Cello sonata

Arpeggione Sonata - 1. Allegro Moderato

Franz Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata – 1. Allegro Moderato, performed in a transcription for cello and piano by Hans Goldstein (cello) and Clinton Adams (piano)

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A cello sonata is piece written sonata form, often with the instrumentation of a cello taking solo role with piano accompaniment.[1] Some of the earliest cello sonatas were composed in the 18th century by Francesco Geminiani and Antonio Vivaldi, and since then other famous cello sonatas have grown to those by Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Sergei Rachmaninoff among others.

The following list contains cello sonatas with or without accompanying instruments. See the See also list for more comprehensive lists divided up into solo and accompanied works.

## List of major cello sonatas[edit]

* Charles-Valentin Alkan
* Sonate de Concert, Op. 47 (c. 1857)
* Samuel Barber
* Cello Sonata in C minor, Op. 6 (1932)
* Arnold Bax
* Cello Sonata (1923)
* Cello Sonatina (1933)
* Legend-Sonata (1943)
* Ludwig van Beethoven
* Cello Sonata No. 1 in F major, Op. 5/1 (1796)
* Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 5/2 (1796)
* Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69 (1808)
* Cello Sonata No. 4 in C major, Op. 102/1 (1815)
* Cello Sonata No. 5 in D major, Op. 102/2 (1815)
* Easley Blackwood Jr.
* Cello Sonata, Op. 31
* Johannes Brahms
* Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38 (1862-5)
* Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99 (1886)
* Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, "Rain", Op. 78 (1878-9), transcribed for cello by Paul Klengel
* Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100 (1886), transcribed for cello by Laszlo Varga
* Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108 (1886-8), transcribed for cello by Laszlo Varga
* Frank Bridge
* Cello sonata in D minor, H. (Hindmarsh) 125 (1913-7)
* Benjamin Britten
* Sonata in C for Cello and Piano, Op. 65 (1961)
* Elliott Carter
* Cello Sonata (1948)
* Frédéric Chopin
* Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65 (1845-6)
* George Crumb
* Sonata for Solo Cello (1955)
* Claude Debussy
* Cello Sonata in D minor (1915)
* Frederick Delius
* Cello Sonata (1916)
* Felix Draeseke
* Cello Sonata in D major, Op. 51 (1890)
* Antonín Dvořák
* Cello Sonata in F major (1871) lost (cello part extant)
* George Enescu
* Cello Sonata in F minor, Op. 26/1 (1898)
* Cello sonata in C major, Op. 26/2 (1935)
* Gabriel Fauré
* Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 109 (1917)
* Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 117 (1921)
* César Franck
* Violin Sonata in A major, transcribed with the composer's approval for cello by Jules Delsart. See

Main article: Cello Sonata (Franck/Delsart)

* John Foulds
* Cello Sonata (1905, rev. 1927)
* François Francoeur (attrib.)
* Sonata for Cello and Piano in E major (actually a cello arrangement of a Louis Francoeur violin sonata)
* Peter Racine Fricker
* Cello Sonata (1956)
* Zoltán Gárdonyi
* Cello Sonata (1944)
* Edvard Grieg
* Cello Sonata in A minor, Op. 36 (1883)
* Paul Hindemith
* Cello Sonata, Op. 11/3 (1919)
* Sonata for Cello Solo, Op. 25/3 (1923)
* Cello Sonata (1948)
* Vagn Holmboe
* Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 101 (1968-69)
* Arthur Honegger
* Cello Sonata in D minor, H.32 (1920)
* Stephen Hough
* Sonata for Cello and Piano (left hand) (2014)
* Bertold Hummel
* Cello Sonata in F major, Op. 2 (1950)
* Sonata brevis, Op. 11a (1955)
* Johann Nepomuk Hummel
* Sonata in A major, Op. 104

