List of compositions for cello and orchestra
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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 orchestra
Orchestra
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Concerto
A concerto is a musical work usually composed in three parts or movements, in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra.The etymology is uncertain, but the word seems to have originated from the conjunction of the two Latin words...

, cello
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 cello concerto for discussion of typical forms and topics.

Also see the List of solo cello pieces and List of compositions for cello and piano.

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  • Samuel Adler
    Samuel Adler (composer)
    Samuel Hans Adler is an American composer and conductor.-Biography:Adler was born to a Jewish family in Mannheim, Germany, the son of Hugo Chaim Adler, a cantor and composer, and Selma Adler. The family fled to the United States in 1939, where Hugo became the cantor of Temple Emanuel in...

     (*1928-)
    • Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1995) (24 min)

  • Eugen d'Albert
    Eugen d'Albert
    Eugen Francis Charles d'Albert was a Scottish-born German pianist and composer.Educated in Britain, d'Albert showed early musical talent and, at the age of seventeen, he won a scholarship to study in Austria...

    • Cello Concerto in C, Op.
      Opus number
      An Opus number , pl. opera and opuses, abbreviated, sing. Op. and pl. Opp. refers to a number generally assigned by composers to an individual composition or set of compositions on publication, to help identify their works...

       20 (1899)
  • Stephen Albert
    Stephen Albert
    Stephen Albert was an American composer.-Biography:Born in New York City, Albert began his musical training on the piano, French horn, and trumpet as a youngster. He first studied composition at the age of 15 with Elie Siegmeister, and enrolled two years later at the Eastman School of Music, where...

    • Cello Concerto
  • Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
    Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
    Franghiz Ali-Zadeh is an Azerbaijani composer and pianist, currently living in Germany. She is best known for her works which combine the musical tradition of the Azerbaijani mugam and 20th century Western compositional techniques, especially those of Arnold Schönberg and Gara Garayev...

    • Concerto for cello and orchestra (2000–2001)
  • Tanya Anisimova
    Tanya Anisimova
    Tanya Anisimova is a Russian cellist.Tanya Anisimova was born in the Chechen city of Grozny into a family of scientists : her father Dr. Mikhail Anisimov is a well-known physicist. Her mother was a chemist and an accomplished piano player and a singer. She died in 1981...

    • Adonai for Solo Cello and String Orchestra (2006)
    • Quintet Concerto for Solo Cello and String Quintet (2005)
  • Alexander Arutiunian
    Alexander Arutiunian
    Alexander Grigorevich Arutiunian , also known as Arutunian, Arutyunyan, Arutjunjan or Harutiunian Alexander Grigorevich Arutiunian (Arm. Ալեքսանդր Գրիգորի Հարությունյան), also known as Arutunian, Arutyunyan, Arutjunjan or Harutiunian Alexander Grigorevich Arutiunian (Arm. Ալեքսանդր Գրիգորի...

    • Concertino for cello and orchestra (1971)
    • Poem for cello and orchestra (1974)
  • Kurt Atterberg
    Kurt Atterberg
    Kurt Magnus Atterberg was a Swedish composer. He is best known for his symphonies, operas and ballets. Atterberg once said that: "The Russians, Brahms, Reger were my ideals." His music combines their influences with Swedish folk tunes.-Biography:Atterberg was born in Gothenburg as the son of the...

    • Cello Concerto in C minor, Op. 21 (1922)
  • Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber
    Daniel Auber
    Daniel François Esprit Auber was a French composer.-Biography:The son of a Paris print-seller, Auber was born in Caen in Normandy. Though his father expected him to continue in the print-selling business, he also allowed his son to learn how to play several musical instruments...

    • Concerto in A

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  • Arno Babajanian
    Arno Babajanian
    Arno Harutyuni Babajanian was a Soviet Armenian composer and pianist, People's Artist of the Armenian SSR and Soviet Union . He was a laureate of two Stalin State Prizes of the USSR and two Armenian SSR State Prizes ....

    • Cello Concerto
  • Grażyna Bacewicz
    Grazyna Bacewicz
    Grażyna Bacewicz was a Polish composer and violinist. She is only the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Maria Szymanowska in the early 19th century.- Life :Bacewicz was born in Łódź...

    • Cello Concerto No. 1 (1951)
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 (1963)
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    right|250pxCarl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach...

    • Cello Concerto in A minor
    • Cello Concerto in B-flat major
    • Cello Concerto in A major
  • Johann Christian Bach
    Johann Christian Bach
    Johann Christian Bach was a composer of the Classical era, the eleventh and youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is sometimes referred to as 'the London Bach' or 'the English Bach', due to his time spent living in the British capital...

    • Concerto in C Minor (Casadesus forgery
      Henri Casadesus
      Henri Casadesus was a violist and music publisher. He was the brother of Marius Casadesus, uncle of the famous pianist Robert Casadesus, and granduncle of Jean Casadesus....

      )
  • Henk Badings
    Henk Badings
    Henk Badings was a Dutch composer.Born in Bandung, Java, Dutch East Indies, as the son of Herman Louis Johan Badings, an officer in the Dutch East Indies army, Badings became an orphan at an early age...

    • Cello Concerto No. 1 (1930)
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 (1985)
  • David N. Baker
    • Concerto for Cello and Chamber Orchestra (1975) (Commissioned by Janos Starker)
    • Concerto for Cello and Jazz Band (1987) (Commissioned by Ed Laut)
  • Leonardo Balada
    Leonardo Balada
    Leonardo Balada , is a Catalan American composer, now teaching and composing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.-Life:...

    • Cello Concerto No. 1
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 New Orleans
  • 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 Concerto
      Cello Concerto (Barber)
      Samuel Barber's Cello Concerto in A minor , completed on 22 November 1945, was the second of his three concertos . Barber was commissioned to write his concerto for Raya Garbousova, an upstart Russian cellist, by Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra...

       in A minor, Op. 22 (1945)
  • Arnold Bax
    Arnold Bax
    Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO was an English composer and poet. His musical style blended elements of romanticism and impressionism, often with influences from Irish literature and landscape. His orchestral scores are noted for their complexity and colourful instrumentation...

    • Cello Concerto in G minor (1932)
  • Irina Belova
    • Winter Fantasy for cello and chamber orchestra (2004)
  • Paul Ben-Haim
    Paul Ben-Haim
    Paul Ben-Haim was an Israeli composer. Born Paul Frankenburger in Munich, Germany, he studied composition with Friedrich Klose and he was assistant conductor to Bruno Walter and Hans Knappertsbusch from 1920 to 1924...

    • Concerto
  • Leonard Bernstein
    Leonard Bernstein
    Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...

    • Three Meditations from Mass for cello and orchestra (1977)
  • Boris Blacher
  • Arthur Bliss
    Arthur Bliss
    ‎Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, CH, KCVO was an English composer and conductor.Bliss's musical training was cut short by the First World War, in which he served with distinction in the army...

    • Cello Concerto F 107 (1970)
  • 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...

    • Schelomo
      Schelomo
      Schelomo is a cello concerto written by Ernest Bloch, first published in 1916 and receiving its first premiere on May 3, 1917 in Carnegie Hall, New York City. This Rhapsodie hébraïque pour violoncelle et grand orchestre was completed during Bloch's "Jewish Cycle," which lasted from 1912 to 1926...

      , Rhapsodie Hébraïque for cello solo and large orchestra (1916)
  • 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...

    • Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, G. 477
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major, G. 479
    • Cello Concerto No. 3 in G major, G. 480
    • Cello Concerto No. 4 in C major, G. 481
    • Cello Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, G. 474
    • Cello Concerto No. 6 in A major, G 475
    • Cello Concerto No. 7 in D major, G. 476
    • Cello Concerto No. 8 in D major, G. 478
    • Cello Concerto No. 9
      Cello Concerto No. 9 (Boccherini)
      Luigi Boccherini's Cello Concerto No. 9 in B flat Major, G.482 was written in either the late 1760s or early 1770s. Boccherini, a talented cellist, composed twelve concertos for his instrument...

       in B-flat major, G. 482
    • Cello Concerto in B flat major (arr. F. Grutzmacher)
    • Cello Concerto No. 10 in D major, G. 483
    • Cello Concerto No. 11 in C major, G. 573
    • Cello Concerto No. 12 in E flat major
  • Corentin Boissier
    • Strogoff Concerto for cello and orchestra in C minor (2010)
  • Sergei Bortkiewicz
    Sergei Bortkiewicz
    Sergei Bortkiewicz was a Ukrainian-born Russian Romantic composer and pianist.-Early life:Sergei Eduardovich Bortkiewicz was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine on 28 February 1877 in Polish noble family and spent most of his childhood on the family estate of Artëmovka, near Kharkiv...

  • Henriëtte Bosmans
    Henriëtte Bosmans
    Henriëtte Hilda Bosmans was a Dutch composer.Bosmans was born in Amsterdam, the daughter of Henri Bosmans, principal cellist of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the pianist Sara Benedicts, piano teacher at the Amsterdam Conservatory. Her father died when she was 6 months old...

    • Cello Concerto No.1 (1922)
    • Cello Concerto No.2 (1924)
    • Poème (1926)
  • Hendrik Bouman
    Hendrik Bouman
    Hendrik "Henk" Bouman is a Dutch harpsichordist, fortepianist, conductor and composer of music written in the baroque and classical idioms of the 17th & 18th Century.- Biography :...

  • Havergal Brian
    Havergal Brian
    Havergal Brian , was a British classical composer.Brian acquired a legendary status at the time of his rediscovery in the 1950s and 1960s for the many symphonies he had managed to write. By the end of his life he had completed 32, an unusually large number for any composer since Haydn or Mozart...

    • Cello Concerto in E-flat (1964)
  • 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 Symphony, Op. 68 (1963)
  • Max Bruch
    Max Bruch
    Max Christian Friedrich Bruch , also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic composer and conductor who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin repertoire.-Life:Bruch was born in Cologne, Rhine Province, where he...

    • Kol Nidrei, Op. 47, for Cello and Orchestra
    • Adagio on Celtic Themes, Op. 56, for Cello and Orchestra
  • Fritz Brun
    Fritz Brun
    Fritz Brun was a Swiss conductor and composer of classical music.Brun was born in Lucerne. He was a student of Franz Wüllner at the conservatory at Köln, and studied piano and theory there until 1902. The following year he became a piano teacher at the music school in Bern...

    • Cello Concerto (1947)
  • Gavin Bryars
    Gavin Bryars
    Richard Gavin Bryars is an English composer and double bassist. He has been active in, or has produced works in, a variety of styles of music, including jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, experimental music, avant-garde and neoclassicism.-Early life and career:Born in Goole, East...

    • Cello Concerto (1995)

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  • André Caplet
    André Caplet
    André Caplet was a French composer and conductor now known primarily through his orchestrations of works by Claude Debussy.-Biography:...

    • Epiphanie for cello and orchestra (1923)
  • David Carlson
    David Carlson
    David Carlson American composer.Carlson studied theory and composition at the Los Angeles High School of the Arts and with Leonard Stein at the California Institute of the Arts...

    • Cello Concerto No. 1 (1979) (Carl Fischer Music)
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 for cello and 15 strings (1997) (Carl Fischer Music)
  • Elliott Carter
    Elliott Carter
    Elliott 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 Concerto
  • Alfredo Casella
    Alfredo Casella
    Alfredo Casella was an Italian composer, pianist and conductor.- Life and career :Casella was born in Turin; his family included many musicians; his grandfather, a friend of Paganini's, was first cello in the San Carlo Theatre in Lisbon and eventually was soloist in the Royal Chapel in Turin...

  • John Casken
    John Casken
    John Casken is an English composer, born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England.Casken read music at the University of Birmingham, studying composition and contemporary music with John Joubert and Peter Dickinson. He then went on to study in Poland with Andrzej Dobrowolski on a Polish government...

    • Cello Concerto (1991)
  • Gaspar Cassadó
    Gaspar Cassadó
    Gaspar Cassadó i Moreu was a Spanish cellist and composer of the early 20th century. He was born in Barcelona to a church musician father and began taking cello lessons at age seven. When he was nine, he played in a recital where Pablo Casals was in the audience; Casals immediately offered to...

    • Cello Concerto in D minor (1926)
      Cello Concerto in D Minor (Cassado)
      Cello Concerto - This piece, like the Suite for Cello Solo, has folk music elements: Spanish, Oriental, and Impressionistic. Gaspar Cassadó studied composition with Maurice Ravel. So it is not surprising when a Ravelian "carnival music" is heard in the second theme of the first movement. The...

  • Joseph Castaldo
    Joseph Castaldo
    Joseph Castaldo was an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music....

