This is a list of
musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece or work of music, either vocal or instrumental, the structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new piece of music. People who create new compositions are called ...
s for
cello
The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...
and
orchestra
An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.
There are typically four main sections of instruments:
* bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, c ...
ordered by their authors' surnames.
List of cello concertos and concertante pieces
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Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen
Torstein Aagaard-Nilsen (born 11 January 1964, in Oslo) is a Norwegian contemporary composer.
Life
Aagaard-Nilsen grew up in Kabelvåg on Lofoten in northern Norway. From 1986 to 1990 he studied at the Bergen Conservatory of Music (now known ...
**Cello Concerto (1996)
*
Louis Abbiate Louis may refer to:
* Louis (coin)
* Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name
* Louis (surname)
* Louis (singer), Serbian singer
* HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy
See also
Derived or associated terms
* Lewis (d ...
**Cello Concerto (1895)
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Carl Friedrich Abel
Carl Friedrich Abel (22 December 1723 – 20 June 1787) was a German composer of the Classical era. He was a renowned player of the viola da gamba, and produced significant compositions for that instrument.
Life
Abel was born in Köthen, ...
**Cello Concerto in B flat
**Cello Concerto in C
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Hans Abrahamsen
**Lied in Fall
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Thomas Adès
Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès (born 1 March 1971) is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000: '' The Tempest'' (2004), ''V ...
**Lieux retrouvés (2016)
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Vasif Adigozalov
Vasif Zulfugar oghlu Adigozalov (alternative spellings: Adigezalov, Adygozal) ( az, Vasif Zülfüqar oğlu Adıgözəlov; 28 July 1935 – 15 September 2006) was one of Azerbaijan's most distinguished composers. He is the son of khananda Zulfu Ad ...
**Cello Concerto (1990)
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Samuel Adler (b. 1928)
**Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1995)
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Jean-Louis Agobet
Jean-Louis Agobet (born 21 April 1968) is a French composer.
Agobet was born in Blois Loir-et-Cher. He studied with Philippe Manoury at the Conservatoire de Lyon.
Following a residence at the Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg conductor Fran ...
**Cello Concerto (2009)
*Vladimir Agopov
**Cello Concerto (1987)
*
Miguel del Aguila
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Miguel is a given name and surname, the Portuguese and Spanish form of the Hebrew name Michael. It may refer to:
Places
*Pedro Miguel, a parish in the municipality of Horta and the island of Faial in the Azores Islands
*São Miguel (disambi ...
(b. 1957)
**Concierto en Tango for Cello and Orchestra (2014)
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Kalevi Aho
Kalevi Ensio Aho (born 9 March 1949) is a Finnish composer.
Early years
Aho began his interest in music at the age of ten, when he discovered a mandolin in his home and began to teach himself how to play it. He soon was taken under the tutelag ...
** Cello Concerto No. 1 (1983–84)
** Cello Concerto No. 2 (2013)
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Ikram Akbarov
**Cello Concerto (1990)
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Yasushi Akutagawa
was a Japanese composer and conductor. His father was Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
Biography
Akutagawa was born and raised in Tabata, Tokyo, the son of writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
Akutagawa studied composition with Kunihiko Hashimoto, Kan'ichi Sh ...
**C''oncerto ostinato'' for cello and orchestra (1969)
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Eugen d'Albert
Eugen (originally Eugène) Francis Charles d'Albert (10 April 1864 – 3 March 1932) was a Scottish-born pianist and composer.
Educated in Britain, d'Albert showed early musical talent and, at the age of seventeen, he won a scholarship to stud ...
**Cello Concerto in C,
Op. 20 (1899)
*
Stephen Albert
Stephen Joel Albert (6 February 1941 – 27 December 1992) was an American composer. He is best known for his Symphony No. 1 ''RiverRun'' (1983) and Cello Concerto (1990) written for Yo-Yo Ma, both of which won a Pulitzer Prize for Music. He d ...
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Cello Concerto A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.
These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike instru ...
(1990)
*Redzhep Allayarov
**Cello Concerto (1985)
*Pedro Humberto Allende Saron
**Cello Concerto (1915)
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Ferid Alnar
**Cello Concerto (1943)
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Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (Azerbaijani Firəngiz Əlizadə, Russian Франгиз Али-Заде; born 29 May 1947 in Baku, Azerbaijani SSR, Soviet Union) is an Azerbaijani composer and pianist, currently living in Germany. She is best known for her w ...
** Concerto for cello and orchestra (2000–2001)
*
André Amellér
André Amellér (2 January 1912 – 14 May 1990) was a French composer and conductor. He is considered part of the French school of 20th-century classical music.
Amellér played double bass for the Opéra national de Paris from 1937 to 1953, ...
** Concerto for cello and orchestra (1946), version for chamber orchestra (1963)
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Gilbert Amy
Gilbert Amy (born 29 August 1936) is a French composer and conductor.
Career
Born in Paris, Amy entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1954, where he was taught and influenced by Olivier Messiaen and Darius Milhaud and studied piano with Yvonne Lo ...
** Cello Concerto (1999–2000)
*
Tanya Anisimova
Tanya Anisimova (born February 15, 1966) is an American cello, cellist and composer of Russian descent.
Tanya Anisimova was born in the Chechnya, Chechen city of Grozny into a family of scientists: her father Dr. Mikhail Anisimov is a well-known ...
** ''Adonai'' for Solo Cello and String Orchestra (2006)
**''Quintet Concerto'' for Solo Cello and String Quintet (2005)
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Denis ApIvor
Denis ApIvor (14 April 191627 May 2004) was a British composer, best known for his ballet score ''Blood Wedding''. He had a parallel career as a consultant anaesthetist.Leach, Gerald. ''British Composer Profiles'' (3rd. Ed, 2012), p. 10
Biograph ...
**Cello Concerto (1977)
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Johann Gottfried Arnold
Johann Gottfried Arnold (15 February 1773 – 16 July 1806) was a German cellist and composer.
Life
He was the son of the schoolmaster of Niedernhall near Oehringen in Württemberg. From his earliest childhood he showed such a passion and aptitud ...
**Cello Concerto No.1 in C
**Cello Concerto No.2 in G
**Cello Concerto No.3 in F
**Cello Concerto No.4 in E flat
**Cello Concerto No.5 in D
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Malcolm Arnold
Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was an English composer. His works feature music in many genres, including a cycle of nine symphonies, numerous concertos, concert works, chamber music, choral music and music ...
**Cello Concerto
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Alexander Arutiunian
Alexander Grigori Arutiunian ( hy, Ալեքսանդր Գրիգորի Հարությունյան), also known as Arutunian, Arutyunyan, Arutjunjan, Harutyunian or Harutiunian (23 September 1920 – 28 March 2012), was a Soviet Union, Soviet and A ...
** Concertino for cello and orchestra (1971)
** Poem for cello and orchestra (1974)
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Kurt Atterberg
Kurt Magnus Atterberg (, 12 December 188715 February 1974) was a Swedish composer and engineer. He is best known for his symphonies, operas, and ballets.
Biography
Atterberg was born in Gothenburg. His father was Anders Johan Atterberg, engineer ...
** Cello Concerto in C minor, Op. 21 (1922)
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Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (; 29 January 178212 May 1871) was a French composer and director of the Paris Conservatoire.
Born into an artistic family, Auber was at first an amateur composer before he took up writing operas professionally when ...
**Air varié for cello and orchestra (1807)
**5 Concertos for Cello (around 1809)
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Pedro António Avondano
**Cello Concerto in G (c.1780)
*Vaja Azarashvili
**Concerto for cello and chamber orchestra
B
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Arno Babajanian
** Cello Concerto (1962)
*
Grażyna Bacewicz
Grażyna Bacewicz Biernacka (; 5 February 1909 – 17 January 1969) was a Polish composer and violinist. She is the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Maria Szymanowska in the ...
**Cello Concerto No. 1 (1951)
**Cello Concerto No. 2 (1963)
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, and commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and sec ...
**Cello Concerto in A minor (1750)
**Cello Concerto in B-flat major (1751)
**Cello Concerto in A major (1753)
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Johann Christian Bach
Johann Christian Bach (September 5, 1735 – January 1, 1782) was a German composer of the Classical period (music), Classical era, the eighteenth child of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the youngest of his eleven sons. After living in Italy for ...
**Concerto in C minor (
Casadesus forgery)
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Sven-Erik Bäck
Sven-Erik Bäck (16 September 1919 – 10 January 1994) was a Swedish composer of classical music. He was born in Stockholm.
Bäck studied from 1939 until 1943 in the King's Music-Academy and from 1940 until 1945, was a composition student of ...
**Cello Concerto (1966)
*
Nicolas Bacri
Nicolas Bacri (born 23 November 1961) is a French composer. He has written works that include seven symphonies, eleven string quartets, eight cantatas, two one-act operas, three piano sonatas, two cello and piano sonatas, four violin and piano ...
**Cello Concerto (1987)
*
Henk Badings
Henk Badings (hĕngk bä'dĭngz) (17 January 190726 June 1987) was an Indo-Dutch composer.
Early life
Born in Bandung, Java, Dutch East Indies, as the son of Herman Louis Johan Badings, an officer in the Dutch East Indies army, Hendrik Herman Ba ...
**Cello Concerto No. 1 (1930)
**Cello Concerto No. 2 (1939)
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David N. Baker
**Concerto for Cello and Chamber Orchestra (1975) (Commissioned by Janos Starker)
**Concerto for Cello and Jazz Band (1987) (Commissioned by Ed Laut)
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Leonardo Balada
Leonardo Balada Ibáñez (born September 22, 1933) is a Catalan American classical composer, who is noted for his operas and orchestral works.
Life
Balada was born in Barcelona, Spain. After studying piano at the Conservatori Superior de Mús ...
**Cello Concerto No. 1 (1962)
**Cello Concerto No. 2 ''New Orleans'' (2001)
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Christopher Ball
Christopher Ball (7 July 1936 – 7 April 2022) was a British composer, arranger, conductor, clarinetist and recorder player.
Early life and education
Ball was born in Leeds in 1936. His father had trained in piano tuning and his mother was a ...
**Cello Concerto No.1
**Cello Concerto No.2
*Alexander Baltin
**Cello Concerto (1971)
*Gennady Banshchikov
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1962)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1964)
**Cello Concerto No.3 (1965)
**Cello Concerto No.4 for cello and 11 instruments ''Duodeciment'' (1966)
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Granville Bantock
Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (7 August 186816 October 1946) was a British composer of classical music.
Biography
Granville Ransome Bantock was born in London. His father was an eminent Scottish surgeon.Hadden, J. Cuthbert, 1913, ''Modern Music ...
**''Sapphic Poem'' for cello and orchestra (1909)
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George Barati
George Barati (born György Braunstein) (April 3, 1913, Győr, Hungary - June 22, 1996, San Jose, California) was a Hungarian-American cellist, composer, and conductor.
Barati studied under Zoltán Kodály and Leo Weiner while a student at the L ...
**Cello Concerto (1953)
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Samuel Barber
Samuel Osmond Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer, pianist, conductor, baritone, and music educator, and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century. The music critic Donal Henahan said, "Proba ...
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Cello Concerto A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.
These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike instru ...
in A minor, Op. 22 (1945)
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Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as H ...
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Cello Concerto A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.
These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike instru ...
(arrangement of the ''Viola Concerto'' by
Tibor Serly
Tibor Serly (; Losonc, Kingdom of Hungary, 25 November 1901 – London, 8 October 1978) was a Hungarian violist, violinist, and composer.
Serly was the son of Lajos Serly, a pupil of Franz Liszt and a composer of songs and operettas in the ...
– 1945)
**Rhapsody 1
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Leonid Bashmakov
**Cello Concerto (1972)
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Veniamin Basner
Veniamin Efimovich Basner (russian: Вениами́н Ефи́мович Ба́снер, 1 January 1925 in Yaroslavl – 3 September 1996 in St Petersburg) was a Russian composer. He was recognized by the Soviet Union as a People's Artist of Russ ...
**Cello Concerto (1989)
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Stanley Bate
**Cello Concerto (1953)
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Mason Bates
Mason Wesley Bates (born January 23, 1977) is a Grammy award-winning American composer of symphonic music and DJ of electronic dance music. He is the first composer-in-residence of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and he has also be ...
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Cello Concerto A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.
These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike instru ...
(2014)
*Jerzy Bauer
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1985)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (2013)
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Arnold Bax
Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, (8 November 1883 – 3 October 1953) was an English composer, poet, and author. His prolific output includes songs, choral music, chamber pieces, and solo piano works, but he is best known for his orchestral musi ...
**Cello Concerto in G minor (1932)
*Stephen W. Beatty
**Five Cello Concertos (2014-6)
*
Louis-Noël Belaubre
**Concerto for cello and strings after Boccherini's sonata in C
*Gustaf Bengtsson
**Cello Concerto (1932)
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Paul Ben-Haim
Paul Ben-Haim (or Paul Ben-Chaim, Hebrew: פאול בן חיים) (5 July 1897 – 14 January 1984) was an Israeli composer. Born Paul Frankenburger in Munich, Germany, he studied composition with Friedrich Klose and he was assistant conductor t ...
**''Concerto''
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Pascal Bentoiu
Pascal Bentoiu (22 April 1927 – 21 February 2016) was a Romanian modernist composer.
Life and career
Bentoiu studied harmony, counterpoint and composition with Mihail Jora and piano with Theophil Demetriescu. He spent three years res ...
**Cello Concerto (1989)
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Niels Viggo Bentzon
Niels Viggo Bentzon (Copenhagen, 24 August 1919 – Copenhagen, 25 April 2000) was a Danish composer and pianist.
Biography
Bentzon was the son of Viggo Bentzon (1861-1937), Rector of Copenhagen University and Karen Hartmann (1882-1977), conc ...
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1956)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1974)
**Cello Concerto No.3 (1982)
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Esteban Benzecry
Esteban Benzecry (born 1970) is an Argentine classical composer.
Early years
Benzecry was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1970 to Argentine parents. He grew up in Argentina where he studied musical composition with Sergio Hualpa and Haydee Gerardi ...
**Concertino for cello and strings (1992)
**Cello Concerto (2013)
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Wilhelm Georg Berger
**Cello Concerto (1967)
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Erik Bergman
Erik Valdemar Bergman (24 November 1911, in Nykarleby – 24 April 2006, in Helsinki) was a composer of classical music from Finland.
Bergman's style ranged widely, from Romanticism in his early works (many of which he later prohibited from bein ...
**Cello Concerto
**Concerto for Cello and String Orchestra Op.141 (1998)
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Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio (24 October 1925 – 27 May 2003) was an Italian composer noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition ''Sinfonia'' and his series of virtuosic solo pieces titled ''Sequenza''), and for his pioneering work ...
**''Ritorno degli snovidenia'' (''The Return of Dreams'' 1977)
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Michael Berkeley
Michael Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Baron Berkeley of Knighton, (born 29 May 1948) is an English composer, broadcaster on music and member of the House of Lords.
Early life
Berkeley is the eldest of the three sons of Elizabeth Freda (née Bernstein ...
**Cello Concerto (1983)
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Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein ( ; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first America ...
**Three Meditations from Mass for cello and orchestra (1977)
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Charles Roland Berry
Charles Roland Berry (born 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American composer. He studied music history and music composition at the University of California with Peter Racine Fricker. Fricker taught him the intricate details of serialist ...
**Cello Concerto (published 2008)
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Boris Blacher
Boris Blacher (30 January 1975) was a German composer and librettist.
Life
Blacher was born when his parents (of German-Estonian and Russian backgrounds) were living within a Russian-speaking community in the Manchurian town of Niuzhuang () (he ...
**Cello Concerto (1964) ()
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David Blake
**Cello Concerto (1992)
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Howard Blake
Howard David Blake (born 28 October 1938) is an English composer, conductor, and pianist whose career has spanned more than 50 years and produced more than 650 works. Blake's most successful work is his soundtrack for Channel 4’s 1982 film ' ...
**Diversions for cello and orchestra (1985)
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Marc Bleuse
**Cello Concerto (1993)
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Arthur Bliss
Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss (2 August 189127 March 1975) was an English composer and conductor.
Bliss's musical training was cut short by the First World War, in which he served with distinction in the army. In the post-war years he qu ...
**Cello Concerto F 107 (1970)
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Ernest Bloch
Ernest Bloch (July 24, 1880 – July 15, 1959) was a Swiss-born American composer. Bloch was a preeminent artist in his day, and left a lasting legacy. He is recognized as one of the greatest Swiss composers in history. As well as producing music ...
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Schelomo
''Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque for Violoncello and Orchestra'' was the final work of composer Ernest Bloch's ''Jewish Cycle''. ''Schelomo'', which was written in 1915 to 1916, premiered on May 3, 1917, played by cellist Hans Kindler. Artur Bodan ...
, Rhapsodie Hébraïque for cello solo and large orchestra (1916)
**Voice in the Wilderness (1936)
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Luigi Boccherini
Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (, also , ; 19 February 1743 – 28 May 1805) was an Italian composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and ''galante'' style even while he matured somewhat apart from the major European ...
**Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, G. 477
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Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major, G. 479
**Cello Concerto No. 3 in G major, G. 480
**Cello Concerto No. 4 in C major, G. 481
**Cello Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, G. 474
**Cello Concerto No. 6 in A major, G 475
**Cello Concerto No. 7 in D major, G. 476
**Cello Concerto No. 8 in D major, G. 478
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Cello Concerto No. 9 in B-flat major, G. 482
**Cello Concerto in B-flat major (arr. F. Grutzmacher)
**Cello Concerto No. 10 in D major, G. 483
**Cello Concerto No. 11 in C major, G. 573
**Cello Concerto No. 12 in E-flat major
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Leon Boëllmann
**''Variations Symphoniques'', Op. 23
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Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (23 December 1689 – 28 October 1755) was a French baroque composer of instrumental music, cantatas, opéra-ballets, and vocal music. Boismortier was one of the first composers to have no patrons: having obtained a ro ...
**Cello Concerto Op.26. No.6 (published 1729)
*Max Bohrer
**Cello Concerto No.1 (c.1819)
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Nimrod Borenstein
Nimrod Borenstein ( he, נמרוד בורנשטיין; born in 1969) is a British-French-Israeli composer whose music is widely performed throughout Europe, the US, Canada, Australia and Japan. His works are becoming part of the repertoire of ma ...
**Concerto for violoncello and string orchestra opus 56b (2012)
**Cello concerto No. 2 opus 77 (2017)
*Lilcho Borisov
**Cello Concerto (1984)
*
Pavel Bořkovec
**Cello Concerto (1952)
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Sergei Bortkiewicz
Sergei Bortkiewicz (russian: Сергей Эдуардович Борткевич; – 25 October 1952) was a Russian-born Austrian Romantic composer and pianist. He moved to Vienna in 1922 and became a naturalized Austrian citizen in 1926.
Li ...
**Cello Concerto, Op. 20 (1915)
** Three Pieces for cello and orchestra, Op. 25A: (1922)
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Daniel Börtz
Daniel Börtz (born 8 August 1943) is a Swedish composer, born in Hässleholm.
He studied composition under Hilding Rosenberg, Karl-Birger Blomdahl and Ingvar Lidholm. Among his works are the operas ''Bacchanterna'' (1991), ''Marie Antoinette'' ...
** Concerto for cello and strings (1980)
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Henriëtte Bosmans
Henriëtte Hilda Bosmans (6 December 1895 – 2 July 1952) was a Dutch composer and pianist.
Early life and education
Bosmans was born in Amsterdam, the daughter of (1856-1896), principal cellist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the ...
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1922)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1924)
**Poème (1926)
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Antoon Bouman
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1882)
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Hendrik Bouman
Hendrik "Henk" Bouman (born 29 September 1951, in Dordrecht)David Cummings, International Who's Who In Music And Musicians' Directory 1994/5, page 92 is a Dutch harpsichordist, fortepianist, conductor and composer of music written in the baroqu ...
**Cello Concerto in A minor for cello and strings (2005)()
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York Bowen
Edwin York Bowen (22 February 1884 – 23 November 1961) was an English composer and pianist. Bowen's musical career spanned more than fifty years during which time he wrote over 160 works. As well as being a pianist and composer, Bowen was a ...
**Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 74 (c. 1924)
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George Frederick Boyle George Frederick Boyle (June 29, 1886June 20, 1948) was an Australian, and later American pianist, composer and pedagogue. He moved to the United States in 1910 and remained there until his death in 1948.
Biography
Boyle was born in Sydney, New ...
**Cello Concerto (1917)
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Eugène Bozza
Eugène Joseph Bozza (4 April 1905 – 28 September 1991)Grove Music Online: "Bozza, Eugène"; accessed 20 September 2014, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/03791. was a French composer and violinist. He was one of t ...
**Cello Concerto (1947)
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Joly Braga Santos
José Manuel Joly Braga Santos, ComSE (; May 14, 1924July 18, 1988) was a Portuguese composer and conductor, who was born and died in Lisbon. He wrote six symphonies.