* John Ireland
* Cello Sonata in G minor (1923)
* Giuseppe Maria Jacchini
* Sonata No. 3 in C major (1697)
* Joseph Jongen
* Cello Sonata in C minor, Op. 39 (1913)
* Dmitry Kabalevsky
* Cello Sonata in B flat major, Op. 71 (1962)
* Zoltán Kodály
* Cello Sonata, Op. 4 (1907)
* Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8 (1915)
* Cello Sonatine (1923)
* Josef Labor
* Cello Sonata Sonata in A major, Op. 7 (1896)
* Édouard Lalo
* Cello Sonata in A minor (1856)
* Lowell Liebermann
* Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. 3 (1978)
* Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 61 (1998)
* Cello Sonata No. 3, Op. 90 (2005)
* Cello Sonata No. 4, Op. 108 (2008)
* György Ligeti
* Sonata for Solo Cello
* Albéric Magnard
* Sonata for Cello in A, Op. 20 (1910)
* Felix Mendelssohn
* Cello Sonata No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 45 (1838)
* Cello Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 58 (1842-3)
* Ignaz Moscheles
* Cello Sonata Op. 34 in B-flat major
* Cello Sonata No. 2 Op. 121 in E major
* Henrique Oswald
* Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 21 (1898)
* Cello Sonata No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 44 (1916)
* Hubert Parry
* Cello Sonata in A major (1879-83)
* Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
* Cello Sonata in F major (uncertain attribution)
* Francis Poulenc
* Cello Sonata, FP 143 (1948)
* Sergei Prokofiev
* Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 119 (1949)
* Sonata for Solo Cello in C♯ minor, Op. 134 (unfinished)
* Sergei Rachmaninoff
* Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19 (1901)
* Maurice Ravel
* Sonata for Violin and Cello (1920–22)
* Max Reger
* Cello Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 5 (1892)
* Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 28 (1898)
* Cello Sonata No. 3 in F major, Op. 78 (1904)
* Cello Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 116 (1910)[2]
* Edmund Rubbra
* Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 60 (1946)
* Camille Saint-Saëns
* Cello Sonata No. 1 in C minor, Op. 32
* Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 123
* Philipp Scharwenka
* Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 116
* Alfred Schnittke
* Cello Sonata No. 1 (1978)
* Cello Sonata No. 2 (1993/4)
* Franz Schubert
* Sonata for Arpeggione in A minor, D. 821 is often transcribed for cello.
* Dmitri Shostakovich
* Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40 (1934)
* Charles Villiers Stanford
* Cello Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 9 (1878)
* Cello Sonata No. 2 on D minor, Op. 39 (1893)
* Richard Strauss
* Sonata in F major for cello and piano (1882)
* Antonio Vivaldi
* At least 9 cello sonatas
* Kurt Weill
* Sonata for Cello and Piano (1920)

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## Chronology of major cello sonatas[edit]

The following list (inevitably incomplete) tries to place the major sonatas and equivalent works for cello and piano or cello solo in chronological order of completion. It will be susceptible to uncertainty of dates, and whether original or revised versions are definitive.

