Cello sonata
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A cello sonata is usually a sonata written for cello
and piano
, though other instrumentations are used, such as solo cello. The most famous Romantic-era
cellos sonatas are those written by Johannes Brahms
and Ludwig van Beethoven
. Some of the earliest cello sonatas were written in the 18th century by Francesco Geminiani
and Antonio Vivaldi
.
(The following list contains cello sonatas with or without accompanying instruments. See the See also list for more comprehensive lists divided up into solo and accompanied works.)
Cello
The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
and piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
, though other instrumentations are used, such as solo cello. The most famous Romantic-era
Romantic music
Romantic music or music in the Romantic Period is a musicological and artistic term referring to a particular period, theory, compositional practice, and canon in Western music history, from 1810 to 1900....
cellos sonatas are those written by Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
and Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
. Some of the earliest cello sonatas were written in the 18th century by Francesco Geminiani
Francesco Geminiani
thumb|230px|Francesco Geminiani.Francesco Saverio Geminiani was an Italian violinist, composer, and music theorist.-Biography:...
and Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...
.
(The following list contains cello sonatas with or without accompanying instruments. See the See also list for more comprehensive lists divided up into solo and accompanied works.)
List of major cello sonatas
- Charles-Valentin AlkanCharles-Valentin AlkanCharles-Valentin Alkan was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day. His attachment to his Jewish origins is displayed both in his life and his work. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of six, earning many awards, and as an adult became a famous virtuoso...
- Sonate de Concert, Op. 47
- Samuel BarberSamuel BarberSamuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music...
- Cello Sonata in C minorCello Sonata (Barber)The Cello Sonata opus 6 by Samuel Barber is a sonata for cello and piano. It is in the key of C minor.It has three movements:#Allegro ma non troppo#Adagio#Allegro appassionato....
, Op. 6 (1932)
- Cello Sonata in C minor
- Ludwig van BeethovenLudwig van BeethovenLudwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
- Cello Sonata No. 1 in F major, Op. 5/1 (1796)
- Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 5/2 (1796)
- Cello Sonata No. 3 in A majorCello Sonata No. 3 (Beethoven)Ludwig van Beethoven's Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69 was writtenin 1808. It consists of three movements:# Allegro, ma non tanto# Scherzo# Adagio cantabile – Allegro vivacein contrast to the normal sonata form fast–slow–fast....
, Op. 69 (1808) - Cello Sonata No. 4 in C major, Op. 102/1 (1815)
- Cello Sonata No. 5 in D major, Op. 102/2 (1815)
- Easley Blackwood, Jr.
- Cello Sonata, Op. 31
- Johannes BrahmsJohannes BrahmsJohannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
- Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minorCello Sonata No. 1 (Brahms)The Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38, actually entitled "Sonate für Klavier und Violoncello", was written by Johannes Brahms in 1862–5.-Background:...
, Op. 38 (1862–5) - Cello Sonata No. 2 in F majorCello Sonata No. 2 (Brahms)The Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99 was written by Johannes Brahms in 1886, more than twenty years after completing his first cello sonata...
, Op. 99 (1886) - Violin Sonata No. 1, "Rain"Violin Sonata No. 1 (Brahms)The Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78, for violin and piano was composed by Johannes Brahms during the summers of 1878 and 1879 in Pörtschach am Wörthersee. It was first performed on 8 November 1879 in Bonn. Each of three movements of this sonata shares common motivic ideas or thematic...
, Op. 78 (1878–9), transcribed for cello
- Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor
- Frank BridgeFrank BridgeFrank Bridge was an English composer and violist.-Life:Bridge was born in Brighton and studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1899 to 1903 under Charles Villiers Stanford and others...
- Cello sonata in D minor, H. (Hindmarsh) 125 (1913-7)
- Benjamin BrittenBenjamin BrittenEdward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
- Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 65 (1961)
- Elliott CarterElliott CarterElliott Cook Carter, Jr. is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music...
- Cello Sonata (1948)
- Frédéric ChopinFrédéric ChopinFrédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
- Cello Sonata in G minorCello Sonata (Chopin)Frédéric Chopin wrote his Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65 in 1846. It is one of only nine works of Chopin published during his lifetime that were written for instruments other than piano . Chopin composed four sonatas, the others being all piano sonatas...
, Op. 65 (1845–6)
- Cello Sonata in G minor
- Claude DebussyClaude DebussyClaude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
- Cello Sonata in D minorCello Sonata (Debussy)The Cello Sonata is a late work by the French composer Claude Debussy. It was the first of a planned series of 'Six sonates pour divers instruments', however Debussy only completed two others, the sonata for violin and the sonata for flute, viola and harp. The sonata for cello and piano was written...
