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• Joseph Abaco
  Joseph Abaco
  Joseph Abaco was a Belgian violoncellist and composer...
  
  
  • (11) Caprices for Violoncello solo
• 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...
  
  
  • Sonata for unaccompanied cello (1965)
• Kalevi Aho
  Kalevi Aho
  Kalevi Aho is a Finnish composer.- Career :Born in Forssa, he studied composition at the Sibelius Academy under Einojuhani Rautavaara, receiving a diploma in 1971. He continued his studies for a year in Berlin with Boris Blacher...
  
  
  • Solo IV for Violoncello solo (10 min.) (1997)
• Hugh Aitken
  • For the Cello (1980)
• Franghis Ali-Zadeh
  • Ask Havasi for violoncello solo (part of the cycle Silk Road) (dedicated to Ivan Monighetti) (10 min) (1998)
  • Oyan for violoncello (dedicated to Rostropovich) (8 min) (2005)
• Maarten Altena
  • Figura for cello solo (1993)
• Lucio Amanti
  Lucio Amanti
  Lucio Amanti is a Canadian cellist. He grew up and begun his studies in Cello and composition in Naples then in France and finally in USA with Janos Starker....
  
  
  • Jazz Suite for cello solo(2010
• Stoyan Angelov
  • Phrygian Fantasy for solo cello (2007)
• Giovanni Battista Degl' Antonii (ca. 1610–1698)
  • Twelve Ricercate sopra il violoncello Op. 1 (1687)
• Georges Aperghis
  Georges Aperghis
  Georges Aperghis is a Greek composer working primarily in the field of experimental music theater but has also composed a large amount of non-programmatic chamber music...
  
  
  • Quatres Récitations for solo cello (17 min) (1980)
  • Sonate for solo cello (12 min) ( 1994)
• Gilbert Amy
  Gilbert Amy
  Gilbert Amy is a French composer and conductor. In 1954 he entered the Conservatoire de Paris where he was taught and influenced by Olivier Messiaen and Darius Milhaud and studied piano with Yvonne Loriod and fugue with Simone Plé-Caussade. His first compositions date from 1955...
  
  
  • Quasi Scherzando for Cello solo
• 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...
  
  
  • Sufi Suite for solo cello
  • Song on Mt. San Angelo for solo cello
• Georgi Arnaoudov
  • Kells for solo cello (8 min) (1999)
• Violet Archer
  Violet Archer
  Violet Archer, CM was a Canadian composer, teacher, pianist, organist, and percussionist. Born Violet Balestreri in Montreal, Quebec, her family changed their name to Archer. She died in Ottawa....
  
  
  • Improvisation for Solo Cello (1983)
• Malcolm Arnold
  Malcolm Arnold
  Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE was an English composer and symphonist.Malcolm Arnold began his career playing trumpet professionally, but by age thirty his life was devoted to composition. He was ranked with Benjamin Britten as one of the most sought-after composers in Britain...
  
  
  • Fantasy for Cello (1987)
• Lera Auerbach
  Lera Auerbach
  Lera Auerbach is a Russian-born American composer and pianist.-Early life & education:Auerbach was born in Chelyabinsk, a city in the Urals bordering Siberia. She holds degrees in piano and composition from The Juilliard School, where she studied piano with Joseph Kalichstein and composition...
  
  
  • Sonata for cello opus 72 (2003) (12 min)

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• Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach
  Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
  
  
  • Six Suites for Cello
    Cello Suites (Bach)
    The Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by Johann Sebastian Bach are some of the most performed and recognizable solo compositions ever written for cello...
    
     (ca. 1720)
  • The Sonata and partitas for solo cello (originally for solo violin)
  • Chaconne
    Chaconne
    A chaconne ; is a type of musical composition popular in the baroque era when it was much used as a vehicle for variation on a repeated short harmonic progression, often involving a fairly short repetitive bass-line which offered a compositional outline for variation, decoration, figuration and...
    
     (from Partita No. 2 for cello solo, BWV 1004) (original is for violin solo)
• Holmer Becker
  • Sonata for Cello solo (2005)
• Nicolas Bacri
  Nicolas Bacri
  Nicolas Bacri is a French composer. He has written works that include 6 symphonies, 8 string quartets, and 27 concertos.-Career:...
  
  
  • Suite for cello solo, Op. 31 No. 1 Preludio e metamorfosi (1987–94)
  • Suite for cello solo, Op. 31 No. 2 Tragica (1991–93)
  • Suite for cello solo, Op. 31 No. 3 Vita et Mors (1991–93)
  • Suite for cello solo, Op. 50 No. 4 (1994–96) (Written for Emmanuelle Bertrand
    Emmanuelle Bertrand
    Emmanuelle Bertrand is a French cellist.-Biography:Emmanuelle Bertrand studied with Jean Deplace and Philippe Muller, and received early support from Henri Dutilleux....
    
    )
• Roumen Balyosov
  • Welcome XX Century for solo cello (2000)
  • Suite No. 5 for solo cello, Op. 70b Sonata variata (2000–2001) (dedicated to Clémentine Meyer) (ed Peer Music)
  • Suite No. 6 for cello solo Op. 88 (2004) (ed. Le Chant du Monde)
• 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...
  
  
  • Sonata No. 2
• David N. Baker
  • Sonata for Solo Cello (1990)
• Rumen Balyozov
  • Rhapsodic Improvisation for cello No. 1 (4 min) (1971)
  • Rhapsodic Improvisation for cello No. 2 (5 min) (1979)
• Don Banks
  Don Banks
  Donald Oscar Banks was an Australian composer of concert, jazz, and commercial music.He initially studied at the University of Melbourne, then moved to London where he studied with Mátyás Seiber...
  
  
  • Sequence for Solo Cello (1967)
• 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...
  
  
  • Sonata in G minor for solo cello (1924)
• George Barati
  • Piece for solo cello (1948)
  • Triple Exposure for unaccompanied cello (1967)
• Rami Bar-Niv
  • Improvisation for cello solo
• Carmen Petra Basacopol
  • Suite for Violoncello solo Op. 48 No. 3 (1983)
• 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...
  
  
  • Rhapsodic Ballad (1939) (http://www.davidparlett.co.uk/bax/)
• Conrad Beck
  Conrad Beck
  Conrad Beck was a Swiss composer.Beck was the son of a pastor. His stay in Paris between 1924 and 1933 proved crucial to his artistic development, where he studied with Jacques Ibert and also made contact with Arthur Honegger, Nadia Boulanger, and Albert Roussel...
  
  
  • Epigrams for cello solo, ( for Paul Sacher
    Paul Sacher
    Paul Sacher was a Swiss conductor, patron and impresario.-Biography:He studied under Felix Weingartner, among others. In 1926 he founded the Basel Chamber Orchestra to play works written before the classical period and modern works...
    
    )
• Elizabeth Bell
  • Soliloquy for Solo Cello (1980)
• 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...
  
  
  • Music for Violoncello Solo (9 min) (1974)
• Richard Rodney Bennett
  Richard Rodney Bennett
  Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE is an English composer renowned for his film scores and his jazz performance as much as for his challenging concert works...
  
  
  • Partita for solo cello (10 min) (2001)
  • Sonata for solo cello
  • Scena II for solo cello (10 min) (1973)
• Niels Viggo Bentzon
  Niels Viggo Bentzon
  Niels Viggo Bentzon was a Danish composer and pianist.Bentzon was descended from Johan Ernst Hartmann and the great-grandson of J.P.E. Hartmann. From 1938 to 1942, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen under Knud Jeppesen and Christian Christiansen...
  
  
  • Sonata for cello solo Op. 110 (19 min) (1956)
  • Variations for Cello solo on "The Volga Boatmen", Op. 354 (21 min) (1974)
  • 16 Etudes for solo cello Op. 464 (18 min) (1984)
  • Sonata Op. 110
• Esteban Benzecry
  Esteban Benzecry
  Esteban Benzecry is an Argentine classical composer.-Early years:Argentinean composer born in Lisbon in 1970 , after growing up in Argentina he has lived in France since 1997, and obtained French nationality in 2011....
  
  
  • Suite "Prisme du Sud (1970)
• Michael Berkeley
  Michael Berkeley
  Michael Berkeley is a British composer and broadcaster on music.-Early life:His father was the composer Sir Lennox Berkeley...
  
  
  • Iberian Notebook Suite for solo cello (15 min) (1980)
• Luciano Berio
  Luciano Berio
  Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.-Biography:Berio was born at Oneglia Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian...
  
  
  • Les mots sont allés (1978) (for Paul Sacher
    Paul Sacher
    Paul Sacher was a Swiss conductor, patron and impresario.-Biography:He studied under Felix Weingartner, among others. In 1926 he founded the Basel Chamber Orchestra to play works written before the classical period and modern works...
    
    ) (http://composers21.com/compdocs/beriol.htm)
  • Sequenza VIb for solo cello (16 min) (1981)
  • Chanson pour Pierre Boulez (Song for Pierre Boulez
    Pierre Boulez
    Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...
    
    ) for solo cello (3 min) (2000)
  • Sequenza XIV for solo cello (12 min) (2002)
• Gunther Bialas
  • Romanze for solo cello (for Hoelscher) (1987)
• Marshall Bialosky
  • Fantasy for solo cello (1974)
• Jörg Birkenkötter
  • Solo for cello (1986)
• Marc Bleuse
  • Soleil blanc for cello solo
• 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...
  
   (1880–1959)
  • Suites 1–3 for solo cello (1956–7) (written for Zara Nelsova
    Zara Nelsova
    Zara Nelsova was a prominent cellist.She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to parents of Russian descent, and first performed at the age of five in Winnipeg...
    
    ) (http://www.emmanuelle-bertrand.com/presse/fanfare0406-07.shtml)
  • "Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hebraique" (hear recording by Veronika Blinder)
• Robert Paul Block
  • Fantasy for Cello Solo (1973)
• Karl Boelter
  • Of Two Minds for unaccompanied cello (6 min) (1978)
• William Bolcom
  William Bolcom
  William Elden Bolcom is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, two Grammy Awards, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. Bolcom taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973–2008...
  
  
  • Suite in C minor for solo cello (17 min) (1994)
• Ennio Bolognini
  Ennio Bolognini
  Ennio Bolognini was born in Buenos Aires and was a cellist, composer and conductor.-Early life and musical training:Born into a musical family, his father was an amateur cellist and a close friend of the conductor Arturo Toscanini, who became Ennio's godfather.Bolognini studied first with his...
  
  
  • Adagio an Allegro for solo cello
  • Fiesta Baska - Lamada Montanesa for solo cello
  • Seranata de Bolonini for solo cello
  • Seranata del Eco for solo cello
  • Serenata Del Gaucho for solo cello
  • Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Purcell
  • Cello's Prayer
• Benjamin Boone
  • Buffing the Gut: A Jazz Etude for Cello Solo
• 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...
  
  
  • Suite for cello solo Op. 41
• Hans Bottermund
  Hans Bottermund
  Hans Bottermund was born in Leipzig in 1892 and died in Berlin in 1949. He was a cellist and composer who studied with Klengel, Becker, and Schroeder. He taught in Frankfurt and was the solo cellist of the Berlin Philharmonic.-Compositions:...
  
   - Janos Starker
  János Starker
  János Starker |Kingdom of Hungary]]) is a Hungarian-American cellist. Since 1958 he has taught at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he holds the title of Distinguished Professor.- Child prodigy :...
  
  
  • Variations on a Theme by Paganini for unaccompanied cello)
• 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 :...
  
  
  • Suite for solo cello in D major (2003)(http://www.hendrikbouman.com)
• Reiner Bredemeyer
  Reiner Bredemeyer
  Reiner Bredemeyer was a German composer. He was born in Vélez, Santander and went to school in Breslau. In 1944 he began his military service. After World War II he met Karl Amadeus Hartmann. From 1949 to 1953 he studied composition with Karl Höller at the Munich Academy for Musical Arts...
  
