, Elakadó szavak (Faltering Words) for solo cello
    • György Kroó in memoriam (1997) for solo cello
    • For Steven: In Memoriam Pauline Mara (2010), for solo cello
    • The Hilary Jig (to Hilary Behrens 90) (2017, fellow-composer Márta Kurtag)
  • Khristofer Kushnaryov ru:Кушнарёв, Христофор Степанович)
    • Sonata for solo cello (1932)
  • Mati Kuulberg (fi:Mati Kuulberg)
    • Concerto-Sonata for solo cello (1973)

L

  • Sophie Lacaze
    • Variations sur quatre haikus (2009)
  • Helmut Lachenmann
    • Pression (1970)
  • Ezra Laderman
    • Partita (1972)
    • A Single Voice (1995, written for Tanya Anisimova)
    • Fantasy (1998)
    • A Single Line (2004)
  • Frank La Rocca
    • Secret Thoughts (1986)
  • Henri Lazarof
    • Momenti (1987)
  • Claude Ledoux
    • Le Songe trouble de l'orchidee (1994)
    • 12 Studies - First book (1994)
  • Benjamin Lees
    • Night Spectres (2000)
  • Kenneth Leighton
    • Sonata, Op. 52 (1967)
  • Tania Leon
    • 4 Pieces (1981)
  • Milcho Leviev
    • Reflected Meditation (1980)
    • Augsburg Polka (1998)
  • György Ligeti
    • Sonata (1948–1953)
  • Magnus Lindberg
    • Stroke (1984)
    • Partia (2001)
  • Franz Liszt
    • Sonata in B minor for solo cello (transcription by Johann Sebastian Paetsch)
  • Jerry Liu
    • Suite 7 Days (2012)
    • Calor (2016)
  • Vassily Lobanov
    • Sonata for solo cello (1963)
    • Fantasie, Op. 48 (1987)
  • Pietro Locatelli
    • Il Laberinto Armonico (transcription by Rohan de Saram)
  • Alvin Lucier
    • Indian Summer (1993)
  • Witold Lutosławski
    • Sacher Variation (1975; for Paul Sacher)

M

  • Peter Machajdík
    • Ponor (2019)
    • Wolds (2019)
    • Lullaby (1999)
  • Olga Magidenko
    • Site of the Heart, Op. 60 (1998)
  • Enrico Mainardi
    • Sonata breve (1942)
    • Sonata (1959)
  • Ivo Malec
    • Arco-1 (1987)
  • Vitold Malishevsky
    • Suite
  • Benedetto Marcello
    • Cello sonatas
  • Andrew March
    • Three Pieces for Solo Cello (2011)
  • Ljubica Marić
    • Monodia Octoïca for solo cello
  • Steven Harry Markowitz
    • Impromptu
    • A Brief Adventure
  • Pamela J. Marshall
    • Soliloquy
  • Donald Martino
    • Parisonatina Al’Dodecafonia (1964)
  • Tauno Marttinen
    • Impression, Op. 140 (1978)
  • Colin Matthews
    • Palinode (1992)
  • David Matthews
    • Fantasia, Op. 8 (1971)
    • Songs and Dances of Mourning, Op. 12 (1976)
    • Journeying Songs, Op. 95 (2004)
  • Rudolf Matz
    • 11 Caprices
    • Ombres et lumières (Lights and Shadows)
    • Suite in C major
    • Tema con Variazioni
  • Toshiro Mayuzumi
    • Bunraku (1960)
  • John McCabe
    • Partita (1966)
  • Alfred Mendelssohn
    • Suite (1960)
  • Usko Meriläinen
    • Arabesques (1964)
  • Krzysztof Meyer
    • Sonata (1964)
    • Moment musical (1976)
    • Monologue (1990)
  • Peter Mieg
    • La sombre (1971)
    • L'aérienne (1975)
  • Eric Moe
    • The Lone Cello (1998) for 'cello solo
  • Robert Moevs
    • Heptachronon (1969)
  • Alan Mills
    • Song & Dance for solo cello (2007)
  • Roberto Molinelli
    • Crystalligence (commissioned by Enrico Dindo) (2005)
  • Dexter Morrill
    • Fantasy (1995)
  • Robert Muczynski
    • Gallery: Suite (on paintings of Charles Burchfield) (1966)
  • Isabel Mundry
    • Komposition (1992/93)
    • Komposition (1997)