    • Cello Concerto
  • Yi Chen
    Chen Yi (composer)
    Chen Yi is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music. She was the first Chinese woman to receive a Master of Arts in music composition from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She is also a violinist....

    • Eleanor's Gift concerto for cello and orchestra
  • Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Giovanni Battista Cirri
    Giovanni Battista Cirri was an Italian cellist and composer in the 18th century.-Biography:Cirri was born in Forlì . He had his first musical training with his brother Ignazio and was for a time organist at Forlì Cathedral...

    • Six cello concertos (Op.14 Nos. 1-6)

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  • Karl Davydov
    • Cello Concerto No. 1 in B minor, Op. 5 (1859)
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 in A minor, Op. 14 (1863)
    • Cello Concerto No. 3 in D, Op. 18 (1868)
    • Cello Concerto No. 4 in E minor, Op. 31 (1878)
  • 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...

  • Edison Denisov
    Edison Denisov
    Edison Vasilievich Denisov was a Russian composer of so called "Underground" — "Anti-Collectivist", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division in the Soviet music.-Biography:...

    • Cello Concerto, Op. 44 (1972)
    • Variations on Haydn's Canon "Death is a Long Sleep" for cello and orchestra (1982)
  • Frédéric Devreese
    Frédéric Devreese
    Frédéric Devreese is a Dutch-born Belgian composer of mostly orchestral, chamber and piano works that have been performed throughout the world; he is also active as a conductor....

    • Concertino for cello, bandoneón and string orchestra (1998)
    • Concerto for cello and orchestra (1999)
  • Godfried Devreese
    • Concertino for cello and orchestra (1930)
  • David Diamond
    David Diamond (composer)
    David Leo Diamond was an American composer of classical music.-Life and career:He was born in Rochester, New York and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music under Bernard Rogers, also receiving lessons from Roger Sessions in New York City and Nadia Boulanger in...

    • Cello Concerto (1938)
    • Kaddish for cello and orchestra (1987)
  • Albert Dietrich
    Albert Dietrich
    Albert Hermann Dietrich , was a German composer and conductor, remembered less for his own achievements than for his friendship with Johannes Brahms.Dietrich was born at Golk, near Meissen...

    • Cello Concerto in G minor, Op. 32
  • Georgi Dmitriev
    • Dona Nobis Pacem for cello and orchestra (1985)
  • Ernst von 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....

    • Concertpiece, Op. 12
  • Cornelis Dopper
    Cornelis Dopper
    Cornelis 'Kees' Dopper was a Dutch composer, conductor and teacher.-Reputation:Dopper's reputation as a composer has suffered from the accusation of being 'too German' for much of his career, and still haunts him to this day...

    • Cello Concerto (1910,1923)
  • Vernon Duke
    Vernon Duke
    Vernon Duke was a Russian-American composer/songwriter, who also wrote under his original name Vladimir Dukelsky. He is best known for "Taking a Chance on Love" with lyrics by Ted Fetter and John Latouche, "I Can't Get Started" with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, "April in Paris" with lyrics by E. Y...

    • Cello Concerto (1945)
  • Pascal Dusapin
    Pascal Dusapin
    Pascal Dusapin , is a French composer born in Nancy. He is one of France's best-known living composers; his works have been performed worldwide....

    • Cello Concerto Celo (1996)
  • Henri Dutilleux
    Henri Dutilleux
    Henri Dutilleux is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own...

    • Cello Concerto Tout un Monde Lointain (1970)
  • Antonín Dvořák
    Antonín Dvorák
    Antonín 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 Concerto in A major
      Cello Concerto in A major (Dvorák)
      - Background :Unlike its brother, the B minor Concerto, Op.104, the A major Concerto has been more than overlooked. Written for cellist Ludevít Peer, it was discovered by composer Günter Raphael years later. Raphael orchestrated and heavily edited the work in the late 1920s, making it more his own...

      , Op. posth
    • Cello Concerto in B minor
      Cello Concerto (Dvorák)
      The Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191, by Antonín Dvořák was the composer's last solo concerto, and was written in 1894–1895 for his friend, the cellist Hanuš Wihan, but premiered by the English cellist Leo Stern.- Structure :...

      , Op. 104 (1894–1895)

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  • Klaus Egge
    Klaus Egge
    Klaus Egge was a Norwegian composer and music critic. His music, often called a stream of will, is characterized by polyphony and a strong rhythmical energy.-Music:...

  • Halim El-Dabh
    Halim El-Dabh
    Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh is an Egyptian-born American composer, performer, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who has had a career spanning six decades...

    • The Invisible Bridge: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (2007)
  • Edward Elgar
    Edward Elgar
    Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...

    • Cello Concerto
      Cello Concerto (Elgar)
      Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, his last notable work, is a cornerstone of the solo cello repertoire. Elgar composed it in the aftermath of the First World War, by which time his music had gone out of fashion with the concert-going public...

       in E minor, Op. 85 (1918–1919)
  • George Enescu
    George Enescu
    George 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...

    • Sinfonia Concertante in B-flat minor, Op. 8 (1901)
  • Einar Englund
  • Iván Erőd
    Iván Eröd
    Iván Erőd, also Iván Eröd , is an Hungarian-Austrian composer and pianist.- Career :Erőd studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music with Pál Kadosa and Ferenc Szabó . He emigrated to Austria in 1956 and studied there at the Vienna Music Academy, with Richard Hauser and Karl Schiske...

    • 3 movements for Cello and Chamber Orchestra, Op. 7 (12 min) (1958)
    • Cello Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 80 ( 25 min) (2005)
  • Andrei Eshpai
    Andrei Eshpai
    Andrei Yakovlevich Eshpai is an ethnic Mari composer.Eshpai was born at Kozmodemyansk, Mari El. A Red Army World War II veteran, he studied piano at Moscow Conservatory from 1948 to 1953 under Vladimir Sofronitsky, and composition under Nikolai Rakov, Nikolai Myaskovsky and Evgeny Golubev...

    • Concerto for cello and orchestra (1989) (Dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich
      Mstislav Rostropovich
      Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, KBE , known to close friends as Slava, was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. He is widely considered to have been the greatest cellist of the second half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest of...

      .) (20 min)

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  • Yuri Falik
    • Concerto Della Passione for cello and orchestra in four movements (1988)
  • 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...

    • Elegie for Cello and Orchestra (1880)
  • Morton Feldman
    Morton Feldman
    Morton Feldman was an American composer, born in New York City.A major figure in 20th century music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown...

    • Cello Concerto, for Siegfried Palm
      Siegfried Palm
      Siegfried Palm was a German cellist who is known worldwide for his interpretations of contemporary music. Many 20th-century composers like Kagel, Ligeti, Xenakis, Penderecki and Zimmermann wrote music for him....

       (1972)
  • Gerald Finzi
    Gerald Finzi
    Gerald Raphael Finzi was a British composer. Finzi is best known as a song-writer, but also wrote in other genres...

    • Cello Concerto in A minor
      Cello Concerto (Finzi)
      The Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 40, was composed by Gerald Finzi in 1955.The piece is in three movements:*I. Allegro moderato*II. Andante quieto*III...

      , Op. 40 (1955)
  • Elena Firsova
    Elena Firsova
    Elena Olegovna Firsova is a Russian composer.-Life:She was born in Leningrad into the family of physicists Oleg Firsov and Viktoria Lichko. She studied music in Moscow with Alexander Pirumov, Yuri Kholopov, Edison Denisov and Philip Herschkowitz...

    • Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 10 (1973)
    • Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 26 (Chamber Concerto No. 2) (1982)
    • Cello Concerto No. 3, Op. 78 (Chamber Concerto No. 5) (1996)
  • Jean-Louis Florentz
    • Cello Concerto Le Songe de Lluc Alcari (1996)
  • Juliette Folville (1870–1946)
    • Concertstuck pour Violoncelle (Concert piece for cello) and orchestra (1905)
    • Triptych for cello and orchestra (manuscript)
  • Arthur Foote
    Arthur Foote
    Arthur William Foote was an American classical composer, and a member of the "Boston Six." The other five were George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach, Edward MacDowell, John Knowles Paine, and Horatio Parker.The modern tendency is to view Foote’s music as “Romantic” and “European” in light of the...

     (1853–1937)
    • Cello Concerto in G minor, Op. 33 (1894)
  • Carlo Forlivesi
    Carlo Forlivesi
    Carlo Forlivesi is an Italian composer, performer and researcher.Forlivesi was born in Faenza, Emilia-Romagna. He studied at Bologna Conservatory, Milan Conservatory and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia of Rome...

    • Lauda (2007), Cello Concerto (for Anssi Karttunen
      Anssi Karttunen
      Anssi Karttunen is a Finnish cellist.Anssi Karttunen's repertoire ranges from the early baroque to the most recent composers. He performs with most world-class orchestras in Europe , Asia Anssi Karttunen (born 1960) is a Finnish cellist.Anssi Karttunen's repertoire ranges from the early baroque to...

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  • John Foulds
    John Foulds
    John Herbert Foulds was a British composer of classical music. Largely self-taught as a composer, he was one of the most remarkable and unjustly forgotten figures of the "British Musical Renaissance"....

    • Lento e Scherzetto, Op. 12 (about 1906)
    • Cello Concerto in G major, Op. 17 (1908-9)
  • Charles Fussell
    • Right River (Variations for Cello & String Orchestra)

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  • Renaud Gagneux
    Renaud Gagneux
    Renaud Gagneux is a French composer.At the École Normale in Paris, Renaud Gagneux studied piano with Alfred Cortot and composition with Henri Dutilleux. In 1966 he went to Cologne to study composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen, then with André Jolivet and Olivier Messiaen at the Paris...

  • Friedrich Gernsheim
    Friedrich Gernsheim
    Friedrich Gernsheim was a German composer, conductor and pianist.Gernsheim was born in Worms. He was given his first musical training at home under his mother's care, then starting from the age of seven under Worms' musical director, Louis Liebe, a former pupil of Louis Spohr...

    • Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 78
  • Alberto Ginastera
    Alberto Ginastera
    Alberto Evaristo Ginastera was an Argentine composer of classical music. He is considered one of the most important Latin American classical composers.- Biography :...

    • Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 36 (1968)
    • Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 50 (1980)
  • Philip Glass
    Philip Glass
    Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...

    • Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
  • Alexander Glazunov
    Alexander Glazunov
    Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor...

    • Concerto-ballata in C, Op. 108 (1931)
  • Reinhold Glière
    Reinhold Glière
    Reinhold Moritzevich Glière was a Russian and Soviet composer of German–Polish descent.- Biography :Glière was born in Kiev, Ukraine...

    • Cello Concerto in D minor, Op. 87 (1946)
  • Berthold Goldschmidt
    Berthold Goldschmidt
    Berthold Goldschmidt was a German Jewish composer who spent most of his life in England...

  • Georg Goltermann
    Georg Goltermann
    Georg Goltermann was a German cellist and composer.-Life:Goltermann's father was an organist, and therefore he got an early introduction to music...

    • Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 14
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 30
    • Cello Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 51
    • Cello Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 65
    • Cello Concerto No. 5 in D minor, Op. 76
(total of 8 Cello Concerti)
  • Evgeny Golubev
    Evgeny Golubev
    Evgeny Kirillovich Golubev was a Russian Soviet composer.He was taught by Nikolai Myaskovsky, and his students included Alfred Schnittke, who studied with him from 1953 until 1958 and Michael L. Geller...

    • Cello Concerto in D minor, Op. 41 (1956)
  • Mats Larsson Gothe
    • Cello Concerto (1999, written for Thorleif Thedéen)
  • Edward Gregson
    Edward Gregson
    Edward Gregson is an English composer of international standing, whose music has been performed, broadcast, and recorded worldwide. He was born in Sunderland, England, in 1945. He studied composition and piano at the Royal Academy of Music from 1963-7, winning five prizes for composition...

    • A Song for Chris Concerto for cello and chamber orchestra (2007)
  • Olivier Greif
    Olivier Greif
    Olivier Greif was a French composer of Polish-Jewish parentage. His father was an Auschwitz survivor, a fact which affected Greif deeply and led him to compose a number of Holocaust-themed works, notably Todesfuge, based on the poem by Paul Celan, and Lettres de Westerbork, a song cycle which uses...

    • Cello Concerto Durch Adams Fall (1999)
  • Alexander Gretchaninov
    Alexander Gretchaninov
    Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov was a Russian Romantic composer.-His life:Gretchaninov started his musical studies rather late because his father, a businessman, had expected the boy to take over the family firm...

    • Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 8, 1895
  • Heinz Karl Gruber
    Heinz Karl Gruber
    Heinz Karl Gruber is an Austrian composer, bass player and singer, born in Vienna on 3 January 1943 and a leading figure of the so-called Third Viennese School.-Career:...

    • Cello Concerto (1989)
  • Sofia Gubaidulina
    Sofia Gubaidulina
    Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, is a Russian composer of half Russian, half Tatar ethnicity.Gubaidulina's music is marked by the use of unusual instrumental combinations...

    • The Canticles of the Sun for cello, mixed choir and percussions (1997)
  • Friedrich Gulda
    Friedrich Gulda
    Friedrich Gulda was an Austrian pianist and composer who worked in both the classical and jazz fields.Born in Vienna as the son of a teacher, Gulda began learning to play the piano from Felix Pazofsky at the Wiener Volkskonservatorium, aged 7...

    • Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra (1980)
  • Manfred Gurlitt
    Manfred Gurlitt
    Manfred Gurlitt was a German opera composer and conductor. He studied composition with Engelbert Humperdinck, conducting with Karl Muck, and piano with Moritz Mayer-Mahr...

    • Cello Concerto (after 1933, before 1939)

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  • Daron Hagen
    Daron Hagen
    Daron Aric Hagen , is an American composer, conductor, pianist, educator, librettist, and stage director of contemporary classical music and opera.- Early life and education :...

    • Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1996)
    • Concerto for Cello and Wind Ensemble (1998)
  • Cristóbal Halffter
    Cristóbal Halffter
    Cristóbal Halffter Jiménez-Encina is a Spanish composer. He is the nephew of two other composers, Rodolfo and Ernesto Halffter.-Life:...

    • Partita for Cello and Orchestra (1957) for Gaspar Cassadó
      Gaspar Cassadó
      Gaspar Cassadó i Moreu was a Spanish cellist and composer of the early 20th century. He was born in Barcelona to a church musician father and began taking cello lessons at age seven. When he was nine, he played in a recital where Pablo Casals was in the audience; Casals immediately offered to...

    • Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1974) for Siegfried Palm
      Siegfried Palm
      Siegfried Palm was a German cellist who is known worldwide for his interpretations of contemporary music. Many 20th-century composers like Kagel, Ligeti, Xenakis, Penderecki and Zimmermann wrote music for him....

    • Concerto No. 2 for Cello and Orchestra (1985) for Mstislav Rostropovich
      Mstislav Rostropovich
      Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, KBE , known to close friends as Slava, was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. He is widely considered to have been the greatest cellist of the second half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest of...

  • Asger Hamerik
    Asger Hamerik
    Asger Hamerik , was a Danish composer of classical music.Born in Frederiksberg , he studied music with J.P.E. Hartmann and Niels Gade. He wrote his first pieces in his teens, including an unperformed symphony...

    • Romance for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 27 (1879)
  • George Frideric Handel
    George Frideric Handel
    George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...

    • Concerto in B minor (Casadesus forgery
      Henri Casadesus
      Henri Casadesus was a violist and music publisher. He was the brother of Marius Casadesus, uncle of the famous pianist Robert Casadesus, and granduncle of Jean Casadesus....

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  • Christos Hatzis
    Christos Hatzis
    Christos Hatzis is a Greek Canadian composer currently a professor at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto.-Biography:Hatzis was born in Volos, Greece and received his early music instruction at the Volos branch of the Hellenic Conservatory...

    • Confessional for Cello and Orchestra (2001)
  • Joseph Haydn
    Joseph Haydn
    Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...

    • Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, H. 7b/1 (approximately 1765)
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major
      Cello Concerto No. 2 (Haydn)
      Joseph Haydn's Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Hob. VIIb/2, for cello and orchestra was composed in 1783 for Antonín Kraft, a cellist of Prince Nikolaus's Esterházy Orchestra....

      , H. 7b/2 (Op. 101) (1783)
    • Cello concerto No. 4 in D major, H. 7b/4 (spurious)
    • Cello Concerto in D major (1772)
(another 2 Haydn Cello Concertos are considered lost)
  • Victor Herbert
    Victor Herbert
    Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...

  • Philippe Hersant
    • Cello Concerto No. 1 (1989)
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 (1996–1997)
  • 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...

    • Cello Concerto Op. 3 (1916)
    • Kammermusik #3
      Kammermusik (Hindemith)
      Kammermusik is the name given to a series of eight musical compositions by the German composer Paul Hindemith.Written between 1921 and 1927, the first two works are for small ensembles , and share the opus number 24. Kammermusik No...

    • Cello Concerto in G (1940)
  • Leopold Hofmann
    Leopold Hofmann
    Leopold Hofmann was an Austrian composer of classical music.-Biography:...

    • at least seven cello concertos, in C major (1770s; Badley C1), C major (1771; Badley C2), C major (1760s; Badley C3), C major (1768; Badley C4), D major (1760s or 1771, Badley D1), D major (1760s; Badley D2) and D major (1775, Badley D3) (NYPL and Naxos recording information. Different editions of D1 disagree, apparently. Published in modern times by Artaria, generally edited by Allan Badley.)
  • Joseph Holbrooke
    Joseph Holbrooke
    Joseph Charles Holbrooke was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was sometimes referred to as "the cockney Wagner".-Family:...

    • Cello Concerto (1936)
  • Vagn Holmboe
    Vagn Holmboe
    Vagn Gylding Holmboe was a Danish composer and teacher who wrote largely in a neo-classical style.-Life:At the age of 16, Holmboe began formal music training at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen on the recommendation of Carl Nielsen. He studied under Knud Jeppesen and Finn Høffding...

    • Cello Concerto, Op. 120 (M. 273 in Paul Rapoport's catalog. 1974/79)
  • Arthur Honegger
    Arthur Honegger
    Arthur 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 Concerto (1934)
  • Stephen Hough
    Stephen Hough
    Stephen Andrew Gill Hough is a British-born classical pianist, composer and writer. He became an Australian citizen in 2005 and thus has dual nationality .-Biography:...

    • Cello Concerto - The Loneliest Wilderness (2007)
  • Alan Hovhaness
    Alan Hovhaness
    Alan Hovhaness was an Armenian-American composer.His music is accessible to the lay listener and often evokes a mood of mystery or contemplation...

    • Cello Concerto, Op. 17 (1936)
  • Herbert Howells
    Herbert Howells
    Herbert Norman Howells CH was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music.-Life:...

    • Cello Concerto (1951–59) (unfinished - First movement entitled Fantasia, and Second movement posthumously orchestrated and titled Threnody remain, and can be performed as separate works.)
  • Pedro Humberto Allende
    Pedro Humberto Allende
    Pedro Humberto Allende Sarón , was one of the most important Chilean composers of the twentieth century. He obtained the prestigious Premio Nacional de Arte in 1945.- Biography :...

    • Cello Concerto
  • Bertold Hummel
    Bertold Hummel
    Bertold 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...


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  • Jacques Ibert
    Jacques Ibert
    Jacques François Antoine Ibert was a French composer. Having studied music from an early age, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire and won its top prize, the Prix de Rome at his first attempt, despite studies interrupted by his service in World War I.Ibert pursued a successful composing career,...

    • Concerto for Cello and Winds (1926?)
  • Jānis Ivanovs
    Janis Ivanovs
    Jānis Ivanovs was a Soviet Latvian classical music composer.In 1931, he graduated from the Latvian State Conservatory in Riga. In 1944, he joined the conservatory's faculty, becoming a full professor in 1955. He is regarded as being the most distinguished Latvian symphonist...

    • Concerto for Cello and Strings in B minor (1938)

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  • Frederick Jacobi
    Frederick Jacobi
    Frederick Jacobi was a prolific American composer and teacher.His works include symphonies, concerti, chamber music, works for solo piano and for solo organ, lieder, and one opera....

    • Cello Concerto (Three Psalms) for Cello and Orchestra (1932)
  • David Johnstone
    • Pop-Classic Cello Concerto for Cello and String Orchestra (25 mins) (pub. 2007)
    • Oration for Cello and Chamber Orchestra (10 mins) (2009)
  • André Jolivet
    André Jolivet
    André Jolivet was a French composer. Known for his devotion to French culture and musical thought, Jolivet's music draws on his interest in acoustics and atonality as well as both ancient and modern influences in music, particularly on instruments used in ancient times...

  • Joseph Jongen
    Joseph Jongen
    Marie-Alphonse-Nicolas-Joseph Jongen was a Belgian organist, composer, and music educator.-Biography:Jongen was born in Liège. On the strength of an amazing precocity for music, he was admitted to the Liège Conservatoire at the extraordinarily young age of seven, and spent the next sixteen years...

    • Concerto for Cello, Op. 17 (1900)
  • Paul Juon
    Paul Juon
    Paul Juon was a Germanised Russian composerHe was born in Moscow, where his father was an insurance official. His mother was German, and he went to a German school in Moscow. He entered the Moscow Conservatory in 1889, where he studied violin with Jan Hřímalý and composition with Anton Arensky...

    • Mysterien for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 59 (1928)

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  • Dmitry Kabalevsky
    • Cello Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 49 (1948-9)
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 77 (1964)
  • Jouni Kaipainen
    Jouni Kaipainen
    Jouni Kaipainen is a Finnish composer.Kaipainen was born in Helsinki. He studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki under Aulis Sallinen and Paavo Heininen.- Works for the Stage :...

    • Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 65 (2003)
  • Aram Khachaturian
    Aram Khachaturian
    Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a prominent Soviet composer. Khachaturian's works were often influenced by classical Russian music and Armenian folk music...

    • Cello Concerto in E minor
      Cello Concerto (Khachaturian)
      Aram Khachaturian wrote his Cello Concerto in E minor in 1946 for Sviatoslav Knushevitsky. It was the last of the three concertos he wrote for the individual members of a renowned Soviet piano trio that performed together from 1941 until 1963...

       (1946)
    • Concerto-Rhapsody in D minor (1963)
  • Tikhon Khrennikov
    Tikhon Khrennikov
    Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, leader of the Union of Soviet Composers, who was also known for his political activities...

    • Cello Concerto No. 1 in C, Op. 16, 1964
    • Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 30, 1985
  • John Kinsella
  • Giselher Klebe
    Giselher Klebe
    Giselher Wolfgang Klebe was a German composer. He composed more than 140 works, among them 14 operas, 8 symphonies, 15 solo concerts, chamber music, piano works, and sacred music.-Biography:...

    • Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 29
  • Julius Klengel
    Julius Klengel
    Julius Klengel was a German cellist who is most famous for his etudes and solo pieces written for the instrument. He was the brother of Paul Klengel....

  • August Klughardt
    August Klughardt
    August Friedrich Martin Klughardt was a German composer and conductor.- Life :Klughardt, who was born in Köthen, took his first piano and music theory lessons at the age of 10. Soon, be began to compose his first pieces, which were performed by a music circle Klughardt had founded himself at...

    • Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 59
  • Joonas Kokkonen
    Joonas Kokkonen
    Joonas Kokkonen was a Finnish composer. He was one of the most internationally famous Finnish composers of the 20th century after Sibelius; his opera The Last Temptations has received over 500 performances worldwide, and is considered by many to be Finland's most distinguished national opera.-...

  • Marek Kopelent
    Marek Kopelent
    Marek Kopelent is a renowned Czech contemporary composer, who is considered to be at the forefront of the "New Music" movement.-Biography:Kopelent was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on 28 April 1932...

    • Musique Concertante, for violoncello, 12 violoncelli and orchestra (1991)
  • Herman David Koppel
    Herman David Koppel
    Herman David Koppel was a composer and pianist of Jewish origin.Born in Copenhagen, he fled the Nazis with his family in 1943. He wrote 13 symphonies, numerous concertos, and 20 string quartets....

    • Cello Concerto, Op. 56
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold
    Erich Wolfgang Korngold
    Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austro-Hungarian film and romantic music composer. While his compositional style was considered well out of vogue at the time he died, his music has more recently undergone a reevaluation and a gradual reawakening of interest...

    • Cello Concerto, Op. 37 (from the movie Deception) (1946)
  • Irena Kosíková
    Irena Kosíková
    Irena Kosíková is a Czech organist and composer.Irena Kosíková was born in Prague into the intellectual family of the prohibited philosopher Karel Kosík and literarary scientist Růžena Grebeníčková, the Herder prize laureate. She began her organ studies with Prof. Jan Hora, together with piano...

  • Antonín Kraft
    Antonín Kraft
    Antonín Kraft was an Czech cellist and composer. He was a close friend of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven....