   (1929–1995)
  • Solo 1 for cello solo (1973)
  • Solo 6 for cello solo (written for H.J. Scheitzbach) (1980)
• Alvin Brehm
  • Variations for Cello Alone
• 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 Suites (Britten)
    Cello Suites (Britten)
    The Cello Suites by Benjamin Britten are a series of three compositions for solo cello, dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich. The suites were the first original solo instrumental music that Britten wrote for and dedicated to Rostropovich, but Britten had earlier composed a cadenza for Joseph...
    
    

Suite for Cello solo no 1, Op. 72 (1964)

Suite for Cello solo no 2, Op. 80 (1967)

Suite for Cello solo no 3, Op. 87 (1972)

• • Tema "Sacher," for solo cello (for Paul Sacher
    Paul Sacher
    Paul Sacher was a Swiss conductor, patron and impresario.-Biography:He studied under Felix Weingartner, among others. In 1926 he founded the Basel Chamber Orchestra to play works written before the classical period and modern works...
    
    )
• Gregory Brown
  • Suite for solo cello
• Leo Brouwer
  Leo Brouwer
  Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida is a Cuban composer, conductor and guitarist. He is the grandson of Cuban composer Ernestina Lecuona Casado.-Biography:...
  
  
  • Sonata for Solo Cello (1960) (http://www.musicroom.com/se/ID_No/080324/details.html?kbid=1070)
• Garrett Brynes
  • Sonata for solo cello (scordatura: IV = B; III = F) (7 min) (1993)
  • Sprocket! for cello solo (7 min) (2006)
• Mikhail Bukinik
  Mikhail Jewsejewitsch Bukinik
  Mykhailo Yevsiyovych Bukinik was a Ukrainian cellist, composer, music educator and music critic of classical music.His four concert etudes for the solo violoncello are also suited for concert performances...
  
  
  • 4 Concert Etudes for Cello Solo (No.4 in f minor)
• Sylvano Bussotti
  Sylvano Bussotti
  Sylvano Bussotti is an Italian composer of contemporary music whose work is unusually notated and often creates special problems of interpretation.Born in Florence, Bussotti learned to play the violin as a child, becoming a prodigy...
  
  
  • Deborah Parker for cello solo (1987)
  • Variazione for violoncello solo

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• John Cage
  John Cage
  John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
  
  
  • One⁸, for Cello Solo (http://www.johncage.info/workscage/one8.html) (1991)
  • 59½ Seconds for solo cello (1953)
  • Atlas Eclipticallis for solo cello (1961)
  • Variations I (1958)
  • Etudes Boreales
    Etudes Boreales
    Etudes Boreales is a set of etudes for cello and/or piano composed by John Cage in 1978. The set is a small counterpart to Cage's other etude collections - Etudes Australes for piano and Freeman Etudes for violin....
    
     for cello solo (1978)
• 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...
  
  
  • Figment, for solo cello (5 min) (1994)
  • Figment No. 2, Remembering Mr. Ives, for cello solo (2001)
• 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...
  
  
  • Suite for Solo Cello
    Suite (Cassado)
    This Suite, like the Cello Concerto and the Piano Trio, came from one Cassadó's most prolific periods, in the mid-1920s. The Suite consists of three dance movements: Preludio-Fantasia - a Zarabanda; Sardana; and Intermezzo e Danza Finale - a Jota...
    
     (1926)
• Nicholas Chase
  • Underneath My Skin for solo cello (2002)
• Frederic Chopin
  Frédéric Chopin
  Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
  
  
  • Etude in Ab Major Op. 25 No. 1 for cello solo (trans. Cassado)
• Dimiter Christoff
  • Reflections of a lonely cello (2000)
• Nigel Clarke
  Nigel Clarke
  Nigel Clarke is a British composer and musician. He is a former head of composition and contemporary music at the London College of Music and Media....
  
  
  • Spectroscope for solo cello (1987)
• William Coble
  • Sonata for solo cello (1980)
• Armand Coeck
  • Madreselva (Mother of the Forest) (1999)

• Grant Colburn
  Grant Colburn
  Grant Colburn is an American harpsichordist, pianist and composer.He studied harpsichord with Igor Kipnis.He is the author of five published collections of baroque and renaissance harpsichord music as well as music for recorder/flute with continuo and unaccompanied cello or viola da gamba, of...
  
  
  • Sonata in D minor for baroque cello or viola da gamba (2009)
• Michael Colgrass
  Michael Colgrass
  Michael Colgrass is an American-born Canadian musician, composer, and educator.His musical career began in Chicago as a jazz musician . He graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in percussion performance and composition, including studies with Darius Milhaud at the Aspen Festival...
  
  
  • Wolf for solo cello (18 min) (1975)
• Giuseppe Colombi (1635–1694)
  • Chiacona a Basso Solo for solo cello (1670)
  • Toccata da Violone Solo (Toccata for solo cello) (1670)
• John Corigliano
  John Corigliano
  John Corigliano is an American composer of classical music and a teacher of music. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College in the City University of New York.-Biography:...
  
  
  • Fancy on a Bach air for violoncello solo (premiered by Yo-Yo Ma
    Yo-Yo Ma
    Yo-Yo Ma is an American cellist, virtuoso, and orchestral composer. He has received multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011...
    
     ) (1997)
• Henry Dixon Cowell
  • For Unaccompanied Cello
  • Gravely and Vigoruously (in Memory of Kennedy) (Hymn & Fuguing Tune No. 17) for cello (1973)
• George Crumb
  George Crumb
  George Crumb is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres, alternative forms of notation, and extended instrumental and vocal techniques. Examples include seagull effect for the cello , metallic vibrato for the piano George Crumb (born...
  
  
  • Cello Sonata (1955)
• Miklós Csemiczky
  • One minute Short Stories for cello solo
• Cesar 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...
  
  
  • Oriantale

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• Raffaele D'Alessandro
  • Intermezzo for cello solo Op. 55 (8 min) (1946)
• Luigi Dallapiccola
  Luigi Dallapiccola
  Luigi Dallapiccola was an Italian composer known for his lyrical twelve-tone compositions.-Biography:Dallapiccola was born at Pisino d'Istria , to Italian parents....
  
  
  • Adagio for Solo cello (1947)
  • Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagio (1945) (16 min)
• Jean-Luc Darbellay
  Jean-Luc Darbellay
  Jean-Luc Darbellay is a Swiss composer, conductor, clarinetist and physician. He was chairman of the Swiss Society for New Music and board member of the International Society for Contemporary Music. Darbellay is a member of the composers group: Groupe Lacroix. He has published about 150 works...
  
  
  • Solo for cello solo (1997)
• Michael Daughterty
  • Jackie's Song for solo cello (2000)
• Avraham Daus
  • The Twelfth Sonnet for cello (1968)
• 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....
  
  
  • 2 Solo Sonatas for cello
• Karl Davidov
  Karl Davidov
  Karl Yulievich Davydov , was a Russian cellist of great renown during his time, and described by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the "tsar of cellists". Arensky dedicated his first piano trio to Davydov's memory. He was also a composer, mainly for the cello....
  
  
  • Cello concerto in B major
  • Cello concerto in A minor
• Mario Davidovsky
  Mario Davidovsky
  Mario Davidovsky is an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today...
  
  
  • Synchronisms No. 3 (1964), for cello and electronic sound
• Robert deMaine
  Robert deMaine
  Robert deMaine is an American virtuoso cellist.-Biography:Robert deMaine was born into a musical family of French and Polish ancestry...
  
  
  • Twelve Études-Caprices for solo cello Op. 31 (1999)
  • Unaccompanied Sonata for cello
• 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:...
  
  
  • Cadenza
    Cadenza
    In music, a cadenza is, generically, an improvised or written-out ornamental passage played or sung by a soloist or soloists, usually in a "free" rhythmic style, and often allowing for virtuosic display....
    
    s for two cello concertos in D major and C major by Haydn (1982)
• 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...
  
  
  • Sonata for Violoncello Alone (1959)
• Paul-Heinz Dittrich
  • Cello Einsatz for cello solo (1975)
• Friedhelm Dohl
  Friedhelm Döhl
  Friedhelm Döhl is a German composer and professor of music.Döhl studied composition with Wolfgang Fortner and piano with Carl Seemann at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, and also musicology, German philology, art history, and philosophy concurrently at the Universities of Freiburg and Göttingen...
  
  
  • Fantasie - Kadenz for Violoncello solo
• Josef Dorfman
  • Looking at Silence for cello (1983)
• Franco Donatoni
  Franco Donatoni
  Franco Donatoni was an Italian composer.Born in Verona, he started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local Music Academy...
  
   (1927–2000)
  • Lame for solo cello (1982)
• John Downey
  John W. Downey
  John W. Downey was a contemporary classical composer, conductor, pianist and educator. His works have been performed extensively in Western and Eastern Europe, South America, Australia, Africa, the Middle East, Israel, Asia, Mexico and Canada, as well as throughout the United States.- Biography...
  
  
  • Lydian Suite for cello solo (1975)
• Zsolt Durkó
  • Solo Suite No. 1 for cello (1979)
• Tomas Dusatko
  • Melos II for solo cello
• 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...
  
  
  • Trois Strophes sur le Nom de SACHER (1976–82) (for Paul Sacher
    Paul Sacher
    Paul Sacher was a Swiss conductor, patron and impresario.-Biography:He studied under Felix Weingartner, among others. In 1926 he founded the Basel Chamber Orchestra to play works written before the classical period and modern works...
    
    )

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• David Eby
  • Celtic Passage for solo cello
• Gerald Eckert
  Gerald Eckert
  Gerald Eckert is a German composer, cellist, and painter. He currently lives in Eckernförde.-Biography:Eckert, born in Nuremberg, studied Mathematics at the University of Erlangen, violoncello and conducting at the conservatory of Nürnberg. Then he studied of composition with Nicolaus A...
  
  
  • Nôema for solo cello (1992/93)
• Søren Nils Eichberg
  Søren Nils Eichberg
  Søren Nils Eichberg is a German/Danish composer. In 2010 he was announced as the first composer-in-residence of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in the orchestra's history.He studied piano and orchestra conducting in Copenhagen and Cologne....
  
  
  • Variations on a theme by Niccolo Paganini for solo cello (2005)
• Hans Ulrich Engelmann
  Hans Ulrich Engelmann
  Hans Ulrich Engelmann was a German composer.-Biography:Engelmann studied composition with Hermann Heiss and Wolfgang Fortner...
  
  
  • mini-music to siegfried palm Op 38 for Violoncello solo (1970)
• Sven Einar Englund
  Sven Einar Englund
  Sven Einar Englund was a Finnish composer.-Life:Sven Einar Englund was born at Ljugarn in Gotland on June 17. 1916; he died 27th. June 1999...
  
  
  • Suite for Solo Cello (1986)
• Gottfried von Einem
  Gottfried von Einem
  Gottfried von Einem was an Austrian composer. He is known chiefly for his operas influenced by the music of Stravinsky and Prokofiev, as well as by jazz. He also composed pieces for piano, violin and organ.-Biography:...
  
  
  • Music for solo cello Op. 108 (11 min) (1996)
• 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...
  
  
  • Hommage á Beethoven Op. 24 (Rhapsodie für Violoncello solo über Themen der Sonate Op. 102/1 von Ludwig van Beethoven) (10 min) (1977)
• Pozzi Escot
  Pozzi Escot
  Pozzi Escot is an American composer and faculty member at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts....
  