N

  • Florie Namir
    • Rolling, fantasia for cello solo (2004)
  • Lior Navok
    • Fantasy (1998)
  • Arkady Nesterov
    • Sonata for solo cello
  • Joaquin Nin-Culmell
    • Suite
  • Akira Nishimura
    • Threnody (1998)
  • Arne Nordheim
    • Clamavi (1980)

O

  • Mark O'Connor
    • Appalachia Waltz (composer's own transcription of original version for solo violin)
  • Mikhail Osokin
    • Sonata for solo cello
  • Terry Winter Owens
    • Cellestial Music, Book 1 (2003)

P

  • Younghi Pagh-Paan
    • AA-GA I (1984)
  • Hilda Paredes
    • Zuhuy Kak (1997)
  • Robert Parris
    • Fantasy and Fugue (1954)
  • Boris Parsadanjan
    • Sonata for solo cello (1973)
  • Paul Patterson
    • Suite, Op. 62
  • Sergei Pavlenko
    • Sonata for solo cello (1983)
  • Krzysztof Penderecki
    • Capriccio per Siegfried Palm (1968)
    • Per Slava (1986)
    • Suite for Solo Cello (2013) [Expanded version of previously published "Divertimento"]
  • George Perle
    • Cello Sonata (1947)
    • Hebrew Melodies
  • Vincent Persichetti
    • Solo Cello Sonata, Op. 54
  • Sven Holger Philippsen
    • Cellosolosonate Nr.1 in 4 Sätzen (1988)
Praeludium - Vivace e con fuoco
Élégie (Adagio con affetto)
Rondo vivacissimo
  • Carlo Alfredo Piatti
    • 12 Caprices, Op. 25
1 in G minor: Allegro quasi presto
2 in E-flat major: Andante Religioso
3 in B-flat major: Moderato
4 in D minor: Allegretto
5 in F major: Allegro comodo
6 in A-flat major: Adagio Largamente
7 in C major: Maestoso
8 in A minor: Moderato ma energico
9 in D major: Allegro
10 in B minor: Allegro deciso
11 in G major: Adagio. Allegro
12 in E minor: Allegretto
    • Capriccio on the cavatina "I tuoi frequenti palpiti" from ‘’Niobe’’ by Giovanni Pacini, Op. 22
  • Gregor Piatigorsky
    • Syrinx
    • A Stroll
  • Ástor Piazzolla
    • 6 Tango Etudes (arr. Karttunen)
  • Wolfgang Plagge
    • Jakobsstigen, Op. 20 : Fantasy (1983)
    • Music , Op. 54 (1990)
  • Peteris Plakidis
    • Two Variations for solo cello (1976)
  • Robert H.P. Platz
    • Senko-hana-bi (In Yoshitake's garden) (1997–2000)
  • Conrad Pope
    • Sonata for Violoncello alone (1972)
  • Gerhard Präsent
    • A Rayas for violoncello solo (2001–02)
  • Sergei Prokofiev
    • Solo Cello Sonata, Op. 133 (1953) (unfinished; completed by Blok in 1996)
    • March from Music for Children, Op. 65 - (ed. Piatigorsky)