(1915)
- Cello Sonata in D minor
- Frederick DeliusFrederick DeliusFrederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH was an English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family of German extraction, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce...
- Cello Sonata (1916)
- Felix DraesekeFelix DraesekeFelix August Bernhard Draeseke was a composer of the "New German School" admiring Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and much vocal and chamber music.-Life:Felix Draeseke was born in the Franconian ducal town of...
- Cello Sonata in D major, Op. 51 (1890)
- Antonín DvořákAntonín DvorákAntonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
- Cello Sonata in F major (1865) lost (cello part extant)
- George EnescuGeorge EnescuGeorge Enescu was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher.-Biography:Enescu was born in the village of Liveni , Dorohoi County at the time, today Botoşani County. He showed musical talent from early in his childhood. A child prodigy, Enescu created his first musical...
- Cello Sonata in F minor, Op. 26/1 (1898)
- Cello sonata in C major, Op. 26/2 (1935)
- Gabriel FauréGabriel FauréGabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...
- Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 109 (1917)
- Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 117 (1921)
- César FranckCésar FranckCésar-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....
- Violin Sonata in A majorViolin Sonata (Franck)The Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano by César Franck is one of his best known compositions, and considered one of the finest sonatas for violin and piano ever written...
, transcribed with the composer's approval for cello by Jules DelsartJules DelsartJules Delsart was a 19th-century French cellist and teacher. He is best known for his arrangement for cello and piano of César Franck's Violin Sonata in A major...
- Violin Sonata in A major
- Peter Racine FrickerPeter Racine FrickerPeter Racine Fricker was an English composer who lived in the United States for the last thirty years of his life....
- Cello Sonata (1956)
- Edvard GriegEdvard GriegEdvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in...
- Cello Sonata in A minorCello Sonata (Grieg)Edvard Grieg composed the Cello Sonata in A minor, Op. 36, his largest chamber work, in 1883 marking a return to composition following a period when the composer had been pre-occupied with his conducting duties at the Bergen Symphony Orchestra as well as illness. Grieg dedicated the piece to his...
, Op. 36 (1883)
- Cello Sonata in A minor
- Paul HindemithPaul HindemithPaul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child...
- Cello Sonata, Op. 11/3 (1919)
- Sonata for Cello Solo, Op. 25/3 (1923)
- Cello Sonata (1948)
- Arthur HoneggerArthur HoneggerArthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...
- Cello Sonata in D minor, H.32 (1920)
- Bertold HummelBertold HummelBertold Hummel was a German composer of modern classical music.- Life :Bertold Hummel was born November 27, 1925 in Hüfingen . He studied at the Academy of Music in Freiburg from 1947 to 1954, taking composition with Harald Genzmer, and cello with Atis Teichmanis...
- Cello Sonata in F, Op. 2 (1950)
- Sonata brevis, Op. 11a (1955)
- John IrelandJohn Ireland (composer)John Nicholson Ireland was an English composer.- Life :John Ireland was born in Bowdon, near Altrincham, Manchester, into a family of Scottish descent and some cultural distinction. His father, Alexander Ireland, a publisher and newspaper proprietor, was aged 70 at John's birth...
- Cello Sonata (1923)
- Dmitry Kabalevsky
- Cello Sonata in B flat major, Op. 71 (1962)
- Zoltán KodályZoltán KodályZoltán Kodály was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is best known internationally as the creator of the Kodály Method.-Life:Born in Kecskemét, Kodály learned to play the violin as a child....
- Cello Sonata, Op. 4 (1907)
- Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8 (1915)
- Cello Sonatine (1923)
- Lowell LiebermannLowell LiebermannLowell Liebermann is an American composer, pianist and conductor.At the age of sixteen, Liebermann performed at Carnegie Hall, playing his Piano Sonata, op. 1...
- Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. 3 (1978)
- Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 61 (1998)
- Cello Sonata No. 3, Op. 90 (2005)
- Cello Sonata No. 4, Op. 108 (2008)
- György LigetiGyörgy LigetiGyörgy Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...
- Sonata for Solo Cello
- Felix MendelssohnFelix MendelssohnJakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
- Cello Sonata No. 1 in B-flat majorCello Sonata No. 1 (Mendelssohn)Felix Mendelssohn's Cello Sonata No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 45 was composed in October 1838. The work has three movements:# Allegro vivace# Andante# Allegro assaiA typical performance lasts 25 minutes....