  
  • Sonata for Solo Cello (7 min) (2002)

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• Markus Faderudd
  • Ingrepp 2 for solo cello (1992)
• Yuri Falik
  • Composition for solo cello (1979)
• Evan Fein
  • Friday Night Fortune (2006)
• 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...
  
  
  • Projection I for solo cello (3 min) (1950)
  • Intersection IV for solo cello (3 min) (1953)
• David Fetherolf
  • Suite-Fantasia for Violoncello solo (22 min)
  • Suite for Violoncello Solo (5 min)
• Ross Lee Finney
  Ross Lee Finney
  Ross Lee Finney Junior was an American composer born in Wells, Minnesota who taught for many years at the University of Michigan. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, Edward Burlingame Hill, Alban Berg and Roger Sessions...
  
  
  • Chromatic Fantasy In E for Violoncello Solo (1957)
• Graciane Finzi
  Graciane Finzi
  -Life:Graciane Finzi was born in Casablanca, Morocco, and studied music at the Casablanca Conservatory then managed by Georges Friboulet, where her parents were teachers. She entered the Paris Conservatory at age ten, where she studied piano with Joseph Benvenuti and developed an interest in...
  
  
  • Theme and Variations to el cant dels ocells (10 min)
• 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...
  
  
  • The Rest is Silence for violoncello solo (2002)
• Luboš Fišer
  Luboš Fišer
  Luboš Fišer was a Czech composer, born in Prague. He was known both for his soundtracks and chamber music. From 1952 to 1956 he studied the composition at the Prague Conservatory as a pupil of Emil Hlobil. From 1956 he studied at the AMU in Prague...
  
   (1935–1999)
  • Sonata for cello solo (1987)
• Tom Flaherty
  Tom Flaherty
  Tom Flaherty, more commonly known under his pseudonym Old Flaherty, was an American criminal, sneak thief and river pirate in New York City during the mid-to late 19th century. He was the patriarch of a criminal family in New York's Seventh Ward which terrorized the New York waterfront in the...
  
  
  • Semi-Suite for solo cello (8 min) (1990)
  • Remembrance of Things Present (10 min) (2006)
• Jean-Louis Florentz
  • L'Ange du Tamaris
• Marius Flothuis
  • Sonata Op. 2
• Alexandra Fol
  Alexandra Fol
  Alexandra Fol in Sofia, Bulgaria is a Bulgarian-Canadian composer who resides in Montreal, Canada.Fol has composed more than 40 works in different mediums, which have been performed by ensembles such as Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the orkest de ereprijs, Ossia New Music, the New Fromm players,...
  
  
  • Almost Serial for cello solo (1999)
• Lenka Foltynova
  • Safranbolu for solo cello (8 min) (2003)
• 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...
  
  
  • Più Mesto for 2-bow solo cello (12 min) (2003)
• 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...
  
  
  • Suite for Violoncello solo (Schott) (for Paul Sacher
    Paul Sacher
    Paul Sacher was a Swiss conductor, patron and impresario.-Biography:He studied under Felix Weingartner, among others. In 1926 he founded the Basel Chamber Orchestra to play works written before the classical period and modern works...
    
    )
  • Zum Spielen für den 70. Geburtstag: Theme and Variationen for cello solo (1976)
• Henning Frederichs
  • Tefilah (after the 55th Psalm) for cello solo (1990)
• Ilse Fromm-Michaels
  Ilse Fromm-Michaels
  Ilse Fromm-Michaels was a German pianist and composer.-Life:Ilse Fromm-Michaels was born in Hamburg and showed musical talent at an early age. She studied music in Berlin, first at the Hochschule fur Musik with Heinrich van Eyken for composition and with Marie Bender for piano...
  
  
  • Suite for Cello solo Op. 15 (Sikorski)
• Rudolf Escher
  • Sonata for Cello Solo (1955)

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• Domenico Gabrielli
  Domenico Gabrielli
  Domenico Gabrielli was an Italian Baroque composer and virtuoso cello player. He was apparently not related to the Venetian Gabrielis....
  
  
  • Seven Ricercari for solo cello (1689)
• Domenico Galli (1649–1697)
  • Trattenimento musicale 12 Unaccompanied Cello Sonatas (pieces) (1691)
• Orlando Jacinto Garcia
  Orlando Jacinto Garcia
  Orlando Jacinto Garcia is a Cuban-American composer of contemporary classical music.He received a DMA degree in composition from the University of Miami in 1985. He studied composition with Morton Feldman....
  
  
  • Crystalline Sounds of the Night for solo cello
• Glenn Gass
  • Shojoshin-in chants for solo cello (5 movements)
• Ada Gentile
  Ada Gentile
  -Life:Ada Gentile was born in Avezzano and attended the Conservatorio di St. Cecilia in Rome, graduating in piano and composition. She then completed a graduate degree at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia with Goffredo Petrassi...
  
  
  • Pervioloncellosolo (for cello solo) (1996)
• Michael Gielen
  Michael Gielen
  -Professional career:Gielen was born in Dresden, Germany, to opera director Josef Gielen. Through his mother, Rose, he is the nephew of Eduard Steuermann and Salka Steuermann Viertel. He began his career as a pianist in Buenos Aires, where he studied with Erwin Leuchter and gave an early...
  
  
  • Weitblick Sonata for cello solo (1991)
• 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 :...
  
   (1916–83)
  • Puneña No. 2 for solo cello, Op. 45 (Hommage à Paul Sacher
    Paul Sacher
    Paul Sacher was a Swiss conductor, patron and impresario.-Biography:He studied under Felix Weingartner, among others. In 1926 he founded the Basel Chamber Orchestra to play works written before the classical period and modern works...
    
    )
• Maurizio Giri
  • Quaderni 3 for cello and electronics (2003)
• Detlev Glanert
  Detlev Glanert
  Detlev Glanert is a German opera composer, who has also composed numerous works for chamber and full orchestra, including three symphonies.-Biography:Detlev Glanert was born in Hamburg in 1960...
  
  
  • Fünf Wüstenlieder (five Desert Songs) for solo cello (7 min) (1999)
• Phillip Glass
  • Songs and Poems for solo cello (in 7 movements) (2007)
• Gerald Glynn
  • Changes for Cello (1975)
• Friedrich Goldmann
  Friedrich Goldmann
  Friedrich Goldmann was a German composer and conductor.-Life:Born on 27 April 1941, in Siegmar-Schönau, Chemnitz, Goldmann’s music education began in 1951 when he joined the Dresdner Kreuzchor...
  
  
  • Cellomusik for solo cello (12 min) (1974)
• Marin Goleminov
  Marin Goleminov
  Marin Petrov Goleminov was a Bulgarian composer, violinist, conductor and pedagogue.Goleminov was born in Kyustendil; the son of an attorney, he studied law before switching to music...
  
  
  • Sonata for solo cello (8 min) (1969)
• 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...
  
  
  • Omaramor (1991) for solo cello
• Frederic Goossen
  • Music for cello alone (1979)
  • Soliloquy (1993)
• Leonid Grabovsky
  Leonid Grabovsky
  Leonid Oleksandrovych Hrabovsky is a contemporary Ukrainian composer, now living in the United States.- Biography :...
  
  
  • Hlas I for unaccompanied cello (1990)
• Deidre Gribbin
  • The Blue Poet for solo cello (10 min) (2001)
• Sean Grissom
  • Japanese Suite for solo cello (9 min)
  • Bowin' for solo cello
• Robert Gross
  • Epode
• 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...
  
  
  • Ten Preludes for solo cello (1974)

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• Alois Haba
  Alois Hába
  Alois Hába was a Czech composer, musical theorist and teacher. He is primarily known for his microtonal compositions, especially using the quarter tone scale, though he used others such as sixth-tones and twelfth-tones....
  
  
  • Fantasy in quarter-tones for cello solo (1924)
• Parashkev Hadzhiev
  • Haidushko Horo for solo cello (1997)
• 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 :...
  
  
  • Suite for Solo Cello (1985)
  • Higher, Louder, Faster, an editorial etude (1987)

• Cristobal Halffter
  Cristóbal Halffter
  Cristóbal Halffter Jiménez-Encina is a Spanish composer. He is the nephew of two other composers, Rodolfo and Ernesto Halffter.-Life:...
  
  
  • Variations for cello on the theme eSACHERe (for Paul Sacher
    Paul Sacher
    Paul Sacher was a Swiss conductor, patron and impresario.-Biography:He studied under Felix Weingartner, among others. In 1926 he founded the Basel Chamber Orchestra to play works written before the classical period and modern works...
    
    )
• Hermann Haller
  • Trois pieces pour violoncelle seul (3 pieces for solo cello)
• Brooke Halpin
  • Serenata for unaccompanied cello
• 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...
  
  
  • Air and Variations "The Harmonious Blacksmith" from Suite for Harpsichord in E major, HWV 430 arr. 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...
    
    
  • Passacaglia - Theme and Variations for solo cello (arr. Zinoviy Dynov based on the Halvorsen
    Johan Halvorsen
    Johan Halvorsen was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist.-Biography:Born in Drammen, Norway he was an accomplished violinist from a very early age and became a prominent figure in Norwegian musical life...
    
     version)
• John Harbison
  John Harbison
  John Harris Harbison is an American composer, best known for his operas and large choral works.-Life:...
  
  
  • Suite for Solo Cello (8 minutes) (1994)
• Jonathan Harvey
  Jonathan Harvey (composer)
  Jonathan Harvey is a British composer. He has held teaching positions at universities and music conservatories in Europe and the USA and is frequently invited to teach in summer schools around the world.-Life:...
  
  
  • Curve with Plateaux for Helen Verney (1983)
• Joseph Haselbach
  • Abendlied for cello solo (1994)
• Teppo Hauta-aho
  Teppo Hauta-Aho
  Teppo Hauta-Aho is a Finnish double bassist and composer.One of the most prominent jazz and classical double bassist in the Finland area, he resides in Helsinki. One of his most famous pieces, Kadenza, has been played at many music festivals worldwide, and for many competitions...
  
  
  • Improvatio for solo cello (10 min) (1971)
• Paul Hedwall
  • Three verses for unaccompanied cello (1979)
• David Philip Hefti
  David Philip Hefti
  David Philip Hefti , winner of the prestigious Gustav Mahler Competition and of the George Enescu Competition, studied at the Conservatories of Winterthur, Zurich and Carlsruhe, taking composition, conducting, clarinet and chamber music. His mentors included Wolfgang Rihm, Cristóbal Halffter,...
  
  
  • Ritus - 4 Dance Collages for Violoncello Solo (2007)
• Bernhard Heiden
  Bernhard Heiden
  Bernhard Heiden was a German and American composer and music teacher, who studied under and was heavily influenced by Paul Hindemith...
  
  
  • Variations on "Lilliburlero"
• Paavo Heininen
  Paavo Heininen
  Paavo Heininen is a Finnish composer and pianist. He studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where he was taught composition by Aarre Merikanto, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Einar Englund, and Joonas Kokkonen...
  
  
  • Cantilena I Op. 24c (7 min) (1970)
  • Cantilena II Op. 26 (14 min) (1970)
  • Poesie des pensées Op. 23 (6 min) (1970)
• Petr Hejný (*1956)
  • Metal Sonata for cello solo (1983)
• 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"...
  
  
  • Serenade for cello solo (1949)
  • Capriccio for Cello solo (for Paul Sacher
    Paul Sacher
    Paul Sacher was a Swiss conductor, patron and impresario.-Biography:He studied under Felix Weingartner, among others. In 1926 he founded the Basel Chamber Orchestra to play works written before the classical period and modern works...
    
    ) (1976/1981)
• Jörg Herchet
  • Komposition for Violoncello solo (1979)
• Michael Hersch
  Michael Hersch
  Michael Nathaniel Hersch is an American composer and pianist.-Biography:Initial inspiration and musical educationBorn in Washington, D.C., and raised in Reston, Virginia, Hersch was introduced to classical music at the age of 18 by his younger brother Jamie, who showed him a videotape of Georg...
  