Year | Composer | Work | Key | Opus

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1696 | Giuseppe Maria Jacchini | Sonata No. 3 | C major | Op. 3
1717-23 | Johann Sebastian Bach | 6 Unaccompanied Cello Suites | G, D minor, C
E♭, C minor & D |
early 18th century - 1739 | Benedetto Marcello | At least 12 Cello Sonatas |  |
early 18th century - 1741 | Antonio Vivaldi | At least 9 Cello Sonatas |  |
1760s - 1805 | Luigi Boccherini | At least 19 Cello Sonatas |  |
1796 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Cello Sonata No. 1 | F major | Op. 5, No. 1
1796 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Cello Sonata No. 2 | G minor | Op. 5, No. 2
1807-8 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Cello Sonata No. 3 | A major | Op. 69
1815 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Cello Sonata No. 4 | C major | Op. 102, No. 1
1815 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Cello Sonata No. 5 | D major | Op. 102, No. 2
1838 | Felix Mendelssohn | Cello Sonata No. 1 | B♭ major | Op. 45
1842-3 | Felix Mendelssohn | Cello Sonata No. 2 | D major | Op. 58
1846 | Frédéric Chopin | Cello Sonata | G minor | Op. 65
1856 | Édouard Lalo | Cello Sonata | A minor |
1856 | Charles-Valentin Alkan | Sonate de concert | E major | Op. 47
1862-5 | Johannes Brahms | Cello Sonata No. 1 | E minor | Op. 38
1872-3 | Camille Saint-Saëns | Cello Sonata No. 1 | C minor | Op. 32
1883 | Edvard Grieg | Cello Sonata | A minor | Op. 36
1883 | Richard Strauss | Cello Sonata | F major | Op. 6
1886 | Johannes Brahms | Cello Sonata No. 2 | F major | Op. 99
1892 | Max Reger | Cello Sonata No. 1 | F minor | Op. 5
1898 | Max Reger | Cello Sonata No. 2 | G minor | Op. 28
1899 | Ernő Dohnányi | Cello Sonata | B♭ major | Op. 8
1901 | Sergei Rachmaninoff | Cello Sonata | G minor | Op. 19
1904 | Max Reger | Cello Sonata No. 3 | F major | Op. 78
1905 | Camille Saint-Saëns | Cello Sonata No. 2 | F major | Op. 123
1907 | Zoltán Kodály | Cello Sonata |  | Op. 4
1907 | Charles-Marie Widor | Cello Sonata | A major | Op. 80
1910 | Max Reger | Cello Sonata No. 4 | A minor | Op. 116
1910-11 | Albéric Magnard | Cello Sonata | A major | Op. 20
1911 | Nikolai Myaskovsky | Cello Sonata No. 1 | D major | Op. 12
1912 | Max Reger | Cello Suites 1, 2 and 3 | G, D minor
& A minor | Op. 131
1913 | Dora Pejačević | Cello Sonata | E minor | Op. 35
1915 | Claude Debussy | Cello Sonata | D minor | L. 135
1915 | Zoltán Kodály | Solo Cello Sonata |  | Op. 8
1916 | Frederick Delius | Cello Sonata | D minor |
1913-17 | Frank Bridge | Cello Sonata | D minor |
1917 | Gabriel Fauré | Cello Sonata No. 1 | D minor | Op. 109
1921 | Gabriel Fauré | Cello Sonata No. 2 | G minor | Op. 117
1923 | Paul Hindemith | Solo Sonata for Cello |  | Op. 25 No. 3
1923 | John Ireland | Cello Sonata | G minor |
1929 | Béla Bartók | Rhapsody for Cello and Piano |  | Sz 88
1932 | Samuel Barber | Cello Sonata | C minor | Op. 6
1932-33 | Igor Stravinsky | Suite Italienne for cello and piano |  |
1934 | Dmitri Shostakovich | Cello Sonata | D minor | Op. 40
1938 | Nikolai Myaskovsky | Cello Sonata No. 2 |  | Op. 81
1939 | Bohuslav Martinů | Cello Sonata No. 1 |  |
1941 | Bohuslav Martinů | Cello Sonata No. 2 |  |
1944 | Zoltán Gárdonyi | Cello Sonata |  |
1948 | Francis Poulenc | Cello Sonata |  | Op 143
1948 | Elliott Carter | Cello Sonata |  |
1949 | Sergei Prokofiev | Cello Sonata | C major | Op. 119
1949 | Alan Rawsthorne | Cello Sonata |  |
1952 | Bohuslav Martinů | Cello Sonata No. 3 |  |
1956-57 | Ernest Bloch | Cello Suites 1, 2 and 3 |  |
1961 | Benjamin Britten | Cello Sonata | C major |
1962 | Dmitry Kabalevsky | Cello Sonata | B♭ major | Op. 71
1964 | Benjamin Britten | Suite for Cello Solo No. 1 | G major | Op. 72
1966 | Karen Khachaturian | Cello Sonata |  |
1967 | Benjamin Britten | Suite for Cello Solo No. 2 | D major | Op. 80
1971 | Benjamin Britten | Suite for Cello Solo No. 3 |  | Op. 87
1978 | Alfred Schnittke | Cello Sonata |  |

## See also[edit]

* List of compositions for cello and piano
* List of solo cello pieces

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Sonata | music". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved Jul 30, 2021.
2. ^ Info from IMSLP listings.

## External links[edit]

* Complete Scores of Many Cello Sonatas
* Repertoire for Solo Cello
* Some Composers of Cello Works Dates need to be double-checked against other sources as they do not always agree.

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