R

  • Nikolai Rakov
    • Waltz for solo cello
  • Shulamit Ran
    • Fantasy Variations (2003)
  • Alexander Raskatov
    • Dramatic Games for solo cello (1979)
    • Kyrie Eleison (1992)
  • Einojuhani Rautavaara
    • Sonata, Op. 46 (1969)
  • Max Reger
    • 3 Suites, Op. 131c (1914)
      • Suite No. 1 in G major
      • Suite No. 2 in D minor
      • Suite No. 3 in A minor
  • Aribert Reimann
    • Solo II (1981)
  • Phillip Rhodes
    • Three Pieces
  • Alan Ridout
    • Partita (1959)
  • Wolfgang Rihm
    • Great (1972)
  • Joaquin Rodrigo
    • Como una fantasía (1979)
  • Scott Roller
    • Mutamusic (1983)
  • Bernhard Romberg
    • Sonata in E minor Op. 38 No. 1
    • Sonata in G major Op. 38 No. 2
  • Lucia Ronchetti
    • Forward and downward, turning neither to the left nor to the right (2017)
  • Ned Rorem
    • After Reading Shakespeare Nine movements alone (written for Sharon Robinson; 1980)
  • Hilding Rosenberg
    • Intermezzo (1974)
  • Miklos Rozsa
    • Toccata capricciosa, Op. 36 (1979; in memory of Piatigorsky)
  • Edmund Rubbra
    • Improvisation, Op. 124 (pub. 1967)
  • Elena Ruehr
    • Lift (2013) for solo cello, premiered at MIT (written for Jennifer Kloetzel)
    • Cricket the Fiddler (2020), commissioned by Jennifer Kloetzel, solo cello, premiered online October 2020, ca 8’
    • Cloud Forest (2015) solo cello, 8 minutes, commissioned by Rhonda Rider
  • Peter Ruzicka
    • Sonata, Op. 9 (1969)
    • Stille Four Epilogues (1976)

S

  • Kaija Saariaho
    • Petals (1988)
    • Près (1992)
    • Spins & Spells (1997)
    • Sept Papillons (2000)
  • Aulis Sallinen
    • Elegy for Sebastian Knight, Op. 10 (1964)
    • Sonata, Op. 26 (1971)
  • Vadim Salmanov
    • Monologue for solo cello (1970)
  • Esa-Pekka Salonen
    • Yta III (1987)
  • Timothy Salter
    • Scintilla for solo cello (2003)
  • David Sampson
    • Three Arguments for unaccompanied cello (1993)
  • Ruben Sarkisjan
    • Cercio Ceclamando (Cycle of Declamations) for solo cello (2001)
  • Ahmed Adnan Saygun
    • Partita, Op. 31 (1954)
  • Robert Saxton
    • Sonata on a Theme of Sir William Walton (1999)
  • Giacinto Scelsi
    • Triphon (1956)
    • Trilogie (1957/65)
    • Voyages (1985)
    • Maknongan (1976)
  • Gerhard Schedl
    • Aus Zwei Stücke aus der Schatz-Truhe
  • Peter Schickele (P. D. Q. Bach)
    • Vermillion Suite (1987)
    • Suite No. 1 All By Its Lonesome
    • Suite No. 2 All By Its Lonesome
  • Josef Schillinger
    • Dance Suite for solo cello, Op.20 (1928)
  • Thomas Daniel Schlee
    • Three Signs, Op. 53 (2002)
  • Friedemann Schmidt-Mechau
    • Aposiopesis Music for violoncello (1990)
    • Morgenlachen (Morning Laughter) Music for violoncello (1997)
    • Fehlversteck (Flawed Hide-Out) Five musical sketches for a cellist (2007)
    • Ent-Gegnung (Re-Tort) music for cello (2020)
  • Artur Schnabel (1882–1951)
    • Sonata (in four movements) (1931)
  • Alfred Schnittke
    • Klingende Buchstaben (Sounding Letters) (1988)
    • Madrigal in Memoriam Oleg Kagan (1990)
    • Improvisation (1993)
  • Franz Schubert
    • Erlkönig - Le Roi des Aulnes (The Erlking or Elf King; adapted in 1890 by Bernhard Cossmann
  • Gunther Schuller
    • Fantasy, Op. 19 (1960)
  • Laura Schwendinger
    • All the Pretty Horses (2009)
    • Primavera Trasformata(2020)
  • Salvatore Sciarrino
    • Due Studi (1947)
    • Ai Limiti Della Notte (1984)
  • Peter Sculthorpe
    • Requiem (1979)
    • Threnody (In memory of Stuart Challender) (1991)
    • Into the Dreaming (1993)
    • Tailitnama Song (1997)
  • Roger Sessions
    • Six Pieces (1966)
  • Rodion Shchedrin
    • Russian Tunes (Russkie Naigryshi), Op. 79 (1990)
  • Alexander Shchetynsky
    • Sonata (2001)
  • Bright Sheng
    • Diu Diu Dong (Seven Tunes Heard in China) (1995)
  • Makoto Shinohara
    • Evolution (1986–90)
  • Jean Sibelius
    • Theme and Variations in D minor (written in 1887, discovered in 1995)
  • Sergei Slonimsky
    • 3 Pieces for solo cello (1964)
  • Haskell Small
    • Suite
  • Dmitry Smirnov
    • Monogram, Op. 58A (1990)
    • Elegy in memory of Edison Denisov, Op. 97a (1997)
    • Family Portrait, Op. 108 (1998)
    • Postlude in memory of Alfred Schnittke, Op. 112A (2000)
    • Bagatelle, Op. 128A (2001)
    • Saga to S.A. Gubaidulina, Op. 130 (2001)
  • Naresh Sohal
    • Monody (1976)
    • Shades III
    • Shades IV (1983)
  • Giovanni Sollima
    • La luna (1986)
    • 6 Caprices (1987)
    • Segno (1992)
    • Anno uno (1993)
    • The Songlines (1993)
    • Lamentatio (1998)
    • Pasolini fragments (1998)
    • Alone (1999)
  • Halsey Stevens
    • Sonata (five movements - Introduction, Ciaccona, Scherzo, Notturno, Finale) (1958)
  • Peter Vukmirovic Stevens
    • August Ruins (2010)
    • Tempus Edax Rerum (2011)
    • Etude for Raising the Dead (2011)
    • Versatile Hammers (2011)
    • Thunder, Perfect Mind (2012)
  • Mark Summer
    • Julie-O
    • Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
    • Kablimba (all pizzicato)
  • Viktor Suslin
    • Chanson contre raison Sonata (1984)
    • Schatz-insel (1990)
  • Randall Svane
    • Suite No. 1 (1979)
    • Suite No. 2 (1982)
    • Suite No. 3 (1988)
  • Takehiko Sueoka
    • Cello Sonata Unaccompanied (1997)