  
  • Sonata No. 1 for unaccompanied cello (35 min) (1994)
  • Sonata No. 2 for unaccompanied cello (40 min) (2001)
• Hans-Joachim Hespos
  Hans-Joachim Hespos
  Hans-Joachim Hespos is a German composer of avant-garde music.Since für Cello solo , he has composed in all genres, including many pieces for unaccompanied solo instruments and theatre works...
  
  
  • For cello solo (1964)
• Jacques Hétu
  Jacques Hétu
  Jacques Hétu, OC was a Canadian composer and music educator from Trois-Rivières, Quebec. He was nominated for a 1989 Juno Award in the Best Classical Composition category...
  
  
  • Variations for cello solo Op. 11b (1967)
• Volker Heyn
  • Blues in B-flat for solo cello (1981)
• Jennifer Higdon
  Jennifer Higdon
  Jennifer Higdon is an American composer of classical music. Higdon has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto and the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Percussion Concerto.-Biography:Higdon was born in Brooklyn,...
  
  
  • Suite for solo cello (2002)
• 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...
  
  
  • Sonata for Cello solo, Op. 25 No. 3 (1923)
• Dorothy Hindman
  • drowningXnumbers for solo amplified cello (15min) (1994)
• 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:...
  
  
  • Concert-Study (Fantasie) for solo cello (10 min) (1977)
  • unaccompanied minor for cello solo (5 min) (2007)
• York Höller
  York Höller
  York Höller is a German composer and Professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Köln.-Biography:Between 1963 and 1970 Höller studied at the Cologne Musikhochschule: composition with Joachim Blume and Bernd Alois Zimmermann, piano with Else Schmitz-Gohrand Alfons Kontarsky, and orchestral...
  
  
  • Sonata for solo cello (1968)
• Heinz Holliger
  Heinz Holliger
  Heinz Holliger Heinz Holliger Heinz Holliger (born 21 May 1939 is a Swiss oboist, composer and conductor.-Biography:He was born in Langenthal, Switzerland, and began his musical education at the conservatories of Bern and Basel. He studied composition with Sándor Veress and Pierre Boulez...
  
  
  • Chaconne for cello solo (for Paul Sacher
    Paul Sacher
    Paul Sacher was a Swiss conductor, patron and impresario.-Biography:He studied under Felix Weingartner, among others. In 1926 he founded the Basel Chamber Orchestra to play works written before the classical period and modern works...
    
    ) (1975)
  • Trema for Violoncello solo (1981)
• 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...
  
  
  • Solo Cello Sonata M. 241 (1968–9)
• Imogen Holst
  Imogen Holst
  Imogen Clare Holst, CBE was a British composer and conductor, and sole child of composer Gustav Holst.Imogen Holst was brought up in west London and educated at St Paul's Girls' School, where her father was director of music...
  
  
  • Fall of the Leaf for solo cello
• Colin Holter
  • Variations: Go Rin No Sho for solo cello (2003)
• Alfred Holzhausen
  • NGC 7027 for solo cello (2000)
• Joaquim Homs
  • Arbres al vent for solo cello (5 min) (1992)
  • Soliloqui num. 4 (4 min) (1994)
  • Capvespre vora el mar (4 min) (1994)
• 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...
  
  
  • Paduana for solo cello in G major H181 (1945)
• Gerhard Müller-Hornbach
  • An der Schwelle for Violoncello solo (1990)
• 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...
  
  
  • Yakamochi for cello solo Op. 193 (1965) (15 min)
• Petar Hristoskov
  • Fantasia for solo cello Op. 15 (1967)
  • Ruchenitsa for cello solo (1997)
• Klaus Huber
  Klaus Huber
  Klaus Huber is a Swiss composer.Huber was born in Bern, Switzerland. One of the leading figures of his generation in Europe, he has written extensively for chamber ensembles, choirs, soloists and the orchestra as well as the theater...
  
  
  • Transpositio ad Infinitum für ein virtuoses Solocello (for Paul Sacher
    Paul Sacher
    Paul Sacher was a Swiss conductor, patron and impresario.-Biography:He studied under Felix Weingartner, among others. In 1926 he founded the Basel Chamber Orchestra to play works written before the classical period and modern works...
    
    )
• Nicolaus A. Huber
  Nicolaus A. Huber
  Nicolaus A. Huber is a German composer.From 1958 to 1962 Huber studied music education at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and subsequently composition with Franz Xaver Lehner and Günter Bialas. He pursued his education further with Josef Anton Riedl, Karlheinz Stockhausen and, above...
  
  
  • Der Ausrufer steigt ins Innere for solo cello (1984)
• Rogelio Huguet y Tagell
  • Flamenco for solo cello
• Tobias Hume
  Tobias Hume
  Tobias Hume was a Scottish composer, viol player and soldier.Little is known of his life. Some have suggested that he was born in 1569 because he was admitted to the London Charterhouse in 1629, a pre-requisite to which was being at least 60 years old, though there is no certainty over this...
  
   (1569–1645)
  • Kleine Stücke für Cello solo (Small pieces for cello solo) Book 1 (originally for Gamba) (arranged by Sabina Lehrmann)
  • (Cello solo pieces) Book 2
• 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...
  
   (1925–2002)
  • Fantasia I in G for Cello solo op. 77d1 (1952) http://www.bertoldhummel.de/english/commentaries/opus_77D1.html
  • Fantasia II in memoriam Pablo Casals for Cello solo op. 97a (1993)http://www.bertoldhummel.de/english/commentaries/opus_97A.html
  • Farewell for Cello solo (2002))http://www.bertoldhummel.de/english/commentaries/opus_abschied.html

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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,...
  
   (1890–1962)
  • Etude-Caprice pour un tombeau de Chopin for solo cello (1949)
  • Ghirlarzana for solo cello (1950)
• Yoshirō Irino
  Yoshiro Irino
  was a Japanese composer.Irino was born in Soviet Vladivostok. He attended high school in Tokyo and went on to study economics at Tokyo Imperial University ....
  
   (1921–1980)
  • Three Movements for cello solo (12 min) (1969)

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• Laurie A. Jarski
  • Solo for unaccompanied cello (1990)
• Karl Jenkins
  Karl Jenkins
  -Other works:*Adiemus: Live — live versions of Adiemus music*Palladio *Eloise *Imagined Oceans *The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace...
  
  
  • Benedictus
    Benedictus
    -Music:* Benedictus , the canticle sung at Lauds, also called the Canticle of Zachary.* The second part of the Sanctus, part of the eucharistic prayer* Benedictus , a song by Simon and Garfunkel...
    
    - The Armed Man
    The Armed Man
    The Armed Man is a Mass by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins, subtitled "A Mass for Peace". The piece was commissioned by the Royal Armouries Museum for the Millennium celebrations, and to mark the museum's move from London to Leeds, and it was dedicated to victims of the Kosovo crisis...
    
     (2001)
• William Jeths
  • Bella figura
    Bella Figura
    Bella Figura is a one act ballet by Jiří Kylián. It has music by Pergolesi, Marcello, Vivaldi and Torelli....
    
     for cello solo (1959)
• Jan Jirásek (*1955)
  • Dilema for cello solo (1987)
• Ben Johnston
  • Toccata for Laurien Laufman (1984)

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

• Betsy Jolas
  Betsy Jolas
  Betsy Jolas is a French composer.Betsy Jolas was born in Paris. Resident in the United States from 1940 until 1946, she studied composition with Paul Boepple and piano with Helen Schnabel. On her return to France she continued her studies with Simone Plé-Caussade, Darius Milhaud and Olivier...
  
  
  • Scion for cello solo (1974)
  • Episode cinquième for cello solo (1983)
• Andre 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...
  
  
  • Suite en Concert for cello solo (1965)
• Christian Jost
  Christian Jost
  Christian Jost is a German composer, conductor and pianist. He completed his studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1989. Jost has served as composer-in-residence for several German orchestras; in 2003, he was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Composers Prize.-External links:** at...
  
  
  • Laulos for solo cello (2005)
• Gordon Jacob
  Gordon Jacob
  Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob was an English composer. He is known for his wind instrument composition and his instructional writings.-Life:...
  
  
  • Serenade for solo cello
  • Divertimento for solo cello
• Karl Henrik Juusela
  • Apollo and Daphne for solo cello (5 min) (1987)

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• Dmitry Kabalevsky
  • Etudes in Major and Minor for cello solo Op. 68 (1961)
• Mauricio Kagel
  Mauricio Kagel
  Mauricio Kagel was a German-Argentine composer. He was notable for his interest in developing the theatrical side of musical performance .-Biography:...
  
  
  • Unguis incarnatus est
  • Siegfriedp‘ for cello (1971)
• Istvan Kardos
  • Capriccio for solo cello (1958)
• Tommi Kärkkäinen
  • Variations for solo cello (1999)
• Hugo Kauder
  Hugo Kauder
  Hugo Kauder was a mid-century Austrian composer, pedagogue, and music theorist who was born in Tovačov , Moravia . He defied the atonal trend of his generation with his uniquely harmonic, contrapuntal style...
  
  
  • Suite for unaccompanied cello (1925
  • Second Suite for unaccompanied cello (1924)
• Frederick Kaufman
  • Inner Sanctum for solo cello (10 min) (1999)
• Daniel Kessner
  • 11 Studies for solo violoncello (1990–91)
• Jin Hi Kim
  Jin Hi Kim
  Kim Jin-Hi is a geomungo player and composer.She is known for introducing the geomungo to the wider world through her contemporary chamber and orchestral compositions and large-scale multimedia pieces, as well as her extensive work in avant-garde and cross-cultural free...
  
  
  • Kee Maek #4 for cello solo (9 min) (1995)
• Leon Kirchner
  Leon Kirchner
  Leon Kirchner was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his String Quartet No. 3.Kirchner was born in Brooklyn, New York...
  
  
  • For Cello Solo (1986) (http://www.schirmer.com/Default.aspx?TabId=2420&State_2874=2&workId_2874=24930)
• 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...
  
  
  • Stopy for Cello Solo (2005)
• Volker David Kirchner
  Volker David Kirchner
  Volker David Kirchner is a German composer and violist.-Biography:Kirchner studied at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz from 1956 to 1969 under Günter Kehr and Günter Raphael...
  
  
  • Und Salomo sprach (4 min) (and Salomo spoke) for cello solo (1987)
  • Aus dem Buch der Konige 3 meditations for solo cello (13 min) (2000)
  • Threnos for solo cello (written for the Feuermann Competition 2006)
• Aram Khachaturian
  Aram Khachaturian
  Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a prominent Soviet composer. Khachaturian's works were often influenced by classical Russian music and Armenian folk music...
  
  
  • Sonata-Fantasy in C major for cello solo, Opus 104 (1974)
• Adam Khudoyan
  Adam Khudoyan
  Adam Geghami Khudoyan was an Armenian composer, awarded by the Renowned Activist of the Arts of Armenia official title.He finished the Yerevan State Conservatory in 1945. He directed the Composer's House of Armenia, was the secretary of the Composer's Union of Armenia. Khudoyan composed three...
  
  
  • Sonata No. 1 for solo cello (1961)
  • Sonata No. 2 for solo cello (1984)
  • Sonata No. 3 for solo cello (1993)
• Juliane Klein
  • Aus der Wand die Rinne 1 for cello solo (1996)
• Julius Klengel
  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....
  
  
  • Suite in d-minor, op.56
  • Caprice in the Form of a Chaconne (with free use of a Theme by Robert Schumann) Op.43
• Josef Klíč
  • V půli kopce 13 Compositions for solo cello (2004)
• Zoltán Kodály
  Zoltán Kodály
  Zoltán Kodály was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is best known internationally as the creator of the Kodály Method.-Life:Born in Kecskemét, Kodály learned to play the violin as a child....
  