    • Cello Concerto in C Major
      Cello Concerto (Kraft)
      Cello Concerto in C Major Op.4 - Antonín Kraft was principal cellist under Joseph Haydn. Haydn, Beethoven and other composers dedicated their cello works to him. The cello parts to Haydn's D major Cello Concerto and Beethoven's Triple Concerto, Op.56 were written to fit his technique. Haydn's D...

      , Op. 4
  • Ernst Krenek
    Ernst Krenek
    Ernst Krenek was an Austrian of Czech origin and, from 1945, American composer. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now , a study of Johannes Ockeghem , and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music...

    • Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 133 (1953)
    • Capriccio for cello and orchestra, Op. 145 (1955)
    • Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 236 (1982)
  • Gary Kulesha
    Gary Kulesha
    Gary Kulesha is a Canadian composer, pianist, conductor, and educator. Since 1995, he has been Composer Advisor to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He has been Composer-in-Residence with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and the Canadian Opera Company . He was awarded the National Arts Centre...

    • Cello Concerto (2006)

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  • Ezra Laderman
    Ezra Laderman
    Ezra Laderman is an American composer of classical music.-Biography:His parents, Isidor and Leah, both emigrated to the United States from Poland. Though poor, the family had a piano. Ezra writes, "At four, I was improvising at the piano; at seven, I began to compose music, writing it down...

    • Variations on a Passacaglia for Cello solo and Large Orchestra (20 min) (2004)
  • 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 Concerto
      Cello Concerto (Lalo)
      Édouard Lalo wrote his Cello Concerto in D minor in 1876, in collaboration with Parisian cellist Adolphe Fischer. The work was premiered the following year at the Cirque d'Hiver with Fischer as soloist.-Form:The concerto is written in three movements:...

       in D minor (1876)
  • Claude Ledoux
    • Torrent - for Cello and Chamber Orchestra (1995)
  • Leonardo Leo
    Leonardo Leo
    Leonardo Leo , more correctly Lionardo Oronzo Salvatore de Leo, was an Italian Baroque composer.-Biography:...

    • 6 Cello Concertos (D major (1737), F minor (undated), A major (1738), D minor (1738), A major (1737) and Sinfonia Concertata for violoncello and strings in C minor (1737))
  • Frank Ezra Levy
    • Concerto for cello No. 2
  • György Ligeti
    György Ligeti
    György 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:...

    • Cello Concerto, for Siegfried Palm
      Siegfried Palm
      Siegfried Palm was a German cellist who is known worldwide for his interpretations of contemporary music. Many 20th-century composers like Kagel, Ligeti, Xenakis, Penderecki and Zimmermann wrote music for him....

  • Magnus Lindberg
    Magnus Lindberg
    Magnus Lindberg is a Finnish composer and pianist. He is currently the composer-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic.-Education:...

  • Bo Linde
    Bo Linde
    Anders Bo Leif Linde was a Swedish composer whose style resembled that of notable 20th century neoclassical composers like Benjamin Britten and Samuel Barber....

    • Concerto for cello and orchestra, Op. 29
  • David Ludwig
    David Ludwig
    David Ludwig, M.D., Ph.D. is an American physician in Boston, Massachusetts. He an associate professor of Pediatrics and is the Director of the Obesity Program at the Children's Hospital Boston...

    • Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (2004)
  • Witold Lutosławski

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  • Lorin Maazel
    Lorin Maazel
    Lorin Varencove Maazel is an American conductor, violinist and composer.- Early life :Maazel was born to Jewish-American parents in Neuilly-sur-Seine in France and brought up in the United States, primarily at his parents' home in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood. His father, Lincoln Maazel , was...

    • Music for Violoncello and Orchestra (Op. 10)
  • James MacMillan
    James MacMillan (musician)
    James MacMillan CBE is a Scottish classical composer and conductor.-Early life:MacMillan was born at Kilwinning, in North Ayrshire, but lived in the East Ayrshire town of Cumnock until 1977....

    • Cello Concerto (premiered 1996)
  • Gian Francesco Malipiero
    Gian Francesco Malipiero
    Gian Francesco Malipiero was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor.-Early years:Born in Venice into an aristocratic family, the grandson of the opera composer Francesco Malipiero, Gian Francesco Malipiero was prevented by family troubles from pursuing his musical education in...

    • Cello Concerto (1937)
  • Franco Margola
    Franco Margola
    Franco Margola, born in Orzinuovi on the 30th of October 1908 - died in Nave on the 9th of March 1992, was one of the most important composers in the 20th century Italian music scene. "He was an indefatigable teacher, lecturer, man of great culture, interested in literature, philosophy, religious...

    • Violoncello Concerto Op.91
      Violoncello Concerto Op. 91 (Margola)
      The Violoncello Concerto Op. 91 composed by Franco Margola is one of his most important works.Dedicated to the Spanish cellist Gaspar Cassadó the concert "came to exist in three different versions from which Margola drew the material for the definitive final version in 1949, having also benefited...

       (1949)
  • Frank Martin
    Frank Martin (composer)
    Frank Martin was a Swiss composer, who lived a large part of his life in the Netherlands.-Childhood and youth:...

  • 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...

  • David Matthews
    David Matthews (composer)
    David Matthews is an English composer of mainly orchestral, chamber, vocal and piano works.- Life :He was born in London into a family that was 'not especially' musical; the desire to compose did not manifest itself until he was sixteen, and for a time he and his younger brother Colin Matthews,...

    • Romanza for cello and orchestra, Op. 49 (1990)
    • Concerto in Azzurro for cello and orchestra, Op. 87 (2001–02)
    • Berceuse (2007)
  • Johan de Meij
    Johan de Meij
    Johannes Abraham de Meij is a Dutch conductor, trombonist, and composer, best known for his Symphony No. 1, nicknamed "The Lord of the Rings" symphony.- Biography :...

    • Casanova for solo cello and wind orchestra (2000)
  • Arnold Mendelssohn
    Arnold Mendelssohn
    Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn was a German composer and music teacher.Mendelssohn was born in the then Ratibor, Province of Silesia, son of Felix Mendelssohn's second cousin Wilhelm Mendelssohn who had married in 1854 Louise Aimee Cauer...

    • Student Concerto in D major for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 213
  • Peter Mennin
    Peter Mennin
    Peter Mennin was an American composer and teacher. He directed the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, then for many years ran the Juilliard School, succeeding William Schuman in this role...

  • Darius Milhaud
    Darius Milhaud
    Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality...

    • at least two cello concertos (1935, 1945)
  • Masatoshi Mitsumoto
    • Concerto for Cello and String Orchestra
  • Ernest John Moeran
    Ernest John Moeran
    Ernest John Moeran was an English composer who had strong associations with Ireland .-Early life:...

  • Roberto Molinelli
    Roberto Molinelli
    Roberto Molinelli is an Italian composer, conductor and violist.- Biography :He has graduated with honors and won prizes in national and international competitions....

    • Twin Legends for cello and strings (2005)
  • Georg Matthias Monn
    Georg Matthias Monn
    Georg Matthias Monn was an Austrian composer, organist and music teacher whose works were fashioned in the transition from the Baroque to Classical period in music....

    • Cello Concerto in D major—arranged by Arnold Schoenberg
      Arnold Schoenberg
      Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...

       from a harpsichord concerto written in 1746 (date from the Schirmer score)
    • several cello concertos intended so by the composer, including one in G minor that was recorded by Jacqueline du Pré
  • Alexander Mosolov
    Alexander Mosolov
    Alexander Vasilyevich MosolovMosolov's name is transliterated variously and inconsistently between sources. Alternative spellings of Alexander include Alexandr, Aleksandr, Aleksander, and Alexandre; variations on Mosolov include Mossolov and Mossolow...

    • Cello Concerto No. 1 (1935) (lost)
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 in C minor (1946)
  • Kelly-Marie Murphy
    • This Is the Colour of My Dreams for Cello and Orchestra (1997)
  • 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 Concerto
      Cello Concerto (Myaskovsky)
      Nikolai Myaskovsky composed his Cello Concerto in C minor, Op. 66, during the years 1944-45. It ranks among the few works of the composer that is to be found most frequently in concert or on recordings.The concerto is in two movements:...

       in C minor, Op. 66 (1944) (http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/miasopus.htm)
  • Josef Mysliveček
    Josef Myslivecek
    Josef Mysliveček was a Czech composer who contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music...

    • Cello Concertos in C, F, D

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  • Franz Xaver Neruda
    Franz Xaver Neruda
    Franz Xaver Neruda was a Danish cellist and composer of Moravian origin.-Life:...

  • Chan Ka Nin
    Chan Ka Nin
    Chan Ka Nin is a Canadian composer and music educator of Chinese descent. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1971. He has been commissioned write works for such ensembles as the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the CBC Radio Orchestra, the Esprit Orchestra, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra,...

    • Soulmate, for cello and orchestra

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  • Jacques Offenbach
    Jacques Offenbach
    Jacques Offenbach was a Prussian-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr....

    • Concerto Militaire (1847)
    • Concerto Rondo (1851)
  • Maurice Ohana
    Maurice Ohana
    Maurice Ohana was an Anglo-French composer of Sephardic Jewish origin.Ohana was born in Casablanca, Morocco. He was a British citizen until 1976, as his father had been born in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. He originally studied architecture, but abandoned this in favour of a...

    • L'anneau de Tamarit for cello and orchestra (1976)
    • Cello Concerto "In Dark and Blue" (1989–1990)
  • Buxton Orr
    Buxton Orr
    Buxton Orr was a Glasgow-born Anglo-Scottish composer.Originally trained as a doctor, Orr gave up medicine and switched to music, studying composition with Benjamin Frankel and conducting with Aylmer Buesst...

    • A Carmen Fantasy (1990) for cello and orchestra

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  • Andrzej Panufnik
    Andrzej Panufnik
    Sir Andrzej Panufnik was a Polish composer, pianist, conductor and pedagogue. He became established as one of the leading Polish composers, and as a conductor he was instrumental in the re-establishment of the Warsaw Philharmonic orchestra after World War II...

    • Cello Concerto (premiered 1992)
  • Arvo Pärt
    Arvo Pärt
    Arvo Pärt is an Estonian classical composer and one of the most prominent living composers of sacred music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-made compositional technique, tintinnabuli. His music also finds its inspiration and influence from...

    • Cello Concerto
  • Krzysztof Penderecki
    Krzysztof Penderecki
    Krzysztof Penderecki , born November 23, 1933 in Dębica) is a Polish composer and conductor. His 1960 avant-garde Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima for string orchestra brought him to international attention, and this success was followed by acclaim for his choral St. Luke Passion. Both these...

    • Sonata for cello and orchestra (1964) for Siegfried Palm
      Siegfried Palm
      Siegfried Palm was a German cellist who is known worldwide for his interpretations of contemporary music. Many 20th-century composers like Kagel, Ligeti, Xenakis, Penderecki and Zimmermann wrote music for him....

       http://www.schott-musik.de/shop/Leihwerke/show,234458.html
    • Cello Concerto No. 1 (1972)
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 (1982)
    • Largo for cello and orchestra (2003)
  • William Perry
    William Perry
    William James Perry is an American businessman and engineer who was the United States Secretary of Defense from February 3, 1994, to January 23, 1997, under President Bill Clinton...

    • Jamestown Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (2007)
  • Laurent Petitgirard
    Laurent Petitgirard
    Laurent Petitgirard is a French classical composer and conductor.- Biography and career :Laurent Petitgirard studied piano with Serge Petitgirard and composition with Alain Kremski...

  • Hans Pfitzner
    Hans Pfitzner
    Hans Erich Pfitzner was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.-Biography:Pfitzner was born in Moscow, Russia, where his...

    • Cello Concerto No. 1 in G major, Op. 42 (1935)
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 in A minor, Op. 52 (1943)
    • Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. posth.(1888)
  • Carlo Alfredo Piatti
    Carlo Alfredo Piatti
    Carlo Alfredo Piatti was an Italian cellist. He was born at via Borgo Canale, in Bergamo and died in Mozzo, 4 miles from Bergamo....

    • Concertino op. 18 (1863?)
    • Cello Concerto No. 1 in B major, Op. 24 (1874)
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 26 (1877)
  • Matthias Pintscher
    Matthias Pintscher
    Matthias Pintscher is a German composer and conductor. As a youth, he studied the violin and conducting....

    • La Metamorfosi di Narciso for cello and ensemble (1992)
    • Reflections on Narcissus for cello and orchestra (2005)
  • Ignaz Pleyel
    Ignaz Pleyel
    Ignace Joseph Pleyel , ; was an Austrian-born French composer and piano builder of the Classical period.-Early years:...