Biography
José Manuel Joly Braga Santos was born in Lisbon in 1924 and died ...
**Cello Concerto (1987)
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Thérèse Brenet
Thérèse Brenet (born 22 October 1935) is a French composer.
Born in Paris, she studied at the Conservatoire de Reims and since 1954 the Conservatoire de Paris. Among her teachers were Maurice Duruflé, Henri Dutilleux, Darius Milhaud, and Jean R ...
**''Le Retour De Quetzalcoatl,'' symphonic poem for cello and orchestra (1995)
**Concerto for cello and small orchestra (2010)
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Jean-Baptiste Bréval
Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Bréval (6 November 1753 – 18 March 1823) was a French Cello, cellist and composer. He wrote mostly for his own instrument, including pedagogical works as well as virtuoso display pieces.
Life
Bréval was born in Pa ...
**Cello Concerto No. 1, A, Op. 14 (1784)
**Cello Concerto No. 2, D, Op. 17 (1784)
**Cello Concerto No. 3, F, Op. 20 (1785)
**Cello Concerto No. 4, C, Op. 22 (1786)
**Cello Concerto No. 5, Op. 24 (1786)
**Cello Concerto No. 6, C, Op. 26 (1786)
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Havergal Brian
Havergal Brian (born William Brian; 29 January 187628 November 1972) was an English composer. He is best known for having composed 32 symphonies (an unusually high total for a 20th-century composer), most of them late in his life. His best-know ...
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Cello Concerto A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.
These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike instru ...
in E-flat (1964)
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Frank Bridge
Frank Bridge (26 February 187910 January 1941) was an English composer, violist and conductor.
Life
Bridge was born in Brighton, the ninth child of William Henry Bridge (1845-1928), a violin teacher and variety theatre conductor, formerly a m ...
**Oration, concerto elegiaco for cello and orchestra (1930)
**Suite for cello and orchestra (orch. Robert Cornford, 1982)
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Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other ...
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Cello Symphony
The Symphony for Cello and Orchestra or Cello Symphony, Op. 68, was written in 1963 by the British composer Benjamin Britten. He dedicated the work to Mstislav Rostropovich, who gave the work its premiere in Moscow with the composer and the Mosco ...
, Op. 68 (1963)
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Dirk Brossé
Dirk, Knight BrosséEtat présent de la noblesse belge 2015, p. 20 (born 18 February 1960, Ghent) is a Belgian conductor and composer. He has composed over 200 works, including concerti, oratorios, lieder, chamber music and symphonic works. Bro ...
**Elegy For Cello and Strings (1994)
**Double concerto for Cello and Clarinet (2000)
**Concerto fir Isabelle (2015)
*Tobias Broström
**Cello Concerto (2013)
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Alexander Brott
Alexander Brott, , born Joël Brod (March 14, 1915April 1, 2005),
**Cello Concerto ''Evocative Provocations'' (1975)
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Stephen Brown
**Concerto for Two Cellos in G minor, "The Big Twin" (2016)
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Max Bruch
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'', Op. 47 (late 1880)
**''Canzone'', Op. 55 (about 1891)
**''Adagio after Celtic themes'', Op. 56 (c.1891)
**Ave Maria, Op. 61 (1892)
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Fritz Brun
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Life
Brun was born in Lucerne. He was a student of Franz Wüllner at the conservatory at Cologne, and studied piano and theory t ...
**Cello Concerto (1947)
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Joanna Bruzdowicz
Joanna Bruzdowicz (17 May 1943 – 3 November 2021) was a Polish composer.
Life
Born in Warsaw, Bruzdowicz studied at the Warsaw Music High School, at the State Higher School of Music (composition with Kazimierz Sikorski and piano with Irena Pr ...
**Cello Concerto ''The Cry of the Phoenix'' (1994)
*
Gavin Bryars
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Early life and career
Born on 16 January 1943 in ...
**Cello Concerto (1995)
*Rudolph Bubalo
**Concerto for cello and chamber orchestra (1992)
*
Gunnar Bucht
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Max Deutsch (17 November 1892 – 22 November 1982) was an Austrian-French compos ...
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1954)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1990)
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Julius Bürger
**Cello Concerto (1938)
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Geoffrey Burgon
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**Cello Concerto (2007)
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William Busch
**Cello Concerto (1941)
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Geoffrey Bush
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**Sinfonietta Concertante (1943)
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Antonio Caldara
Antonio Caldara (ca 1670 – 28 December 1736) was an Italian Baroque composer.
Life
Caldara was born in Venice (exact date unknown), the son of a violinist. He became a chorister at St Mark's in Venice, where he learned several instruments, ...
**Cello Concerto in D minor
*
Roger Calmel
Roger Calmel (13 May 1920 – 4 July 1998) was a French composer. His nearly 400 works span every genre, from chamber music to opera.
Originally from the Languedoc, he undertook his first musical studies in Béziers, in particular with Paul Fouq ...
**Cello Concerto (1968)
*
Edith Canat de Chizy
**Moïra (1998)
*
André Caplet
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**Epiphanie for cello and orchestra (1923)
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**Cello Concerto (2001)
*
David Carlson
David Carlson (born 13 March 1952) is an American composer.
Early life
Carlson studied theory and composition at the Los Angeles High School of the Arts and with Leonard Stein at the California Institute of the Arts. From 1988 to 1992 he was coo ...
**Cello Concerto No. 1 (1979) (Carl Fischer Music)
**Cello Concerto No. 2 for cello and 15 strings (1997) (Carl Fischer Music)
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Elliott Carter
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**
Cello Concerto A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.
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(2000)
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Robert Casadesus
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**Cello Concerto (1947)
*
André Casanova
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**Cello Concerto (1983)
*
Alfredo Casella
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Life and career
Casella was born in Turin, the son of Maria (née Bordino) and Carlo Casella. His family included many musicians: his grandfather, a f ...
**Cello Concerto (1934–35)
*
Philip Cashian
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Biography
Philip Cashian was born in Manchester in 1963 and studied at Cardiff University and the Guildhall School of Music and Dr ...
**Concerto for cello and Strings (2012)
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John Casken
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Casken was born in Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. While at Barnsley Grammar School in the 1960s his music teacher played a recording of Berg's Violin Concerto, which h ...
** Cello Concerto (1991)
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Gaspar Cassadó
Gaspar Cassadó i Moreu (30 September or 5 October 1897 – 24 December 1966) was a Spanish cellist and composer of the early 20th century. He was born in Barcelona to a church musician father, Joaquim Cassadó, and began taking cello lesson ...
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Cello Concerto in D minor (1926)
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Joseph Castaldo
** Cello Concerto (1995)
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Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco
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**Cello Concerto, Op. 72 in G minor (1935)
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Manuel Castillo
**Cello Concerto
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Ricardo Castro
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Life
Castro was b ...
**Cello Concerto (1895)
*
Yi Chen
** ''Eleanor's Gift'' concerto for cello and orchestra (1999)
*
Friedrich Cerha
Friedrich Cerha (born 17 February 1926) is an Austrian composer, conductor and music educator.
Education and Career
Cerha was born in Vienna, Austria, and educated at the Viennese Music Academy (violin with Váša Příhoda, composition with A ...
**Konzert (1989-1996)
*
Shirvani Chalayev
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1970)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1975)
*
Carlos Chávez
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**Cello Concerto (unfinished, 1975)
*
Gordon Shi-Wen Chin
**Cello Concerto No.1 (2006)
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Unsuk Chin
Unsuk Chin ( ko, 진은숙 ; born July 14, 1961) is a South Korean composer of contemporary classical music, who is based in Berlin, Germany. Chin was self-taught piano from a young age and studied composition at Seoul National University as w ...
** Cello Concerto (2009/2013)
*
Giovanni Battista Cirri
Giovanni Battista Cirri (1 October 1724 – 11 June 1808) was an Italian cellist and composer in the 18th century.
Biography
Cirri was born in Forlì in the Emilia-Romagna Region of Italy. He had his first musical training with his brother Ig ...
** Six cello concertos (Op. 14, Nos. 1–6)
*
Walter Civitareale
**Cello Concerto (1986)
*
Anna Clyne
Anna Clyne (born 9 March 1980, in London) is an English composer, now resident in New York, US. She has worked in both acoustic music and electro-acoustic music.
Biography
Clyne began writing music as a child, completing her first composition a ...
** DANCE for cello and orchestra (2019)
*
Guillaume Connesson
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Biography
Connesson studied the piano, music theory, music history and choir conducting at the Conserva ...
**Cello Concerto (2008)
*
Dinos Constantinides
Dinos Constantinides ( el, Ντίνος Κωνσταντινίδης; 10 May 1929 – 20 July 2021) was a Greek-American composer of contemporary classical music.
Constantinides was born in Ioannina, Greece. He studied violin and music theory ...
**Cello Concerto ''China IV-Shenzhen'' (1992)
*
Barry Conyngham
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**Concerto for cello and strings (1984)
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Arnold Cooke
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Education
Cooke was born at Gomersal, West Yorkshire, into a family of carpet manufacturers. As a child, ...
**Cello Concerto (1973)
*
Frank Corcoran
Frank Corcoran ( ; born 1 May 1944) is an Irish composer. His output includes chamber, symphonic, choral and electro-acoustic music, through which he often explores Irish mythology and history.
Life
''"I came late to art music; childhood soundsca ...
**Cello Concerto (2014)
*
Ronald Corp
Ronald Geoffrey Corp, (born 4 January 1951) is a composer, conductor and Anglican priest. He is founder and artistic director of the New London Orchestra (NLO) and the New London Children's Choir. Corp is musical director of the London Chorus, a ...
**Cello Concerto (2014)
*
François Couperin
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Paul Bazelaire
Paul Bazelaire (4 March 1886 – 11 December 1958) was a French cellist and composer.
Bazelaire was born in Sedan, Ardennes. He studied under Jules Delsart
Jules Delsart (24 November 1844 – 3 July 1900)MacGregor, "Jules Delsart"Grove Music ...
** Pieces en concert for Cello and Strings
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Jean Cras
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**Légende (1929)
*
Lyell Cresswell
Lyell Richard Cresswell (13 October 1944 – 19 March 2022) was a New Zealand composer of contemporary classical music. He was the younger brother of philosopher Max Cresswell. Cresswell studied in Wellington, Toronto, Aberdeen and Utrecht and l ...
**Cello Concerto (1984)
*
Gordon Crosse
Gordon Crosse (1 December 1937 – 21 November 2021) was an English composer.
Biography
Crosse was born in Bury, Lancashire on 1 December 1937, and in 1961 graduated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford with a first class honours degree in music, where h ...
**Cello Concerto (1979)
*
César Cui
César Antonovich Cui ( rus, Це́зарь Анто́нович Кюи́, , ˈt͡sjezərʲ ɐnˈtonəvʲɪt͡ɕ kʲʊˈi, links=no, Ru-Tsezar-Antonovich-Kyui.ogg; french: Cesarius Benjaminus Cui, links=no, italic=no; 13 March 1918) was a Ru ...
**Deux morceaux Op.36 (1886)
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Andrzej Cwojdziński
Andrzej Cwojdziński (28 January 1928 – 23 March 2022) was a Polish composer, conductor and music teacher.
Biography
Cwojdziński was born in Jaworzno. He attended the Academy of Music in Kraków, where he studied composing and conducting. H ...
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1965)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1968)
**Cello Concerto No.3 (1993)
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Marc-André Dalbavie
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Luigi Dallapiccola (February 3, 1904 – February 19, 1975) was an Italian composer known for his lyrical twelve-tone compositions.
Biography
Dallapiccola was born in Pisino d'Istria (at the time part of Austria-Hungary, current Pazin, Croa ...
**Dialoghi (1960)
*
Peter Maxwell Davies
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As a student at both the University of Manchester and the Royal Manchester College of Music ...
**Strathclyde Concerto No. 2 (1987)
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Karl Davydov
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** Cello Concerto No. 1 in B minor, Op. 5 (1859)
** Cello Concerto No. 2 in A minor, Op. 14 (1863)
** Cello Concerto No. 3 in D, Op. 18 (1868)
** Cello Concerto No. 4 in E minor, Op. 31 (1878)
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Richard Danielpour
Richard Danielpour (born January 28, 1956) is an American composer.
Early life
Danielpour was born in New York City of Persian Jewish descent and grew up in New York City and West Palm Beach, Florida. He studied at Oberlin College and the New E ...
** Cello Concerto No. 1 (1990)
**Cello Concerto No. 2 – ''Through the Ancient Valley'' (2001)
*
Franz Danzi
Franz Ignaz Danzi (15 June 1763 – 13 April 1826) was a German cellist, composer and conductor, the son of the Italian cellist Innocenz Danzi (1730–1798) and brother of the noted singer Franzeska Danzi. Danzi lived at a significant time in t ...
**Cello Concerto G
**Cello Concerto A major
**Cello Concerto E minor
**Variations on Mozart's ''Là ci darem la mano'' from ''Don Giovanni''
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Brett Dean
Brett Dean (born 23 October 1961) is an Australian composer, violist and conductor.
Biography
Brett Dean was born, raised and educated in Brisbane. He started learning violin at the age of eight, and later studied viola with Elizabeth Morgan a ...
**Cello Concerto (2018)
*Dan Dediu
**Cello Concerto (2019)
*
Théo De Joncker
**Cello Concerto
*
Frederick Delius
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Cello Concerto A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.
These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike instru ...
(1921)
**Caprice and Elegy (1930)
* Louis Delune
** Cello Concerto (published 1927)
*
Edison Denisov
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B ...
** Cello Concerto, Op. 44 (1972)
** Variations on Haydn's Canon "Death is a Long Sleep" for cello and orchestra (1982)
*Gion Antoni Derungs
**Cello Concerto (2004)
*
Pavle Dešpalj
Pavle Dešpalj (18 June 1934 – 16 December 2021) was a Croatian composer and conductor.
Biography
Pavle Dešpalj graduated from Music Academy in Zagreb where he studied composition with Prof. Stjepan Šulek.
In 1961 he founded Zadar's festi ...
**Concerto for cello and string orchestra (2001)
*Alon Deutsch
**Cello Concerto (2018)
*
Bernd Richard Deutsch
**Cello Concerto (2019)
*
Frédéric Devreese
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**Concertino for cello, bandoneón and string orchestra (1998)
**Concerto for cello and orchestra (1999)
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David Diamond
**Cello Concerto (1938)
**''Kaddish'' for cello and orchestra (1987)
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Bernard van Dieren
Bernard Hélène Joseph van Dieren (27 December 188724 April 1936) was a Dutch composer, critic, author, and writer on music, much of whose working life was spent in England.
Biography
Van Dieren was the last of five children of a Dutch Rotterda ...
**Elegy for cello and orchestra (c.1910)
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Albert Dietrich
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Dietrich was born at Golk, near Meissen. From 1851 he studied com ...
**Cello Concerto in G minor, Op. 32
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Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
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1739–1764
Dittersdorf was born in ...
**Cello Concerto D
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Paul-Heinz Dittrich
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**Concerto for cello, string quartet and orchestra (1975)
*Georgy Dmitriev
**Cello Concerto (1968)
*
Ernst von Dohnányi
Ernst von Dohnányi (Hungarian: ''Dohnányi Ernő'', ; 27 July 1877 – 9 February 1960) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor. He used a German form of his name on most published compositions.
Biography
Dohnányi was born in Pozsony ...
**''Concertpiece'', Op. 12 (1904)
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Cornelis Dopper
Cornelis 'Kees' Dopper (7 February 1870, Stadskanaal – 19 September 1939, Amsterdam) was a Dutch composer, Conductor (music), conductor and teacher.
Life
Born in the northern Dutch town of Stadskanaal, he came to study at the Leipzig con ...
** Cello Concerto (1910,1923)
*
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* Antal (given name)
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**Cello Concerto (1977)
*
Friedrich Dotzauer
Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer (20 January 1783 – 6 March 1860) was a German cellist and composer.
Life Early life and career
Dotzauer was born in 1783 in , near Hildburghausen. His father, a pastor, encouraged his interest in music. I ...
**Cello Concerto in B minor
**Cello Concerto in F sharp minor
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Dimitris Dragatakis
Dimitris Dragatakis (Greek: Δημήτρης Δραγατάκης; 22 January 1914 – 18 December 2001) was a Greek composer of classical music and Greek art music.
He was born in Platanoussa, Epirus in 1914 and studied the violin from 1930 to ...
**Cello Concerto (1972)
*
Pierre Max Dubois
Pierre Max Dubois, sometimes given as Pierre-Max Dubois (1 March 1930 – 29 August 1995) was a French composer of classical music, conductor, and music educator. He was a student of Darius Milhaud, and though not widely popular, was respected ...
**Cello Concerto (1958)
*
Vernon Duke
Vernon Duke ( 16 January 1969) was a Russian-born American composer/songwriter who also wrote under his birth name, Vladimir Dukelsky. He is best known for "Taking a Chance on Love," with lyrics by Ted Fetter and John Latouche (1940), "I Can't ...
** Cello Concerto (1945)
*
Jean-Louis Duport
Jean-Louis Duport (4 October 17497 September 1819), sometimes known as Duport the Younger to distinguish him from his older brother (and teacher) Jean-Pierre (1741-1818), was a cellist, pedagogue, and composer.
He is perhaps best known today fo ...
** 6 cello concertos (No. 4 in E minor, 5 in D major, 6 in D minor)
*
Pascal Dusapin
Pascal Georges Dusapin (born 29 May 1955) is a French composer. His music is marked by its microtonality, tension, and energy.
A pupil of Iannis Xenakis and Franco Donatoni and an admirer of Varèse, Dusapin studied at the University of Paris I ...
** Cello Concerto ''"Celo"'' (1996)
** Cello Concerto ''"
Outscape
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** Cello Concerto ''"
Tout un monde lointain..."'' (1970)
*
Antonín Dvořák
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**
Cello Concerto in A major, orchestrated by
Jarmil Burghauser
Jarmil Michael Burghauser (born Jarmil Michael Mokrý, 21 October 1921, Písek19 February 1997, Prague) was a Czech composer, conductor, and musicologist.
After the short-lived Prague Spring, he incurred the disfavor of his country's Communist r ...
(1865)
**
Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 (1894–1895)
**''Rondo'' in G minor, Op. 94, B.181 (1893)
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**'' Silent Woods'', Op. 68, No. 5, B.182 (1893)
* George Dyson
**''Prelude, Fantasy and Chaconne'' for cello and orchestra (1936)
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* Sixten Eckerberg
**Cello Concerto (1973)
*Karl Anton Eckert
Karl Anton Florian Eckert (17 December 1820 – 14 October 1879) was a German conductor and composer.
Life
Eckert was born in Berlin. By the age of five, had already proved himself as a musical child prodigy. After coming to the attention of Si ...
**Cello Concerto (c.1869)
* René Eespere
**Cello Concerto ''Concertatus Celatus'' (2004)
*Klaus Egge
Klaus Egge (July 19, 1906 – March 7, 1979) was a Norwegian composer and music critic.
Background
Egge was born in Gransherad, Telemark, Norway. He was the son Rasmus Klausen Egge (1874-1962) and Rakel Abrahamsdatter Iversen (1877-1986). He g ...
** Cello Concerto, Op. 29 (1966)
*Werner Egk
Werner Egk (, 17 May 1901 – 10 July 1983), born Werner Joseph Mayer, was a German composer.
Early career
He was born in the Swabian town of Auchsesheim, today part of Donauwörth, Germany. His family, of Catholic peasant stock, moved to Augs ...
**Canzona for cello and orchestra (1982)
*Halim El-Dabh
Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh ( ar, حليم عبد المسيح الضبع, ''Ḥalīm ʻAbd al-Masīḥ al-Ḍab''ʻ; March 4, 1921 – September 2, 2017) was an Egyptian-American composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who ha ...
**The Invisible Bridge: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (2007)
*Edward Elgar
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** Cello Concerto A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.
These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike instru ...
in E minor, Op. 85 (1918–1919)
*Jose Elizondo
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* Jose ben Abin
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**''Unter dem Sternenhimmel des Rheins (Under the starry sky of the Rhine)'' (2020)
**''Legende des edlen Ritters (The legend of the noble knight)'' (2020)
**''Danzas Latinoamericanas (Latin American Dances)'' (1997)
**''Otoño en Buenos Aires (Autumn in Buenos Aires)'' (1997)
**''Pan de Azúcar (Sugar Loaf mountain)'' (1997)
**''Atardecer Tapatío (Sunset in Guadalajara)'' (1997)
**''La alborada de la esperanza (The Dawn of Hope)'' (2018)
**''Limoncello'' (2018)
**''Crepúsculos (Twilights)'' (2018)
*David Ellis
**Cello Concerto (1977 rev. 2004)
* Jens Laursøn Emborg
**Cello Concerto (1949)
*George Enescu
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Biog ...
