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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.

A

B

  • Ennio Bolognini
    • Adagio an Allegro for solo cello
    • Fiesta Baska - Lamada Montanesa for solo cello
    • Seranata de Bolonini for solo cello
    • Seranata del Eco for solo cello
    • Serenata Del Gaucho for solo cello
    • Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Purcell
    • Cello's Prayer
  • Benjamin Boone
    • Buffing the Gut: A Jazz Etude for Cello Solo
  • Hans Bottermund - Janos Starker
    • Variations on a Theme by Paganini for unaccompanied cello)
  • Reiner Bredemeyer (1929-1995)
    • Solo 1 for cello solo (1973)
    • Solo 6 for cello solo (written for H.J. Scheitzbach) (1980)
  • Benjamin Britten
Suite for Cello solo no 1, Op. 72 (1964)
Suite for Cello solo no 2, Op. 80 (1967)
Suite for Cello solo no 3, Op. 87 (1972)

C

D

E

F

G

H

  • Alois Haba
    • Fantasy in quarter-tones for cello solo (1924)
  • Parashkev Hadzhiev
    • Haidushko Horo for solo cello (1997)
  • Daron Hagen
    • Suite for Solo Cello (1985)
    • Higher, Louder, Faster, an editorial etude (1987)

I

  • Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)
    • Etude-Caprice pour un tombeau de Chopin for solo cello (1949)
    • Ghirlarzana for solo cello (1950)
  • Yoshiro Irino
    • Three movements for cello solo (12 min) (1969)

J

  • David Johnstone
    • Fantasy on a theme of J.S.Bach (1999)
    • Tango Concierto (2001)
    • Virtuoso Concert Pieces for Solo Cello (15 Pieces) rev.2006

K

  • Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky
    • Etudes in Major and Minor for cello solo Op. 68(1961)
  • Mauricio Kagel
    • Unguis incarnatus est
    • Siegfriedp‘ for cello (1971)
  • Istvan Kardos
    • Capriccio for solo cello (1958)
  • Tommi Kärkkäinen
    • Variations for solo cello (1999)
  • Hugo Kauder
    • Suite for unaccompanied cello (1925
    • Second Suite for unaccompanied cello (1924)
  • Frederick Kaufman
    • Inner Sanctum for solo cello (10 min) (1999)
  • Jin Hi Kim
    • Kee Maek #4 for cello solo (9 min) (1995)
  • Leon Kirchner
    • For Cello Solo (1986) ([7])
  • Volker David Kirchner
    • Und Salomo sprach (4 min) (and Salomo spoke) for cello solo (1987)
    • Aus dem Buch der Konige 3 meditations for solo cello (13 min) (2000)
    • Threnos for solo cello (written for the Feuermann Competition 2006)
  • Aram Khachaturian
    • Sonata-Fantasy in C major for cello solo, Opus 104 (1974)
  • Adam Khudoyan
    • Sonata No. 1 for solo cello (1961)
    • Sonata No. 2 for solo cello (1984)
    • Sonata No. 3 for solo cello (1993)
  • Juliane Klein
    • Aus der Wand die Rinne 1 for cello solo (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
  • Zoltán Kodály
    • Cello Solo Sonata op. 8 (1915)
    • Capriccio for unaccompanied cello (1915)
  • Nikolai Korndorf
    • Passacaglia for solo cello (1997)
  • Irena Kosíková
    • Stopy for cello solo (2004)
  • Ernst Krenek
    • Suite for Cello Solo op. 84 (1942)
  • Hanna Kulenty
    • Still Life with a Cello for cello solo (1998)

L

M

Das Buch (The Book)
Capriccio for solo cello (5 min)
Lamento
Madrigal in Memoriam Oleg Kagen
Suite

N

O

P

1 in G major
2 in D minor
3 in E minor
4 in C minor
5 in A minor
6 in G minor
7 in A minor
8 in E flat major
9 in G major
10 in G minor
11 in C major
12 in A flat major
13 in B flat major
14 in E flat major
15 in D minor
16 in B minor
17 in E flat major
18 in C major
19 in E flat major
20 in D major
21 in C major
22 in F major
23 in E flat major
24 in A minor