    • Cello Concertos in C major, D major, and C major
  • David Popper
    David Popper
    David Popper was a Bohemian cellist and composer.-Life:He was born in Prague, and studied music at the Prague Conservatory. He studied the cello under Julius Goltermann , and soon attracted attention...

    • Cello Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 8, 1861
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 in E minor, Op. 24, 1880
    • Cello Concerto No. 3 in G major, Op. 59, in one movement
    • Cello Concerto No. 4 in B Minor, Op. 72, in four movements
    • Cello Concerto No. 5 "in the style of Haydn" (http://www.recordsinternational.com/RICatalogAug03.html)
  • Nicola Porpora
    Nicola Porpora
    Nicola Porpora was an Italian composer of Baroque operas and teacher of singing, whose most famous singing student was the castrato Farinelli. One of his other students was composer Matteo Capranica.-Biography:Porpora was born in Naples...

    • Cello Concerto in G major
  • 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 Concerto, Op. 58
    • Symphony-Concerto
      Symphony-Concerto (Prokofiev)
      Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto in E minor, Op. 125 is a large-scale work for cello and orchestra. Prokofiev dedicated it to Mstislav Rostropovich, who premiered it on February 18, 1952 with Sviatoslav Richter conducting . After this first performance Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto in E...

       in E minor, Op. 125 (1950–52)
    • Cello Concertino in G minor, Op. 132 (one version completed by Kabalevsky
      Dmitri Kabalevsky
      Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky was a Russian composer.He helped to set up the Union of Soviet Composers in Moscow and remained one of its leading figures. He was a prolific composer of piano music and chamber music; many of his piano works have been performed by Vladimir Horowitz. He is probably...

      , another by Blok) (1952)

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  • Joachim Raff
    Joachim Raff
    Joseph Joachim Raff was a German-Swiss composer, teacher and pianist.-Biography:Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. His father, a teacher, had fled there from Württemberg in 1810 to escape forced recruitment into the military of that southwestern German state that had to fight for Napoleon in...

    • Cello Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 193, 1874
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 in G , Op. posth, 1876
  • Osmo Tapio Räihälä
    Osmo Tapio Räihälä
    Osmo Tapio Everton Räihälä is a Finnish composer of contemporary music. He has mainly written instrumental music for various chamber music line-ups, fourconcertos as well as for symphony orchestra...

    • Cello Concerto
  • Behzad Ranjbaran
    Behzad Ranjbaran
    Behzad Ranjbaran is a leading Persian composer.Ranjbaran was born and raised in Iran. He entered the Tehran Conservatory at the age of 9. Ranjbaran continued his study of composition at Indiana University...

    • Cello Concerto
  • Einojuhani Rautavaara
    Einojuhani Rautavaara
    Einojuhani Rautavaara is a Finnish composer of contemporary classical music, and is one of the most notable Finnish composers after Jean Sibelius.-Life:...

    • Cello Concerto No. 1 (1968)
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 Towards the Horizon (2010)
  • 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 Concerto
  • Josef Reicha
    Josef Reicha
    Josef Reicha was a Czech cellist, composer and conductor. He was the uncle of composer and music theorist Anton Reicha....

    • Cello Concertos in F minor, G major and A major (and/or E major) from Op. 4
  • Carl Reinecke
    Carl Reinecke
    Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke was a German composer, conductor, and pianist.-Biography:Reinecke was born in Altona, Hamburg, Germany; until 1864 the town was under Danish rule. He studied with his father, Johann Peter Rudolph Reinecke, a music teacher...

    • Cello Concerto in D minor, Op. 82 (1864)
  • Alan Ridout
    Alan Ridout
    -Life:Born at West Wickham, Greater London, England, Alan Ridout studied briefly at the Guildhall School of Music before commencing four years of study at the Royal College of Music, London with Herbert Howells and Gordon Jacob...

    • Cello Concerto No. 1 for cello, percussion and strings
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 for cello and wordless choir
    • Cello Concerto No. 3 for cello and 8 cellos
  • Wolfgang Rihm
    Wolfgang Rihm
    Wolfgang Rihm is a German composer.Rihm is Head of the Institute of Modern Music at the Karlsruhe Conservatory of Music and has been composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival and the Salzburg Festival...

    • Monodram for Cello and Orchestra (1982–1983)
    • Styx und Lethe for Cello and Orchestra (1997–1998)
    • Konzert in einem Satz for Cello and Orchestra (2005–2006)
  • Joaquin Rodrigo
    Joaquín Rodrigo
    Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez , commonly known as Joaquín Rodrigo, was a composer of classical music and a virtuoso pianist. Despite being nearly blind from an early age, he achieved great success...

    • Concerto in modo galante (1949)
    • Concerto como un divertimento (1981)
  • Julius Röntgen
    Julius Röntgen
    Julius Engelbert Röntgen was a German-Dutch composer of classical music.-Life:Julius Röntgen was born in Leipzig, Germany, to a family of musicians. His father, Engelbert Röntgen, was first violinist in the Gewandhaus orchestra in Leipzig; his mother, Pauline Klengel, was a pianist, the aunt of...

    • Cello Concerto No. 1 in E minor (1893/1894)
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 in G minor (1909)
    • Cello Concerto No. 3 in F-sharp minor (1928)
  • Ned Rorem
    Ned Rorem
    Ned Rorem is a Pulitzer prize-winning American composer and diarist. He is best known and most praised for his song settings.-Life:...

  • Hilding Rosenberg
    Hilding Rosenberg
    Hilding Rosenberg , was the first Swedish modernist composer, and one of the most influential figures in Swedish 20th century classical music....

    • Cello Concerto No. 1
    • Cello Concerto No. 2
  • Paul Rosenbloom
    • Cello Concerto in G (Andante & Rondo - based on Mozart fragments)
  • Albert Roussel
    Albert Roussel
    Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period...

    • Cello Concertino (1936)
  • Miklós Rózsa
    Miklós Rózsa
    Miklós Rózsa was a Hungarian-born composer trained in Germany , and active in France , England , and the United States , with extensive sojourns in Italy from 1953...

    • Cello concerto, Op. 32
  • Anton Rubinstein
    Anton Rubinstein
    Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian-Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos...

    • Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 65
    • Cello Concerto in D minor, Op. 96

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  • Kaija Saariaho
    Kaija Saariaho
    Kaija Saariaho is a Finnish composer.Kaija Saariaho studied composition in Helsinki, Freiburg and Paris, where she has lived since 1982. Her studies and research at IRCAM have had a major influence on her music and her characteristically luxuriant and mysterious textures are often created by...

    • Cello Concerto Notes on Light (2007)
  • 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 Concerto No. 1 in A minor
      Cello Concerto No. 1 (Saint-Saëns)
      Camille Saint-Saëns composed his Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33 in 1872, when the composer was age 37. He wrote this work for the Belgian cellist, viola de gamba player and instrument maker Auguste Tolbecque. Tolbecque was part of a distinguished family of musicians closely associated...

      , Op. 33 (1872)
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 in D minor
      Cello Concerto No. 2 (Saint-Saëns)
      Saint-Saëns' Cello Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 119, is written in two movements, like his Fourth Piano Concerto. It was composed for a Dutch cellist, Joseph Hollmann, in 1902...

      , Op. 119 (1902)
  • Aulis Sallinen
    Aulis Sallinen
    Aulis Sallinen is a Finnish contemporary classical music composer. He writes in a modern, though tonal and not experimental music style. He studied at the Sibelius Academy, where his teachers included Joonas Kokkonen...

    • Cello Concerto, Op. 44 (1976)
  • Robert Saxton
    Robert Saxton
    -Biography:After early advice and encouragement from Benjamin Britten, Robert Saxton took private composition lessons with Elisabeth Lutyens. He went on to study with Robin Holloway at Cambridge University, with Robert Sherlaw Johnson as a post-graduate at Oxford University, and later with Berio....

    • Cello Concerto (premiered 1993)
  • Ahmed Adnan Saygun
    • Cello Concerto, Op. 74 (1987)
  • Giacinto Scelsi
    Giacinto Scelsi
    Giacinto Scelsi , Count of Ayala Valva was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French....

    • Cello Concerto
  • Heather Schmidt
    • Cello Concerto (1998)
  • 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 Concerto No. 1 (1986)
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 (1989–90)
  • Daniel Schnyder
    • Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra
  • Othmar Schoeck
    Othmar Schoeck
    Othmar Schoeck was a Swiss composer and conductor.He was known mainly for his considerable output of art songs and song cycles, though he also wrote a number of operas and instrumental compositions including two string quartets and...

    • Cello concerto in A minor, Op. 61 (1947)
  • Arnold Schoenberg
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...

    • Cello Concerto in D Major,(1932/33), freely transcribed from Monn
      Georg Matthias Monn
      Georg Matthias Monn was an Austrian composer, organist and music teacher whose works were fashioned in the transition from the Baroque to Classical period in music....

      's Clavicembalo Concerto in D Major
  • Robert Schumann
    Robert Schumann
    Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....

    • Cello Concerto
      Cello Concerto (Schumann)
      The Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129, by Robert Schumann was completed in a period of only two weeks, between 10 October and 24 October 1850, shortly after Schumann became the music director at Düsseldorf.The concerto was never played in Schumann's lifetime...

       in A minor, Op. 129 (1850)
  • Cyril Scott
    Cyril Scott
    Cyril Meir Scott was an English composer, writer, and poet.-Biography:Scott was born in Oxton, England to a shipper and scholar of Greek and Hebrew, and Mary Scott , an amateur pianist. He showed a talent for music from an early age and was sent to the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany to...

    • Cello Concerto [No. 1], Op. 19 (1902)
    • Cello Concerto [No. 2] (1937)
  • Matyas Seiber
    Mátyás Seiber
    Mátyás György Seiber was a Hungarian-born composer who lived and worked in England from 1935 onward.-Career:Seiber was born in Budapest, and studied there with Zoltán Kodály, with whom he toured Hungary collecting folk songs. In 1928, he became director of the jazz department at the Hoch...

    • Tre Pezzi for cello and orchestra (1956)
  • Anatolijus Senderovas
    • Concerto in Do for cello and orchestra (2002)
  • Rodion Shchedrin
    Rodion Shchedrin
    Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin is a Russian composer. He was one оf the leading Soviet composers, and was the chairman of the Union of Russian Composers from 1973 until 1990.-Life and Works:...

    • Cello Concerto opus 87 "Sotto Voce" (1994)
  • Alexander Shchetynsky
    Alexander Shchetynsky
    Alexander Shchetynsky is a Ukrainian composer. Born on 22 June 1960 in Kharkiv, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. His work list includes compositions in various forms ranging from solo instrumental to orchestral, choral pieces and operas....

    • Cello Concerto (1982)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    Dmitri Shostakovich
    Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....

    • Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat
      Cello Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich)
      The Cello Concerto No. 1 in E Flat Major, Opus 107, was composed in 1959 by Dmitri Shostakovich. He wrote the work for his friend Mstislav Rostropovich, who committed it to memory in four days and gave the premiere on October 4, 1959, with Yevgeny Mravinsky conducting the Leningrad Philharmonic...

      , Op. 107 (1959)
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 in G
      Cello Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)
      The Cello Concerto No. 2, Opus 126, was written by Dmitri Shostakovich in the spring of 1966 in the Crimea. Like the first concerto, it was written for Mstislav Rostropovich, who gave the premiere in Moscow under Yevgeny Svetlanov on 25 September 1966 at the composer's 60th birthday concert...

      , Op. 126 (1966)
  • Alan Shulman
    Alan Shulman
    Alan Shulman was an American composer and cello virtuoso. He wrote a considerable amount of symphonic music, chamber music, and jazz music. Trumpeter Eddie Bailey said, "Alan had the greatest ear of any musician I ever came across. He had better than perfect pitch...

    • Cello Concerto (1948)
  • Robert Simpson
    Robert Simpson (composer)
    Robert Simpson was an English composer and long-serving BBC producer and broadcaster.He is best known for his orchestral and chamber music , and for his writings on the music of Beethoven, Bruckner, Nielsen and Sibelius. He studied composition under Herbert Howells...

    • Cello Concerto (1991)
  • Nikos Skalkottas
    • Cello Concerto - lost (1938)
  • Leo Sowerby
    Leo Sowerby
    Leo Sowerby , American composer and church musician, was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1946, and was often called the “Dean of American church music” in the early to mid 20th century.-Biography:...

    • Cello Concerto (1929–1934)
  • Carl Stamitz
    Carl Stamitz
    Karl Philipp Stamitz , who later changed his given name to Carl, was a German composer of partial Czech ancestry , and a violin, viola and viola d'amore virtuoso...