  
  • Cello Solo Sonata op. 8 (1915)
  • Capriccio for unaccompanied cello (1915)
• Nikolai Korndorf
  Nikolai Korndorf
  Nikolai Sergeevich Korndorf was a Russian and Canadian composer and conductor. He was prolific both in Moscow, Russia and in Vancouver, Canada.-Biography:...
  
  
  • Passacaglia for solo cello (1997)
• 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...
  
  
  • Stopy for cello solo (2004)
• 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...
  
  
  • Suite for Cello Solo op. 84 (1942)
• Hanna Kulenty
  Hanna Kulenty
  Hanna Kulenty is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. Since 1992, she has worked and lived both in Warsaw and in Arnhem .- Musical education :...
  
  
  • Still Life with a Cello for cello solo (1998)

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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...
  
  
  • Partita for solo cello (27 min) (1972)
  • A Single Voice for solo cello (9 min) (1995)
  • Fantasy for solo cello (Schirmer) (15 min) (1998)
  • A Single Line for solo cello (2004)
• Frank La Rocca
  • Secret Thoughts for unaccompanied cello (10 min)(1986)
• Fung Lam
  • Caged for solo cello (with two bows) (2006)
• Vadim Larchikov
  • Hymn for solo cello (1996)
  • Temples (Temple of the Heaven, Temple of the Earth, Temple of the Sea) for solo cello (2000–2002)
• Henri Lazarof
  Henri Lazarof
  Henri Lazarof is a Bulgarian composer.Born in Sofia, Bulgaria his formal musical training began in Israel under Paul Ben-Haim. After a short stint in Rome, Lazarof settled in the United States, studying with Harold Shapero and Arthur Berger at Brandeis University...
  
  
  • Momenti for solo cello (16 min) (1987)
• Konrad Lechner
  • Strada Senza Ritorno for cello solo (1978)
• Claude Ledoux
  • Le Songe trouble de l'orchidee for cello solo (1994)
  • 12 Studies - First book for cello solo (1994)
• Benjamin Lees
  Benjamin Lees
  Benjamin Lees was a contemporary U.S. composer of Art music, born in Harbin, China, raised in San Francisco and lived in Palm Springs, California.-Early life:...
  
  
  • Night Spectres for unaccompanied cello (2000)
• Kenneth Leighton
  Kenneth Leighton
  Kenneth Leighton was a British composer and pianist. His compositions include much Anglican church music, and many pieces for choir and for piano as well as concertos, symphonies, much chamber music and an opera. He wrote a well-known setting of the Coventry Carol...
  
  
  • Sonata for cello solo Op. 52 (1967) (19 min)
• Troy Lennerd
  • Piece for solo violoncello (2005)
• Tania Leon
  Tania Leon
  Tania León is a Cuban composer and conductor who has been recognized as an educator and advisor to arts organizations.-León's Music:...
  
  
  • 4 Pieces for solo cello (1981)
• Milcho Leviev
  Milcho Leviev
  Milcho Leviev is a Bulgarian composer, arranger, jazz performer and pianist.Milcho Leviev graduated from the State Academy of Music in 1960 majoring in Composition under Professor Pancho Vladigerov and in Piano under Professor Andrei Stoyanov...
  
  
  • Reflected Meditation for cello (4 min) (1980)
  • Augsburg Polka for cello solo (4 min) (1998)
• 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:...
  
  
  • Sonata for solo cello
    Solo Cello Sonata (Ligeti)
    The Sonata for Solo Cello is an unaccompanied cello sonata written by György Ligeti between 1948 and 1953. The piece was initially received poorly by the Soviet-run Composer's Union and was not allowed to be published or performed...
    
     (1948–1953)
• 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:...
  
  
  • Stroke for solo cello (4'20) (1984)
  • Partia for solo cello (14min) (2001)
• Heinrich Litinsky – Генрих Ильич Литинский (1901–1985)
  • 12 Etudes for Solo Cello (1969)
• Vassily Lobanov
  • Fantasie for cello solo Op. 48 (1987)
• Pietro Locatelli
  Pietro Locatelli
  Pietro Antonio Locatelli was an Italian composer and violinist.-Biography:Locatelli was born in Bergamo, Italy. A child prodigy on the violin, he was sent to study in Rome under the direction of Arcangelo Corelli...
  
  
  • Il Laberinto Armonico (transcription for cello solo by Rohan de Saram) (solo cello)
• Alain Louvier
  • Raga for voloncello solo
• Alvin Lucier
  Alvin Lucier
  Alvin Lucier is an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. A long-time music professor at Wesleyan University, Lucier was a member of the influential Sonic Arts Union, which included Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and...
  
  
  • Indian Summer (1993)
• Witold Lutosławski
  • Sacher Variation (1975) (for Paul Sacher
    Paul Sacher
    Paul Sacher was a Swiss conductor, patron and impresario.-Biography:He studied under Felix Weingartner, among others. In 1926 he founded the Basel Chamber Orchestra to play works written before the classical period and modern works...
    
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• 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...
  
  
  • Sonata breve for violoncello solo (Schott) (1942)
  • Sonata for cello (1959)
• Ivo Malec
  Ivo Malec
  Ivo Malec is a Croatian composer and music educator. One of the earliest Yugoslav composers to obtain high international regard, his works have been performed by symphony orchestras throughout Europe and North America. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb and the Conservatoire de Paris,...
  
  
  • Arco-1 (published by "Salabert") (1987)
• Michio Mamiya
  • Sonata for violoncello solo (25 min) (1968-9)
• Tigran Manssurjan
  • Stucke (Pieces for solo cello)

Das Buch (The Book)

Capriccio for solo cello (5 min)

Lamento

Madrigal in Memoriam Oleg Kagen

Suite

• Pamela J. Marshall
  Pamela J. Marshall
  Pamela J. Marshall is an American horn player and composer. She was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, and studied horn, electronic music and conducting at the Eastman and Yale Schools of Music. After completing her education, she settled in Lexington, Massachusetts...
  
  
  • Soliloquy for Solo Cello
• Heinz Marti
  • Ombra for violoncello solo (1979)
• Donald Martino
  Donald Martino
  Donald Martino was a Pulitzer Prize winning American composer.Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Martino studied composition with Ernst Bacon, Roger Sessions, Milton Babbitt, and Luigi Dallapiccola...
  
  
  • Parisonatina Al’Dodecafonia for violoncello solo
    Parisonatina al’Dodecafonia (Martino)
    Parisonatina al’Dodecafonia, by Donald Martino , is a piece that was written in 1964 for violoncello solo. It shows a relentless preference in exploring notes in a twelve-tone system. It also consistently approaches the structure and cellistic technique through an imaginative approach...
    
     (1964)
• Eugen-Mihai Marton
  • Solo for cello (1971)
• Colin Matthews
  Colin Matthews
  Colin Matthews OBE is an English composer of classical music.-Early life and education:Matthews was born in London in 1946; his older brother is the composer David Matthews. He read classics at the University of Nottingham, and then studied composition there with Arnold Whittall, and with Nicholas...
  
  
  • Palinode for cello solo (1992)
• 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,...
  
  
  • Fantasia for cello Op. 8 (1971)
  • Songs and Dances of Mourning for cello Op. 12 (1976)
  • Journeying Songs for solo cello Op. 95 (2004)
• Jiří Matys (*1927)
  • Fantasie and Rondo for cello solo (1982)
• Rudolf Matz
  Rudolf Matz
  Rudolf Matz was born September 19, 1901 in Zagreb, Croatia he died in 1988 and he had written more than 300 instrumental and vocal compositions....
  
  
  • 11 Caprices for Unaccompanied Cello
  • Ombres et lumières (Lights and Shadows) for solo cello
  • Suite in C major for violoncello solo
  • Tema con Variazioni for violoncello solo
• Toshiro Mayuzumi
  Toshiro Mayuzumi
  Toshiro Mayuzumi was a Japanese composer.-Biography:...
  
  
  • Bunraku for solo cello (1960)
• John McCabe
  John McCabe (composer)
  John McCabe CBE is an English composer and pianist.- Biography :John McCabe was born in Huyton, Liverpool, Merseyside. A prolific composer from an early age, he had written thirteen symphonies by the time he was eleven...
  
  
  • Partita (1966) (12 min)
• Alfred Mendelssohn
  Alfred Mendelssohn
  Alfred Mendelsohn was a Romanian composer.Mendelssohn studied from 1927 to 1931 at the Music Academy in Vienna with Joseph Marx and Franz Schmidt and the Conservatory in Bucharest at Mihail Jora...
  
  
  • Suite for Solo Cello (1960) (13 min.)
• Usko Meriläinen
  Usko Meriläinen
  Usko Meriläinen was a Finnish composer. He was born in Tampere.In 1954 his Partita for Brass won the Thor Johnson composition competition in Cincinnati, Ohio.His works include:* Symphony No. 1...
  
  
  • Arabesques for violoncello solo (1964)
• Krzysztof Meyer
  Krzysztof Meyer
  Krzysztof Meyer is a Polish composer, pianist and music scholar.-Biography:Meyer was born in Cracow. As a boy he played piano and organ. He began his composition study early – in 1954, with Stanisław Wiechowicz...
  
  
  • Sonata for violoncello solo (1964)
  • Moment musical for cello (1976)
  • Monologue for cello solo (1990)
• Aaron Minsky
  • Ten American Cello Etudes
    Ten American Cello Etudes
    Ten American Cello Etudes is the first set of cello etudes of Aaron Minsky published by Oxford University Press. The set was published in 1988, making this the first set of cello etudes in a modern American style to be published by a major publisher...
    
     (1988)
  • Three Concert Etudes for solo cello (1990)
  • Judaic Concert Suite for solo cello (2003)
  • Dead Cello - Four Grateful Dead Songs (2006)
• Eric Moe
  Eric Moe
  Eric Moe is a defenceman for the Timrå IK hockey team in the Swedish Elitserien league.-Career statistics:-International play:Played for Sweden in:*2006 World U18 Championships...
  
   (1954- )
  • The Lone Cello (1998) for 'cello solo (11 min)
• Robert Moevs
  Robert Moevs
  Robert Walter Moevs was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was known for his highly chromatic music....
  
  
  • Heptachronon for solo cello (8 min) (1969)
• 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....
  
  
  • Crystalligence for Violoncello solo (commissioned by Enrico Dindo) (8 min) (2005)
• Dexter Morrill
  • Fantasy for cello solo (1995)
• Roland Moser
  • Wie ein Walzer auf Glas for solo cello (1986)
• Robert Muczynski
  Robert Muczynski
  Robert Muczynski was a contemporary American composer. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. Muczynski studied composition with Alexander Tcherepnin at DePaul University in the late 1940s...
  
  
  • Gallery: Suite for solo cello (on paintings of Charles Burchfield) (1966)
• Henriette Müller
  • Fantasie No. 1 version for solo violoncello (6 min) (2004)
• Isabel Mundry
  Isabel Mundry
  -Biography:Isabel Mundry was born in Schlüchtern in 1963 and studied composition at the Hochschule der Künste and electronic music, musicology and history at the Berlin Technische Universität. From 1991 to 1994 she taught at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin and furthered her studies in Frankfurt...
  