**'' Sinfonia Concertante'' in B minor, Op. 8 (1901)
*Einar Englund
Sven Einar Englund (June 17, 1916 – June 27, 1999) was a Finnish composer.
Life
Sven Einar Englund was born at Ljugarn in Gotland, Sweden, on June 17, 1916; he died June 27, 1999, in Visby, Sweden. He married twice: in 1941 to Meri Mirjam G ...
**Cello Concerto (1954)
*Peter Eötvös
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People
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* Peter (given name)
** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church
* Peter (surname), a sur ...
**Cello Concerto Grosso (2010-2011)
* Frederic d'Erlanger
**Andante Symphonique for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 18 (1903)
**Ballade for Cello and Orchestra (1926)
*Iván Erőd
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**3 movements for Cello and Chamber Orchestra, Op. 7 (12 min) (1958)
**Cello Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 80 ( 25 min) (2005)
* Francisco Escudero
**Cello Concerto (1971)
* Andrei Eshpai
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Bio ...
** Concerto for cello and orchestra (1989) (Dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich
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*Sebastian Fagerlund
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** ''Nomade'' - Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
* Mohammed Fairouz
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He is one of the most frequently performed composers of his generation and has been described by Daniel J. Wakin of ''The New York Times'' as an "important new artistic voice".
Fa ...
** ''Akhnaten, Dweller in Truth'' for cello and orchestra (2011)
** Cello Concerto ''Desert Sorrows'' (2015)
* Gabriel Fauré
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (; 12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers ...
** Elegie for Cello and Orchestra (1880)
*Ivan Fedele
Ivan Fedele (born 6 May 1953 in Lecce) is an Italian composer. He studied at the Milan Conservatory.
Fedele's compositions are published by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, and many of his works are recorded on Stradivarius Records.
Selected works
;S ...
**Concerto for cello and orchestra (1996)
**Imaginary Depth for cello and chamber orchestra (1997)
**Est!, Concerto No. 2 for cello and small orchestra (2004–2005)
*Jindřich Feld
Jindřich Feld (February 19, 1925 in Prague, Czechoslovakia – July 8, 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic) was a Czech composer of classical music.
Feld was born into a musical family, his father a well-known professor of violin at the Prague C ...
**Cello Concerto (1958)
* Morton Feldman
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** Cello and Orchestra, for Siegfried Palm
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(1972)
* Václav Felix
** Cello Concerto (1990)
*John Fernström
John Fernström (6 December 1897 – 19 October 1961) was a Swedish composer.
Fernström was born in Yichang, China, where he also spent most part of the first ten years of his life at the mission his father directed, except for a couple of years ...
**Cello Concerto (1940)
*Francesco Filidei
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**Ogni Gesto d’Amore (2009)
*Anton Fils
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Fils was born in Eichstätt, in the Bishopric of Eichstätt. Long thought to ha ...
**Cello Concerto in B flat
**Cello Concerto in F
*Vivian Fine
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Life
Vivian Fine was born in Chicago to David and Rose Fine. A piano prodigy, she became at age five the youngest student ever to be awarded a scholarship at the Chic ...
**Chamber Concerto for cello and six instruments (1966)
*Gerald Finzi
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** Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 40 (1955)
* Nicola Fiorenza
**Cello Concerto in A minor
**Cello Concerto in B flat
**Cello Concerto in F
* Elena Firsova
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Life
Firsova was born in Leningrad into the family of physicists Ol ...
** Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 10 (1973)
** Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 26 (Chamber Concerto No. 2) (1982)
** Cello Concerto No. 3, Op. 78 (Chamber Concerto No. 5) (1996)
** Cello Concerto No.4 Op. 122 (Concerto-Elegy) (2008)
* Nenad Firšt
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Nenad Firšt received a high school musical education at the Zagreb High School of Music before moving to L ...
** Cello Concerto (1994)
* Jerzy Fitelberg
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Biography
Son of Grzegorz Fitelberg, Jerzy was born in Warsaw. He first studi ...
** Cello Concerto (1931)
* Wilhelm Fitzenhagen
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Life
Fitzenhagen was born ...
** Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 1, in B minor (1870)
** Concerto Fantastique, for Cello and Orchestra No. 2, in A minor (1871)
** Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 3, in A minor
* Kjell Flem
** Cello Concerto (2005)
* Lukas Florczak
** Cello Concerto (2019)
* Jean-Louis Florentz
** Cello Concerto ''Le Songe de Lluc Alcari'' (1996)
*Franz Flössner
**Cello Concerto Op.20
* Urs Joseph Flury
**Cello Concerto (1977)
*Josef Bohuslav Foerster
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Life
Foerster was born in Prague. His ancestors ...
**Cello Concerto (1930)
* Juliette Folville (1870–1946)
**''Concertstuck pour Violoncelle'' (Concert piece for cello) and orchestra (1905)
**''Triptych'' for cello and orchestra (manuscript)
* Arthur Foote
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(1853–1937)
** Cello Concerto in G minor, Op. 33 (1894)
*Carlo Forlivesi
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Forlivesi was born in Faenza, Emilia-Romagna. He studied at Bologna Conservatory, Milan Conservatory and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia of Rome ...
**''Lauda'' (2007), Cello Concerto (for Anssi Karttunen
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Karttunen's repertoire ranges from the early baroque to living composers and improvisation. He has performed with many orchestras in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, including the Philharmonia, BBC ...
)
*Lukas Foss
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Career
Born Lukas Fuchs in Berlin, Germany in 1922, Foss was soon recognized as a child prodigy. He began piano and theory lessons with J ...
**Cello Concerto (1966)
*John Foulds
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A successful composer of li ...
**''Lento e Scherzetto'', Op. 12 (about 1906)
**Cello Concerto in G major, Op. 17 (1908–09)
*Malcolm Forsyth
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Life and ca ...
**Cello Concerto ''Electra Rising'' (1995)
*Wolfgang Fortner
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Life
Fortner was born in Leipzig. From his parents, who were both singers, Fortner very early on had intense contact with music.
...
**Concerto for Cello and orchestra (1951)
**Zyklus for Cello and Chamber Orchestra without strings (1970)
*Luca Francesconi
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Early years
Luca Francesconi was born in Milan. His father was a painter who edited ''Il ...
**Rest, Concerto for cello and orchestra (2003)
**Unexpected End of Formula, for cello, ensemble and electronics (2008)
**Das Ding singt (2017)
*Auguste Franchomme
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Life and career
Born in Lille, Franchomme studied at the local conse ...
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1846)
* Jacques Franco-Mendès
**Grand Cello Concerto No.3 (c.1879)
* John Frandsen
**Cello Concerto ''Hymn to the Ice Queen'' (1998)
* Jan Freidlin
**Concerto for cello, string orchestra and vibraphone (1994)
*Gunnar de Frumerie
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After studying ...
** Cello Concerto (1984)
*Dai Fujikura
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Biography
Dai Fujikura was born in 1977 in Osaka, Japan. He moved to London when he was 15 to study at Dover Colle ...
**Cello Concerto (2017)
* Charles Fussell
**Right River (Variations for cello and string orchestra)
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*Bogdan Gagić
**Cello Concerto (1987)
*Renaud Gagneux
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Gagneux studied piano with Alfred Cortot and composition with Henri Dutilleux at the École Normale in Paris. In 1966 he went to Cologne to study composition with Karlhe ...
**Triptyque (Cello Concerto No.1 1990)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1999)
* Hans Gal
**Cello Concerto (1944)
* Moritz Ganz
**Cello Concerto No.2 (published 1836)
* Celso Garrido-Lecca
**Cello Concerto (1994)
* John Garth
**Cello Concerto No. 1 in D (1760)
**Cello Concerto No. 2 in B flat (1760)
**Cello Concerto No. 3 in A (1760)
**Cello Concerto No. 4 in B flat (1760)
**Cello Concerto No. 5 in D minor (1760)
**Cello Concerto No. 6 in G (1760)
* Fritz Geissler
**Cello Concerto (1974)
**Cello Concertino (1981)
* Jiří Gemrot
**Cello Concerto (1984)
**Concertino for cello, piano and orchestra (2004)
**Concerto for cello and chamber orchestra (2009)
**Lamento for cello and string orchestra (2012)
*Harald Genzmer
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Medieval Kings of Denmark
* Harald Bluetooth (935–985/986)
Kings of Norway
* Harald Fairhair (c. 850–c. 933)
* Harald Greycloak (died 970)
* Harald Hardrada ...
**Cello Concerto (1950)
**Concerto for Cello and Winds (1969)
*Friedrich Gernsheim
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Early life
Gernsheim was born in Worms. He was given his first musical training at home under his mother's care, then starting from the age of ...
**Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 78 (1907)
*Stefano Gervasoni
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A protégé of Luigi Nono, Gervasoni studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. In 1995 he became composer in residence at the Villa Médicis in Rome. He has won ...
**Heur, leurre,leuer for cello and orchestra (2013)
*Alberto Ginastera
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Biography
Ginastera was born in Buen ...
**Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 36 (1968)
**Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 50 (1980)
*Paul Glass
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Life
Born in Los Angeles, California, Glass is the son of silent film actor and film executive Gaston Glass. He was educated at the University of Southern California (BM) ...
**Cello Concerto (1961)
* Philip Glass
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** Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
**Cello Concerto No.2 – ''Naqoyqatsi''
*Alexander Glazunov
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**Concerto-ballata in C, Op. 108 (1931)
**Chant du ménestrel, Op. 71 (1901)
*Reinhold Glière
Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (born Reinhold Ernest Glier, which was later converted for standardization purposes; russian: Рейнгольд Морицевич Глиэр; 23 June 1956), was a Russian Imperial and Soviet composer of German and P ...
**Cello Concerto in D minor, Op. 87 (1946)
*Alexander Goehr
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Goehr was born in Berlin in 1932, the son of the conductor and composer Walter Goehr, a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg. In his early twenties he emerged as a centra ...
**Romanza for cello and orchestra, Op. 24 (1968)
* Daniël van Goens
**Cello Concerto No.1 in A minor (1886/7)
**Cello Concerto No.2 in D minor (published 1901)
*Berthold Goldschmidt
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**Cello Concerto (1953–54)
* Edmunds Goldšteins
**Cello Concerto (1963)
*Marin Goleminov
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Life and career
Goleminov was born in Kyustendil, Bulgaria; the son ...
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1946)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1984)
* Jani Golob
**Cello Concerto (2001)
*Georg Goltermann
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Life
Golter ...
**Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 14
**Cello Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 30
**Cello Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 51
**Cello Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 65
**Cello Concerto No. 5 in D minor, Op. 76
::(total of 8 Cello Concerti)
*Evgeny Golubev
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Golubev was born and died in Moscow. He was taught by Nikolai Myaskovsky, and h ...
**Cello Concerto in D minor, Op. 41 (1956)
* Geoffrey Gordon
**Concerto For Cello And Orchestra (after Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus) (2013)
*Ida Gotkovsky
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Early life
Gotkovsky was born on 26 August 1933 in Cala ...
**Cello Concerto (1980)
* Hermann Grädener
**Cello Concerto No.1 (published 1908)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1912)
*Paul Graener
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Biography
Graener was born in Berlin and orphaned as a young child. A boy ...
**Cello Concerto (published 1927)
*Friedrich Hartmann Graf
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Biography
Graf was born 23 August 1727 in Rudolstadt. He was trained by his father Johann Graf and then served as a drummer in a Dutch army regimen ...
**Cello Concerto (c. 1780)
*Čestmír Gregor
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Life and career
Čestmír Gregor was born in Brno, t ...
**Cello Concerto (1974)
*Edward Gregson
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**''A Song for Chris'' Concerto for cello and chamber orchestra (2007)
* Olivier Greif
**Cello Concerto ''Durch Adams Fall'' (1999)
* Lene Grenager
**Cello Concerto (2006)
*Alexander Gretchaninov
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** Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 8, 1895
* Johann Konrad Gretsch
** Cello Concerto in C
* Edvard Grieg
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** Cello Sonata (1883) orchestrated into a concerto by Joseph Horovitz and Benjamin Wallfisch
*Johann Benjamin Gross
**Cello Concerto in the form of a Concertino, Op.14
**Cello Concerto, Op.31
**Cello Concerto, Op.38
*Robert Groslot
**Cello Concerto (2011)
*Heinz Karl Gruber Heinz Karl "Nali" Gruber (born 3 January 1943), who styles himself HK Gruber professionally, is an Austrian composer, conductor, double bass player and singer. He is a leading figure of the so-called Third Viennese School.
Career
Gruber is said to ...
**Cello Concerto (1989)
*Jorge Grundman Jorge Grundman Isla (born 1961) is a Spanish classical composer, musicologist, musician and professor who has helped to recover the music of Robert Kahn and Adalbert Gyrowetz among others through the non-profit music foundation created by him.
Mus ...
**Concerto for Cello and String Orchestra. Act of Contrition Op. 76 (2021)
*Friedrich Grützmacher
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**Cello Concerto No.1 (1854)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1858)
**Cello Concerto No.3 (1859)
*Sofia Gubaidulina
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**''Detto-2'' for cello and chamber ensemble (1972)
**''Seven Last Words'', Partita for cello, bayan, and string orchestra (1982)
**Und: Das Fest ist in vollem Gang (1993)
**'' The Canticles of the Sun'' for cello, mixed choir and percussions (1997)
*Friedrich Gulda
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Biography Early life and career
Born in Vienna the son of a teacher, Gulda began learning to play the piano ...
**Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra (1980)
*Christopher Gunning
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Gunning was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where his tutors includ ...
**Cello Concerto (2013)
*Manfred Gurlitt
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Life
Manfred Ludwig Hugo A ...
**Cello Concerto (after 1933, before 1939)
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* Georg Friedrich Haas
**Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester (2003-2004)
*Daron Hagen
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Biography
Early life
Daron Hagen was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and grew up in New Berlin, a suburb west of Milwaukee. Hagen was the youngest of t ...
** Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1996)
** Concerto for Cello and Wind Ensemble (1998)
*Reynaldo Hahn
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Hahn was born in Caracas b ...
**Cello Concerto (incomplete, 1905)
*Cristóbal Halffter
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** Partita for Cello and Orchestra (1957) for Gaspar Cassadó
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** Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1974) for Siegfried Palm
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** Concerto No. 2 for Cello and Orchestra (1985) for Mstislav Rostropovich
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*Hafliði Hallgrímsson
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**Cello Concerto (2003)
*Asger Hamerik
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Life and career
Born in Frederiksberg (near Copenhagen), he studied music with J.P.E. Hartmann and Niels Gade, being related to the f ...
** Romance for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 27 (1879)
* Johan Hammerth
**Cello Concerto (1998)
*George Frideric Handel
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**Concerto in B minor ( Casadesus forgery)
*John Harbison
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Life
John Harris Harbison was born on December 20, 1938, in Orange, New Jersey, to the historian Elmore Harris Harb ...
**Cello Concerto (1993)
*Ross Harris
**Cello Concerto (2011)
*Julius Harrison
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**Cello Concerto
*Emil Hartmann
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Early life and education
Hartmann was born o ...
**Cello Concerto in D minor, Op. 26 (1879)
* Jonathan Harvey
**Cello Concerto (1990)
*Christos Hatzis
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Early ...
**Confessional for Cello and Orchestra (2001)
*Johann Adolph Hasse
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**Cello Concerto in D
*Joseph Haydn
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** Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, H. 7b/1 (approximately 1765)
** Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major, H. 7b/2 (Op. 101) (1783)
** Cello Concerto No. 4 in D major, H. 7b/4 (spurious, now thought to be the work of Giovanni Battista Costanzi
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Also known as teacher of Luigi Boccherini
Ridolfo Luigi B ...
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**Cello Concerto in D major (1772)
::(another 2 Haydn Cello Concertos are considered lost)
*Michael Haydn
Johann Michael Haydn (; 14 September 173710 August 1806) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.
Life
Michael Haydn was born in 1737 in the Austrian village of Rohrau, near the Hungarian border. ...
**Cello Concerto in B flat
*Lennart Hedwall
**Concerto for cello and strings (1970)
*Friedrich Hegar
Friedrich Hegar (11 October 1841 – 2 June 1927) was a Swiss composer, conductor, and founding conductor of Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich
The Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich is a Swiss symphony orchestra based in Zürich. Its principal residence ...
**Cello Concerto (published 1919)
*Paavo Heininen
Paavo Johannes Heininen (13 January 1938 – 18 January 2022) was a Finnish composer and pianist.
Biography
He was born in Helsinki, where he studied at the Sibelius Academy and was taught composition by Aarre Merikanto, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Ei ...
**Deux Chansons (1976)
**Cello Concerto (1985)
*Gustav Helsted
Gustav Carl Helsted (30 January 1857 - 1 March 1924) was a Danish organist and composer.
Helsted was the son of composer Carl Helsted, brother of painter Viggo Helsted, and nephew of composer Edvard Helsted. He was a student of Gottfred Mat ...
**Cello Concerto (1919)
*Hans Werner Henze
Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer. His large oeuvre of works is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Stravinsky, Italian music, Arabic music and jazz, as well as t ...
**Ode and den Westwind (1953)
**Englische Liebeslieder (1985)
**Introduction, Thema und Variationen, for cello, harp and Strings
*Victor Herbert
Victor August Herbert (February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924) was an American composer, cellist and conductor of English and Irish ancestry and German training. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is be ...
** Suite for Cello and Orchestra, Op.3 (1882)
** Cello Concerto No. 1 in D, Op. 8 (1882)
** Fantasia on "The Desire" (Schubert) for Cello and Orchestra (1891)
** Légende for Cello and Orchestra (1893)
** Cello Concerto No. 2 in E minor, Op. 30 (1894)
* Paul Hermann (composer), Paul Hermann
**Cello Concerto (1925)
*Philippe Hersant
Philippe Hersant (born 21 June 1948 in Rome) is a French composer. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris.
Selected works
:: Hersant's works are largely published by Éditions Durand.
;Stage
* '' Le Château des Carpathes'', Opera in a pro ...
** Cello Concerto No. 1 (1989)
** Cello Concerto No. 2 (1996–1997)
*Johann Wilhelm Hertel
Johann Wilhelm Hertel (9 October 1727 – 14 June 1789) was a German composer, harpsichord and violin player.
He was born in Eisenach, into a family of musicians. His father, Johann Christian Hertel (1697–1754) was ''Konzertmeister'' (from 1 ...
**Cello Concerto in A (1755)
**Cello Concerto in A minor (1759)
*Sean Hickey
Sean Hickey is an American composer and record label executive, born in 1970 in Detroit, Michigan, and currently based in New York. In 2022, he was appointed Managing Director of Pentatone.
Career
As a teenager he took lessons in electric gui ...
**Cello Concerto (2008)
*Paul Hindemith
Paul Hindemith (; 16 November 189528 December 1963) was a German composer, music theorist, teacher, violist and conductor. He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in Europe. As a composer, he became a major advocate of the ''Ne ...
** Cello Concerto Op. 3 (1916)
** Kammermusik #3
** Cello Concerto in G (1940)
* Ryōhei Hirose
**Cello Concerto ''Triste'' (1971)
* Emil Hlobil
**Cello Concerto (1983)
*Vincent Ho
**''City Suite:'' concerto for amplified cello and orchestra (2011)
**''Three Warriors'': concerto for cello trio and strings (2014)
* Heinrich Hofmann
**Cello Concerto (first published 1875)
*Leopold Hofmann
Leopold Hofmann (also Ludwig Hoffman, Leopold Hoffman, Leopold Hoffmann; 14 August 1738 – 17 March 1793) was an Austrian composer of classical music.
Biography
Hofmann was the son of a highly educated civil servant, and at the age of seven ...
** at least seven cello concertos, in C major (1770s; Badley C1), C major (1771; Badley C2), C major (1760s; Badley C3), C major (1768; Badley C4), D major (1760s or 1771, Badley D1), D major (1760s; Badley D2) and D major (1775, Badley D3)
NYPL
and Naxos recording information. Different editions of D1 disagree, apparently. Published in modern times by Artaria, generally edited by Allan Badley.)
*Joseph Holbrooke
Joseph Charles Holbrooke (5 July 18785 August 1958) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist.
Life
Early years
Joseph Holbrooke was born Joseph Charles Holbrook in Croydon, Surrey. His father, also named Joseph, was a music hall music ...
** Cello Concerto (1936)
*Vagn Holmboe
Vagn Gylding Holmboe (, 20 December 1909 – 1 September 1996) was a Danish composer and teacher.
Life
Vagn Holmboe was born in Horsens, Jutland, into a merchant family of dedicated amateur musicians. Both parents played the piano. His fath ...
** Cello Concerto, Op. 120 (M. 273 in Paul Rapoport's catalog. 1974/79)
*Gustav Holst
Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite ''The Planets'', he composed many other works across a range ...
** Invocation for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 19, No. 2 (1905)
*Ignaz Holzbauer
Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer (18 September 1711 – 7 April 1783) was an Austrian composer of symphonies, concertos, operas, and chamber music, and a member of the Mannheim school. His aesthetic style is in line with that of the ''Sturm und Drang'' "m ...