    • Cello Concerto No. 1 in G major
    • Cello Concerto No. 2 in A major
    • Cello Concerto No. 3 in C major
    • Cello Concerto No. 4 in C (from around 1777)
  • Charles Villiers Stanford
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Sir 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 Concerto in D minor (1879/1880)
  • Arthur Sullivan
    Arthur Sullivan
    Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry. He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including such enduring works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado...

    • Cello Concerto in D (reconstruction) (1866)
  • Lepo Sumera
    Lepo Sumera
    Lepo Sumera was an Estonian composer and teacher. Considered one of Estonia's most renowned composers along with Heino Eller and Arvo Pärt, he was also his country's Minister of Culture from 1988 to 1992 during the days of the Singing Revolution.He was born in Tallinn and studied with Veljo...

  • Johan Svendsen
    Johan Svendsen
    Johan Severin Svendsen was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist. Born in Christiania , Norway, he lived most his life in Copenhagen, Denmark....

    • Cello Concerto in D major, Op. 7 (1870)
  • Harald Sæverud
    Harald Sæverud
    Harald Sigurd Johan Sæverud was a Norwegian composer. He is most known for his music to Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt, Rondo Amoroso, and the Ballad of Revolt . Sæverud wrote nine symphonies, and a large number of pieces for solo piano...


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  • Alexandre Tansman
    Alexandre Tansman
    Alexandre Tansman was a Polish-born composer and virtuoso pianist. He spent his early years in his native Poland, but lived in France for most of his life...

    • Cello Concerto
  • Giuseppe Tartini
    Giuseppe Tartini
    Giuseppe Tartini was an Italian baroque composer and violinist.-Biography:Tartini was born in Piran, a town on the peninsula of Istria, in the Republic of Venice to Gianantonio – native of Florence – and Caterina Zangrando, a descendant of one of the oldest aristocratic Piranian families.It...

    • Cello Concerto in D
    • Cello Concerto in A
  • Boris Tchaikovsky
    Boris Tchaikovsky
    Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky was a Soviet composer, born in Moscow, whose oeuvre includes orchestral works, chamber music and film music. He is considered as part of the second generation of Russian composers, following in the steps of Pyotr Tchaikovsky and especially Mussorgsky.He was admired...

    • Cello Concerto in E, 1964
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...

    • Cello Concerto in B Minor (1893, unfinished), completed by Yuriy Leonovich in 2006.
    • Variations on a Rococo Theme
      Variations on a Rococo Theme
      The Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33, for cello and orchestra was the closest Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ever came to writing a full concerto for cello and orchestra. The style was inspired by Mozart, Tchaikovsky's role model, and makes it clear that Tchaikovsky admired the Classical style very...

       (1876–77)
  • Alexander Tcherepnin
    Alexander Tcherepnin
    Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin was a Russian-born composer and pianist. His father, Nikolai Tcherepnin and his son, Ivan Tcherepnin were also composers, as are two of his grandsons, Sergei and Stefan. His son Serge was involved in the roots of electronic music and instruments...

    • Georgian Rhapsody for Cello and orchestra, Op. 25 (1922)
    • Mystère for Cello and Chamber Orchestra, Op. 37/2 (1925)
  • Virgil Thomson
    Virgil Thomson
    Virgil Thomson was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music...

    • Cello Concerto (1949)
  • Boris Tishchenko
    Boris Tishchenko
    Boris Ivanovich Tishchenko was a Russian and Soviet composer and pianist.-Life:...

    • Cello Concerto No. 1, for solo cello, 17 wind instruments, percussion, and harmonium (1963) (Also orchestrated by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1969)
    • Cello Concerto No. 2, for solo cello, 48 cellos, 12 double-basses, and percussion (1969, rearranged for orchestra in 1979)
  • Ernst Toch
    Ernst Toch
    Ernst Toch was a composer of classical music and film scores.- Biography :Toch, born in Leopoldstadt, Vienna, into the family of a humble Jewish leather dealer when the city was at its 19th-century cultural zenith, sought throughout his life to introduce new approaches to music...

  • Donald Tovey
    • Cello Concerto in C Major, op.40 (1933)
  • Hristo Tsanoff
  • Sulkhan Tsintsadze
    Sulkhan Tsintsadze
    Sulkhan Tsintsadze , was one of Georgia's foremost composers.-Education:Tsintsadze studied the cello until 1942 with E.N. Kapelniski in Tbilisi at the Gymnasium of Music. He furthered his studies of the cello at the Conservatory of Tblisi with K. Minjar...

    • Cello Concerto No. 2 (1964)
    • Cello Concerto No. 3 (1973)
    • Concertino for cello and orchestra (1976) (30 min)

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  • Moisei Vainberg see Mieczyslaw Weinberg
    Mieczyslaw Weinberg
    Mieczysław Weinberg was a Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish origin....


  • Johann Baptist Vanhal
    Johann Baptist Vanhal
    Johann Baptist Vanhal also spelled Wanhal, Waṅhall or Wanhall was an important classical music composer born in Nechanice, Bohemia to a Czech family.- Biography :...

    • Cello Concerto in A major


  • Henri Vieuxtemps
    Henri Vieuxtemps
    Henri François Joseph Vieuxtemps was a Belgian composer and violinist. He occupies an important place in the history of the violin as a prominent exponent of the Franco-Belgian violin school during the mid-19th century....

    • Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. posth. 46
    • Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. posth. 50

  • Heitor Villa-Lobos
    Heitor Villa-Lobos
    Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works...

     (1887–1959)
    • Grande Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 1, Op. 50 (1915)
    • Fantasia for Cello and Orchestra, W. 454 (1945)
    • Cello Concerto No. 2, W. 516 (1953)

  • Mihaly Virizlay
    • Concerto for Cello

  • 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...

    • RV 398 in C
    • RV 399 in C
    • RV 400 in C
    • RV 401 in C minor
    • RV 402 in C minor
    • RV 403 in D
    • RV 404 in D
    • RV 405 in D minor
    • RV 406 in D minor (related to RV 481)
    • RV 407 in D minor
    • RV 408 in E-flat
    • RV 410 in F
    • RV 411 in F
    • RV 412 in F
    • RV 413 in G
    • RV 414 in G
    • RV 415 in G
    • RV 416 in G minor
    • RV 417 in G minor
    • RV 418 in A minor
    • RV 419 in A minor
    • RV 420 in A minor
    • RV 421 in A minor
    • RV 422 in A minor
    • RV 423 in B-flat
    • RV 424 in B minor
    • RV 531 in G minor, for 2 cellos
  • Vladimir Vlasov
    Vladimir Vlasov
    Vladimir Vlasov was a Russian composer and conductor. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory from 1924 to 1931 under such teachers as Georgy Catoire, Abram Yampol′sky, and Nikolai Zhilyayev. In 1936 he founded the Music and Drama Theatre in Frunze, working as the company's artistic director until...

    • Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major
    • Cello Concerto No. 2
  • Robert Volkmann
    Robert Volkmann
    Friedrich Robert Volkmann was a German composer.-Life:He was born in Lommatzsch, Saxony, Germany. His father was a music director for a church, so he trained his son in music to prepare him as a successor...

    • Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 33 (1853–55) (in one movement)
  • Antonín Vranický
    Antonín Vranický
    Antonín Vranický , was a famous Czech violinist and composer of the 18th century. He was the brother of Pavel Wranitzky....

    • Concerto in D minor

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  • Georg Christoph Wagenseil
    Georg Christoph Wagenseil
    Georg Christoph Wagenseil was an Austrian composer.He was born in Vienna, and became a favorite pupil of the Vienna court'sKapellmeister, Johann Joseph Fux. Wagenseil himself composed for the...

    • concertos in C major and A major (published by Doblinger around 1960 by Fritz Racek and/or with cadenzas by Enrico Mainardi
      Enrico Mainardi
      Enrico Mainardi was an Italian cellist, composer, and conductor.At the age of thirteen, in 1910, Mainardi had already begun his career as a cello virtuoso who toured the concert halls of Europe...

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  • William Walton
    William Walton
    Sir William Turner Walton OM was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera...

    • Cello Concerto
      Cello Concerto (Walton)
      Sir William Walton's Cello Concerto was written between February and October 1956, in Ischia, on a commission from the Russian cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, to whom he dedicated it....

       (1956)
  • Graham Waterhouse
    Graham Waterhouse
    Graham Waterhouse is an English composer and a cellist. He is known for chamber music and for unusual scoring, such as Piccolo Quintet, Bright Angel for three bassoons and contrabassoon, Chieftain's Salute for Great Highland Bagpipe and string orchestra, and works for speaking voice and cello,...

    • Cello concerto Op. 27 (1995) also Op. 27a (2005), version for chamber orchestra
  • Karl Weigl
    Karl Weigl
    Karl Ignaz Weigl was an Austrian composer. He was born in Vienna, being the son of a bank official who was also a keen amateur musician. Alexander Zemlinsky took him as a private pupil in 1896. Weigl went to school at the Franz-Joseph-Gymnasium and graduated from there in 1899...

    • Cello Concerto (1923)
  • Mieczyslaw Weinberg
    Mieczyslaw Weinberg
    Mieczysław Weinberg was a Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish origin....

    • Cello Concerto in C minor, Op. 43 (1956)
  • Felix Weingartner
    Felix Weingartner
    Paul Felix von Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist.-Biography:...

    • Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 60 (1917)
  • Graham Whettam
    • Concerto Drammatico (1998)
  • 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 Concerto, Op. 41 (1882)
  • John Williams
    John Williams
    John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T...

    • Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1994)
    • Elegy for Cello and Orchestra (1997)
    • Heartwood for Cello and Orchestra (2002)
  • Herbert Willi (*1956)
    • "Il combattimento..."
  • Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
    Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
    Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari was an Italian composer and teacher. He is best known for his comic operas such as Il segreto di Susanna...

    • Cello Concerto in C, Op. 31
  • Pavel Wranitzky
    • Concerto in C major

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  • Takashi Yoshimatsu
    Takashi Yoshimatsu
    is a contemporary Japanese composer of classical music. He is well known for composing the 2003 remake of Astro Boy.Takashi Yoshimatsu was born in Tokyo, Japan, and like Toru Takemitsu, the composer generally considered to be Japan's greatest in the western classical style, did not receive formal...

    • Cello Concerto
  • Isang Yun
    Isang Yun
    Isang Yun was a Korean-German composer originally from Korea. According to his official publisher's Boosey & Hawkes biography of him, he was granted political asylum by West Germany, eventually becoming a naturalised German citizen, following his abduction and torture in 1967 by the South Korean...

    • Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1975/76)

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  • Winfried Zillig
    Winfried Zillig
    Winfried Zillig was a German composer, music theorist, and conductor.Zillig was born in Würzburg. After leaving school, Zillig studied law and music. One of his teachers there was Hermann Zilcher. In Vienna he was a private pupil of Arnold Schönberg, later following him to Berlin...

    • Concerto for Violoncello und Brass Orchestra (1934/1952), for Siegfried Palm
      Siegfried Palm
      Siegfried Palm was a German cellist who is known worldwide for his interpretations of contemporary music. Many 20th-century composers like Kagel, Ligeti, Xenakis, Penderecki and Zimmermann wrote music for him....

  • Bernd Alois Zimmermann
    Bernd Alois Zimmermann
    Bernd Alois Zimmermann was a post-WWII West German composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera Die Soldaten which is regarded as one of the most important operas of the 20th century...

    • Concerto for Cello and Orchestra en forme de pas de trois (1966), dedicated to Siegfried Palm
  • Samuel Zyman
    • Cello Concerto (1990)
    • Reflection, for Solo Cello and Seven Celli (2001)

Concertos for cello and other solo instrument(s)

  • Kurt Atterberg
    Kurt Atterberg
    Kurt Magnus Atterberg was a Swedish composer. He is best known for his symphonies, operas and ballets. Atterberg once said that: "The Russians, Brahms, Reger were my ideals." His music combines their influences with Swedish folk tunes.-Biography:Atterberg was born in Gothenburg as the son of the...

    • Concerto in G minor and C major for violin, violoncello and string orchestra, Op. 57 (1959–60)
  • 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...

    • Triple Concerto for violin, cello, piano and orchestra in C major, Op. 56 (1804)
  • Rainer Bischof
    • Double Concerto for Violin, Violoncello and Orchester (1980)
  • Giovanni Bottesini
    Giovanni Bottesini
    Giovanni Bottesini was an Italian Romantic composer, conductor, and a double bass virtuoso.-Biography:Born in Crema, Lombardy, he was taught the rudiments of music by his father, an accomplished clarinetist and composer, at a young age and had played timpani in Crema with the Teatro Sociale before...

    • Double Concerto for Cello and Double Bass in G major
  • 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...