  
  • Komposition for solo cello (1992/93)
  • Komposition for solo cello (1997)
• Igal Myrtenbaum
  • La Sefira for cello

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• Lior Navok
  • Fantasy for Cello solo (5 min) (1998)
• Marc Neikrug
  • Sonata for solo cello (1967)
• George Newson
  • Variations for cello alone (1957)
• Maria A. Niederberger
  • Daedaleum for solo cello (1983)
• Tokuhide Niimi
  • Ohju for Violoncello solo (1987)
• Lazar Nikolov
  • From the Music of Orpheus II for cello solo (2002)
• Joaquin Nin-Culmell
  Joaquin Nin-Culmell
  Joaquín Maria Nin-Culmell was Cuban-Spanish composer and an internationally known concert pianist, emeritus professor of music at the University of California, Berkeley.-Early life:...
  
  
  • Suite for Cello solo
• Akira Nishimura
  Akira Nishimura
  is a Japanese composer.Nishimura studied composition and musical theory on a graduate course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He also studied Asiatic traditional music, religion, aesthetics, cosmology and the heterophonic concepts, all of which had a lasting influence on his...
  
  
  • Threnody for solo cello (11 min) (1998)
• Arne Nordheim
  Arne Nordheim
  Arne Nordheim was a Norwegian composer who had since 1982 been living in the Norwegian State's honorary residence, Grotten, next to the Royal Palace in Oslo. Nordheim received numerous prizes for his compositions, and was elected an honorary member of the International Society for Contemporary...
  
  
  • Clamavi for violoncello solo (10 min) (1980)

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• 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...
  
  
  • Appalachia Waltz (composer's own transcription of original version for solo violin)
• Paul Rovsing Olsen
  • Partita for solo cello Op. 75
• Pablo Ortiz
  • 1er et 2éme tangos finlandaises for solo cello (2001–2002)
  • Manzi - En cada verso for solo cello (2004–2007)
• Matthew Owens
  • Kol Nidrei for solo cello (10 min) (1998)
  • The Rowell Sonata for unaccompanied cello (25 min) (1996)
• Terry Winter Owens
  Terry Winter Owens
  Terry Winter Owens was an American composer and music educator.-Biography:Terry Winter Owens was born in New York, and began composing at age ten. She took music lessons as a child and won a scholarship to study with Lisa Szylagi Grad. Later she studied composition with Ralph Shapey and Mark...
  
  
  • Cellestial Music, Book 1 for solo cello (2003)

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• 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...
  
  
  • 24 caprices for cello solo (Arranged by Luigi Silva) http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0027-4380(195309)2%3A10%3A4%3C674%3ATC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C

1 in G major

2 in D minor

3 in E minor

4 in C minor

5 in A minor

6 in G minor

7 in A minor

8 in E flat major

9 in G major

10 in G minor

11 in C major

12 in A flat major

13 in B flat major

14 in E flat major

15 in D minor

16 in B minor

17 in E flat major

18 in C major

19 in E flat major

20 in D major

21 in C major

22 in F major

23 in E flat major

24 in A minor

• Younghi Pagh-Paan
  Younghi Pagh-Paan
  -Life:Pagh‑Paan was born in Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea. She studied music at the Seoul National University from 1965-71. In 1974 she received a DAAD scholarship to study in Germany and entered the Freiburg Musikhochschule, where she studied composition with Klaus Huber, analysis with...
  
  
  • AA-GA I for solo cello (1984)
• Hilda Paredes
  Hilda Paredes
  Hilda Paredes is one of Mexico's leading contemporary composers, and has received many prestigious awards for her work...
  
  
  • Zuhuy Kak for solo cello (1997)
• Robert Parris
  • Fantasy and Fugue for solo cello (10 min) (1954)
• Paul Patterson
  Paul Patterson
  Paul Patterson is a British composer and Manson Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music.Patterson studied trombone and composition at the Royal Academy of Music. He returned there to become Head of Composition and Contemporary Music until 1997, when he became Manson Professor of...
  
  
  • Suite Op. 62 for cello solo
• 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...
  
  
  • Capriccio per Siegfried Palm, for solo cello (1968)
  • Per Slava, for solo cello (1986)
  • Divertimento, for solo cello (1994)
• George Perle
  George Perle
  George Perle was a composer and music theorist. He was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. Perle was an alumnus of DePaul University...
  
  
  • Cello Sonata (1947)
  • Hebrew Melodies, for solo cello
• Vincent Persichetti
  Vincent Persichetti
  Vincent Ludwig Persichetti was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, Persichetti was a native of Philadelphia...
  
  
  • Solo Cello Sonata op. 54
• Gyula Petendi
  • 9 Solo pieces for solo cello
• 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....
  
  
  • 12 Caprices, Op. 25

1 in G minor: Allegro quasi presto

2 in E flat major: Andante Religioso

3 in B flat major: Moderato

4 in D minor: Allegretto

5 in F major: Allegro comodo

6 in A flat major: Adagio Largamente

7 in C major: Maestoso

8 in A minor: Moderato ma energico

9 in D major: Allegro

10 in B minor: Allegro deciso

11 in G major: Adagio. Allegro

12 in E minor: Allegretto

• • Capriccio op. 22 for cello solo on the aria, cavatina, "I tuoi frequenti palpiti", from Niobe by Giovanni Pacini
• Alfred Peschek
  • Cellare for cello solo (2005)
• Gregor Piatigorsky
  Gregor Piatigorsky
  Gregor Piatigorsky was a Russian-born American cellist.-Early life:...
  
  
  • Syrinx for solo cello
  • A Stroll for solo cello
• Ástor Piazzolla
  Ástor Piazzolla
  Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...
  
  
  • 6 Tango Etudes For Solo Cello (arr. Karttunen)
• Simeon Pironkoff
  • Entrata e Capriccio for solo cello (11 min) (1980)
• Wolfgang Plagge
  • Jakobsstigen, Op. 20 : Fantasy for Cello Solo (7 min) (1983)
  • Music for Violoncello Solo, Op. 54 (6 min) (1990)
• Robert H. P. Platz
  • Senko-hana-bi (In Yoshitake's garden) for cello (1997–2000)
• Conrad Pope
  Conrad Pope
  Conrad Pope is an American film composer and orchestrator. He has collaborated with acclaimed composers such as John Williams, James Newton Howard, Danny Elfman and Alexandre Desplat.-Background:...
  
  
  • Sonata for Violoncello alone (12 min) (1972)
• 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...
  
  
  • Solo Cello Sonata op. 133 (1953) (completed by Blok in 1996)
  • March from Music for Children, Op. 65 - (ed Piatigorsky
    Gregor Piatigorsky
    Gregor Piatigorsky was a Russian-born American cellist.-Early life:...
    
    )
• Henri Pusher
  • Paganiana assisted for solo cello (35 min) (1982)
  • Nineteenth root of eight quarters for cello solo (15 min) (1976)
• Veli-Matti Puumala
  • Epitaph for solo cello (1995)

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• Shulamit Ran
  Shulamit Ran
  Shulamit Ran is an Israeli-American composer. She moved from Israel to New York at 14, as a scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music. Her Symphony won her the Pulitzer Prize...
  
  
  • Fantasy Variations for cello solo (2003)
• Alexander Raskatov
  Alexander Raskatov
  Alexander Mikhailovich Raskatov is a Russian composer.-Life:Alexander Raskatov, a son of a leading journalist of the magazine Krokodil, studied composition under Albert Leman at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1990 he was composer in residence at Stetson University and 1998 in Lockenhaus...
  
  
  • Kyrie Eleison for solo cello (1992)
• 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:...
  
  
  • Sonata for Cello Solo (14 min) (1969)
• Max Reger
  Max Reger
  Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher.-Life:...
  
  
  • Suite No 1 in G major Suites (3) for Cello solo, Op. 131c (1914)
  • Suite No 2 in D minor Suites (3) for Cello solo, Op. 131c
  • Suite No 3 in A minor Suites (3) for Cello solo, Op. 131c
• Aribert Reimann
  Aribert Reimann
  Aribert Reimann is a German opera composer, pianist and accompanist, known especially for his literary operas. His version of King Lear was written at the suggestion of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau who sang the title role....
  
  
  • Solo II for solo cello (1981)
• Heiner Reitz
  • 12 Caprices für Violoncello Solo (recorded on Telos TLS 025)
• Phillip Rhodes
  • Three Pieces for solo cello (6 min)
• 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...
  
  
  • Partita for cello solo (1959)
• 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...
  
   (*1952)
  • Great for Violoncello solo (1972)
• 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...
  
  
  • Como una fantasía (8 min) (1979)
• Scott Roller
  • Mutamusic for solo cello (1983)
• 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:...
  
  
  • After Reading Shakespeare Nine movements for cello alone (written for Sharon Robinson
    Sharon Robinson (cellist)
    Sharon Hall Robinson is an American cellist. She has had a highly successful performing career, both as a concert solo artist and as a member of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, and has recorded extensively...
    
    ) (21 min) (1980)
• 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....
  
   (1892–1985)
  • Intermezzo (1974)
• Bruce Craig Roter
  • Sonatine Solo Cello
• Miklos Rozsa
  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...
  
  
  • Toccata capricciosa for solo cello op. 36 (in memory of Piatigorsky) (1979)
• 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...
  
  
  • Improvisation, for Solo Cello Op. 124 (published in 1967)
• Peter Ruzicka
  Peter Ruzicka
  Peter Ruzicka is a German composer and conductor of classical music.Peter Ruzicka was born in Düsseldorf on July 3, 1948. He received his early musical training at the Hamburg Conservatory. He studied composition with Hans Werner Henze and Hans Otte...
  
  
  • Sonata for Violoncello solo Op. 9 (12 min) (1969)
  • Stille Four Epilogues for Violoncello solo (10 min) (1976)

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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...
  
  
  • Petals (1988)
  • Près (1992)
  • Spins & Spells for cello (1997)
  • Sept Papillons (2000)
• Steven Sacco
  • "Fantasy" for unaccompanied cello (1999)
• Dimiter Sagaev
  • Fresco for solo cello (2002)
  • Nocturne for solo cello (2001)
• 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...
  
  
  • Elegy for Sebastian Knight for Solo Cello, Op. 10 (1964) (5')
  • Sonata for Solo Cello Op. 26 (1971) (12')
• David Sampson (composer)
  • Three Arguments for unanccompanied cello (1993)
• Marc Satterwhite
  • Witnesses of Time (Four studies on photographs by Flor Garduño) (2003)
• Ahmed Adnan Saygun
  • Partita for solo cello Op. 31 (1954)
• 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....
  
  
  • Sonata for Solo Cello on a Theme of Sir William Walton (1999) (commissioned by Steven Isserlis
    Steven Isserlis
    Steven Isserlis CBE is a British cellist. He is distinguished for his diverse repertoire, distinctive sound and total command of phrasing. He studied at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and was much influenced by the great iconoclast of Russian cello playing, Daniil Shafran...
    
    
• Giacinto Scelsi
  Giacinto Scelsi
  Giacinto Scelsi , Count of Ayala Valva was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French....
  
  
  • Triphon (1956)
  • Trilogie (1957/65)
  • Voyages (1985)
  • Maknongan (1976)
• Gerhard Schedl
  Gerhard Schedl
  Gerhard Schedl was an Austrian composer.-Professional career:Gerhard Schedl was born in Vienna and began composing during his childhood. In 1976 he began his professional studies with Erich Urbanner at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. He graduated with distinction in 1980. He...
  
  
  • Aus Zwei Stücke aus der Schatz-Truhe (Written for Geringas) (3 min)
• Peter Schickele
  Peter Schickele
  Johann Peter Schickele is an American composer, musical educator, and parodist. He is best known for his comedy music albums featuring his music that he presents as music written by the fictional composer P. D. Q...
  
   (P. D. Q. Bach
  P. D. Q. Bach
  P. D. Q. Bach is a fictitious composer invented by musical satirist "Professor" Peter Schickele. In a gag that Schickele has developed over a five-decade-long career, he performs "discovered" works of this forgotten member of the Bach family...
  