**Cello Concerto in A (published c.1780)
*Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger (; 10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. A member of Les Six, his best known work is probably ''Antigone'', composed between 1924 and 1927 to ...
**Cello Concerto (1929)
*Toshio Hosokawa
is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music. He studied in Germany but returned to Japan, finding a personal style inspired by classical Japanese music and culture. He has composed operas, the oratorio ''Voiceless Voice in Hiroshima' ...
**Cello Concerto (1997)
**Chant (2009)
**Sublimation (2016)
*Stephen Hough
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Biography
Houg ...
**Cello Concerto – The Loneliest Wilderness (2007)
* Luc van Hove
**Concerto for cello and chamber ensemble (1998)
*Alan Hovhaness
Alan Hovhaness (; March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American-Armenian composer. He was one of the most prolific 20th-century composers, with his official catalog comprising 67 numbered symphonies (surviving manuscripts indicate over 70) and ...
**Cello Concerto, Op. 17 (1936)
*Gagik Hovunts
Gagik Hovunts (1 March 1930 – 1 September 2019) was an Armenian composer, born in Yerevan
Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inha ...
**Cello Concerto ''The Harmony of Sound'' (1976)
*Herbert Howells
Herbert Norman Howells (17 October 1892 – 23 February 1983) was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music.
Life
Background and early education
Howells was born in Lydney, Gloucest ...
**Cello Concerto (1943–83) (unfinished – First movement entitled ''Fantasia'', and second movement posthumously orchestrated and titled ''Threnody'' remain, and can be performed as separate works. A completion was produced in 2012 by Jonathan Clinch (Durham University) )
*Peter Hristoskov
**Cello Concerto-Poem (1973)
*Dimiter Hristov
**Cello Concerto (1970)
* Tyzen Hsiao
**Cello Concerto (1990)
*Vitaliy Hubarenko
Vitaliy Serhiyovych Hubarenko ( uk, Віталій Сергійович Губаренко) (13 June 1934Grove incorrectly gives 1924 - all Ukrainian sources give 1934 - 5 April 2000) was a Ukrainian composer.
Life and works
Born in Kharkiv, he gr ...
**Cello Concerto-poem (1963)
**Chamber Symphony No. 4 for cello and string orchestra (1983)
*Jean Hubeau
Jean Hubeau (22 June 191719 August 1992) was a French pianist, composer and pedagogue known especially for his recordings of Gabriel Fauré, Robert Schumann and Paul Dukas, which are recognized as benchmark versions.
Biography
Admitted at t ...
**Cello Concerto (1942)
* Gregor Huebner
**Cello Concerto (2008)
*Bertold Hummel
Bertold Hummel (27 November 1925 – 9 August 2002) was a German composer of modern classical music.
Life
Bertold Hummel was born in Hüfingen, Baden. He studied at the Academy of Music in Freiburg from 1947 to 1954, taking composition with Har ...
** ''Poem'' for Cello and Strings, Op. 80 (1984
*Johann Nepomuk Hummel
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**Grand Potpourri
*Karel Husa
Karel Husa (August 7, 1921 – December 14, 2016) was a Czech-born classical composer and conductor, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. In 1954, he emigrated to t ...
**Cello Concerto (1988)
*Lajos Huszár
**Chamber concerto for cello and 17 strings (1987)
*Ketil Hvoslef
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* Ketil Askildt (1900-1978), Norwegian discus thrower
* Ketil Bjørnstad (born 1952), Norwegian pianist
* Ketil Flatnose (9th century), Norwegian hersir
* Ketil Haugsand (21st century) ...
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1976)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1991)
I
*Federico Ibarra Groth
**Cello Concerto (1989)
*Jacques Ibert
Jacques François Antoine Marie Ibert (15 August 1890 – 5 February 1962) was a French composer of classical music. 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 ...
**Concerto for Cello and Winds (1926?)
*Airat Ichmouratov
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**Concerto for Cello No.1 with String Orchestra and percussion Op.18 (2009)
**''Capriccio Rustico'' for Cello and Orchestra Op.26 (2010)
** ''The Ride of Cello Vello Buffon'' for Cello with Orchestra Op.27 (2010)
** Concerto for Cello No.2 with Symphony Orchestra and percussion Op.57 (2018)
*Shin'ichirō Ikebe
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Overviews
He has written the scores for many films by Akira Kurosawa and ...
**Cello Concerto ''Almost a tree'' (1996)
*Călin Ioachimescu
**Cello Concerto (2002)
*Martun Israelyan
**Concerto for Cello and 16 Strings (1983)
*Georgi Ivanov
**Cello Concerto (1977)
*Jānis Ivanovs
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In 1931, he graduated from the Latvian State Conservatory in Riga. In 1944, he joined the conservatory's faculty, ...
**Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in B minor (1938)
J
*Giuseppe Maria Jacchini
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Life
Jacchini received his musical training as a choir ...
**10 "Concerti per camera ..con violoncello obligato" Op. 4
*Frederick Jacobi
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He taught at Juilliard School o ...
**Cello Concerto (Three Psalms) for Cello and Orchestra (1932)
*Marie Jaëll
Marie Jaëll (née Trautmann) (17 August 1846 – 4 February 1925) was a French pianist, composer, and pedagogue. Marie Jaëll composed pieces for piano, concertos, quartets, and others, She dedicated her cello concerto to Jules Delsart, and was ...
**Cello Concerto in F (1882)
* Jean-Baptiste Janson
**Six Concertos pour le violoncelle à grand orchestre Op. 6 (1780)
**Six Nouveaux Concertos à grand orchestre pour le violoncelle Op.15 (1799)
*Michael Jarrell
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Life
Born in Geneva, Jarrell studied at the Geneva Conservatoire, and later with Klaus H ...
**Emergences - Nachlese VI (2011)
**Assonance V (chaque jour n'est qu'une trêve...) (1990)
*John Jeffreys
**Cello Concerto (destroyed by the composer)
* Wilhelm Jeral
**Cello Concerto (published 1906)
* Ivan Jevtić
**Cello Concerto (1982)
**Cello Symphony (1995)
*Erkki Jokinen
**Cello Concerto (1970)
*Betsy Jolas
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Biography
Jolas was born in Paris in 1926. Her mother, the American translator Maria McDonald, was a singer. Her father, the poet and journalist Eugene Jolas, founded and edited ...
**Wanderlied, for cello and ensemble (2003)
**Side Roads, for cello and String Orchestra (2017)
*André Jolivet
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**Cello Concerto No. 1 (1962)
**Cello Concerto No. 2 (1967)
* Daniel Jones (composer), Daniel Jones
**Cello Concerto (1986)
* Samuel Jones
**Cello Concerto (2010)
*Joseph Jongen
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Biography
Jongen was born in Liège, where his parents had moved from Flanders. On the strength of an amazing precocity ...
** Concerto for Cello, Op. 17 (1900)
* Sverre Jordan
**Cello Concerto (1947)
* John Joubert
**Cello Concerto Op. 171 (2011)
*René Jullien
**Cello Concerto (1913)
*Paul Juon
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Christianity
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** Mysterien for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 59 (1928)
*Šimon Jurovský
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Biography
...
**Cello Concerto (1953)
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*Dmitry Kabalevsky
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (russian: Дми́трий Бори́сович Кабале́вский ; 14 February 1987) was a Soviet composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue of Russian gentry descent.
He helped set up the Union of Soviet Co ...
**Cello Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 49 (1948–49)
**Cello Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 77 (1964)
*Jouni Kaipainen
Jouni Ilari Kaipainen (24 November 1956 – 23 November 2015) was a Finnish composer.
Kaipainen was born in Helsinki to the physician and politician Osmo Kaipainen, and his wife, the author Anu Kaipainen, Anu Mustonen. He studied at the Sibelius ...
**Cello Concerto, Op. 65 (2003)
* Viktor Kalabis
**Cello Concerto (1956)
*Imants Kalniņš
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**Cello Concerto (1963)
* Romualds Kalsons
**Cello Concerto (1970)
*Dmitri Kaminsky
**Cello Concerto (1957)
*Juho Kangas
**Concerto for Cello and Strings (2010)
*Božidar Kantušer
Božidar Kantušer (Bozidar Kantuser) (December 5, 1921, Pavlovski Vrh, Slovenia – May 9, 1999, Paris) was a Slovene composer of classical music. He was a Slovenian citizen and an American citizen.
Kantušer is the author of symphonic music, ...
**Cello Concerto (1966)
*Artur Kapp
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Born in Suure-Jaani, Estonia, then part of the Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire, he was the son of Joosep Kapp, who was also a classically trained musician. Ka ...
**Cello Concerto (1946)
*Eugen Kapp
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**Cello Concerto (1986)
*Nikolai Kapustin
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**Cello Concerto No.1 (1986)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (2002)
*Maurice Karkoff Maurice may refer to:
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*Maurice (emperor) or Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus (539–602), Byzantine emperor
*Maurice (bishop of London) (died 1107), Lord Chancellor and Lo ...
**Cello Concerto (1958)
*Yuri Kasparov
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**Cello Concerto (1998)
*Fritz Kauffman
**Cello Concerto (published 1899)
* Fredrick Kaufman
**Cello Concerto (1984) ''Kaddish''
*Aaron Jay Kernis
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**Cello Concerto ''Colored Field'' (2000)
**''Air'' for cello and orchestra (2000)
**''Dreamsongs'' (2013)
* Gordon Kerry
**Concerto for cello, strings and percussion (1996)
*Rudolf Kelterborn
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Life
Born in Basel, Kelterborn studied in Basel, Detmold, Salzburg, and Zürich, among other places, with the composers Walther Geiser, Willy Burkhard, B ...
**Cello Concerto (1999)
*Aram Khachaturian
Aram Ilyich Khachaturian (; rus, Арам Ильич Хачатурян, , ɐˈram ɨˈlʲjitɕ xətɕɪtʊˈrʲan, Ru-Aram Ilyich Khachaturian.ogg; hy, Արամ Խաչատրյան, ''Aram Xačʿatryan''; 1 May 1978) was a Soviet and Armenian ...
** Cello Concerto in E minor (1946)
**Concerto-Rhapsody in D minor (1963)
*Karen Khachaturian
Karen Surenovich Khachaturian (russian: Карэн Суренович Хачатурян, hy, Կարեն Խաչատրյան) (Moscow, 19 September 1920 – Moscow, 19 July 2011) was a Soviet and Russian composer of Armenian ethnicity and the neph ...
**Cello Concerto (1983)
*Viktor Khodyashev
**Cello Concerto (1963)
*Alexander Kholminov
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He is best known for the Soviet opera ''An Optimistic Tragedy'' based o ...
**Concerto for cello and chamber choir (1980)
**Concerto for cello, brass quintet and timpani (1992)
**Concerto for cello and chamber orchestra (1995)
*Tikhon Khrennikov
Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov (russian: Тихон Николаевич Хренников; – 14 August 2007) was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, and General Secretary of the Union of Soviet Composers (1948–1991), who was also known ...
**Cello Concerto No. 1 in C, Op. 16 (1964)
**Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 30 (1985)
*Oleg Khromushin
**Cello Concerto (1980)
* Adam Khudoyan
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1959)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1973)
**Cello Concerto No.3 (1990)
* John Kinsella
**Cello Concerto (2000)
*Leon Kirchner
** Music for Cello and Orchestra (1992)
*Uuno Klami
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**Cheremissian Fantasy Op. 19 (1931)
**Tema con 7 variazioni e coda (1954)
*Dmitri Klebanov
Dmytro Lvovych Klebanov ( ua, Дмитрo Львович Клебанiв; russian: Дми́трий Льво́вич Клеба́нов; – 6 June 1987) was a Soviet-era Ukrainian composer. He studied at the Kharkov Music and Drama Institute ...
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1950)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1973)
* Giselher Klebe
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**Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 29 (1958)
* George Kleinsinger
**Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1965)
*Julius Klengel
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**Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 4 (1880)
**Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 20 (1887)
**Cello Concerto No. 3 in A minor, Op. 31 (1895)
**Cello Concerto No. 4, Op. 37 (1903)
*Abelis Klenickis
**Concerto-Poem for Cello and Orchestra (1962)
*August Klughardt
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Life
Klughardt, who was born in Köthen, took his first piano and music theory lessons at the age of 10. Soon he began to compose his fir ...
**Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 59 (1894)
* Vytautas Klova
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1963)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1973)
*Douglas Knehans
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Australian(s) may refer to:
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**Cello Concerto No.1 ''Soar'' (2004)
**Cello Concerto No.2 ''Black City'' (2015)
*Lev Knipper
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Life and career
Lev Knipper was born in Ti ...
**''Concerto-Monologue'' for cello, seven brass instruments and timpani (1962)
**Cello Concerto No. 1 (1962)
**''Saga'' for cello, chorus and orchestra (1963)
**''Concerto-Poem'' for cello and chamber orchestra (1971)
**Cello Concerto No. 2 (1972)
*Erland von Koch
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Life and career
Born in Stockholm as the son of comp ...
**Cello Concerto (1951)
*Jesper Koch
Jesper Koch (born 5 September 1967) is a Danish composer.
Koch studied composition at The Royal Danish Academy of Music with Hans Abrahamsen, Ib Nørholm and Ivar Frounberg from 1986–95 and subsequently at Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium with Ka ...
**Cello Concerto ''Dreamscapes'' (2007)
*Raoul Koczalski
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Career
Born in Warsaw, Koczalski was taught first by his mother, then by Julian Gad ...
**Cello Concerto (1915)
*Joonas Kokkonen
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**Cello Concerto (1969)
* :pl:Benedykt Konowalski, Benedykt Konowalski
**Concerto for cello and string orchestra (1996)
*Marek Kopelent
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Biography
Kopelent was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on 28 April 1932. From 1951 to 1955 he studied musi ...
**Musique Concertante, for violoncello, 12 violoncelli and orchestra (1991)
*Anders Koppel Anders Koppel (born 17 July 1947 in Copenhagen) is a co-founder in 1967 of the rock group Savage Rose. From 1976 to 2012 he was a member of the trio Bazaar. He plays in the trio Koppel-Andersen-Koppel which includes his son, saxophone player Benjami ...
**Cello Concerto (2006)
*Herman David Koppel
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**Cello Concerto, Op. 56 (1952)
*Grigoriy Korchmar
Grigoriy Korchmar ( Russian Григорий Корчмар, ''Grigorij Korčmar''; alternately translated Grigori or Grigory) (born 1947 in Baltiysk) is a Russian composer and pianist.
Although little-known outside his native Russia, Korchmar is ...
**Cello Concerto (1976)
*Nikolai Korndorf
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**''Concerto capriccioso'' for cello and percussion (1986)
*Erich Wolfgang Korngold
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**Cello Concerto, Op. 37 (from the movie ''Deception'') (1946)
*Paavo Korpijaakko
**Cello Concerto ''Ankarat Valovedet'' (2011)
*Olli Kortekangas
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Kortekangas was born in Turku. His early career in music began at Espoon Musiikkiopisto (Espoo Music Institute) and the youth choir Candomino. He then studied at the Sibel ...
**Cello Concerto with Horn Obligato (2000)
*Irena Kosíková
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**7 Candles for cello and orchestra (2006)
**MAKANNA for cello, voice and orchestra (2010)
*Olli Koskelin
**Cello Concerto 1912/18
* Pekka Kostiainen
**Cello Concerto (1979)
*Nina Kotova
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K ...
** Cello Concerto for cello and orchestra (2000)
** Cello Concerto "The Tuscan" for cello and string orchestra (2005)
* Julius Kowalski
**Concerto for cello and string orchestra (1970)
*Hans Kox
**Cello Concerto No. 1 (1969 rev.1981)
**Cello Concerto No. 2 (1997) ''An Odyssey''
* Antonín Kraft image:AntonKraft.jpg, Antonín Kraft
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** Cello Concerto in C major, Op. 4
* Mirko Krajči
** Cello Concerto (2001)
*Ernst Krenek
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**Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 133 (1953)
**Capriccio for cello and orchestra, Op. 145 (1955)
**Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 236 (1982)
*Johann Jacob Kriegk
**Cello Concerto Op.2
**Cello Concerto Op.3
**Cello Concerto Op.4
* Rudolf Kubín
**Cello Concerto (1960)
*Gary Kulesha
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**Cello Concerto (2006)
*Meyer Kupferman
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Life
Meyer Kupferman was born in New York City to Jewish parents.
**Concerto for cello and jazz band (1962)
* Jeren Kurbanklycheva
**Cello Concerto (1979)
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*Ilari Laakso
**''AM'' - Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1992)
*Ezra Laderman
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Biography
Laderman was of Jewish heritage. His parents, Isidor and Leah, both emigrated to the United States from Poland. Thou ...
**Concerto for cello and orchestra (1984)
**Concerto for cello and orchestra (1986)
**''Variations on a Passacaglia'' for Cello solo and Large Orchestra (20 min) (1994)
*Édouard Lalo
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**Cello Concerto A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.
These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike instru ...
in D minor (1876)
*Marcel Landowski
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Biography
Born at Pont-l'Abbé, Finistère, Brittany, he was the son of French sculptor Paul Landowski and gre ...
**Cello Concerto (1945)
**Poème Concertante for cello and orchestra ''Un Chant'' (1996)
*Daniël de Lange
**Cello Concerto
*Domenico Lanzetti
**Cello Concerto in D
**Cello Concerto in E
**Cello Concerto in F
**Cello Concerto in G
*Lars-Erik Larsson
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**Cello Concerto (1947)
**Concertino for Cello and String Orchestra (1956)
* Mats Larson Gothe
**Concerto for Cello and Winds (1999)
*Mario Lavista
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Life and career
Lavista was born in Mexico City. He enrolled the Composition Workshop (Taller de Composición) at the National Conservatory in 19 ...
**Concerto
*Henri Lazarof
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**Cello Concerto No.1 (1968)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1992)
*Roman Ledenov
**Concerto-elegy for cello and orchestra (1980)
* Claude Ledoux
**''Torrent'' – for cello and chamber orchestra (1995)
*Kenneth Leighton
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**Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 31
*Michel Legrand
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**Cello Concerto (2012)
*René Leibowitz
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**Cello Concerto (1962)
*Albert Leman
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**Cello Concerto (1967)
*Leonardo Leo
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Biography
Leo was born in San Vito degli Schiavoni (currently known as San Vito dei Normanni, province of Brindisi) in ...
**6 Cello Concertos (D major (1737), F minor (undated), A major (1738), D minor (1738), A major (1737) and Sinfonia Concertata for violoncello and strings in C minor (1737)
*Fred Lerdahl
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**''Arches
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*Yuri Levitin Yuri Abramoviсh Levitin (''Yuriy'', ''Youri''; ''Levitine'') (russian: Юрий Абра́мович Левитин; in Poltava – 26 July 1993 in Moscow)Shostakovich, Dmitri; Glikman, Issak; Phillips, Anthony (ed.) (2001). , page 331. . was ...
**Concertino for cello and orchestra (1961)
**Suite for cello and orchestra (1966)
* Ernst Lévy
**Cello Concerto (1947)
*Frank Ezra Levy
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1995)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (2003)
**Cello Concerto No.3 (2014)
*Ulrich Leyendecker
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Life
Leyendecker studied composition with Ingo Schmitt (196 ...
**Cello Concerto (1983)
*Peter Lieberson
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** "The Six Realms" for cello and orchestra (2000)
*György Ligeti
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**Cello Concerto, for Siegfried Palm
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*Magnus Lindberg
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** Cello Concerto No. 1 (1999)
** Cello Concerto No. 2 (Lindberg), Cello Concerto No. 2 (2013)
* Bo Linde
**Concerto for cello and orchestra, Op. 29
*August Lindner
**Cello Concerto in E minor (first published 1860)
*Larry Lipkis
**Cello Concerto ''Scaramouche'' (1989)
*Vassily Lobanov
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Vasily Lobanov was born in Mo ...
**Cello Concerto (1985)
*Fernando Lopes-Graça
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Lopes-Graça was born in Tomar, and w ...
**Concerto da Camera col Violoncello Obbligato (1966)
* Bent Lorentzen
**Cello Concerto (1984)
* Raymond Loucheur
**Cello Concerto (1968)
*Jean Louël
**Cello Concerto (1986)
*Leighton Lucas
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**Cello Concerto (or Concertino 1956)
*Štěpán Lucký
**Cello Concerto (1946)
*David Ludwig David Ludwig may refer to:
* David Ludwig (physician), American physician
* David Ludwig (composer) (born 1974), American composer
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**Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (2004)
* Zdeněk Lukáš
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1957)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1986)
**Cello Concerto No.3 ''Ricordi'' (2005)
*Witold Lutosławski
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**Cello Concerto A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.
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(1969/70 or 1970)
M
*Lorin Maazel
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**Music for Violoncello and Orchestra (Op. 10)
* Aleksandre Machavariani
**Cello Concerto (1987)
*James MacMillan
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Early life
MacMillan was born at Kilwinning, in North Ayrshire, but lived in the East Ayrshire town of Cumnock until 1977. His father is James MacMi ...