R

S

  • Kaija Saariaho
    • Petals (1988)
    • Près (1992)
    • Spins & Spells for cello (1997)
    • Sept Papillons (2000)
  • Dimiter Sagaev
    • Fresco for solo cello (2002)
    • Nocturne fro solo cello (2001)
  • Aulis Sallinen
    • Elegy for Sebastian Knight for Solo Cello, Op. 10 (1964) (5')
    • Sonata for Solo Cello Op. 26 (1971) (12')
  • Ahmed Adnan Saygun
    • Partita for solo cello Op. 31 (1954)
  • Giacinto Scelsi
    • Triphon (1956)
    • Trilogie (1957/65)
    • Voyages (1985)
    • Maknongan (1976)
  • Gerhard Schedl
    • Aus Zwei Stücke aus der Schatz-Truhe (Written for Geringas) (3 min)
  • Peter Schickele (P. D. Q. Bach)
    • Vermillion Suite for solo cello (12 min) (1987)
    • Suite No. 1 for Cello All By Its Lonesome
    • Suite No. 2 for Cello All By Its Lonesome
  • Thomas Daniel Schlee
    • Three Signs Op. 53 for violoncello solo (2002)
  • Artur Schnabel (1882-1951)
    • Sonata for Solo Cello (in four movements) (25 min) (written for Piatigorsky) (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 for Violoncello solo
  • Gunther Schuller
    • Fantasy, Opus 19 (1960)
  • Salvatore Sciarrino
    • Due Studi for cello solo (1947)
    • Ai Limiti Della Notte for cello solo (1984)
  • Francesco Scipriani (1678-1753)
    • 12 Toccaten for cello solo
  • Peter Sculthorpe
    • Requiem for Cello Alone (1979)
    • Threnody for solo cello (In memory of Stuart Challender) (1991)
    • Into the Dreaming for cello alone (1993)
    • Tailitnama Song for cello solo (1997)
  • Anatolijus Senderovas
  • Roger Sessions
    • Six Pieces for Solo Cello (1966)
  • Bright Sheng
    • Diu Diu Dong (Seven Tunes Heard in China) (2 min) (1995)
  • Rodion Shchedrin (1932- )
    • Russian Tunes (Russkie Naigryshi) Op. 79 for cello solo (1990)
  • Makoto Shinohara
    • Evolution for cell solo (1986-90)
  • Jean Sibelius
    • Theme and Variations for Cello solo in d minor (12 min) (written in 1887) (discovered in 1995)
  • Paul Siskind
    • Three Epiphanies for cello solo (12 min) (1987)
  • Haskell Small
    • Suite for solo Cello
  • Dmitry Nikolayevich Smirnov
    • Monogram for solo cello Op. 58A (3 min) (1990)
    • Elegy in memory of Edison Denisov for solo cello Op. 97a (1997)
    • Family Portrait for solo cello Op. 108 (9 min) (1998)
    • Postlude in memory of Alfred Schnittke for solo cello Op. 112A (9 min) (2000)
    • Bagatelle for cello solo Op. 128A (2 min) (2001)
    • Saga to S.A. Gubaidulina for cello solo Op. 130 (7 min) (2001)
  • Naresh Sohal
    • Monody for solo cello (3 min) (1976)
    • Shades III for cello solo
    • Shades IV for cello solo (14 min) (1983)
  • Giovanni Sollima
    • La luna for solo cello (7 min) (1986)
    • 6 Caprices for solo cello (1987)
    • Segno for cello solo (6 min) (1992)
    • Anno uno for cello solo (8 min) (1993)
    • The Songlines for solo cello (1993)
    • Lamentatio for cello solo (5 min) (1998)
    • Pasolini fragments for cello (5 min) (1998)
    • Alone for solo cello (7 min) (1999)
  • Elizabeth Start
    • Union for solo cello (3 min) (2006)
  • Miloš Štědroň (*1942)
    • Dances of King Lear for cello solo (1995)
  • Halsey Stevens
    • Sonata for Solo Cello (five movements - Introduction, Ciaccona, Scherzo, Notturno, Finale) (dedicated to Gabor Rejto) (1958)
  • Nikolai Stoikov

Sonata for cello solo No. 1, Op. 39 (11 min) (1993)

  • Mark Summer
    • Julie-O
  • Viktor Suslin
    • Chanson contre raison Sonata for solo cello (13 min)(1984)
    • Schatz-insel for cello solo (3 min) (1990)
  • Robert Suter
    • Elegie for cello solo (11 min) (1969)

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U

V

W

X

Y

Z

  • Roger Zahab
    • Amnesia Kiss for cello solo (10 min) (1995)
    • An Opening Piece fro solo cello (2.5 min)
    • for Jim Hinkley for solo cello (1 min) (1989)
    • reaching after for solo cello (scordature) (9 min) (2003)
    • reMemoring Peace for solo cello (2 min) (1989)
  • Bernd Alois Zimmermann
    • Sonata for cello solo (1959-60)
    • Four short studies for cello solo (1970) ([11])

See also

External links

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