T

  • Emil Tabakov
    • Bis (1982)
  • Josef Tal
    • Suite for cello (1937)
    • Sonata for cello (1937)
    • Treatise for cello (1973)
    • In Memoriam of a Dear Friend for cello (1985)
  • Giuseppe Tartini
    • L'Arte dell'Arco (The Art of the Bow) 50 variations on Corelli's Gavotte from Op.5, No.10 (1758) (transcribed by Paul Bazelaire)
  • John Tavener
    • Thrinos (1990)
    • Chant (1995)
  • Boris Tchaikovsky
    • Suite (in six movements) (1946)
    • Suite in five movements (1960)
  • Alexander Tcherepnin
    • Suite, Op. 76 (1946)
  • James Tenney
    • Cellogram for Joel Krosnick (1971)
  • Dimitri Terzakis
    • Omega 1 (1978)
    • Dialog der Seele mit ihrem Schatten (1991; for Siegfried Palm)
  • Augusta Read Thomas
    • Spring Song (1995)
  • Jukka Tiensuu
    • Balzo
  • Ton That Tiet
    • Bois terre
  • Boris Tishchenko
    • Sonata No. 1, Op. 18 (1960)
    • Sonata No. 2, Op. 76 (1979)
  • Ernst Toch
    • Impromptu in three movements, Op. 90c (1963)
    • Glosa (2004)
  • Javier Torres Maldonado
    • Tiento (2000; also version for cello and electronics, 2003)
  • Paul Tortelier
    • Suite in D minor (1944)
  • Donald Tovey
    • Solo Cello Sonata in D, Op. 50
  • Sulkhan Tsintsadze
    • Chonguri (Tchonguri) (1978)
    • Sonata (1975)