, Op. 45 (1838) - Cello Sonata No. 2 in D majorCello Sonata No. 2 (Mendelssohn)Felix Mendelssohn's Cello Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 58 was composed in June 1843. The work, which was dedicated to the Russian/Polish cellist Count Mateusz Wielhorski, has four movements:# Allegro assai vivace# Allegretto scherzando# Adagio...
, Op. 58 (1842–3) (http://www.classical.net/music/composer/works/mendelssohn/opus.html)
- Cello Sonata No. 1 in B-flat major
- E.J. MoeranErnest John MoeranErnest John Moeran was an English composer who had strong associations with Ireland .-Early life:...
- Cello Sonata (1947)
- Francis PoulencFrancis PoulencFrancis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and a member of the French group Les six. He composed solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, choral music, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music...
- Cello Sonata, Op. 143Cello Sonata (Poulenc)Francis Poulenc completed his Sonate pour violoncelle et piano, Op. 143, in 1948. He first sketched it in 1940. It was dedicated to the French cellist Pierre Fournier, who had helped with the technical aspects of the cello part, as the composer was unfamiliar with the instrument.The sonata is in...
(1948)
- Cello Sonata, Op. 143
- Sergei ProkofievSergei ProkofievSergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
- Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 119 (1949)
- Sonata for Solo Cello in C minor, Op. 134 (unfinished)
- Sergei RachmaninoffSergei RachmaninoffSergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
- Cello Sonata in G minorCello Sonata (Rachmaninoff)Sergei Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19, a sonata for cello and piano, was completed in November 1901 and published a year later. As typical of sonatas in the Romantic period, it has four movements. Rachmaninoff disliked calling it a cello sonata because he thought the two instruments...
, Op. 19 (1901)
- Cello Sonata in G minor
- Alan RawsthorneAlan RawsthorneAlan Rawsthorne was a British composer. He was born in Haslingden, Lancashire, and is buried in Thaxted churchyard in Essex.-Career:...
- Cello Sonata (1949)
- Camille Saint-SaënsCamille Saint-SaënsCharles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
- Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. 32
- Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 123
- Alfred SchnittkeAlfred SchnittkeAlfred Schnittke ; November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a Russian and Soviet composer. Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich. He developed a polystylistic technique in works such as the epic First Symphony and First Concerto Grosso...
- Cello Sonata No.1 (1978)
- Cello Sonata No.2 (1993/4)
- Franz SchubertFranz SchubertFranz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
- Sonata for Arpeggione in A minorArpeggione SonataThe Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano, D. 821, was written by Franz Schubert in Vienna in November 1824. The sonata is the only substantial composition for the arpeggione which remains extant today...
, D.821 is often transcribed for cello.
- Sonata for Arpeggione in A minor
- Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri ShostakovichDmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
- Cello Sonata in D minorCello Sonata (Shostakovich)The Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, Op. 40, was one of Shostakovich's early works, composed in 1934 just prior to his censure by Soviet authorities of his music, notably the opera Lady Macbeth of Mtensk, that was deemed too bourgeois and decadent for the Soviet people...
, Op. 40 (1934)
- Cello Sonata in D minor
- Charles Villiers StanfordCharles Villiers StanfordSir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer who was particularly notable for his choral music. He was professor at the Royal College of Music and University of Cambridge.- Life :...
- Cello Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 9 (1878)
- Cello Sonata No. 2 on D minor, Op. 39 (1893)
- Richard StraussRichard StraussRichard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...
- Sonata in F major for cello and piano (1882)
- Antonio VivaldiAntonio VivaldiAntonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...
- At least 9 cello sonatas
- Kurt WeillKurt WeillKurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...