**Cello Concerto A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.
These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike instru ...
(premiered 1996)
*Elizabeth Maconchy
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**''Epyllion'' for cello and string orchestra (1975)
* Jan Maegaard
**Cello Concerto (1993)
*Miłosz Magin
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Biography
Born in Łódź, Poland, Miłosz Magin showed considerable musical abilities from early childhood. He was a student of piano with Margerita Trombini-Kazuro an ...
**Concerto for cello, string orchestra and timpani (1977)
*Giuseppe de Majo
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**Cello Concerto in F
* Arvydas Malcys
**Cello Concerto (2009)
*Ivo Malec
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**Arc-en-Cello (2003)
*Gian Francesco Malipiero
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Life Early years
Born in Venice into an aristocratic family, the grandson of the opera composer Francesco Malipiero, Gia ...
**Cello Concerto (1937)
*Riccardo Malipiero
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Junior
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1938)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1957)
*Alexander Manevich
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1929)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1945)
**Cello Concerto No.3 (1950)
*Philippe Manoury
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Biography
Manoury was born in Tulle and began composition studies at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with Gérard Condé and Max Deutsch. He continued his studies from 1974 to ...
**''Bref Aperçu sur l'Infini'' for Cello and Orchestra (2015)
*Tigran Mansurian
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**Concerto No.1 for cello and large orchestra ''To the Memory of Dmitry Shostakovich'' (1976)
**Concerto No.2 for cello and strings (1978)
**Concerto No.3 for cello and small orchestra (1983)
**Concerto No.4 for cello and small orchestra ''Ubi est Abel frater tuus?'' (2010)
* Bruno Mantovani
**Concerto pour violoncelle et Orchestre (2003)
* Franco Margola
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These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike instr ...
, Op. 91 (1949)
*Henri Marteau
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**Cello Concerto in B♭ major (1905)
* Frank Martin
**Ballade, for cello and orchestra
**Cello Concerto (1965-6)
*Jean Martinon
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Biography
Martinon was born in Lyon, where he began his education, going on to the Conservatoire ...
**Cello Concerto (1963)
*Rolf Martinsson
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Martinsson studied composition at Malmö Academy of Music, Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University 1981-85 under Brian Ferneyhough, Sven-David S ...
**Cello Concerto (2005)
*Bohuslav Martinů
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**Cello Concerto 1 (1930, rev. 1939, rev. 1959)
**Cello Concerto 2 (1944–45)
**Concertino (1934)
**Sonata or concerto da camera (1940)
*Tauno Marttinen
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**Cello Concerto ''Dalai Lama'' (1966)
* Martin Matalon
**Trame III (2000)
*Josef Matěj
**Cello Concerto (1972)
*Teizo Matsumura
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**Cello Concerto (1984)
*Ville Matvejeff
**Cello Concerto ''Crossroads'' (2009)
*Colin Matthews
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**Cello Concerto 1 (1983–84)
**Cello Concerto 2 (1996)
**Berceuse for Dresden
* David Matthews
**''Romanza'' for cello and orchestra, Op. 49 (1990)
**''Concerto in Azzurro'' for cello and orchestra, Op. 87 (2001–02)
**''Berceuse'' (2007)
*Siegfried Matthus
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**Cello Concerto (1975)
*Nicholas Maw
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Biography
Born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Maw was the son of Clarence ...
**''Sonata Notturna'' for cello and string orchestra (1985)
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*Christopher John McCabe
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**Cello Concerto ''Songline'' (2007)
*Tilo Medek
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**Cello Concerto (1978)
* Janis Medinš
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1928)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1947)
*Johan de Meij
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Johan de ...
**''Casanova'' for solo cello and wind orchestra (2000)
* Alfred Mendelsohn
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1950)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1962)
*Arnold Mendelssohn
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**Student Concerto in D major for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 213
*Peter Mennin
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**Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1956)
*Gian Carlo Menotti
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**Fantasia for cello and orchestra (1976)
*Aarre Merikanto
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**Konzerstück (1926)
**Cello Concerto 2 (1941–44)
*Usko Meriläinen
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**Cello Concerto (1974)
* John Metcalf
**Cello Symphony (2004)
*Krzysztof Meyer
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**Cello Concerto No.1 (1984) for cello and small orchestra (Concerto da camera No.3) ''Canti Amadei''
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1995)
*András Mihály
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Life
Mihály was born in Budapest. He studied there at the Franz Liszt Academy: cello with Adolf Schiffer, ch ...
**Cello Concerto (1953)
* Marko Mihevc
**Cello Concerto (2009)
*Darius Milhaud
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**Cello Concerto 1 (1935)
**Cello Concerto 2 (1945)
**Suite cisalpine (1954)
* Richard Mills
**Cello Concerto (1990)
*Mark Minkov
**Cello Concerto (1969)
*Ernest John Moeran
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** Cello Concerto in B minor (1945)
*Roberto Molinelli
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He has graduated with honors and won prizes in national and international competitions.
His CD on Carl Reinecke's chamber music was awarded with "CD of the Mon ...
**''Twin Legends'' for cello and strings (2005)
*Bernhard Molique
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**Cello Concerto in D (published 1854)
*Johann Melchior Molter
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**Cello concerto (c.1730s) ''Little Karlsruhe Margrave-Concerto''.
*Georg Matthias Monn
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...
** Cello Concerto in D major—arranged by Arnold Schoenberg
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from a harpsichord concerto (1746)
** Cello Concerto, G minor
*Emánuel Moór
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Moór was born in Kecskemét, Hungary, and studied in Prague, Vienna and Budapest. Between 1885 and 1897 he to ...
**Cello Concerto (1906)
**Double Cello Concerto (1908)
*Oskar Morawetz
**Memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968) for solo cello, winds, brass, percussion and harp (no strings; Commissioned by Mstislav Rostropovich; premiered in 1975 by Zara Nelsova and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Otto-Werner Mueller, cond.)
* Norbert Moret
**Cello Concerto (1985)
* David Morgan
**Cello Concerto (1981)
*Stanisław Moryto
**Cello Concerto (1992)
*Alexander Mosolov
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** Cello Concerto No. 1 (1935) (lost)
** Cello Concerto No. 2 in C minor (1946)
*Piotr Moss
Piotr Moss (born 13 May 1949 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music.
Since 1981, he has lived in Paris and since 1984 has been a French citizen.
Moss studied in Poland with Piotr Perkowski, Grażyna Bacewicz, Krzysztof ...
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1975)
**Cello Concerto No.2 ''Prieres'' (2003)
*Jon Mostad
Jon Mostad (born 21 April 1942) is a composer from Fredrikstad, Norway. He received the Norwegian state three-year scholarship for artists from 1982 until 1984.
Musical style
In his early compositions Mostad is moving from a linear-expressionist s ...
**Cello Concerto (1990)
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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** Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, Cello and Orchestra
** Cello Concerto (lost)
*Nico Muhly
Nico Asher Muhly (; born August 26, 1981) is an American contemporary classical music composer and arranger who has worked and recorded with both classical and pop musicians. A prolific composer, he has composed for many notable symphony orchestras ...
** Cello Concerto A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.
These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike instru ...
(2012)
*Nico Muhly
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, Sven Helbig
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and Zhou Long
Zhou Long (; born July 8, 1953) is a Chinese American composer. He won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Biography
Zhou Long was born in Beijing, China. Born into an artistic family, he began studying piano from an early age. Due to the artist ...
(multi-composer work)
**Cello Concerto ''Three Continents'' (2019)
* Paul Müller-Zürich
**Cello Concerto (1954)
*Kelly-Marie Murphy
**''This is the colour of my dreams'' for cello and orchestra (1997)
*Nikolai Myaskovsky
Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky or Miaskovsky or Miaskowsky (russian: Никола́й Я́ковлевич Мяско́вский; pl, Mikołaj Miąskowski, syn Jakóbowy; 20 April 18818 August 1950), was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is som ...
**Cello Concerto A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.
These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike instru ...
in C minor, Op. 66 (1944)
*Paweł Mykietyn
Paweł Mykietyn (Polish pronunciation: ; born 20 May 1971) is a Polish award-winning composer and clarinetist.
By the year 2012, Mykietyn had written two symphonies, cello, piano and violin concertos, St. Marc Passions for soprano, narrator, c ...
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1998)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (2019)
*Josef Mysliveček
Josef Mysliveček (9 March 1737 – 4 February 1781) was a Czech composer who contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music. Mysliveček provided his younger friend Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with significant comp ...
**Cello Concertos in C, F, D
N
*Sulkhan Nasidze
**Cello Concerto (1974)
* Marc Neikrug
**Concerto for cello and Orchestra (2011)
* Franz Xaver Neruda
** five cello concertos (No. 1 in E minor, Op. 57; No. 2 in D minor, Op. 59; No. 3 in A, Op. 60; No. 4 in A minor, Op. 61 (1887); No. 5 in G, Op. 66)
and contain this information.)
* Jon Øivind Ness
**Cello Concerto ''Wet Blubber Soup'' (2002)
*Dimitri Nicolau
Dimitri Nicolau (21 October 1946 in Keratea, Greece - 29 March 2008 in Rome, Italy) was a composer, stage director, conductor, musicologist, writer and professor. He was born in Keratea, Greece and became a naturalized citizen of Italy. Starting ...
**Concerto for cello and chamber orchestra (1990)
*Chan Ka Nin
Chan Ka Nin (born 3 December 1949) is a Canadian composer and music educator of Chinese descent. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1971. He has been commissioned to write works for the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the CBC Radio O ...
** Soulmate, for cello and orchestra
*Akira Nishimura
is a Japanese composer from Osaka.
Biography
Nishimura studied composition and musical theory on a graduate course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He also studied Asian traditional music, religion, aesthetics, cosmology an ...
**Cello Concerto (1990)
* August Nölck
**Cello Concerto in D minor Op.108 (c.1905)
**Cello Concerto in A minor in Op.130a (1912)
* Jón Nordal
**Cello Concerto (1983)
*Frank Nordensten
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1996)
*Anders Nordentoft
**Cello Concerto ''Light Imprisoned'' (1998)
*Pehr Henrik Nordgren
Pehr Henrik Nordgren (19 January 1944 – 25 August 2008) was a Finnish composer.
Life
Pehr Henrik Nordgren was born in Saltvik, Åland. received composition lessons starting from 1958 in Helsinki and studied musicology at the university from 196 ...
**Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 50 (1980)
**Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 62 (1984)
**Hate-Love for cello and string orchestra, Op. 71 (1987)
**Cello Concerto No. 3, Op. 82 (1992)
**Cello Concerto No. 4, Op. 89 (1994)
*Arne Nordheim
Arne Nordheim (20 June 1931 – 5 June 2010) was a Norwegian composer. Nordheim received numerous awards for his compositions, and from 1982 lived in the Norwegian government's honorary residence, Grotten, next to the Royal Palace in Oslo. He ...
**Concerto for Cello and Chamber Orchestra ''Tenebrae'' (1982)
*Per Nørgård
Per Nørgård (; born 13 July 1932) is a Danish composer and music theorist. Though his style has varied considerably throughout his career, his music has often included repeatedly evolving melodies—such as the infinity series—in the vein o ...
**Between - Cello Concerto 1 (1985)
**Remembering a Child (1987)
**Momentum - Cello Concerto 2 (2009)
*Ib Nørholm
Ib Nørholm (24 January 1931 in Søborg, Gladsaxe Municipality – 10 June 2019) was a Danish composer and organist.
Life and career
Nørholm studied with Vagn Holmboe at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where he later taught (from 1973), b ...
**Cello Concerto (1989)
* Mikhail Nosyrev
**Cello Concerto (1973)
*Milan Novák
**Cello Concerto (1978)
*Michael Nyman
Michael Laurence Nyman, Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, libretto, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film soundtrack, scores (many written during his length ...
** A New Pavan for These Sad, Distracted Times (2009)
* Gösta Nystroem
** Sinfonia Concertante (1945)
O
*Aleksandar Obradović
Aleksandar Obradović ( sr-cyr, Александар Обрадовић) (22 August 1927 in Bled, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes – 1 April 2001 in Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia) was a Serbian 20th-century composer and professor at the ...
**Cello Concerto (1979)
* Andrej Očenáš
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1952)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1977)
*Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach (, also , , ; 20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario of the Romantic period. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera '' ...
** Grande Concerto in G major (Concerto Militaire) (1847)
*Maurice Ohana
Maurice Ohana (12 June 1913 – 13 November 1992) was a French composer. Ohana's output includes choral works, string quartets, suites for ten-string guitar, a ''Tiento'' for six-string guitar, and operas.
Life and career
Ohana was born in Casab ...
**''L'anneau de Tamarit'' for cello and orchestra (1976)
**Cello Concerto ''"In Dark and Blue"'' (1989–1990)
*Hisato Ohzawa
(August 1, 1907—October 28, 1953), known in Japan as Hisato Ōsawa, was a Japanese composer. His relative neglect today contrasts with the view that he was one of the preeminent Japanese composers of his day.
Biography
He grew up in ...
**''Urashima'' for cello and orchestra
*Buxton Orr
Buxton Orr (18 April 1924 – 27 December 1997) was a Glasgow-born Anglo-Scottish composer and teacher.
Life
Originally trained as a doctor, Orr gave up medicine and switched to music in 1952, studying composition at the Guildhall School of Mu ...
** A Carmen Fantasy (1990) for cello and orchestra
*Léon Orthel
Léon Orthel (4 October 1905, Roosendaal – 6 September 1985, The Hague) was a Dutch composer, pianist and teacher.
In 1921 he became a student of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He studied violin with André Spoor, piano with Everhard ...
**Cello Concerto No.1 ''Aan mijn Ouders'' (1929)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1984)
*Nigel Osborne
Nigel Osborne (born 23 June 1948) is a British composer, teacher and aid worker. He served as Reid Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh and has also taught at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. He is known fo ...
**Cello Concerto (1977)
P
*Luis de Pablo
Luis de Pablo Costales (28 January 1930 – 10 October 2021) was a Spanish composer belonging to the generation that Cristóbal Halffter named ''the Generación del 51''. Mostly self-taught as a composer and influenced by Maurice Ohana and Max ...
**Cello Concerto ''Frondoso Misterio'' (2002)
* Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz
**Concerto for cello and chamber ensemble (1991)
*Vaclovas Paketūras
**Cello Concerto (1966)
*Josef Páleníček
Josef Páleníček (July 19, 1914, Travnik, Bosnia, Austria-Hungary—March 7, 1991, Prague) was a Czech piano virtuoso and composer.
Biography
Páleníček studied at the gymnasium in Prague, and concurrently he studied also at the Pra ...
**Cello Concerto (1973)
*Andrzej Panufnik
Sir Andrzej Panufnik (24 September 1914 – 27 October 1991) was a Poles, Polish composer and conductor. He became established as one of the leading Polish composers, and as a conductor he was instrumental in the re-establishment of the Warsaw ...
**Cello Concerto A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.
These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike instru ...
(1991, premiered 1992)
*Arvo Pärt
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** Cello Concerto
*Claude Pascal
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After studying at the Conservatoire ...
**Cello Concerto (1959)
* Paul Patterson
**Cello Concerto (2002)
*Gustaf Paulson
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1944)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1957)
* Stephen Paxton
**Cello Concerto in G (c.1787)
*Russell Peck
Russell Peck was an American composer born in Detroit on January 25, 1945 to Thorland (Tom) and Margaret (Carlson) Peck. He died in Greensboro, North Carolina on March 1, 2009, at the age of 64.
Life and career
Peck's early music education was ...
**Voice of the Wood, concerto for cello quartet and orchestra
*Michail Pekov
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1975)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1982)
*Josef Pembaur Senior
**Cello Concerto (1910)
*Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (; 23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor. His best known works include ''Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima'', Symphony No. 3, his '' St Luke Passion'', ''Polish Requiem'', ''A ...
**Sonata for cello and orchestra (1964) for Siegfried Palm
Siegfried Palm (25 April 1927 – 6 June 2005) 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 ...
**Cello Concerto No. 1 (1972)
**Cello Concerto No. 2 (1982)
** Concerto Grosso No. 1 for 3 cellos and orchestra (2000)
**Largo for cello and orchestra (2003)
* Moses Pergament
**Cello Concerto (1955)
*Piotr Perkowski
Piotr Perkowski (17 March 1901 in Oweczacze (Овечаче, Ovechache, now Druzhne), Vinnytsia Oblast, now in Ukraine – 12 August 1990 in Otwock) was a Polish composer.
Perkowski studied at the Music Academy in Warsaw, and in Paris with Al ...
**Cello Concerto (1973-4)
*George Perle
George Perle (6 May 1915 – 23 January 2009) was an American composer and music theorist. As a composer, his music was largely atonal, using methods similar to the twelve-tone technique of the Second Viennese School. This serialist style, an ...
**Cello Concerto (1966)
*Jean Perrin
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**Cello Concerto (1972)
*William Perry William Perry may refer to:
Business
* William Perry (Queensland businessman) (1835–1891), businessman and politician in Queensland, Australia
* William H. Perry (businessman) (1832–1906), American businessman and entrepreneur
Politics and ...
**Jamestown Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (2007)
*Laurent Petitgirard
Laurent Petitgirard (born 10 June 1950, in Paris) is a French classical composer and conductor.
Biography and career
Laurent Petitgirard studied piano with Serge Petitgirard and composition with Alain Kremski. He has worked as conductor with do ...
**Cello Concerto (1994)
* Carmen Petra Basacopol, Carmen Petra-Basacopol
**Cello Concerto (1982)
*Petros Petridis
**Cello Concerto (1936)
*Hans Pfitzner
Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was a German composer, conductor and polemicist who was a self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera ''Palestrina'' (1917), loosely based on the life of the s ...
** Cello Concerto No. 1 in G major, Op. 42 (1935)
** Cello Concerto No. 2 in A minor, Op. 52 (1943)
** Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. posth.(1888)
*Carlo Alfredo Piatti
Carlo Alfredo Piatti (8 January 182218 July 1901) was an Italian cellist, teacher and composer.
Biography
Piatti was born at via Borgo Canale, in Bergamo and died in Mozzo, 4 miles from Bergamo.
The son of a violinist, Antonio Piatti, he ori ...
** Concertino, Op. 18 (1863?)
** Cello Concerto No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 24 (1874)
** Cello Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 26 (1877)
*Tobias Picker
Tobias Picker (born July 18, 1954) is an American composer, artistic director, and pianist, noted for his orchestral works ''Old and Lost Rivers'', ''Keys To The City'', and ''The Encantadas'', as well as his operas ''Emmeline'', ''Fantastic Mr. ...
**Cello Concerto (1999)
*Willem Pijper
Willem Frederik Johannes Pijper (; 8 September 189418 March 1947) was a Dutch composer, music critic and music teacher. Pijper is considered to be among the most important Dutch composers of the first half of the 20th century.
Life
Pijper was b ...
**Cello Concerto (1936 rev.1947)
*Edward Joshua Pimentel Ojeda
**Cello Concerto No.1 (2019)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (2019)
*Matthias Pintscher
Matthias Pintscher (born 29 January 1971) is a German composer and conductor. As a youth, he studied the violin and conducting.
Life and career
Pintscher was born in Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia. He began his music studies with Giselher Klebe in ...
**''La Metamorfosi di Narciso'' for cello and ensemble (1992)
**''Reflections on Narcissus'' for cello and orchestra (2005)
**Un despertar (2016)
*Lubomir Pipkov
**Symphony-Concerto for cello and orchestra (1963)
*Walter Piston
Walter Hamor Piston, Jr. (January 20, 1894 – November 12, 1976), was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at Harvard University.
Life
Piston was born in Rockland, Maine at 15 Ocean Street to Walter Ha ...
** Variations for Cello and Orchestra (1966)
*Ildebrando Pizzetti
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Biography
Pizzetti was born in Parma in 1880. He was part of the "Generation ...
**Cello Concerto (1934)
* Nicolas-Joseph Platel
**Five Cello Concertos
*Giovanni Benedetto Platti
Giovanni Benedetto Platti (born possibly 9 July 1697 (according to other sources 1690, 1692, 1700) in Padua, belonging to Venice at the time; died 11 January 1763 in Würzburg) was an Italian Baroque composer and oboist.
Life
Platti studied music ...
**Cello Concerto in A
**Cello Concerto in D minor
**Cello Concerto in D
*Ignaz Pleyel
Ignace Joseph Pleyel (; ; 18 June 1757 – 14 November 1831) was an Austrian-born French composer, music publisher and piano builder of the Classical period.
Life Early years
He was born in in Lower Austria, the son of a schoolmaster named Ma ...