U

  • Chinary Ung
    • Kshe Buon (1981)

V

  • Fabio Vacchi
    • In alba mia, dir... (1995)
  • Johanna Varner
    • The Windmill, MCV 2001 (2019)
  • Pēteris Vasks
    • Gramata cellam (Das Buch) (1978)
  • Sándor Veress
    • Sonata (1935)
  • Carl Vine
    • Inner World (1994)
  • Param Vir
    • Flame (1997)
  • Giovanni Battista Vitali
    • Partite per il Violone (1680)
    • Partita sopra diverse Sonate
  • Antonio Vivaldi
    • Cello Sonatas RV 38-47 (c. 1720-1730)
  • Vladimir Vlasov
    • Ballade for solo cello
    • Improvisation for solo cello
  • Wladimir Vogel
    • Poeme (1974)

W

  • Wolfram Wagner
    • Sonata, Op. 31 (1990)
  • Gwyneth Walker
    • In Memoriam (1980)
  • William Walton
    • Passacaglia (1980)
  • Rodney Waschka II
    • Ravel Remembers Fascism (1991)
  • Graham Waterhouse
    • Three Pieces for Solo Cello, Op. 28 (1992)
    • Threnody (2002)
    • in nomine for cello solo (2013)
    • Variations for Cello Solo (2019)
  • Ben Weber
    • Dance, Op. 28 (1948)
    • Dance, Op. 31 (1949)
  • Mieczysław Weinberg (or Vainberg)
    • 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)
    • Twenty-four Preludes, Op. 100 (1968)
  • Egon Wellesz
    • Cello Sonata, Op. 31 (1920)
    • Suite op. 39 (1924)
  • Richard Wernick
    • Suite No. 1 (2003)
    • Suite No. 2 (2007)
  • David Wilde
    • The Cellist of Sarajevo - A Lament in Rondo Form, Op. 12
  • Adrian Williams
    • Solo Cello Sonata (1976–77)
  • John Williams
    • Three Pieces (2001)
  • Richard Edward Wilson
    • Lord Chesterfield to his Son (1987)
    • Music (1971)
  • Stefan Wolpe
    • Piece Alone (1966)
  • William Wordsworth
    • Sonata for Violoncello (1961)
  • Charles Wuorinen
    • Cello Variations I to Fred Sherry (1970)
    • Cello Variations II (1975)
    • Cello Variations III (1997)

X

  • Iannis Xenakis
    • Kottos (1977)
    • Nomos Alpha (1966)

Y

  • James Yannatos
    • Sonata
  • Yehuda Yannay
    • I can't fathom it... and projections (1993)
    • Tangoul Morṭii (Tango of Death) (1997)
  • Eugène Ysaÿe
    • Cello Sonata, Op. 28 (1924)
  • Isang Yun
    • Glissées (1970) for Siegfried Palm
    • Seven Etudes (1993)
  • Ludmilla Yurina
    • Irrlicht for solo cello (2000)
  • Iraida Yusupova
    • Dreams' Music for solo cello (1990)

Z

  • Edson Zampronha
    • Elegia and electroacoustics (2009)
    • Two Takes (2008)
    • Toccata (1989)
  • Bernd Alois Zimmermann
    • Sonata (1959–60)
    • Short Studies (4) (1970)
  • Sergei Zhukov
    • Sonata-Capriccio for solo cello (1980)
    • Paraphrase on van Eyck's poem De Tuinman en de Dood for solo cello (2003)
  • Vassily Zverev
    • Sonata-Fantasy for solo cello

See also

  • String instrument repertoire
  • List of double concertos for violin and cello
  • List of triple concertos for violin, cello, and piano
  • List of compositions for cello and piano
  • Cello sonata

References

External links

  • Repertoire
  • Finnish Composers
  • Bulgarian Music
  • Database of contemporary cello music
  • Music from cello2go site

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