    • Double Concerto in A minor for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (1887)
  • Cesar Bresgen
    Cesar Bresgen
    Cesar Bresgen was an Austrian composer.-Biography:He was born in Florence to Maria and August Bresgen, both artists. He spent his childhood in Zell am See, Munich, Prague, and Salzburg....

    • Concertino, for violin, cello and small orchestra
  • Friedrich Cerha
    Friedrich Cerha
    Friedrich Cerha is an Austrian composer and conductor.-Biography:Cerha was born in Vienna.He received his education at the Viennese Music Academy and at the University of Vienna...

    • Double Concerto, for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (1976)
  • Gordon Shi-Wen Chin
    • Double concerto for Violin and Cello (2006)
  • Paul Constantinescu
    Paul Constantinescu
    Paul Constantinescu was a Romanian composer.-Major works:*Piano concerto*Violin concerto*Symphony No.1*The Nativity *A stormy night *Pana Lesnea Rusalim...

    • Triple concerto for piano, violin, cello and orchestra - 1964
  • Richard Danielpour
    Richard Danielpour
    Richard Danielpour is an American composer.-Biography:Danielpour is born of Persian/Jewish descent. He studied at Oberlin College and the New England Conservatory of Music, and later at the Juilliard School of Music, where he received a DMA in composition in 1986...

    • In the Arms of the Beloved (Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra) (2001)
  • Johann Nepomuk David
    Johann Nepomuk David
    Johann Nepomuk David was an Austrian composer.He began his musical career in the monastery of Sankt Florian, and was a composition student of Joseph Marx....

    • Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68 (1971)
  • 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...

    • Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (1915–16)
  • Edison Denisov
    Edison Denisov
    Edison Vasilievich Denisov was a Russian composer of so called "Underground" — "Anti-Collectivist", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division in the Soviet music.-Biography:...

    • Concerto for bassoon, cello and orchestra (1982)
  • Gaetano Donizetti
    Gaetano Donizetti
    Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...

    • Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in D minor
  • Tan Dun
    Tan Dun
    Tan Dun is a Chinese contemporary classical composer, most widely known for his scores for the movies Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero.-Early life in China:...

    • Secret Land for Orchestra and Twelve Violoncellos (2004)
  • Wolfgang Fortner
    Wolfgang Fortner
    Wolfgang Fortner was a German composer, composition teacher and conductor.-Life:Fortner was born in Leipzig. From his parents - both singers - Fortner very early on had intense contact with music...

  • Geza Frid
    Géza Frid
    Géza Frid , was a Hungarian/Dutch composer and pianist.-Early years:Géza Frid was born in Máramarossziget in the Máramaros region of Hungary and studied piano and composition in Budapest with a.o. Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók. He settled in Amsterdam in 1929 and became a Dutch citizen in 1948...

    • Concertino for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra, Op. 63 (11 min) (1961) Donemus
  • Lou Harrison
    Lou Harrison
    Lou Silver Harrison was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer. He was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo Lou Silver Harrison...

    • Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Gamelan (1982)
  • Joseph Haydn
    Joseph Haydn
    Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...

    • Sinfonia Concertante for violin, cello, oboe and bassoon
  • Christian Hege
    • Concerto for Two Cellos and orchestra (1991)
  • Joel Hoffman
    Joel Hoffman
    Joel Hoffman is an American film and television actor. He has starred in Pumpkinhead, Slumber Party Massacre II, and Highway to Heaven and now teaches English at Reedley High School.-External links:...

     (1953- )
    • Triple Concerto for Violin, Viola, Cello and Orchestra (22 min) (1978)
    • Double Concerto for Viola and Cello and Orchestra (31 min)
  • Leopold Hofmann
    Leopold Hofmann
    Leopold Hofmann was an Austrian composer of classical music.-Biography:...

    • Concertino for two cellos and orchestra
  • David Johnstone
    • Double Concertante for Solo Violin, Solo Cello and Chamber Orchestra (16 mins) (2009)
  • Julius Klengel
    Julius Klengel
    Julius Klengel was a German cellist who is most famous for his etudes and solo pieces written for the instrument. He was the brother of Paul Klengel....

    • Double Concerto No. 1 for 2 Cellos and Orchestra
    • Double Concerto No. 2 in E minor for 2 Cellos and Orchestra, Op. 45 (1912)
    • Double Concerto No. 1 for Violin, Cello and Orchestra
    • Double Concerto No. 2 for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, Op. 61 (1924)
  • Ezra Laderman
    Ezra Laderman
    Ezra Laderman is an American composer of classical music.-Biography:His parents, Isidor and Leah, both emigrated to the United States from Poland. Though poor, the family had a piano. Ezra writes, "At four, I was improvising at the piano; at seven, I began to compose music, writing it down...

    • Parisot - Concerto for Multiple Cellos and orchestra (Schirmer) (27 min) (1996)
  • Norbert Moret
    Norbert Moret
    Norbert Moret was a 20th century Swiss composer, as well as a conductor, pianist, and teacher....

    • Double Concerto for Violin and Cello (1981)
  • Michael Nyman
    Michael Nyman
    Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...

    • Double concerto for Cello and Saxophone
  • Mark O'Connor
    Mark O'Connor
    Mark O'Connor is an American bluegrass, jazz, country and classical violinist fiddler, composer and music teacher. O'Connor's music is wide-ranging, critically acclaimed, and he has received numerous awards for both his playing and his composition...

    • Double Concerto for violin, cello and Orchestra (For the Heroes) - Three movements
  • David Ott
    David Ott
    David Ott is an American composer of classical music.Born in Crystal Falls, Michigan, Ott's works include four symphonies, an opera , the Annapolis Overture, written for the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, and various pieces of children's music. He has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music ...

    • Concerto for Two Cellos (1988)
  • Krzysztof Penderecki
    Krzysztof Penderecki
    Krzysztof Penderecki , born November 23, 1933 in Dębica) is a Polish composer and conductor. His 1960 avant-garde Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima for string orchestra brought him to international attention, and this success was followed by acclaim for his choral St. Luke Passion. Both these...

    • Concerto grosso for 3 Cellos and Orchestra (2000–01)
  • Hans Pfitzner
    Hans Pfitzner
    Hans Erich Pfitzner was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.-Biography:Pfitzner was born in Moscow, Russia, where his...

    • Duo for Violin, Cello and Small Orchestra (or piano)
  • Carlo Alfredo Piatti
    Carlo Alfredo Piatti
    Carlo Alfredo Piatti was an Italian cellist. He was born at via Borgo Canale, in Bergamo and died in Mozzo, 4 miles from Bergamo....

    • "Serenata" for two cellos and orchestra
  • David Popper
    David Popper
    David Popper was a Bohemian cellist and composer.-Life:He was born in Prague, and studied music at the Prague Conservatory. He studied the cello under Julius Goltermann , and soon attracted attention...

    • Requiem for 3 Cellos and Orchestra, Op. 66
  • Robert Xavier Rodríguez
    Robert Xavier Rodriguez
    Robert Xavier Rodríguez is an American classical composer, best known for his eight operas and his works for children.- Life and career :...

    • Favola Concertante, Ballet and Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, and String Orchestra (1975)
  • Julius Röntgen
    Julius Röntgen
    Julius Engelbert Röntgen was a German-Dutch composer of classical music.-Life:Julius Röntgen was born in Leipzig, Germany, to a family of musicians. His father, Engelbert Röntgen, was first violinist in the Gewandhaus orchestra in Leipzig; his mother, Pauline Klengel, was a pianist, the aunt of...

    • Triple concerto in B-flat major, for violin, viola, cello and strings (1922)
    • Double Concerto for violin and cello (1927)
    • Triple concerto for violin, viola and cello (1930)
    • Introduktion, Fuge, Intermezzo und Finale for violin, viola, cello
  • Ned Rorem
    Ned Rorem
    Ned Rorem is a Pulitzer prize-winning American composer and diarist. He is best known and most praised for his song settings.-Life:...

    • Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra
  • Miklós Rózsa
    Miklós Rózsa
    Miklós Rózsa was a Hungarian-born composer trained in Germany , and active in France , England , and the United States , with extensive sojourns in Italy from 1953...

    • Theme and Variations for violin, cello and orchestra (This work exist in two forms)
Sinfonia Concertant, Op. 29
Tema con Variazoni, Op. 29a
  • 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...

    • La Muse et le Poète for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, Op. 132 (1910)
  • 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...

    • Concerto Grosso No. 2, for violin, violoncello and orchestra (1981–82)
  • Ivan Tcherepnin
    Ivan Tcherepnin
    Ivan Tcherepnin was an experimental, then later modernist/postmodernist, composer. He was born into a highly musical family, his father and grandfather, Alexander and Nikolai, being distinguished Russian composers, and his mother Ming a well-known pianist...

    • Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (1996)
  • Lasse Thoresen
    Lasse Thoresen
    Lasse Thoresen is a Norwegian composer whose works concentrate on a contemporary transformation of the folk-music traditions of many peoples, especially those of Scandinavia.-Biography:...

    • Illuminations - Concerto for 2 Violoncelli and Orchestra
  • Michael Tippett
    Michael Tippett
    Sir Michael Kemp Tippett OM CH CBE was an English composer.In his long career he produced a large body of work, including five operas, three large-scale choral works, four symphonies, five string quartets, four piano sonatas, concertos and concertante works, song cycles and incidental music...

    • Triple Concerto for violin, viola, cello and orchestra (1978–79)
  • 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...

    • Double Concerto in E minor for Cello and Bassoon, RV 409
    • Double Concerto in G minor for 2 Cellos and String Orchestra
    • Double Concerto ("All'inglese"), for Violin, Cello, Strings & Continuo in A major, RV 546
    • Concerto for Violin, Cello and Strings in B flat major, Op. 20, No. 2
    • Concerto for Violin, Cello and Strings in F major RV 308
    • Concerto for Violin, Cello and Strings in A major RV 238
  • Henri Vieuxtemps
    Henri Vieuxtemps
    Henri François Joseph Vieuxtemps was a Belgian composer and violinist. He occupies an important place in the history of the violin as a prominent exponent of the Franco-Belgian violin school during the mid-19th century....

    • Duo brilliant, for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, Op. 39
  • Peter von Winter
    • Concertino in E flat Major for Clarinet, Cello and Orchestra Edition

Concertante works and arrangements

  • Sir Granville Bantock
    Granville Bantock
    Sir Granville Bantock was a British composer of classical music.-Biography:Granville Ransome Bantock was born in London. His father was a Scottish doctor. He was intended by his parents for the Indian Civil Service but was drawn into the musical world. His first teacher was Dr Gordon Saunders at...

    • Elegiac poem (1898)
    • Sapphic poem (1906)
    • Celtic poem (1914)
    • Hamabdil for cello, harp and strings (1919) (Part of Judith)
    • Dramatic poem (1941)
  • Adolphe Biarent
    Adolphe Biarent
    Adolphe Biarent was a Belgian composer, conductor, cellist and music teacher.Biarent studied at the conservatories of Brussels and of Ghent, and was a pupil of Émile Mathieu...

    • Deux sonnets pour violoncelle et orchestre - d`après José-Maria de Hérédia (1909–1912)
      • I Le réveil d'un dieu
      • II Floridum Mare
  • 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...

    • Schelomo
      Schelomo
      Schelomo is a cello concerto written by Ernest Bloch, first published in 1916 and receiving its first premiere on May 3, 1917 in Carnegie Hall, New York City. This Rhapsodie hébraïque pour violoncelle et grand orchestre was completed during Bloch's "Jewish Cycle," which lasted from 1912 to 1926...

      , Rhapsodie Hebraïque pour violoncelle et grand orchestre (1915-6)
    • Voice in the Wilderness (1934-6)
  • Leon Boëllmann
    Léon Boëllmann
    Léon Boëllmann was a French composer of Alsatian origin, known for a small number of compositions for organ. His best-known composition is Suite Gothique , still very much a staple of the organ repertoire, especially its dramatic concluding Toccata.-Biography:The son of a pharmacist, Boëllmann was...

    • Variations Symphoniques, Op. 23
  • 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...

    • Arrangement of the Double Concerto for Solo Cello and Orchestra
      Double Concerto (Brahms)
      The Double Concerto in A minor, Op. 102, by Johannes Brahms is a concerto for violin, cello and orchestra.- Origin of the work :The Double Concerto was Brahms' final work for orchestra. It was composed in the summer of 1887, and first performed on 18 October of that year in the Gürzenich in Köln,...

(arr.- Garben; from the Concerto for Violin and Cello and Orchestra) Edition Sikorski
  • 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...