** Four Cello Concertos in C major and one in D major
*Erich Plüss
**Cello Concerto (2015)
*Petr Podkovyrov
**Cello Concerto (1959)
*Valeri Polyakov
**Cello Concerto (1960)
*David Popper
David Popper (June 16, 1843 – August 7, 1913) was a Bohemian cellist and composer. Some other sources list his date of birth as December 9, 1843.
Life
Popper was born in Prague, and studied music at the Prague Conservatory. His family was Je ...
**Cello Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 8, 1861
**Cello Concerto No. 2 in E minor, Op. 24, 1880
**Cello Concerto No. 3 in G major, Op. 59, in one movement
**Cello Concerto No. 4 in B minor, Op. 72, in four movements
**Cello Concerto No. 5 "in the style of Haydn"
*Nicola Porpora
Nicola (or Niccolò) Antonio Porpora (17 August 16863 March 1768) was an Italian composer and teacher of singing of the Baroque era, whose most famous singing students were the castrati Farinelli and Caffarelli. Other students included compose ...
**Cello Concerto in G major
*Angelique Poteat
**Cello Concerto (2019)
*Gerhard Präsent
Gerhard Präsent (born 21 June 1957) is an Austrian composer, conductor and academic teacher.
Professional career
Born in Graz, Präsent studied from 1976 at the Musikhochschule Graz, composition with Iván Erőd and conducting with Milan Horvat ...
**Danse fatale Op. 75 (2017–18), 10 min.
*Gabriel Prokofiev
Gabriel Prokofiev (born 6 January 1975) is a Russian-British composer, producer, DJ, and Artistic Director of the Nonclassical record label and nightclub.
Early life
Gabriel Prokofiev was born on 6 January 1975 to an English mother and a Russi ...
**Cello Concerto (2012)
*Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''., group=n (27 April .S. 15 April1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, p ...
** Cello Concerto, Op. 58
** Symphony-Concerto in E minor, Op. 125 (1950–52)
** Cello Concertino in G minor, Op. 132 (one version completed by Kabalevsky
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He helped set up the Union of Soviet C ...
, another by Blok) (1952)
* Dariusz Przybylski
**Cello Concerto (2013)
*Uljas Pulkkis
**Madrigal (2000)
**Dragonfly (2012)
R
* Robin de Raaff
**Cello Concerto (2013)
*Jaan Rääts
Jaan Rääts (15 October 1932 – 25 December 2020) was an Estonian composer who worked extensively on Estonian film scores of the 1960s and 1970s.
He was born in Tartu and became a member of the Estonian Composers' Union in 1957.
Compositi ...
**Concerto for cello and chamber orchestra Op.27 (1966)
**Concerto for cello and orchestra Op.43 (1971)
**Concerto for cello and orchestra Op.59 (recomposition of Op.43, 1977)
**Concerto for cello and chamber orchestra Op.99 (1997)
*Joachim Raff
Joseph Joachim Raff (27 May 182224 or 25 June 1882) was a German-Swiss composer, pedagogue and pianist.
Biography
Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. His father, a teacher, had fled there from Württemberg in 1810 to escape forced recruitme ...
** Cello Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 193, 1874
** Cello Concerto No. 2 in G, Op. posth, 1876
*Osmo Tapio Räihälä
Osmo Tapio Everton Räihälä (born 15 January 1964; name sometimes spelled without umlauts) is a Finnish composer of contemporary music. He has mainly written instrumental music for various chamber music line-ups, five concertos (one for mal ...
** Cello Concerto
*Priaulx Rainier
Ivy Priaulx Rainier (3 February 190310 October 1986) was a South African-British composer. Although she lived most of her life in England and died in France, her compositional style was strongly influenced by the African music remembered from he ...
**Cello Concerto (1964)
*Primož Ramovš
Primož Ramovš (March 20, 1921 – January 10, 1999) was a Slovenian composer and librarian.
Life
Ramovš was born in Ljubljana, then the administrative centre of the Slovenian part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He studied at ...
**Cello Concerto (1974)
*Bernard Rands
Bernard Rands (born 2 March 1934 in Sheffield, England) is a British-American contemporary classical music composer. He studied music and English literature at the University of Wales, Bangor, and composition with Pierre Boulez and Bruno Mader ...
**Cello Concerto (1996)
* Behzad Ranjbaran
Behzad Ranjbaran ( fa, بهزاد رنجبران; born 1955, in Tehran, Iran) is a Persian composer, known for his virtuosic concertos and colorful orchestral music. Ranjbaran's music draws from his cultural roots, incorporating Persian musical mo ...
** Cello Concerto
* Weronika Ratusińska-Zamuszko
** Cello Concerto (2008)
* Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker
Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker (8 March 1844, in Munich – 17 July 1906, in Elberfeld, today part of Wuppertal) was a German composer, conductor and violinist.
Life
Childhood and youth (1844–1860)
Rauchenecker was born in Munich on 8 March 1844; ...
** Cello Concerto (1904)
*Einojuhani Rautavaara
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** Cello Concerto No. 1 (1968)
** Cello Concerto No. 2 ''Towards the Horizon'' (2009)
* Alan Rawsthorne
Alan Rawsthorne (2 May 1905 – 24 July 1971) was a British composer. He was born in Haslingden, Lancashire, and is buried in Thaxted churchyard in Essex.
Early years
Alan Rawsthorne was born in Deardengate House, Haslingden, Lancashire, to Hu ...
** Cello Concerto
* Igor Raykhelson
** Cello Concerto (2010)
*Josef Reicha
Josef Reicha (''Rejcha'') (12 February 1752 – 5 March 1795) was a Czech cellist, composer and conductor. He was the uncle of composer and music theorist Anton Reicha.
Josef Reicha was born in Chudenice. In 1761 he moved to Prague, where he ...
** Cello Concertos in F minor, G major and A major (and/or E major) from Op. 4
* Antonín Reichenauer
**Cello Concerto in D
**Cello Concerto in D minor
*Carl Reinecke
Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (23 June 182410 March 1910) was a German composer, conductor, and pianist in the mid-Romantic era.
Biography
Reinecke was born in what is today the Hamburg district of Altona; technically he was born a Dane, as ...
** Cello Concerto in D minor, Op. 82 (1864)
*Karel Reiner
Karel Reiner (27 June 1910 – 17 October 1979) was a Czech composer and pianist, persecuted by Nazis as a Jew and by communists as a formalist, but he was member of communist party to 1968. He was the only classical composer to survive the conce ...
**Cello Concerto (1943)
*Jay Reise
Jay Reise (born 1950) is an American composer.
Biography
Reise spent his childhood surrounded by classical music and jazz, but began his composition studies with Jimmy Giuffre and Hugh Hartwell in 1970. After graduating at Hamilton College in 1 ...
**Concerto for cello and 13 instruments (2000)
*Franz Reizenstein
Franz Theodor Reizenstein (7 June 191115 October 1968) was a German-born British composer and concert pianist. He left Germany for sanctuary in Britain in 1934 and went on to have his teaching and performing career there. As a composer, he succ ...
** Cello Concerto, Op. 8 (1951)
*Antanas Rekašius
**Cello Concerto ''Diaphony'' (1972)
*Stefan Remenkov
Stefan Nikolov Remenkov ( Bulgarian: Стефан Николов Ременков) (born 30 April 1923, Silistra - 30 October 1988, Sofia) was a Bulgarian composer and pianist.
Biography
Remenkov comes from a family of teachers. His father ...
**Cello Concerto (1964)
*Ottorino Respighi
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**Adagio con variazioni for Cello and Orchestra
*Roger Reynolds
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**The Dream of the Infinite Rooms (1986)
*Paul Richter
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Biography
Richter made his film debut right before W ...
**Cello Concerto Op.109
* Jaroslav Rídký
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1930)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1940)
*Alan Ridout
Alan Ridout (9 December 1934 – 19 March 1996) was a British composer and teacher.
Life
Born in West Wickham, Kent, England, Alan Ridout studied briefly at the Guildhall School of Music before commencing four years of study at the Royal C ...
**Cello Concerto No. 1 for cello, percussion and strings (1984)
**Cello Concerto No. 2 for cello and wordless choir (1994)
**Cello Concerto No. 3 for cello and 8 cellos (1995)
*Julius Rietz
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**Cello Concerto (1830s)
*Wolfgang Rihm
Wolfgang Rihm (born 13 March 1952) is a German composer and academic teacher. He is musical director of the Institute of New Music and Media at the University of Music Karlsruhe and has been composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival and the Sa ...
**''Monodram'' for Cello and Orchestra (1982–1983)
**''Styx und Lethe'' for Cello and Orchestra (1997–1998)
**''Konzert in einem Satz'' for Cello and Orchestra (2005–2006)
*Jean Rivier
Alexis Fernand Félix Jean Rivier (21 July 1896 – 6 November 1987) was a French composer of classical music in the neoclassical style.
The son of Henri Rivier, a co-inventor of Armenian paper, he composed over two hundred works, including musi ...
**Cello Concerto (1927)
*Hayden Roberts
**Cello Concerto (2019)
* Yann Robin
** Quarks (2016)
* Joaquín Rodrigo
Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquess of the Gardens of Aranjuez (; 22 November 1901 – 6 July 1999), was a Spanish composer and a virtuoso pianist. He is best known for composing the ''Concierto de Aranjuez'', a cornerstone of the classical gui ...
** Concerto ''in modo galante'' (1949)
** Concerto ''como un divertimento'' (1981)
* Bernhard Romberg
Bernhard Heinrich Romberg (November 13, 1767 – August 13, 1841) was a German cellist and composer.
Life
Romberg was born in Dinklage. His father, Anton Romberg, played the bassoon and cello and gave Bernhard his first cello lessons. He f ...
** Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Major, for cello and orchestra Op.2
** Grand Concerto No. 2 in D Major, for cello with orchestra Op.3
** Concerto No. 3 in G Major, for cello and orchestra Op.6
** Cello Concerto No.4 in E minor Op.7
** Concerto No. 5 in F-sharp Minor for cello and orchestra Op.30
** Concerto No. 6 in F Major (Militaire) for cello and orchestra Op.31
** Concerto No. 7 in C Major (Suisse) for cello and orchestra Op.44
** Concerto No. 8 in A Major (Brillant) for cello and orchestra Op.48
** Concerto No. 9 in B Minor (Grand) for cello and orchestra Op.56
** Concerto No. 10 in E Major (Brillant), for cello and orchestra Op.75
* Alfonso Romero Asenjo
** Cello Concerto (1995)
*Julius Röntgen
Julius Engelbert Röntgen (9 May 1855 – 13 September 1932) was a German-Dutch composer of classical music. He was a friend of Liszt, Brahms and Grieg.
Life
Julius Röntgen was born in Leipzig, Germany, to a family of musicians. His father, ...
** Cello Concerto No. 1 in E minor (1893/1894)
** Cello Concerto No. 2 in G minor (1909)
** Cello Concerto No. 3 in F-sharp minor (1928)
* Joseph-Guy Ropartz
**Rhapsodie pour violoncelle et orchestre (1928)
*Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem (October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and writer. Best known for his art songs, which number over 500, Rorem was the leading American of his time writing in the genre. Althou ...
**Cello Concerto A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.
These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike instru ...
(2002)
*Hilding Rosenberg
Hilding Constantin Rosenberg (June 21, 1892 – May 18, 1985)Lyne Peter H. Rosenberg, Hilding (Constantin). In: ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera''. Macmillan, London & New York, 1997. was a Swedish composer and conductor. He is commonly reg ...
** Cello Concerto No. 1 (1939)
** Cello Concerto No. 2 (1953)
*Helmut Rosenvald
**Concerto for cello and chamber orchestra (1970)
**Chamber symphony No.2 (for cello and chamber orchestra, 1979)
*Nino Rota
Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (; 3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979), better known as Nino Rota (), was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visco ...
** Cello Concerto No. 0 (1925) Premiered by Orfeo Mandozzi (2005)
** Cello Concerto No. 1 (1972)
** Cello Concerto No. 2 (1973)
* Doina Rotaru
**Cello Concerto (1987)
* Christopher Rouse
**Violoncello Concerto A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.
These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike instr ...
(1993)
*Albert Roussel
Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (; 5 April 1869 – 23 August 1937) was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period. His ...
** Cello Concertino (1936)
*Francis Routh
Francis John Routh (5 January 1927 – 27 November 2021) was an English composer and author.
Education
Born in Kidderminster, Routh attended Malvern College and Harrow School before serving in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (1945-8). He rea ...
**Cello Concerto (1973)
*Miklós Rózsa
Miklós Rózsa (; April 18, 1907 – July 27, 1995) was a Hungarian-American composer trained in Germany (1925–1931) and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United States (1940–1995), with extensi ...
** Cello concerto, Op. 32 (1968)
*Edmund Rubbra
Edmund Rubbra (; 23 May 190114 February 1986) 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 o ...
**Soliloquy for cello, horns strings and timpani, Op. 57 (1947)
*Anton Rubinstein
Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein ( rus, Антон Григорьевич Рубинштейн, r=Anton Grigor'evič Rubinštejn; ) was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who became a pivotal figure in Russian culture when he founded the Sai ...
** Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 65 (1864)
** Cello Concerto in D minor, Op. 96 (1875)
*Poul Ruders
Poul Ruders (born 27 March 1949) is a Danish composer.
Life
Born in Ringsted, Ruders trained as an organist, and studied orchestration with Karl Aage Rasmussen. Ruders's first compositions date from the mid-1960s. Ruders regards his own compositi ...
**Polydrama - Cello Concerto 1 (1988)
**Anima - Cello Concerto 2 (1993)
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*Kaija Saariaho
Kaija Anneli Saariaho (; ; born 14 October 1952) is a Finnish composer based in Paris, France. During the course of her career, Saariaho has received commissions from the Lincoln Center for the Kronos Quartet and from IRCAM for the Ensemble Inter ...
** Amers, for cello and ensemble (1992)
** Cello Concerto '' Notes on Light'' (2006)
*Nicola Sabatino
Nicola Sabatino (also: ''Sabbatini'' and ''Sabatini''; 1705–1796) was a Neapolitan composer.
Sabatino was born in Naples and became one of the late baroque Neapolitan composers centred on the Music conservatories of Naples and the opera at the ...
**Cello Concerto in G
*Harald Sæverud
Harald Sigurd Johan Sæverud (17 April 1897 – 27 March 1992) was a Norwegian composer. He is most known for his music to Henrik Ibsen's ''Peer Gynt'', '' Rondo Amoroso'', and the ''Ballad of Revolt'' ( no, Kjempeviseslåtten). Sæverud ...
**Cello Concerto (1931)
* Dimitar Sagaev
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1977)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1998)
*Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano C ...
** Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33 (1872)
** Cello Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 119 (1902)
**Allegro appasionato in B minor, Op. 43
**Romance, Op. 36
** Suite in D minor, Op. 16 bis for cello and orchestra
*Aulis Sallinen
Aulis Sallinen (born 9 April 1935) is a Finnish contemporary classical music composer. His music has been variously described as "remorselessly harsh", a "beautifully crafted amalgam of several 20th-century styles", and "neo-romantic". Sallinen ...
** Cello Concerto, Op. 44 (1976)
** ''Nocturnal Dances of Don Juan Quixote'' for Cello and String Orchestra, Op. 58
*Erkki Salmenhaara
Erkki Olavi Salmenhaara (March 12, 1941 – March 19, 2002) was a Finnish composer and musicologist.
Personal life
Salmenhaara was born in Helsinki, Finland, and married Anja Kosonen in 1961. They had two sons, but divorced in 1978. Salmenhaara ...
**Poema for cello and orchestra (1975)
**Cello Concerto (1987)
*Siegfried Salomon
Siegfried Salomon (3 August 1885 – 29 October 1962) was a Danish composer.
Salomon was born in Copenhagen. In 1899 he entered the Conservatory in Leipzig and studied there for four years. He also spent some time in Paris studying with Pa ...
**Cello Concerto (1922)
*Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen (; born 30 June 1958) is a Finnish orchestral conductor and composer. He is principal conductor and artistic advisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and music di ...
**"Mania" for cello and ensemble (or orchestra) (2000)
**Cello Concerto A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.
These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike instru ...
(2017)
* Tadeás Salva
**Concerto for cello and chamber orchestra (1967)
*Sven-David Sandström
Sven-David Sandström (30 October 1942, in Motala – 10 June 2019) was a Swedish classical composer of operas, oratorios, ballets, and choral works, as well as orchestral works.
Life and career
Sandström studied art history and musicology at ...
**Cello Concerto (1988)
*Federico Maria Sardelli
Federico Maria Sardelli (born 1963) is an Italian conductor, historicist, composer, musicologist, comic artist, and flautist. He founded the medieval ensemble Modo Antiquo in 1984. In 1987, Modo Antiquo also became a baroque orchestra, debuti ...
**Cello Concerto in G minor (2008)
**Cello Concerto in C minor (2018)
* Ruben Sargsyan
**Concerto No.1 for Cello and Symphonic orchestra, 1977
**Concerto No.2 for Cello and Chamber orchestra, 1979
**Concerto No.3 for Cello and Chamber orchestra, 1989
**Concerto No.4 for Cello and Chamber orchestra, 1994
**''Cogitation'' for Cello and Chamber orchestra, 2000
*Philip Sawyers
Philip Sawyers (born 20 June 1951) is a British composer of orchestral and chamber music, including four symphonies.
Sawyers was born in London. He began composing as a teenager, studying at Dartington College of Arts in Devon with Colin Sauer ( ...
**Cello Concerto (2010)
*Robert Saxton
Robert Saxton (born 8 October 1953 in London) is a British composer.
Biography
Robert Saxton was born in London and started composing at the age of six. He was educated at Bryanston School. Guidance in early years from Benjamin Britten and El ...
** Cello Concerto (1993)
*Fazıl Say
Fazıl Say (; born 14 January 1970 in Ankara) is a Turkish pianist and composer.
Life and career
Fazıl Say was born in 1970. His father, Ahmet Say was an author and musicologist. His mother, Gürgün Say was a pharmacist. His grandfather Fa ...
**Cello Concerto ''Never give up'' (2018)
*Ahmet Adnan Saygun
Ahmet Adnan Saygun (; 7 September 1907 – 6 January 1991) was a Turkish composer, musicologist and writer on music.
One of a group of composers known as the Turkish Five who pioneered western classical music in Turkey, his works show a master ...
** Cello Concerto, Op. 74 (1987)
*Giacinto Scelsi
Giacinto Francesco Maria Scelsi (; 8 January 1905 – 9 August 1988, sometimes cited as 8 August 1988) was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French.
He is best known for having composed music based around only one pitch, ...
** Cello Concerto
*Harold Schiffman
**Cello Concerto (1997)
*Heather Schmidt
**Cello Concerto (1998)
* Ole Schmidt
**Cello Concerto (2005)
* Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski
**Cello Concerto (2002)
*Florent Schmitt
Florent Schmitt (; 28 September 187017 August 1958) was a French composer. He was part of the group known as Les Apaches. His most famous pieces are ''La tragédie de Salome'' and ''Psaume XLVII'' (Psalm 47). He has been described as "one of the ...
**''Introït, Récit et Congé'' for cello and orchestra (1948)
*Albert Schnelzer
Albert Schnelzer (born 3 June 1972, Värmland) is a Swedish composer.
As a youth, Schnelzer was a keyboard player in a rock band. He later became a student at the Malmö Academy of Music from 1994 to 2000. His teachers in Sweden included Sven ...
**''Crazy Diamond'' - Cello concerto (2011)
*Alfred Schnittke
Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (russian: Альфре́д Га́рриевич Шни́тке, link=no, Alfred Garriyevich Shnitke; 24 November 1934 – 3 August 1998) was a Russian composer of Jewish-German descent. Among the most performed and re ...
** Cello Concerto No. 1 (1986)
** Cello Concerto No. 2 (1989–90)
*Daniel Schnyder
Daniel Schnyder (born March 12, 1961 in Zurich) is a Swiss jazz reedist and composer of both jazz and classical music.
Schnyder learned to play cello before saxophone. He attended Berklee College of Music and the Conservatory of Winterthur. H ...
** Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra
*Othmar Schoeck
Othmar Schoeck (1 September 1886 – 8 March 1957) was a Swiss Romantic classical composer, opera composer, musician, and conductor.
He was known mainly for his considerable output of art songs and song cycles, though he also wrote a number of ...
** Cello concerto in A minor, Op. 61 (1947)
* Philippe Schoeller
** The Eyes of the Wind (2005)
*Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (, ; ; 13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was as ...
** Cello Concerto in D major (1932/33), freely transcribed from Monn's Clavicembalo Concerto in D major
*Peter Schuback
**Cello Concerto (1973)
*Carl Schuberth
**Cello Concerto No.1 (published 1841)
*William Schuman
William Howard Schuman (August 4, 1910February 15, 1992) was an American composer and arts administrator.
Life
Schuman was born into a Jewish family in Manhattan, New York City, son of Samuel and Rachel Schuman. He was named after the 27th U.S. ...
** A Song of Orpheus for Cello and Orchestra (1962)
*Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann (; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Schumann left the study of law, intending to pursue a career a ...