- Sonata for Cello and Piano (1920)
Chronology of major cello sonatas
The following list (inevitably incomplete) tries to place the major sonatas and equivalent works for cello and piano or cello solo in chronological order of completion. It will be susceptible to uncertainty of dates, and whether original or revised versions are definitive.| Year | Composer | Work | Key | Opus |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1717-23 | Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity... |
6 Unaccompanied Cello Suites | G, D minor, C E, C minor & D |
|
| early 18th century - 1739 | Benedetto Marcello Benedetto Marcello Benedetto Marcello was a Venetian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher.-Life:... |
At least 12 Cello Sonatas | ||
| early 18th century - 1741 | Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe... |
At least 9 Cello Sonatas | ||
| 1760s - 1805 | Luigi Boccherini Luigi Boccherini Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is most widely known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No... |
At least 19 Cello Sonatas | ||
| 1796 | Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of... |
Cello Sonata No. 1 | F major | Op. 5, No. 1 |
| 1796 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Cello Sonata No. 2 | G minor | Op. 5, No. 2 |
| 1807-8 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Cello Sonata No. 3 | A major | Op. 69 |
| 1815 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Cello Sonata No. 4 | C major | Op. 102, No. 1 |
| 1815 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Cello Sonata No. 5 | D major | Op. 102, No. 2 |
| 1838 | Felix Mendelssohn Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text... |
Cello Sonata No. 1 | B major | Op. 45 |
| 1842-3 | Felix Mendelssohn | Cello Sonata No. 2 | D major | Op. 58 |
| 1846 | Frédéric Chopin Frédéric Chopin Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano".... |
Cello Sonata | G minor | Op. 65 |
| 1856 | Édouard Lalo Édouard Lalo Édouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo was a French composer.-Biography:Lalo was born in Lille , in northernmost France. He attended that city's music conservatory in his youth. Then, beginning at age 16, Lalo studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Berlioz's old enemy François Antoine Habeneck... |
Cello Sonata | A minor | |
| 1862-5 | Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene... |
Cello Sonata No. 1 | E minor | Op. 38 |
| 1872-3 | Camille Saint-Saëns Camille Saint-Saëns Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony... |
Cello Sonata No. 1 | C minor | Op. 32 |
| 1883 | Edvard Grieg Edvard Grieg Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in... |
Cello Sonata | A minor | Op. 36 |
| 1883 | Richard Strauss Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till... |
Cello Sonata | F major | Op. 6 |
| 1886 | Johannes Brahms | Cello Sonata No. 2 | F major | Op. 99 |
| 1892 | Max Reger Max Reger Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher.-Life:... |
Cello Sonata No. 1 | F minor | Op. 5 |
| 1898 | Max Reger | Cello Sonata No. 2 | G minor | Op. 28 |
| 1899 | Ernő Dohnányi Erno Dohnányi Ernő Dohnányi was a Hungarian conductor, composer, and pianist. He used the German form of his name Ernst von Dohnányi for most of his published compositions.... |
Cello Sonata | B major | Op. 8 |
| 1901 | Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music... |
Cello Sonata | G minor | Op. 19 |
| 1904 | Max Reger | Cello Sonata No. 3 | F major | Op. 78 |
| 1905 | Camille Saint-Saëns | Cello Sonata No. 2 | F major | Op. 123 |
| 1907 | Zoltán Kodály Zoltán Kodály Zoltán Kodály was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is best known internationally as the creator of the Kodály Method.-Life:Born in Kecskemét, Kodály learned to play the violin as a child.... |
Cello Sonata | Op. 4 | |
| 1907 | Charles-Marie Widor Charles-Marie Widor Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor was a French organist, composer and teacher.-Life:Widor was born in Lyon, to a family of organ builders, and initially studied music there with his father, François-Charles Widor, titular organist of Saint-François-de-Sales from 1838 to 1889... |
Cello Sonata | A major | Op. 80 |
| 1910 | Max Reger | Cello Sonata No. 4 | A minor | Op. 116 |
| 1910-11 | Albéric Magnard Albéric Magnard Lucien Denis Gabriel Albéric Magnard was a French composer, sometimes referred to as the "French Bruckner", though there are significant differences between the two composers... |
Cello Sonata | A major | Op. 20 |
| 1911 | Nikolai Myaskovsky Nikolai Myaskovsky Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of the Soviet symphony".-Early years and first important works:... |
Cello Sonata No. 1 | D major | Op. 12 |
| 1912 | Max Reger | Cello Suites 1, 2 and 3 | G, D minor & A minor |
Op. 131 |
| 1915 | Claude Debussy Claude Debussy Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions... |
Cello Sonata | D minor | L. 135 |
| 1915 | Zoltán Kodály | Solo Cello Sonata | Op. 8 | |
| 1916 | Frederick Delius Frederick Delius Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH was an English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family of German extraction, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce... |
Cello Sonata | D minor | |
| 1913-17 | Frank Bridge Frank Bridge Frank Bridge was an English composer and violist.-Life:Bridge was born in Brighton and studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1899 to 1903 under Charles Villiers Stanford and others... |
Cello Sonata | D minor | |