  )
  • Vermillion Suite for solo cello (12 min) (1987)
  • Suite No. 1 for Cello All By Its Lonesome
  • Suite No. 2 for Cello All By Its Lonesome
    Suite No. 2 for Cello All By Its Lonesome
    Suite No. 2 for Cello All By Its Lonesome is the second of a pair of parody pieces by P.D.Q. Bach, pseudonym of composer and musical parodist Peter Schickele. As with most of his other pieces, Suite No...
    
    
• Harold Schiffman
  • Sonata Quasi una Fantasia for solo violoncello (5 min) (1977)
  • Kate's Suite for Solo violoncello (7 min) (1999)
  • Suite from Wake for solo violoncello (10 min) (2004)
• Thomas Daniel Schlee
  Thomas Daniel Schlee
  Thomas Daniel Schlee is an Austrian composer, arts administrator, and organist.-Life and work:Thomas Daniel Schlee was born in Vienna and studied at the Vienna Musikhochschule with Michael Radulescu and Erich Romanovsky. He then earned a PhD in musicology and art history at Vienna University...
  
  
  • Three Signs Op. 53 for violoncello solo (2002)
• Artur Schnabel
  Artur Schnabel
  Artur Schnabel was an Austrian classical pianist, who also composed and taught. Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura...
  
   (1882–1951)
  • Sonata for Solo Cello (in four movements) (25 min) (written for Piatigorsky) (1931)
• 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...
  
  
  • Klingende Buchstaben (Sounding Letters) (1988)
  • Madrigal in Memoriam Oleg Kagan (1990)
  • Improvisation (1993)
• Franz 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...
  
  
  • Erlkönig - Le Roi des Aulnes (The Erlking or Elf King) adapted (in 1890) by Bernhard Cossmann
    Bernhard Cossmann
    Bernhard Cossmann was a German cellist. Born in Dessau, he first studied under Theodore Muller. During his life, he worked for the Grand Opera in Paris and became acquainted with Franz Liszt, with whom he went to Weimar. In 1866, Cossmann was appointed professor of cello studies at the Moscow...
    
     for Violoncello solo
• Gunther Schuller
  Gunther Schuller
  Gunther Schuller is an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, and jazz musician.- Biography and works :...
  
  
  • Fantasy, Opus 19 (1960)
• Salvatore Sciarrino
  Salvatore Sciarrino
  Salvatore Sciarrino is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music.-Biography:In his youth, Sciarrino was attracted to the visual arts, but began experimenting with music when he was twelve. Though he had some lessons from Antonino Titone and Turi Belfiore, he is primarily self-taught as a...
  
  
  • Due Studi for cello solo (1947)
  • Ai Limiti Della Notte for cello solo (1984)
• Francesco Scipriani (1678–1753)
  • Principij da imparare a suonare il violoncello e con 12 toccate a solo (12 Toccaten) for cello solo (ca 1720)
• Ciro G. Scotto
  • Introspection for solo cello (1999)
• Peter Sculthorpe
  Peter Sculthorpe
  Peter Joshua Sculthorpe AO OBE is an Australian composer. Much of his music has resulted from an interest in the music of Australia's neighbours as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of native Australian music with that of the heritage of the West...
  
  
  • Requiem for Cello Alone (1979)
  • Threnody for solo cello (In memory of Stuart Challender) (1991)
  • Into the Dreaming for cello alone (1993)
  • Tailitnama Song for cello solo (1997)
• Anatolijus Senderovas
  • Cantus II for solo cello (written for David Geringas
    David Geringas
    David Geringas is a world-renowned cellist and conductor who studied under Mstislav Rostropovich. In 1970 he won the Gold Medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition...
    
    ) (8 min) (1993)
• Roger Sessions
  Roger Sessions
  Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, critic, and teacher of music.-Life:Sessions was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution. His mother, Ruth Huntington Sessions, was a direct descendent of Samuel Huntington, a signer of...
  
  
  • Six Pieces for Solo Cello (1966)
• 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....
  
  
  • Sonata for Cello Solo (2001)
• Bright Sheng
  Bright Sheng
  Bright Sheng is a Chinese-American composer, conductor, and pianist. He has lived in the United States since 1982 and is on faculty at the University of Michigan. In 1999, the White House commissioned Sheng to compose a piece to honor the Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji at a state dinner hosted by...
  
  
  • Diu Diu Dong (Seven Tunes Heard in China) (2 min) (1995)
• 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:...
  
   (1932- )
  • Russian Tunes (Russkie Naigryshi) Op. 79 for cello solo (1990)
• Makoto Shinohara
  Makoto Shinohara
  is a Japanese composer.- Biography :Shinohara studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts from 1952 to 1954, studying composition with Tomojiro Ikenouchi, piano with Kazuko Yasukawa, and conducting with Akeo Watanabe and Kurt Woess. From 1954 to 1960, he studied in Paris with Tony Aubin, Olivier...
  
  
  • Evolution for cello solo (1986–90)
• Alan Shockley
  • Abschrift von unbekannter Hand for solo violoncello (2004)
• Jean Sibelius
  Jean Sibelius
  Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. His mastery of the orchestra has been described as "prodigious."...
  
  
  • Theme and Variations for Cello solo in d minor (12 min) - written in 1887, discovered in 1995.
• Paul Siskind
  • Three Epiphanies for cello solo (12 min) (1987)
• Haskell Small
  Haskell Small
  Haskell "Hal" Small, born 3 June 1948, is a composer, pianist, and music teacher in Washington, D.C.-Musical Background:After starting college as a science and engineering major, Haskell Small began his musical education at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and earned a BFA in music from...
  
  
  • Suite for solo Cello
• Dmitry Nikolayevich Smirnov
  • Monogram for solo cello Op. 58A (3 min) (1990)
  • Elegy in memory of Edison Denisov for solo cello Op. 97a (1997)
  • Family Portrait for solo cello Op. 108 (9 min) (1998)
  • Postlude in memory of Alfred Schnittke for solo cello Op. 112A (9 min) (2000)
  • Bagatelle for cello solo Op. 128A (2 min) (2001)
  • Saga to S.A. Gubaidulina for cello solo Op. 130 (7 min) (2001)
• Naresh Sohal
  Naresh Sohal
  Naresh Sohal was born in 1939 in Punjab, Northern India. He is the first and one of the few accomplished Indian-born composers of western classical music. He is the first composer in this tradition ever to make settings of texts in Sanskrit, Punjabi and Bengali...
  
  
  • Monody for solo cello (3 min) (1976)
  • Shades III for cello solo
  • Shades IV for cello solo (14 min) (1983)
• Giovanni Sollima
  Giovanni Sollima
  Giovanni Sollima is an Italian composer and cellist. He was born into a family of musicians and studied cello with Giovanni Perriera and composition with his father, Eliodoro Sollima, at the Conservatorio di Palermo, where he graduated with highest honors...
  
  
  • La luna for solo cello (7 min) (1986)
  • 6 Caprices for solo cello (1987)
  • Segno for cello solo (6 min) (1992)
  • Anno uno for cello solo (8 min) (1993)
  • The Songlines for solo cello (1993)
  • Lamentatio for cello solo (5 min) (1998)
  • Pasolini fragments for cello (5 min) (1998)
  • Alone for solo cello (7 min) (1999)
• Øystein Sommerfeldt
  • Monologi for cello solo op. 45,(7 min)(ca. 1976)
• Elizabeth Start
  • Union for solo cello (3 min) (2006)
• Miloš Štědroň (*1942)
  • Dances of King Lear for cello solo (1995)
• Halsey Stevens
  Halsey Stevens
  -Life:Halsey Stevens was born in Scott, New York and educated at Syracuse University and the University of California, Berkeley. He studied with William Berwald at Syracuse and with the composer Ernest Bloch at Berkeley....
  
  
  • Sonata for Solo Cello (five movements - Introduction, Ciaccona, Scherzo, Notturno, Finale) (dedicated to Gabor Rejto) (1958)
• Nikolai Stoikov

• Mark Summer
  Mark Summer
  Mark Summer is the Turtle Island Quartet's cellist; he is a founding member and has performed with Turtle Island since its founding in 1985.-Biography:...
  
  
  • Julie-O
• Viktor Suslin
  Viktor Suslin
  Viktor Yevseyevich Suslin |Ural]], Russia ) is a Russian composer living in Germany as of 1981.-Biography:At the age of four , Suslin began to study piano and made his first attempts at composition. From 1950 to 1962 he attended Kharkiv Music High School, and from 1961 to 1962 at Kharkiv...
  
  
  • Chanson contre raison Sonata for solo cello (13 min)(1984)
  • Schatz-insel for cello solo (3 min) (1990)
• Robert Suter
  • Elegie for cello solo (11 min) (1969)
• Randall Svane
  • Suite No. 1 for unaccompanied cello (1979)
  • Suite No. 2 for unaccompanied cello (1982)
  • Suite No. 3 for unanccompanied cello (1988)

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• Emil Tabakov
  Emil Tabakov
  Emil Tabakov is a Bulgarian conductor, composer, and double-bass player. He is the former chief conductor of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and Bilkent Symphony Orchestra. He has composed seven symphonies, instrumental concertos, and a requiem to date....
  
  
  • Bis for solo cello (4 min) (1982)
• Luigi Taglietti (1668–1715)
  • 8 pieces for cello solo (1697)
• Dimitar Tapkoff
  • Sonata for cello solo (7 min) (1978)
• 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...
  
  
  • L'Arte dell'Arco (The Art of the Bow) 50 variations on Correlli's Gavotte from op.5 no.10 for cello solo (1758) (transcribed by Paul Bazelaire
    Paul Bazelaire
    Paul Bazelaire was a French cellist and composer.Bazelaire was born in Sedan, Ardennes. He studied under Jules Delsart.He won many prizes for literature and poetry in France and Belgium.-External links:...
    
    )
• Hristo Tsanoff

• John Tavener
  John Tavener
  Sir John Tavener is a British composer, best known for such religious, minimal works as "The Whale", and "Funeral Ikos"...
  
  
  • Thrinos for cello solo (1990)
  • Chant for cello (1995)
• 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...
  
  
  • Suite for cello solo (in six movements) (1946)
  • Suite in five movements for solo cello (written for Rostropovich) (1960)
• 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...
  
  
  • Suite for Solo Cello op. 76 (1946)
• James Tenney
  James Tenney
  James Tenney was an American composer and influential music theorist.-Biography:Tenney was born in Silver City, New Mexico, and grew up in Arizona and Colorado. He attended the University of Denver, the Juilliard School of Music, Bennington College and the University of Illinois...
  
  
  • Cellogram for Joel Krosnick (1971)
• Dimitri Terzakis
  Dimitri Terzakis
  Dimitri Terzakis is a Greek composer. His father was the author Angelos Terzakis.From 1959–1964 Terzakis studied composition with Yannis Papaioannou at the Athens Hellenic Conservatory, followed by five years spent at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, Germany where he studied composition with...
  
  
  • Omega 1 for cello solo (1978)
  • Dialog der Seele mit ihrem Schatten (1991) 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....
    
    
• Augusta Read Thomas
  Augusta Read Thomas
  Augusta Read Thomas is an American composer.Augusta Read Thomas was born in Glen Cove, New York. She attended The Green Vale School and later moved on to St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and then studied composition with Jacob Druckman at Yale University and at the Royal Academy of...
  
  
  • Spring Song (1995)
• Ton That Tiet
  • Bois terre for cello solo
• Boris Tishchenko
  Boris Tishchenko
  Boris Ivanovich Tishchenko was a Russian and Soviet composer and pianist.-Life:...
  
  
  • Sonata for Solo Cello No. 1 Op. 18 (1960)
  • Sonata for Solo Cello No. 2 Op. 76 (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...
  