**Cello Concerto A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.
These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike instru ...
in A minor, Op. 129 (1850)
*Gerard Schurmann
Gerard Schurmann (19 January 1924 – 24 March 2020) was a Dutch-born British composer and conductor. He lived in the United States from 1981 until his death. He composed music for many film soundtracks. Schurmann was also the orchestrator for th ...
**''The Gardens of Exile'' for cello and orchestra (1991)
*Ary Schuyer
**Cello concerto (1913)
* Laura Schwendinger
Laura Elise Schwendinger (born January 26, 1962) was the first composer to win the American Academy in Berlin's Berlin Prize.
Biography
Schwendinger was the first composer to win the American Academy in Berlin Prize, and her opera Artemisia, is t ...
** ''Esprimere'' Concerto for cello and orchestra (2005)
*Salvatore Sciarrino
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**Linee d'aria (2022)
**Variazioni (1974)
*Cyril Scott
Cyril Meir Scott (27 September 1879 – 31 December 1970) was an English composer, writer, poet, and occultist. He created around four hundred musical compositions including piano, violin, cello concertos, symphonies, and operas. He also wrot ...
** Cello Concerto o. 1
O is the fifteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet.
O may also refer to:
Letters
* Օ օ, (Unicode: U+0555, U+0585) a letter in the Armenian alphabet
* Ο ο, Omicron, (Greek), a letter in the Greek alphabet
* O (Cyrillic), a letter of the ...
Op. 19 (1902)
** Cello Concerto o. 2
O is the fifteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet.
O may also refer to:
Letters
* Օ օ, (Unicode: U+0555, U+0585) a letter in the Armenian alphabet
* Ο ο, Omicron, (Greek), a letter in the Greek alphabet
* O (Cyrillic), a letter of the ...
(1937)
*Leif Segerstam
Leif Selim Segerstam ( , ; born 2 March 1944) is a Finnish conductor, composer, violinist, violist and pianist, especially known for writing 350 symphonies as of August 2022, along with other works in his extensive oeuvre.
Segerstam has condu ...
**8 Cello Concertos
*Mátyás Seiber
Mátyás György Seiber (; 4 May 190524 September 1960) was a Hungarian-born British composer who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1935 onwards. His work linked many diverse musical influences, from the Hungarian tradition of Bartó ...
**''Tre Pezzi'' for cello and orchestra (1956)
* Anatolijus Šenderovas
**Concerto for Cello and String Orchestra (1964)
**Cello Concerto in C (2002)
**Cello Concerto No.3 (2012)
*Adrien-François Servais
Adrien-François Servais (6 June 180726 November 1866) was one of the most influential cellists of the nineteenth century. He was born and died in Halle, Belgium. He is one of the founders of the Modern Cellistic Schools of Paris and Madrid, whic ...
(1807-1866)
**Cello Concerto in B minor Op.5 (1847)
**''Morceau de concert'' Op.14 ''(deuxieme Concerto)''
**''Concerto Militaire'' Op.18
* Zdeněk Šesták
**Cello Concerto No.1 ''Light of Hope'' (2002)
**Cello Concerto No.2 ''The Path of Knowledge'' (2005)
*Tolib Shakhidi
Tolib-khon Shakhidi (Толиб-хон Шахиди) or Tolib Shahidi ( tg, Толиб Шаҳидӣ/ fa, طالب شهیدی, born 13 March 1946) is a Tajik and Soviet composer who was born in the city of Dushanbe, Tajik SSR. He is a son of th ...
**Cello Concerto No.1 ''Concert Raga'' (1989)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (2003)
*Vache Sharafyan
**Cello Concerto No.1 (2004)
**Suite for cello and orchestra (2009)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (2013)
*Rodion Shchedrin
** Cello Concerto opus 87 "Sotto Voce" (1994)
**Parabola Concertante for cello, string orchestra and timpani (2001)
*Alexander Shchetynsky
** Cello Concerto (1982)
*Noam Sheriff
**Cello Concerto (1987)
*Percy Sherwood
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1890 rev.1893)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1902)
*Howard Shore
**''Mythic Gardens'' (2012)
*Dmitri Shostakovich
** Cello Concerto No. 1 (Shostakovich), Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat, Op. 107 (1959)
** Cello Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich), Cello Concerto No. 2 in G, Op. 126 (1966)
* Alan Shulman
** Cello Concerto (1948)
* :is:Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson, Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson
** Cello Concerto ''Ulisse Ritorna'' (1981)
* Valentin Silvestrov
** ''Meditation'' Symphony for cello and chamber orchestra (1972)
* Pavol Šimai
** Cello Concerto (1986)
* Daniel Léo Simpson
** Cello Concerto (1996)
* Robert Simpson (composer), Robert Simpson
** Cello Concerto (1991)
* Hans Sitt
** Concerto No. 1 in A minor for cello and orchestra, Op. 34 (1890)
** Concerto No. 2 in D minor for cello and orchestra, Op. 38 (1891)
*Nikos Skalkottas
** Cello Concerto – lost (1938)
*Lucijan Marija Skerjanc
** Allegro de Concert (1947)
*Yngve Sköld
**Cello Concerto (1947)
*Myroslav Skoryk
**Cello Concerto (1983)
*Sergei Slonimsky
**Concerto for cello and chamber orchestra (1998)
*Roger Smalley
**Concerto for cello and 17 players (1996)
*Dmitri Smirnov (composer), Dmitri Smirnov
**Cello Concerto (1992)
*Tatiana Smirnova
**Concerto-Symphony for cello and chamber orchestra (1987)
*Leo Smit (Dutch composer), Leo Smit
**Concertino (1937)
*Dmitry Smolsky
**Cello Concerto (1973)
*:sl:Črt Sojar Voglar, Črt Sojar-Voglar
**Cello Concerto (2002)
*Giovanni Sollima
**Cello Concerto (1992)
*Vladimir Soltan
**Cello Concerto (1987)
*Vladimír Sommer
**Cello Concerto (1979)
*:fr:József Soproni, József Soproni
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1967)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1984)
*Vladimír Soukup
**Cello Concerto (1972)
*Leo Sowerby
**Cello Concerto in A major (1914–16)
** Cello Concerto in E minor (1929–1934)
*Ivan Spassov
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1974)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1984)
*Marek Stachowski (composer), Marek Stachowski
**Concerto for cello and string orchestra (1988)
**''Recitativo e la preghiera'' (1999)
**''Adagio ricordamente'' (1999)
*Julius Stahlknecht
**Cello Concerto (published 1867)
*Carl Stamitz
**Cello Concerto No. 1 in G major
**Cello Concerto No. 2 in A major
**Cello Concerto No. 3 in C major
**Cello Concerto No. 4 in C (from around 1777)
*Patric Standford
**Cello Concerto (1974)
*Charles Villiers Stanford
**Cello Concerto (Stanford), Cello Concerto in D minor (1879/1880)
**Irish Rhapsody No.3 (1913)
*Robert Starer
**Cello Concerto (1988)
*Johannes Maria Staud
**Segue (2006)
*Allan Stephenson
**Cello Concerto (2004)
*Roger Steptoe
**Cello Concerto (1991)
*Bernard Stevens
**Cello Concerto (1952)
*Ronald Stevenson
** Cello Concerto (1998) ''The Solitary Singer''
*Veselin Stoyanov
**Cello Concerto (1960)
*Todor Stoykov
**Cello Concerto (1982)
*Gerald Strang
**Concerto for cello with woodwinds and piano (1951)
*Johann Strauss
**Romance No.1 Op. 243
**Romance No.2 Op. 255
*Richard Strauss
**Romanze
**Don Quixote (Strauss), Don Quixote
*Franz Strigl
**Cello Concerto (1890s)
*Marco Stroppa
**And one by one we drop away (2006)
*Steven Stucky
**Voyages for Cello and Wind Ensemble (1984)
*Stjepan Šulek
**Cello Concerto (1949)
*Arthur Sullivan
** Cello Concerto in D (reconstruction) (1866)
*Lepo Sumera
**Cello Concerto (1998/1999)
*Johan Svendsen
** Cello Concerto in D major, Op. 7 (1870)
*Jules de Swert
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1874)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1878)
*Harald Sæverud
Harald Sigurd Johan Sæverud (17 April 1897 – 27 March 1992) was a Norwegian composer. He is most known for his music to Henrik Ibsen's ''Peer Gynt'', '' Rondo Amoroso'', and the ''Ballad of Revolt'' ( no, Kjempeviseslåtten). Sæverud ...
** Cello Concerto, Op. 7 (1931)
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*Emil Tabakov
**Cello Concerto (2006)
*Tan Dun
**Elegy: Snow in June, for cello and percussion (1991)
**Yi1: Intercourse of Fire and Water, (1994)
**Heaven Earth Mankind: Symphony 1997 (1997)
**Crouching Tiger Concerto, for cello and chamber orchestra (2000)
**The Map: Concerto for Cello, Video and Orchestra (2002)
*Toru Takemitsu
**Scene, for cello and strings
**Orion and Pleiades, for cello and Orchestra
*Otar Taktakishvili
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1947)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1977)
*Josef Tal
**Concerto for violoncello & string orchestra (1960)
**Double Concerto for violin, cello & chamber orchestra (1969)
*Eino Tamberg
**Cello Concerto (2001)
*Karen Tanaka
**Urban Prayer (2004)
*Eric Tanguy
** Concerto 1 (1995)
** Concerto 2 (2000)
** In terra pace (2007)
*Alexandre Tansman
** Cello Concerto (1964)
*Andrea Tarrodi
**Cello Concerto ''Highlands'' (2013)
*Giuseppe Tartini
** Cello Concerto in D
** Cello Concerto in A
*John Tavener
**The Protecting Veil for cello and String Orchestra (1988)
*Alexander Tchaikovsky
**Cello concerto ''6 Variations and a theme'' (1974)
*Boris Tchaikovsky
** Cello Concerto in E (1964)
*Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
**Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33, 1876, rev. 1878
**Pezzo Capriccioso (Tchaikovsky), Pezzo Capriccioso, Op. 62
** Nocturne, Op. 19, No. 4
** Andente Cantabile, Op. 11 (from String Quartet No. 1 (Tchaikovsky), String Quartet No. 1)
Cello Concerto in B minor (1893, unfinished)
completed by Yuriy Leonovich in 2006
*Ede Terényi
**Concerto for cello and chamber orchestra ''Rapsodia Baroca'' (1984)
*Yuri Ter-Osipov
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1969)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1982)
*Alexander Tcherepnin
**''Georgian Rhapsody'' for Cello and orchestra, Op. 25 (1922)
**''Mystère'' for Cello and Chamber Orchestra, Op. 37/2 (1925)
*Ferdinand Thieriot
**Cello Concerto No.1 (published 1915)
*Augusta Read Thomas
**Cello Concerto No. 1 – ''Vigil'' (1990)
**Cello Concerto No. 2 – ''Ritual Incantations'' (1999)
**Cello Concerto No. 3 (Thomas), Cello Concerto No. 3 – ''Legend of the Phoenix'' (2012)
*Olav Anton Thommessen
**Miniature concerto for cello and two woodwind quintets ''Phantom of Light'' (1990)
*Virgil Thomson
**Cello Concerto (Thomson), Cello Concerto (1949)
*Lasse Thoresen
**Passage through three Valleys Op. 38 (2008)
*Leif Thybo
**Cello Concerto (1959)
*Vladimír Tichý
**Cello Concerto (1977)
*Jukka Tiensuu
**"Oire" Cello Concerto (2014)
**Tarinaoopperabaletti, Concerto for Electric cello and orchestra (2016)
*Luís Tinoco (composer), Luís Tinoco
**Cello Concerto (2016-7)
* Boris Tishchenko
** Cello Concerto No. 1, for solo cello, 17 wind instruments, percussion, and harmonium (1963) (Also orchestrated by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1969)
** Cello Concerto No. 2, for solo cello, 48 cellos, 12 double-basses, and percussion (1969, arranged for orchestra in 1979)
*Antoine Tisné
**Cello Concerto (1965)
*Juro Tkalčić
**Cello Concerto (1922)
*Ernst Toch
**Cello Concerto, Op. 35 (1924)
*Henri Tomasi
**Cello Concerto (1970)
*Eugenio Toussaint
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1982)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1999)
*Donald Tovey
**Cello Concerto in C major, Op. 40 (1933)
*Yuzo Toyama
**Cello Concerto (1967)
*Jean Balthasar Tricklir
**13 cello concertos
*Vitomir Trifunović
**Cello Concerto (1991)
*Sulkhan Tsintsadze
** Cello Concerto No. 2 (1966)
** Cello Concerto No. 3 (1973)
** Concertino for cello and orchestra (1976) (30 min)
*:de:Wladimir Iwanowitsch Zytowitsch, Vladimir Tsytovich
**Cello Concerto (1981)
*Mark-Anthony Turnage
**Kai, for cello and ensemble (1990)
**Cello Concerto (2010)
*Kalervo Tuukkanen
**Cello Concerto (1946)
*Erkki-Sven Tüür
**Cello Concerto (1996)
*Romuald Twardowski
**Cello Concerto (1997)
U
* Owen Underhill
** Cello Concerto (2016)
V
*Moisei Vainberg see Mieczysław Weinberg
*Johann Baptist Vanhal see Johann Baptist Wanhal
*Sergei Vasilenko
**Cello Concerto (1944)
*Pēteris Vasks
**Cello Concerto (1993–1994)
** Cello Concerto No. 2 Klātbūtne (Presence) for cello and string orchestra (2012)
*Marc Vaubourgoin
**Cello Concerto (1932)
*Anatol Vieru
**Cello concerto (1962)
**Sinfonia Concertante (1987)
*Henri Vieuxtemps
** Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. posth. 46 (1877)
** Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. posth. 50 (1884)
*Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959)
**''Grande Concerto'' for Cello and Orchestra No. 1, Op. 50 (1915)
**Fantasia for Cello and Orchestra, W. 454 (1945)
**Cello Concerto No. 2, W. 516 (1953)
*Jesús Villa-Rojo
**Concierto 2 for cello and orchestra (1983)
*Carl Vine
**Cello Concerto (2004)
*Olli Virtaperko
**Concerto for Amplified Cello ''Romer's Gap'' (2016)
*János Viski (composer), János Viski
**Cello Concerto (1955)
*Antonio Vivaldi
**RV 398 in C
**RV 399 in C
**RV 400 in C
**RV 401 in C minor
**RV 402 in C minor
**RV 403 in D
**RV 404 in D
**RV 405 in D minor
**RV 406 in D minor (related to RV 481)
**RV 407 in D minor
**RV 408 in E-flat
**RV 410 in F
**RV 411 in F
**RV 412 in F
**RV 413 in G
**RV 414 in G
**RV 415 in G
**RV 416 in G minor
**RV 417 in G minor
**RV 418 in A minor
**RV 419 in A minor
**RV 420 in A minor
**RV 421 in A minor
**RV 422 in A minor
**RV 423 in B-flat
**RV 424 in B minor
**RV 531 in G minor, for 2 cellos
*Vladimir Vlasov
**Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major (1963)
**Cello Concerto No. 2 (1969)
*:nl:Lodewijk de Vocht, Lodewijk de Vocht
**Cello Concerto (1955)
*Kevin Volans
**Cello Concerto (1997)
*Robert Volkmann
**Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 33 (1853–55) (in one movement)
*Alexander Voormolen
**Cello Concerto (1941)
*Antonín Vranický (same as Anton Wranitzky below)
** Concerto in D minor
W
*Georg Christoph Wagenseil
** concertos in C major and A major (published by Doblinger around 1960 by Fritz Racek and/or with cadenzas by Enrico Mainardi)
*George Walker (composer), George Walker
**Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1981)
**Dialogus for Cello and Orchestra (1976)
**Movements for Cello and Orchestra (2012)
*Errollyn Wallen
**Concerto for cello and strings (2007)
*Rolf Wallin
**Ground, for cello and string orchestra (1996)
*Ivor Walsworth
**Cello Concerto
*William Walton
**Cello Concerto (Walton), Cello Concerto (1956)
*Johann Baptist Wanhal (Vanhal)
**Cello Concerto in A major
**Cello Concerto in C
**Cello Concerto in C
*Graham Waterhouse
** Cello Concerto (Waterhouse), Cello Concerto, Op. 27 (1995), also Op. 27a (2005), a version for chamber orchestra
*Carl Maria von Weber
**Concerto (Grand Potpourri)
*Karl Weigl
**Cello Concerto (1934)
*Mieczysław Weinberg
** Cello Concerto in C minor, Op. 43 (1956)
**Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra (1956)
*Felix Weingartner
** Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 60 (1917)
*:da:Henning Wellejus, Henning Wellejus
**Cello Concerto (1978)
*Deqing Wen
**Cello Concerto ''Shanghai Prelude'' (2015)
*Svend Westergaard
**Cello Concerto (1962)
*Graham Whettam
** Concerto Drammatico (1998)
*Charles-Marie Widor
**Cello Concerto, Op. 41 (1882)
*John Williams
**Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1994)
**Elegy for Cello and Orchestra (1997)
**Heartwood for Cello and Orchestra (2002)
*Dag Wirén
** Cello Concerto (1936)
*Friedrich Witt
**Cello Concerto
*Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
** Cello Concerto in C, Op. 31
*Julia Wolfe
**Wind in my Hair (2018)
*Haydn Wood
**''Philharmonic Variations'' for cello and orchestra (1939)
*Hugh Wood
**Cello Concerto Op. 12 (1969)
*John Woolrich
** Cello Concerto (1998)
*William Wordsworth (composer), William Wordsworth
**Cello Concerto (1962)
*Anton Wranitzky (same as Vranický above)
** Concerto in D minor
*Paul Wranitzky
** Concerto in C major, Op. 27
*Charles Wuorinen
**Chamber concerto for cello and ten instruments (1963)
**Concerto for amplified cello and orchestra ''Five'' (1975)
X
*Iannis Xenakis
**Epicycles, for cello and 12 instruments
Y
*Victoria Yagling
**Cello Concerto No.1 (1975)
**Cello Concerto No.2 (1984)
**Cello Concerto No.3 - Symphony Concerto (2001)
*Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky
**Cello Concerto (2010)
*Akio Yashiro
**Cello Concerto (1960)
*Takashi Yoshimatsu
**Cello Concerto (Centaurus Unit)(2003)
*Yosko Yosifov
**Cello Concerto (1950)
*Eugène Ysaÿe
**Méditation
**Serenade
*Isang Yun
**Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (1975/76)
*Benjamin Yusupov
**Cello Concerto (2007)
Z
*Jan Zach
**Cello Concerto
*Andrea Zani
**Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Major, WD 793
**Cello Concerto No. 2 in A Minor, WD 789
**Cello Concerto No. 3 in D Major, WD 792
**Cello Concerto No. 4 in D Minor, WD 795
**Cello Concerto No. 5 in G Major, WD 790
**Cello Concerto No. 6 in G Minor, WD 797
**Cello Concerto No. 7 in C Major, WD 788
**Cello Concerto No. 8 in C Minor, WD 798
**Cello Concerto No. 9 in B-Flat Major, WD 796
**Cello Concerto No. 10 in F Major, WD 794
**Cello Concerto No. 11 in E Minor, WD 791
**Cello Concerto No. 12 in F Minor, WD 799
*Pascal Zavaro
**Cello Concerto No.1 (2007)
**''Into the wild'' (Cello Concerto No.2, 2016)
*Erich Zeisl
**Concerto grosso for cello and orchestra (1956)
*Lubomír Železný
**Cello Concerto (1968)
*Ilja Zeljenka, Ilya Zeljenka
**Cello Concerto (2000)
**Concerto for two cellos and string orchestra (1994)
*Ferdinand Zellbell the Younger
**Cello Concerto (1741)
*Hans Zender
**Bardo (2000)
*Winfried Zillig
**Concerto for Violoncello und Brass Orchestra (1934/1952), for Siegfried Palm
Siegfried Palm (25 April 1927 – 6 June 2005) 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 ...
*Efrem Zimbalist
**Cello Concerto (1969)
*Bernd Alois Zimmermann
**Canto di Speranza (1957) for Siegfried Palm
Siegfried Palm (25 April 1927 – 6 June 2005) 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 ...
**Concerto for Cello and Orchestra ''en forme de pas de trois'' (1966), for Siegfried Palm
Siegfried Palm (25 April 1927 – 6 June 2005) 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 ...
*Alexander Znosko-Borovsky
**Cello Concerto (1968)
*Wim Zwaag
**Cello concerto (2003) ''The changing colors in time''
*Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
**Cello Concerto (Zwilich), Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (2020)
*Otto Zykan
**Cello Concerto (1982)
*Samuel Zyman
**Cello Concerto (1990)
Concertos for cello and other solo instrument(s)
*Kurt Atterberg
Kurt Magnus Atterberg (, 12 December 188715 February 1974) was a Swedish composer and engineer. He is best known for his symphonies, operas, and ballets.