| 1917 | Gabriel Fauré Gabriel Fauré Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers... |
Cello Sonata No. 1 | D minor | Op. 109 |
| 1921 | Gabriel Fauré | Cello Sonata No. 2 | G minor | Op. 117 |
| 1923 | Paul Hindemith Paul Hindemith Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child... |
Solo Sonata for Cello | Op. 25 No. 3 | |
| 1923 | John Ireland John Ireland (composer) John Nicholson Ireland was an English composer.- Life :John Ireland was born in Bowdon, near Altrincham, Manchester, into a family of Scottish descent and some cultural distinction. His father, Alexander Ireland, a publisher and newspaper proprietor, was aged 70 at John's birth... |
Cello Sonata | G minor | |
| 1929 | Béla Bartók Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer... |
Rhapsody for Cello and Piano | Sz 87 | |
| 1932 | Samuel Barber Samuel Barber Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music... |
Cello Sonata | C minor | Op. 6 |
| 1932-33 | Igor Stravinsky Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor.... |
Suite Italienne for cello and piano | ||
| 1934 | Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century.... |
Cello Sonata | D minor | Op. 40 |
| 1938 | Nikolai Myaskovsky Nikolai Myaskovsky Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of the Soviet symphony".-Early years and first important works:... |
Cello Sonata No. 2 | Op. 81 | |
| 1939 | Bohuslav Martinů Bohuslav Martinu Bohuslav Martinů was a prolific Czech composer of modern classical music. He was of Czech and Rumanian ancestry. Martinů wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Martinů became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic... |
Cello Sonata No. 1 | ||
| 1941 | Bohuslav Martinů | Cello Sonata No. 2 | ||
| 1948 | Francis Poulenc Francis Poulenc Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and a member of the French group Les six. He composed solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, choral music, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music... |
Cello Sonata | Op 143 | |
| 1949 | Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century... |
Cello Sonata | C major | Op. 119 |
| 1949 | Alan Rawsthorne Alan Rawsthorne Alan Rawsthorne was a British composer. He was born in Haslingden, Lancashire, and is buried in Thaxted churchyard in Essex.-Career:... |
Cello Sonata | ||
| 1952 | Bohuslav Martinů | Cello Sonata No. 3 | ||
| 1956-57 | Ernest Bloch Ernest Bloch Ernest Bloch was a Swiss-born American composer.-Life:Bloch was born in Geneva and began playing the violin at age 9. He began composing soon afterwards. He studied music at the conservatory in Brussels, where his teachers included the celebrated Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe... |
Cello Suites 1, 2 and 3 | ||
| 1961 | Benjamin Britten Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to... |
Cello Sonata | C major | |
| 1962 | Dmitry Kabalevsky | Cello Sonata | B major | Op. 71 |
| 1964 | Benjamin Britten | Suite for Cello Solo No. 1 | G major | Op. 72 |
| 1966 | Karen Khachaturian Karen Khachaturian Karen Surenovich Khachaturian, was a Soviet and Russian composer of Armenian ethnicity and the nephew of composer Aram Khachaturian.Khachaturian was born in Moscow, the son of Suren Khachaturian, a theatrical director... |
Cello Sonata | ||
| 1967 | Benjamin Britten | Suite for Cello Solo No. 2 | D major | Op. 80 |
| 1971 | Benjamin Britten | Suite for Cello Solo No. 3 | Op. 87 | |
| 1978 | Alfred Schnittke Alfred Schnittke Alfred Schnittke ; November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a Russian and Soviet composer. Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich. He developed a polystylistic technique in works such as the epic First Symphony and First Concerto Grosso... |
Cello Sonata |
See also
- CelloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
- Bassoon sonataBassoon sonataA bassoon sonata is a sonata for bassoon, often with piano accompaniment. Sonatas written for bassoon were relatively uncommon until the second half of the twentieth century. Occasionally, sonatas written for bassoon can also be performed on cello...
- Clarinet sonataClarinet SonataA clarinet sonata is piece of music in sonata form for clarinet, often with piano accompaniment.The Clarinet Sonatas by Brahms are of special significance to the clarinet repertoire...
- Flute sonataFlute sonataA flute sonata is a sonata usually for flute and piano, though occasionally other accompanying instruments may be used. Flute sonatas in the Baroque period were very often accompanied in the form of basso continuo.-List of Flute Sonatas:*George Antheil...
- List of compositions for cello and piano
- List of solo cello pieces
- Piano sonataPiano sonataA piano sonata is a sonata written for a solo piano. Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movements, although some piano sonatas have been written with a single movement , two movements , five or even more movements...
- Viola sonataViola sonataThe viola sonata is a sonata for viola, sometimes with other instruments, usually piano. The earliest viola sonatas are difficult to date for a number of reasons:...
- Violin sonataViolin sonataA violin sonata is a musical composition for violin, which is nearly always accompanied by a piano or other keyboard instrument, or by figured bass in the Baroque period.-A:*Ella Adayevskaya**Sonata Greca for Violin or Clarinet and Piano...
External links
- Complete Scores of Many Cello Sonatas
- Repertoire for Solo Cello
- Some Composers of Cello Works Dates need to be double-checked against other sources as they do not always agree.