    • Oration (1930)
  • Max Bruch
    Max Bruch
    Max Christian Friedrich Bruch , also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic composer and conductor who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin repertoire.-Life:Bruch was born in Cologne, Rhine Province, where he...

    • Kol Nidre
      Kol Nidre (Bruch)
      Kol Nidrei, Op. 47 , is a composition for cello and orchestra written by Max Bruch.Bruch completed the composition in Liverpool, England, before it was first published in Berlin in 1881. It is styled as an Adagio on 2 Hebrew Melodies for Cello and Orchestra with Harp and consists of a series of...

      , Op. 47 (late 1880)
    • Canzone, Op. 55 (about 1891)
    • Adagio after Celtic themes, Op. 56 (c.1891)
    • Ave Maria, Op. 61 (1892)
  • Alan Bush
    Alan Bush
    Alan Dudley Bush was a British composer and pianist. He was a committed socialist, and politics sometimes provided central themes in his music.-Personal life:...

    • Concert Suite Op. 37
  • Gaspar Cassadó
    Gaspar Cassadó
    Gaspar Cassadó i Moreu was a Spanish cellist and composer of the early 20th century. He was born in Barcelona to a church musician father and began taking cello lessons at age seven. When he was nine, he played in a recital where Pablo Casals was in the audience; Casals immediately offered to...

    • Cello Concerto in E Major
      Cello Concerto in E Major (Cassado-Tchaikovsky)
      The Cello Concerto in E major was not written by Tchaikovsky. It was created by the cellist Gaspar Cassadó, who took about nine of Tchaikovsky's piano pieces , and orchestrated them as, collectively, a concerto....

      , based on Tchaikovsky
      Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
      Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...

      's Piano Pieces, Op. 72, (1940)
    • Cello Concerto in D Major, based on Weber
      Carl Maria von Weber
      Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school....

      's Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E flat Major, Op. 74
    • Cello Concerto in D Major, based on Mozart
      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

      's Horn Concerto No. 3 in E flat Major, K. 447
    • Cello Concerto in A Minor, based on Schubert
      Franz Schubert
      Franz 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...

      's Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano, D. 821
  • Jean Cras
    Jean Cras
    Jean Émile Paul Cras was a 20th century French composer and career naval officer. His musical compositions were inspired by his native Brittany, his travels to Africa, and most of all, by his sea voyages...

    • Légende (1929)
  • César Cui
    César Cui
    César Antonovich Cui was a Russian of French and Lithuanian descent. His profession was as an army officer and a teacher of fortifications; his avocational life has particular significance in the history of music, in that he was a composer and music critic; in this sideline he is known as a...

    • Deux morceaux Op.36 (1886)
      • I. Scherzando: Allegretto mosso
      • II. Cantabile: Andante
  • 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...

    • Caprice and Elegy (1930)
  • 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....

    • Konzertstück, for cello and orchestra in D major, Op. 12 (1903–4)
  • Antonín Dvořák
    Antonín Dvorák
    Antonín 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...

  • 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...

    • Élegie in C minor
      Élégie, Op. 24
      The Élégie for cello and orchestra, Op. 24, was written by Gabriel Fauré in 1883. The piece, in C minor, features a sad and somber opening and climaxes with an intense, fast-paced section. The piece, which is in ABA format, was originally conceived as part of an unfinished cello sonata. Fauré...

      , Op. 24
  • Morton Feldman
    Morton Feldman
    Morton Feldman was an American composer, born in New York City.A major figure in 20th century music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown...

    • Cello and Orchestra (1972)
  • Alexander Glazunov
    Alexander Glazunov
    Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor...

    • A la mémoire d'un Heros, Op.8 (1885)
    • Deux pièces, Op.20 (1888)
      • I. Mélodie: Moderato
      • II. Sérénade espagnole: Allegretto
    • Chant du ménestrel, Op.71 (1900)
    • A la mémoire de Gogol, Op.87 (1909
  • Osvaldo Golijov
    Osvaldo Golijov
    Osvaldo Noé Golijov is a Grammy award–winning composer of classical music.-Biography:Osvaldo Golijov was born in and grew up in La Plata, Argentina, in a Jewish family that had emigrated to Argentina in the 1920s from Romania and Russia.Golijov has developed a rich musical language, the result of...

    • Azul for Cello and Orchestra (2006)
    • Mariel for Cello and Orchestra (2007)
    • Ausencia for Cello and Strings (2007)
  • Hans Werner Henze
    Hans Werner Henze
    Hans Werner Henze is a German composer of prodigious output best known for "his consistent cultivation of music for the theatre throughout his life"...

    • Ode an den Westwind (1953)
    • Englische Liebeslieder (1984–1985)
  • Victor Herbert
    Victor Herbert
    Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...

    • 5 pieces (1900)
      • I. Yesterthoughts
      • II. Pièce amoureuse
      • III. Puchinello
      • IV. Ghazel
      • V. The Mountainbrook
  • David Johnstone
    • Entre Dos Mundos, Pop-Classic Concerto for Solo Cello and String Orchestra (2005)
  • Paul Juon
    Paul Juon
    Paul Juon was a Germanised Russian composerHe was born in Moscow, where his father was an insurance official. His mother was German, and he went to a German school in Moscow. He entered the Moscow Conservatory in 1889, where he studied violin with Jan Hřímalý and composition with Anton Arensky...

  • Julius Klengel
    Julius Klengel
    Julius Klengel was a German cellist who is most famous for his etudes and solo pieces written for the instrument. He was the brother of Paul Klengel....

    • Andante sostenuto, Op. 51
  • Giuseppe Martucci
    Giuseppe Martucci
    Giuseppe Martucci was an Italian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. As a composer and teacher he was influential in reviving Italian interest in non-operatic music. As a conductor he helped to introduce Richard Wagner's operas to Italy and also gave important early concerts of English music...

    • Andante. op.69.2 (1891)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...

    • Concerto in D for Cello and Orchestra K. 314 (285d) transcribed by George Szell
      George Szell
      George Szell , originally György Széll, György Endre Szél, or Georg Szell, was a Hungarian-born American conductor and composer...

       (originally for oboe / flute in C Major)
    • Cello Concerto in D, K. 447 (original for Horn in Eb) (arr. Cassado)
  • Jacques Offenbach
    Jacques Offenbach
    Jacques Offenbach was a Prussian-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr....

    • Andante, A.8 (1845)
    • Rondo, Op. 25
  • Niccolò Paganini
    Niccolò Paganini
    Niccolò Paganini was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique...

    • Variations on One String
  • Hans Pfitzner
    Hans Pfitzner
    Hans Erich Pfitzner was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.-Biography:Pfitzner was born in Moscow, Russia, where his...

    • Duo for Violin, Cello and small Orchestra, Op. 43 (1937)
  • Carlo Alfredo Piatti
    Carlo Alfredo Piatti
    Carlo Alfredo Piatti was an Italian cellist. He was born at via Borgo Canale, in Bergamo and died in Mozzo, 4 miles from Bergamo....

    • "Air Baskyrs, Op. 8" for cello and string orchestra
    • "Entreaty / Supplication / Bitte" for cello and orchestra
(also a version for cello and strings, also a version for cello and quartet)
    • "Tema e Variazioni" for cello and string orchestra
  • Walter Piston
    Walter Piston
    Walter Hamor Piston Jr., , was an American composer of classical music, music theorist and professor of music at Harvard University whose students included Leroy Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, and Elliott Carter....

    • Variations for cello and orchestra (1966)
  • David Popper
    David Popper
    David Popper was a Bohemian cellist and composer.-Life:He was born in Prague, and studied music at the Prague Conservatory. He studied the cello under Julius Goltermann , and soon attracted attention...

    • Im Walde Suite
    • Gavotte No. 2 in D minor
    • Tarantella
    • Hungarian Rhapsody
  • Ottorino Respighi
    Ottorino Respighi
    Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer, musicologist and conductor. He is best known for his orchestral "Roman trilogy": Fountains of Rome ; Pines of Rome ; and Roman Festivals...

    • Adagio con variazioni for Cello and Orchestra
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...

    • Sérénade, Op. 37 (1893,1903)
  • Helmut Rogl
    • ViolonChallenges, Op. 24 (1994)
  • Julius Röntgen
    Julius Röntgen
    Julius Engelbert Röntgen was a German-Dutch composer of classical music.-Life:Julius Röntgen was born in Leipzig, Germany, to a family of musicians. His father, Engelbert Röntgen, was first violinist in the Gewandhaus orchestra in Leipzig; his mother, Pauline Klengel, was a pianist, the aunt of...

    • Two Irish folk melodies (1912)
      • Shule Aroon
      • Bean Mhic A'Mhaoir
  • Edmund Rubbra
    Edmund Rubbra
    Edmund Rubbra was a British composer. He composed both instrumental and vocal works for soloists, chamber groups and full choruses and orchestras. He was greatly esteemed by fellow musicians and was at the peak of his fame in the mid-20th century. The most famous of his pieces are his eleven...

    • Soliloquy for cello, horns strings and timpani, Op. 57 (1947)
  • Dorian Rudnytsky
    Dorian Rudnytsky
    Dorian Rudnytsky is an American cellist and composer. He was born in New York City but has a Ukrainian background. His father is composer/conductor Antin Rudnytsky, and his mother is soprano Maria Sokil....

    • Costa Blanca Suite (2005)
  • 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...

    • Allegro appasionato in B minor, Op. 43
    • Romance, Op. 36
    • Suite in D minor, Op.16 bis
      Suite, op. 16 (Saint-Saëns)
      The Suite for Cello and Piano, Op. 16, was written by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1866. This work is considered the launching point of the composer's career.-Structure:The piece is written in the form of a suite with five movements:#Prélude: Moderato assai...

       for cello and orchestra
  • Aulis Sallinen
    Aulis Sallinen
    Aulis Sallinen is a Finnish contemporary classical music composer. He writes in a modern, though tonal and not experimental music style. He studied at the Sibelius Academy, where his teachers included Joonas Kokkonen...

    • Nocturnal Dances of Don Juan Quixote for Cello and String Orchestra, Op. 58
  • William Schuman
    William Schuman
    William Howard Schuman was an American composer and music administrator.-Life:Born in Manhattan in New York City to Samuel and Rachel Schuman, Schuman was named after the twenty-seventh U.S. president, William Howard Taft, although his family preferred to call him Bill...

  • Charles Villiers Stanford
    Charles Villiers Stanford
    Sir 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 :...

    • Irish Rhapsody No.3, Op.137 (1913)
  • 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...

    • Romance for cello and (piano or) orchestra, AV75 (1883)
  • Igor Stravinsky
    Igor Stravinsky
    Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....

    • Italienische Suite, (transcribed for cello and chamber orchestra by Vassily Lobanov) (1985)
  • Alexandre Tansman
    Alexandre Tansman
    Alexandre Tansman was a Polish-born composer and virtuoso pianist. He spent his early years in his native Poland, but lived in France for most of his life...

    • Fantaisie (1937)
    • Les Dix commandements (1979)
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...

    • Variations on a Rococo Theme
      Variations on a Rococo Theme
      The Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33, for cello and orchestra was the closest Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ever came to writing a full concerto for cello and orchestra. The style was inspired by Mozart, Tchaikovsky's role model, and makes it clear that Tchaikovsky admired the Classical style very...

      , Op. 33, 1876, rev. 1878
    • Pezzo Capriccioso
      Pezzo Capriccioso (Tchaikovsky)
      Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed his Pezzo capriccioso, Op. 62, for cello and orchestra in a single week in August 1887. Belying its title, this work is written in the somber key of B minor, the same key as the Pathetique symphony. The Pezzo is not capricious in a lighthearted sense...

      , Op. 62
    • Norturne, Op. 19, No. 4
    • Andente Cantabile, Op. 11 (from String Quartet No. 1
      String Quartet No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)
      String Quartet No. 1 in D major was the first of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's three string quartets, and his Opus 11.The quartet has 4 movements:# Moderato e semplice # Andante cantabile...

      )
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...

    • Variations for Cello & Band or Orchestra
  • Julian Lloyd Webber
    Julian Lloyd Webber
    Julian Lloyd Webber is a British solo cellist who has been described as the "doyen of British cellists".-Early life:Julian Lloyd Webber is the second son of the composer William Lloyd Webber and his wife Jean Johnstone . He is the younger brother of the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber...

    • Jackie's Song, for cello and Strings
  • Carl Maria von Weber
    Carl Maria von Weber
    Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school....

    • Potpourri, Op. 20 (1808)
  • Mieczysław Weinberg
    • Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra (1956)
  • Graham Whettam
    • Ballade Hebraique (1999)

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