Biography
Atterberg was born in Gothenburg. His father was Anders Johan Atterberg, engineer ...
**Concerto in G minor and C major for violin, violoncello and string orchestra, Op. 57 (1959–60)
*Ludwig van Beethoven
**Triple Concerto for violin, cello, piano and orchestra in C major, Op. 56 (1804)
*Giovanni Bottesini
**Double Concerto for Cello and Double Bass in G major
*Johannes Brahms
** Double Concerto in A minor for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (1887)
*Cesar Bresgen
**Concertino, for violin, cello and small orchestra
*Friedrich Cerha
Friedrich Cerha (born 17 February 1926) is an Austrian composer, conductor and music educator.
Education and Career
Cerha was born in Vienna, Austria, and educated at the Viennese Music Academy (violin with Váša Příhoda, composition with A ...
**Double Concerto, for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (1976)
* Gordon Shi-Wen Chin
**Double concerto for Violin and Cello (2006)
*Paul Constantinescu
**Triple concerto for piano, violin, cello and orchestra – 1964
*Richard Danielpour
Richard Danielpour (born January 28, 1956) is an American composer.
Early life
Danielpour was born in New York City of Persian Jewish descent and grew up in New York City and West Palm Beach, Florida. He studied at Oberlin College and the New E ...
**In the Arms of the Beloved (Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra) (2001)
*Johann Nepomuk David
**Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, Op. 68 (1971)
*Frederick Delius
Delius, photographed in 1907
Frederick Theodore Albert Delius ( 29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934), originally Fritz Delius, was an English composer. Born in Bradford in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted atte ...
**Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (1915–16)
* Edison Denisov
Edison Vasilievich Denisov (russian: Эдисо́н Васи́льевич Дени́сов, 6 April 1929 – 24 November 1996) was a Russian composer in the so-called "Underground", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division of Soviet music.
B ...
** Concerto for bassoon, cello and orchestra (1982)
*Gaetano Donizetti
**Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in D minor
*Tan Dun
**''Secret Land'' for Orchestra and Twelve Violoncellos (2004)
*Wolfgang Fortner
Wolfgang Fortner (12 October 1907 – 5 September 1987) was a German composer, composition teacher and conductor.
Life
Fortner was born in Leipzig. From his parents, who were both singers, Fortner very early on had intense contact with music.
...
**''Zyklus'' for Violoncello, Winds, Harp and Percussion (1970), premiered by Siegfried Palm
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*Geza Frid
**Concertino for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra, Op. 63 (11 min) (1961) Donemus
*Lou Harrison
**Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Gamelan (1982)
*Joseph Haydn
Franz Joseph Haydn ( , ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions ...
**Sinfonia Concertante for violin, cello, oboe and bassoon
*Joel Hoffman (composer), Joel Hoffman (born 1953)
**''Triple Concerto'' for Violin, Viola, Cello and Orchestra (22 min) (1978)
**Double Concerto for Viola and Cello and Orchestra (31 min)
*Leopold Hofmann
Leopold Hofmann (also Ludwig Hoffman, Leopold Hoffman, Leopold Hoffmann; 14 August 1738 – 17 March 1793) was an Austrian composer of classical music.
Biography
Hofmann was the son of a highly educated civil servant, and at the age of seven ...
**Concertino for two cellos and orchestra
*Julius Klengel
Julius Klengel (24 September 1859 – 27 October 1933) was a German cellist who is most famous for his études and solo pieces written for the instrument. He was the brother of Paul Klengel. A member of the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig at f ...
**Double Concerto No. 1 for 2 Cellos and Orchestra
**Double Concerto No. 2 in E minor for 2 Cellos and Orchestra, Op. 45 (1912)
**Double Concerto No. 1 for Violin, Cello and Orchestra
**Double Concerto No. 2 for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, Op. 61 (1924)
*Ezra Laderman
Ezra Laderman (29 June 1924 – 28 February 2015) was an American composer of classical music. He was born in Brooklyn.
Biography
Laderman was of Jewish heritage. His parents, Isidor and Leah, both emigrated to the United States from Poland. Thou ...
**''Parisot – Concerto for Multiple Cellos'' and orchestra (Schirmer) (27 min) (1996)
*Kenneth Leighton
Kenneth Leighton (2 October 1929 – 24 August 1988) was a British composer and pianist. His compositions include church and choral music, pieces for piano, organ, cello, oboe and other instruments, chamber music, concertos, ...
**Suite 'Veris Gratia' for Cello, Oboe and Orchestra, Op. 9
*Edgar Meyer
**Double Concerto for Cello, Double Bass and Orchestra (1995) 19'
* Norbert Moret
**Double Concerto for Violin and Cello (1981)
* Michael Nyman
Michael Laurence Nyman, Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, libretto, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film soundtrack, scores (many written during his length ...
** Double concerto for Cello and Saxophone
*Mark O'Connor
**Double Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra (''For the Heroes'') – three movements
*David Ott
** Concerto for Two Cellos (1988)
*Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (; 23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor. His best known works include ''Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima'', Symphony No. 3, his '' St Luke Passion'', ''Polish Requiem'', ''A ...
**Concerto grosso for 3 Cellos and Orchestra (2000–01)
*Hans Pfitzner
Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was a German composer, conductor and polemicist who was a self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera ''Palestrina'' (1917), loosely based on the life of the s ...
**Duo for Violin, Cello and Small Orchestra (or piano)
*Carlo Alfredo Piatti
Carlo Alfredo Piatti (8 January 182218 July 1901) was an Italian cellist, teacher and composer.
Biography
Piatti was born at via Borgo Canale, in Bergamo and died in Mozzo, 4 miles from Bergamo.
The son of a violinist, Antonio Piatti, he ori ...
**"Serenata" for two cellos and orchestra
*David Popper
David Popper (June 16, 1843 – August 7, 1913) was a Bohemian cellist and composer. Some other sources list his date of birth as December 9, 1843.
Life
Popper was born in Prague, and studied music at the Prague Conservatory. His family was Je ...
**Requiem for 3 cellos and orchestra, Op. 66
*Robert Xavier Rodríguez
**Favola Concertante, Ballet and Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, and String Orchestra (1975)
*Julius Röntgen
Julius Engelbert Röntgen (9 May 1855 – 13 September 1932) was a German-Dutch composer of classical music. He was a friend of Liszt, Brahms and Grieg.
Life
Julius Röntgen was born in Leipzig, Germany, to a family of musicians. His father, ...
**Triple concerto in B-flat major, for violin, viola, cello and strings (1922)
**Double Concerto for violin and cello (1927)
**Triple concerto for violin, viola and cello (1930)
**Introduktion, Fuge, Intermezzo und Finale for violin, viola, cello
*Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem (October 23, 1923 – November 18, 2022) was an American composer of contemporary classical music and writer. Best known for his art songs, which number over 500, Rorem was the leading American of his time writing in the genre. Althou ...
**Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra
*Miklós Rózsa
Miklós Rózsa (; April 18, 1907 – July 27, 1995) was a Hungarian-American composer trained in Germany (1925–1931) and active in France (1931–1935), the United Kingdom (1935–1940), and the United States (1940–1995), with extensi ...
**Theme and Variations for violin, cello and orchestra (This work exist in two forms)
::Sinfonia Concertant, Op. 29
::Tema con Variazoni, Op. 29a
*Kaija Saariaho
Kaija Anneli Saariaho (; ; born 14 October 1952) is a Finnish composer based in Paris, France. During the course of her career, Saariaho has received commissions from the Lincoln Center for the Kronos Quartet and from IRCAM for the Ensemble Inter ...
**Mirage for soprano, cello and orchestra (2007)
*Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano C ...
** La Muse et le Poète for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, Op. 132 (1910)
*Alfred Schnittke
Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (russian: Альфре́д Га́рриевич Шни́тке, link=no, Alfred Garriyevich Shnitke; 24 November 1934 – 3 August 1998) was a Russian composer of Jewish-German descent. Among the most performed and re ...
**Concerto Grosso No. 2, for violin, violoncello and orchestra (1981–82)
*Giovanni Sollima
**Violoncelles, vibrez! (1993)
*Ivan Tcherepnin
**Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (1996)
*Lasse Thoresen
**Illuminations – Concerto for 2 Violoncelli and Orchestra
*Michael Tippett
**''Triple Concerto'' for violin, viola, cello and orchestra (1978–79)
**Transfiguración. Double Concerto for Cello, Accordion and String Orchestra
*Heitor Villa-Lobos
**Fantasia Concertante for 16 or 32 cellos (1958)
*Antonio Vivaldi
**Double Concerto in E minor for Cello and Bassoon, RV 409
**Double Concerto in G minor for 2 Cellos and String Orchestra
**Double Concerto ("All'inglese"), for Violin, Cello, Strings & Continuo in A major, RV 546
**Concerto for Violin, Cello and Strings in B-flat major, Op. 20, No. 2
**Concerto for Violin, Cello and Strings in F major RV 308
**Concerto for Violin, Cello and Strings in A major RV 238
*Henri Vieuxtemps
**Duo brilliant, for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, Op. 39
*Peter von Winter
**''Concertino in E-flat major'' for clarinet, cello and orchestr
Edition
Concertante works and arrangements
*Sir Granville Bantock
Sir Granville Ransome Bantock (7 August 186816 October 1946) was a British composer of classical music.
Biography
Granville Ransome Bantock was born in London. His father was an eminent Scottish surgeon.Hadden, J. Cuthbert, 1913, ''Modern Music ...
**''Elegiac poem'' (1898)
**''Sapphic poem'' (1906)
**''Celtic poem'' (1914)
**''Hamabdil'' for cello, harp and strings (1919) (Part of ''Judith'')
**''Dramatic poem'' (1941)
*Adolphe Biarent
**''Deux sonnets pour violoncelle et orchestre'' – d'après José-Maria de Hérédia (1909–1912)
***I Le réveil d'un dieu
***II Floridum Mare
*Ernest Bloch
Ernest Bloch (July 24, 1880 – July 15, 1959) was a Swiss-born American composer. Bloch was a preeminent artist in his day, and left a lasting legacy. He is recognized as one of the greatest Swiss composers in history. As well as producing music ...
**''Schelomo
''Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque for Violoncello and Orchestra'' was the final work of composer Ernest Bloch's ''Jewish Cycle''. ''Schelomo'', which was written in 1915 to 1916, premiered on May 3, 1917, played by cellist Hans Kindler. Artur Bodan ...
'', Rhapsodie Hebraïque pour violoncelle et grand orchestre (1915–16)
**Voice in the Wilderness (1934–36)
* Leon Boëllmann
**''Variations Symphoniques'', Op. 23
*York Bowen
Edwin York Bowen (22 February 1884 – 23 November 1961) was an English composer and pianist. Bowen's musical career spanned more than fifty years during which time he wrote over 160 works. As well as being a pianist and composer, Bowen was a ...
**Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 74 (c. 1924)
*Johannes Brahms
**Double Concerto (Brahms), Arrangement of the Double Concerto for Solo Cello and Orchestra
::(arr. Garben; from the Concerto for Violin and Cello and Orchestra
Edition Sikorski
*Frank Bridge
Frank Bridge (26 February 187910 January 1941) was an English composer, violist and conductor.
Life
Bridge was born in Brighton, the ninth child of William Henry Bridge (1845-1928), a violin teacher and variety theatre conductor, formerly a m ...
**Oration (1930)
*Max Bruch
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**''Kol Nidre
Kol Nidre (also known as Kol Nidrey or Kol Nidrei; Aramaic: ''kāl niḏrē'') is a Hebrew and Aramaic declaration which is recited in the synagogue before the beginning of the evening service on every Yom Kippur ("Day of Atonement"). Strictly ...
'', Op. 47 (late 1880)
**''Canzone'', Op. 55 (about 1891)
**''Adagio after Celtic themes'', Op. 56 (c.1891)
**Ave Maria, Op. 61 (1892)
*Alan Bush
**''Concert Suite'' Op. 37
*Gaspar Cassadó
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** Cello Concerto in E major (Cassado-Tchaikovsky), Cello Concerto in E major, based on Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Tchaikovsky's Piano Pieces, Op. 72, (1940)
** Cello Concerto in D major, based on Carl Maria von Weber's Clarinet Concerto No. 2 (Weber), Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 74
** Cello Concerto in D major, based on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 3 (Mozart), Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-flat major, K. 447
** Cello Concerto in A minor, based on Franz Schubert, Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata (Schubert), Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano, D. 821
*Jean Cras
Jean Émile Paul Cras (; 22 May 1879 – 14 September 1932) was a 20th-century French composer and career naval officer. His musical compositions were inspired by his native Brittany, his travels to Africa, and most of all, by his sea v ...
**Légende (1929)
*César Cui
César Antonovich Cui ( rus, Це́зарь Анто́нович Кюи́, , ˈt͡sjezərʲ ɐnˈtonəvʲɪt͡ɕ kʲʊˈi, links=no, Ru-Tsezar-Antonovich-Kyui.ogg; french: Cesarius Benjaminus Cui, links=no, italic=no; 13 March 1918) was a Ru ...
**Deux morceaux Op.36 (1886)
***I. Scherzando: Allegretto mosso
***II. Cantabile: Andante
*Frederick Delius
Delius, photographed in 1907
Frederick Theodore Albert Delius ( 29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934), originally Fritz Delius, was an English composer. Born in Bradford in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted atte ...
**Caprice and Elegy (1930)
*Ernő Dohnányi
**''Konzertstück'', for cello and orchestra in D major, Op. 12 (1903–4)
*Antonín Dvořák
Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czechs, Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravian traditional music, Moravia and his native Bohemia, following t ...
**''Rondo'' in G minor, Op. 94, B.181 (1893)
**'' Silent Woods'', Op. 68, No. 5, B.182 (1893)
*Gabriel Fauré
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (; 12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers ...
**Élégie, Op. 24, Élegie in C minor, Op. 24
*Alexander Glazunov
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov; ger, Glasunow (, 10 August 1865 – 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period. He was director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 ...
**A la mémoire d'un Heros, Op.8 (1885)
**Deux pièces, Op.20 (1888)
***I. Mélodie: Moderato
***II. Sérénade espagnole: Allegretto
**Chant du ménestrel, Op.71 (1900)
**A la mémoire de Gogol, Op.87 (1909
* Osvaldo Golijov
** ''Azul'' for cello and orchestra (2006)
** ''Mariel'' for cello and orchestra (2007)
** ''Ausencia'' for cello and strings (2007)
*Victor Herbert
Victor August Herbert (February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924) was an American composer, cellist and conductor of English and Irish ancestry and German training. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is be ...
**5 pieces (1900)
***I. Yesterthoughts
***II. Pièce amoureuse
***III. Puchinello
***IV. Ghazel
***V. The Mountainbrook
*Frigyes Hidas
**Fantasy for Cello and Wind Band (1998)
*Paul Juon
Paul may refer to:
*Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name)
*Paul (surname), a list of people
People
Christianity
*Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chris ...
**Mysterien für Violoncello und Orchester, Op. 59, 1928
*Julius Klengel
Julius Klengel (24 September 1859 – 27 October 1933) was a German cellist who is most famous for his études and solo pieces written for the instrument. He was the brother of Paul Klengel. A member of the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig at f ...
**Andante sostenuto, Op. 51
*Guillaume Lekeu
**Larghetto for Cello and Orchestra (1892)
*Giuseppe Martucci
**Andante. Op. 69.2 (1891)
*Oskar Morawetz
**Memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968) for solo cello, winds, brass, percussion and harp (no strings; Commissioned by Mstislav Rostropovich; premiered in 1975 by Zara Nelsova and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Otto-Werner Mueller, cond.)
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...
** Concerto in D for Cello and Orchestra K. 314 (285d) transcribed by George Szell (originally for oboe / flute in C major)
** Cello Concerto in D, K. 447 (original for Horn in E-flat) (arr. Cassado)
*Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach (, also , , ; 20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario of the Romantic period. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera '' ...
**Andante, A.8 (1845)
**Rondo, Op. 25
*Niccolò Paganini
**Variations on One String
*Hans Pfitzner
Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was a German composer, conductor and polemicist who was a self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera ''Palestrina'' (1917), loosely based on the life of the s ...
** Duo for Violin, Cello and small Orchestra, Op. 43 (1937)
*Carlo Alfredo Piatti
Carlo Alfredo Piatti (8 January 182218 July 1901) was an Italian cellist, teacher and composer.
Biography
Piatti was born at via Borgo Canale, in Bergamo and died in Mozzo, 4 miles from Bergamo.
The son of a violinist, Antonio Piatti, he ori ...
**"Air Baskyrs, Op. 8" for cello and string orchestra
**"Entreaty / Supplication / Bitte" for cello and orchestra
::(also a version for cello and strings, also a version for cello and quartet)
**"Tema e Variazioni" for cello and string orchestra
*Walter Piston
Walter Hamor Piston, Jr. (January 20, 1894 – November 12, 1976), was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at Harvard University.
Life
Piston was born in Rockland, Maine at 15 Ocean Street to Walter Ha ...
**Variations for cello and orchestra (1966)
*David Popper
David Popper (June 16, 1843 – August 7, 1913) was a Bohemian cellist and composer. Some other sources list his date of birth as December 9, 1843.
Life
Popper was born in Prague, and studied music at the Prague Conservatory. His family was Je ...
**Im Walde Suite
**Gavotte No. 2 in D minor
**Tarantella
**Hungarian Rhapsody
*Ottorino Respighi
Ottorino Respighi ( , , ; 9 July 187918 April 1936) was an Italian composer, violinist, teacher, and musicologist and one of the leading Italian composers of the early 20th century. List of compositions by Ottorino Respighi, His compositions r ...
**Adagio con variazioni for Cello and Orchestra
*Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
**Sérénade, Op. 37 (1893,1903)
*Julius Röntgen
Julius Engelbert Röntgen (9 May 1855 – 13 September 1932) was a German-Dutch composer of classical music. He was a friend of Liszt, Brahms and Grieg.
Life
Julius Röntgen was born in Leipzig, Germany, to a family of musicians. His father, ...
** Two Irish folk melodies (1912)
*** Shule Aroon
*** Bean Mhic A'Mhaoir
* Joseph-Guy Ropartz
**Rhapsodie pour violoncelle et orchestre (1928)
*Edmund Rubbra
Edmund Rubbra (; 23 May 190114 February 1986) 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 o ...
**Soliloquy for cello, horns strings and timpani, Op. 57 (1947)
*Dorian Rudnytsky
** Costa Blanca Suite (2005)
*Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano C ...
**Allegro appasionato in B minor, Op. 43
**Romance, Op. 36
** Suite in D minor, Op. 16 bis for cello and orchestra
*Aulis Sallinen
Aulis Sallinen (born 9 April 1935) is a Finnish contemporary classical music composer. His music has been variously described as "remorselessly harsh", a "beautifully crafted amalgam of several 20th-century styles", and "neo-romantic". Sallinen ...
** ''Nocturnal Dances of Don Juan Quixote'' for Cello and String Orchestra, Op. 58
*William Schuman
William Howard Schuman (August 4, 1910February 15, 1992) was an American composer and arts administrator.
Life
Schuman was born into a Jewish family in Manhattan, New York City, son of Samuel and Rachel Schuman. He was named after the 27th U.S. ...
**Song of Orpheus (1961
*Charles Villiers Stanford
**Rondo for Cello and Orchestra in F major (1869)
**Irish Rhapsody No. 3 for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 137 (1913)
**Ballata and Ballabile for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 160 (1918)
*Richard Strauss
**Romance for cello and (piano or) orchestra, AV75 (1883)
*Igor Stravinsky
**''Italienische Suite'', (transcribed for cello and chamber orchestra by Vassily Lobanov) (1985)
*Alexandre Tansman
**Fantaisie (1937)
**Les Dix commandements (1979)
*Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
**Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33, 1876, rev. 1878
**Pezzo Capriccioso (Tchaikovsky), Pezzo Capriccioso, Op. 62
** Norturne, Op. 19, No. 4
** Andente Cantabile, Op. 11 (from String Quartet No. 1 (Tchaikovsky), String Quartet No. 1)
*Andrew Lloyd Webber
**''Variations (Andrew Lloyd Webber album), Variations'' for cello and band or orchestra
*Julian Lloyd Webber
**Jackie's Song, for cello and strings
*Carl Maria von Weber
**Potpourri, Op. 20 (1808)
*Mieczysław Weinberg
**Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra (1956)
*Graham Whettam
**Ballade Hebraique (1999)
See also
*Concerto
*Cello concerto
*List of solo cello pieces
*List of compositions for cello and piano
*String instrument repertoire
*List of compositions for cello and organ
*List of compositions for cello and piano
*List of double concertos for violin and cello
*List of triple concertos for violin, cello, and piano
*List of compositions for violin and orchestra
References
External links
Concertos and other works and chronology in large index
A reference source on the composers of the 18th century
{{Musical repertoire
Compositions for cello and orchestra,
Lists of compositions by instrumentation, Cello and orchestra