  
  • Impromptu for cello solo in three movements Op. 90c (for Piatigorsky) (8 min) (1963)
• Paul Tortelier
  Paul Tortelier
  Paul Tortelier was a French cellist and composer.Tortelier was born in Paris, the son of a cabinet maker with Breton roots. He was encouraged to play the cello by his father Joseph and mother Marguerite , and at 12 he entered the Paris Conservatoire. He studied the cello there with Gérard Hekking...
  
  
  • Suite in D minor for solo cello (1944)
• Donald Francis Tovey
  Donald Francis Tovey
  Sir Donald Francis Tovey was a British musical analyst, musicologist, writer on music, composer, conductor and pianist...
  
  
  • Solo Cello Sonata op. 50 in D
• Aaron Travers
  • Gertrude's Child for violoncello solo (11 min) (2002–05)
• Sulkhan Fyodorovich 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...
  
   (1925–1992)
  • Chonguri (Tchonguri) for cello solo (written for Daniil Shafran
    Daniil Shafran
    -Early years:Daniil Shafran was born in Petrograd in 1923. Even from before his birth he was surrounded by music. His mother and father were music students when he was born. His father, Boris Shafran, went on to be principal cellist of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and his mother, Frida...
    
    )(1978)
  • Sonata for cello solo (1975)
• Katsuhiro Tsubono
  • Solo cello piece
• Tapio Tuomela
  • Pendulum for solo cello (1985)

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• Fabio Vacchi
  Fabio Vacchi
  Fabio Vacchi is an Italian composer born in 1949 in Bologna.-Training and debut:Fabio Vacchi studied at the G.B. Martini Conservatory of Bologna with Giacomo Manzoni and Tito Gotti. In 1974 he participated in the courses of the Tanglewood Festival in the USA, where he was awarded the Koussevitzky...
  
  
  • In alba mia,dir... (1995)

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

• Janos Vajda
  • Just for you for Cello solo (1985)
• Pēteris Vasks
  Peteris Vasks
  Pēteris Vasks is a Latvian composer.Vasks was born in Aizpute, Latvia, into the family of a Baptist pastor. He trained as a violinist at the Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music, as a double-bass player with Vitautas Sereikaan at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, and played in several...
  
  
  • Gramata cellam (Das Buch) for solo cello (1978)
• Gary Verkade
  • Specimen for solo cello (1997)
• Sándor Veress
  Sándor Veress
  Sándor Veress was a Swiss composer of Hungarian origin. The first half of his life was spent in Hungary; the second, from 1949 until his death, in Switzerland, of which he became a citizen in the last months of his life.Veress taught at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest...
  
  
  • Sonata for cello solo (1935) (http://www.veress.net/discography.html)
• Carl Vine
  Carl Vine
  Carl Vine is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music.-Career:Vine was born in Perth, Western Australia. When he was ten years old, he took up the piano. An adolescent encounter with Karlheinz Stockhausen inspired a period as a teenage modernist, a direction which he abandoned in 1985...
  
  
  • Inner World (for solo cello with CD accompaniment) (1994)
• Param Vir
  Param Vir
  Param Vir is a British composer originally from India.Born in Delhi, Param Vir read philosophy at Delhi University and studied composition in England with Peter Maxwell Davies and Oliver Knussen....
  
  
  • Flame for solo cello (12 min) (1997)
• Mihaly Virizlay
  • Sonata for Unaccompanied Cello (1965)
• Giovanni Battista Vitali
  Giovanni Battista Vitali
  Giovanni Battista Vitali was an Italian composer and violone player.Vitali was born in Bologna and spent all of his life in the Emilian region, moving to Modena in 1674...
  
   (1644–1692)
  • Partite per il Violone (Partita for solo cello) (1680)
  • Partita sopra diverse Sonate (14 min)
• Wladimir Vogel
  Wladimir Vogel
  Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Vogel was a Swiss composer of German and Russian extraction.-Life:...
  
  
  • Poeme for violoncello solo (1974)

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• Wolfram Wagner
  • Sonata Op. 31 for violoncello solo (1990)
• Gwyneth Walker
  Gwyneth Walker
  -Personal:Walker grew up in New Canaan, Connecticut and is a graduate of Pembroke College in Brown University and the Hartt School of Music and holds B.A., M.M., and D.M.A. degrees in music composition...
  
  
  • In Memoriam for cello (1980)
• 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...
  
  
  • Passacaglia for solo cello (written for Rostropovich) (1980)
• Meira Warshauer
  • In Memoriam September 11, 2001 for solo cello (5 min) (2001)
• Rodney Waschka II
  Rodney Waschka II
  Rodney Waschka II is an American composer known for his algorithmic compositions and his theatrical works.-Biography:Waschka studied at Brooklyn College, at the Institute of Sonology, then newly part of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and earned his doctorate at the University of North Texas...
  
  
  • Ravel Remembers Fascism for solo cello (8 min) (1991)
• 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,...
  
  
  • Three Pieces for Solo Cello op. 28, dedicated to 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....
    
     (1996)
  • Threnody for cello solo (2002)
• Ben Weber
  • Dance for unaccompanied cello op. 28 (1948)
  • Dance Op. 31 for solo cello (1949)
• Mieczysław Weinberg (or Vainberg)
  • Solo Cello Sonata No. 1 op. 72 (1960)
  • Solo Cello Sonata No. 2 op. 86 (1965)
  • Solo Cello Sonata No. 3 op. 106 (1971)
  • Solo Cello Sonata No. 4 op. 140 (1986)
  • Twenty-four Preludes Op. 100 for solo cello (1968) Sikorski Edition
• Egon Wellesz
  Egon Wellesz
  Egon Joseph Wellesz was an Austrian-born British composer, teacher and musicologist, notable particularly in the field of Byzantine music.- Life :...
  
  
  • Cello Sonata op. 31 (1920)
  • Suite for Cello Solo op. 39 (1924) (http://claudet.club.fr/ExilVienne/Wellesz/WelleszCatalogue.html)
• Richard Wernick
  Richard Wernick
  Richard Wernick in Boston, Massachusetts is a US composer. He is best known for his composition "Visions of Terror and Wonder," which won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Music.-Career:...
  
  
  • Suite No. 1 for unaccompanied cello (2003)
  • Suite No. 2 for unaccompanied cello (2007)
• Jacques Wildberger
  • Study for violoncello solo (6 min) (1971)
  • tantôt libre, tantôt recherchée for cello solo (7 min) (1992-3)
• David Wilde
  David Wilde
  David Wilde is an English pianist and composer. As a boy he studied with Solomon and his pupil Franz Reizenstein, who had also studied composition with Hindemith and Vaughan Williams...
  
  
  • The Cellist of Sarajevo - A Lament in Rondo Form for Solo Cello, op. 12
• Adrian Williams
  Adrian Williams
  Adrian "Ady" Williams is a Wales international footballer and is the former manager of Didcot Town-Reading:...
  
  
  • Solo Cello Sonata (1976–77)
• 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...
  
  
  • Three Pieces for Solo Cello (2001)
• Richard Edward Wilson
  Richard Edward Wilson
  Richard Edward Wilson is an American composer of orchestral, operatic, instrumental, and chamber music. Wilson was born in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was at a young age drawn to the concerts of George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra...
  
  
  • Lord Chesterfield to his Son (1987)
  • Music for Solo Cello (1971)
• Stefan Wolpe
  Stefan Wolpe
  Stefan Wolpe was a German-born composer.-Life:Wolpe was born in Berlin. He attended the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory from the age of fourteen, and the Berlin Hochschule für Musik in 1920-1921. He studied composition under Franz Schreker and was also a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni...
  
  
  • Piece for Cello Alone (1966)
• Charles Wuorinen
  Charles Wuorinen
  Charles Peter Wuorinen is a prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. His catalog of more than 250 compositions includes works for orchestra, opera, chamber music, as well as solo instrumental and vocal works...
  
  
  • Cello Variations I to Fred Sherry
    Fred Sherry
    Fred Sherry is an American cello virtuoso who is particularly admired for his work as a chamber musician and concert soloist. He studied with Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School before winning the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1968. In 1971 he co-founded the Speculum Musicae...
    
     (1970)
  • Cello Variations II (1975)
  • Cello Variations III (1997)

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• Victoria Yagling
  • Suite for Violoncello Solo No. 1
  • Suite for Violoncello Solo No. 2
• James Yannatos
  James Yannatos
  James Yannatos was a composer, conductor, violinist and teacher. He was a senior lecturer at Harvard University until his retirement in the spring of 2009....
  
  
  • Sonata for solo cello (15 min)
• Yehuda Yannay
  Yehuda Yannay
  Yehuda Yannay is an American-Israeli composer, conductor, film maker and performance artist.Yannay moved from Romania to Israel in 1951, where he studied with Alexander Uriya Boskovitch , who influenced him greatly...
  
  
  • I can't fathom it... for solo cello and projections (1993)
  • Tangoul Morṭii(Tango of Death) for solo cello (1997)
• Eugène Ysaÿe
  Eugène Ysaÿe
  Eugène Ysaÿe was a Belgian violinist, composer and conductor born in Liège. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tzar"...
  
  
  • Cello Sonata op. 28 (1924)
• 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...
  
  
  • Glissées for Cello Solo (1970) 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/Noten/Streichinstrumente/Violoncello/Violoncello_allein/show,8483.html
  • Seven Etudes for Cello Solo (1993)

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• Roger Zahab
  • Amnesia Kiss for cello solo (10 min) (1995)
  • An Opening Piece for solo cello (2.5 min)
  • for Jim Hinkley for solo cello (1 min) (1989)
  • reaching after for solo cello (scordature) (9 min) (2003)
  • reMemoring Peace for solo cello (2 min) (1989)
• Edson Zampronha
  Edson Zampronha
  Edson Zampronha is a Brazilian composer from an Italian family. His contemporary classical music has achieved a wide range audience due to its highly expressive musical discourse; due to an invention of a sophisticated musical rhetoric that operates on musical meanings, and due to a harmonic...
  
  
  • Elegia for cello and electroacoustics (12 min) (2009)
  • Two Takes for solo cello (11 min) (2008)
  • Toccata for solo cello (4 min) (1989)
• 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...
  
  
  • Sonata for cello solo (1959–60)
  • Short Studies (4) for Cello solo (1970)

See also

• Compositions for solo instruments
• String Instrument Repertoire
  String instrument repertoire
  -Solo instruments:*Violin:**Violin solo**Violin and piano**Violin concertos**Two violins*Viola:**Viola solo**Viola and piano**Viola concertos*Cello:**Cello solo**Cello and piano**Cello ensemble pieces**Cello concertos*Double bass:**Double bass solo...
  
  
• List of compositions for cello and piano
• List of compositions for cello and orchestra
• List of compositions for cello and organ
• Double Concerto for Violin and Cello
  Double Concerto for Violin and Cello
  This is a list of musical compositions for violin, cello and orchestra, ordered by surname of composerPlease see the related entries for concerto, cello and cello concerto for discussion of typical forms and topics....
  
  
• Triple concerto for violin, cello, and piano
  Triple concerto for violin, cello, and piano
  A triple concerto is a concerto for piano trio and orchestra.Below is a list of concertos for piano trio and orchestra. Please see the related entries for violin concerto, cello concerto, piano concerto and double concerto for violin and cello...
  
  
• Clarinet-Cello repertoire
  Clarinet-Cello repertoire
  Among the repertoire for Clarinet and cello are the following works:Ordering is by surname of composer.-Works for Clarinet-Cello Duo, for Trio with Piano, Double Concertos:* ** Petit Août for Bass-Clarinet and Violoncello...
  
  

External links

• Repertoire for solo cello
• Finnish Composers
• Bulgarian Music for Cello Solo
• Database of contemporary cello music
• Music for solo cello from cello2go site