This is a list of notable solo

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 ...

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Joseph Abaco Joseph Abaco (full name Joseph (Giuseppe) Marie Clément Ferdinand dall'Abaco) (27 March 171031 August 1805) was an Italian violoncellist and composer. He was born and baptised in Brussels, the capital of the Spanish Netherlands, on 27 March ...

**''(11) Caprices'' * Samuel Adler **Sonata (1965) *

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 ...

**''Solo IV'' (1997) * Hugh Aitken **''For the Cello'' (1980) *

Franghis 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 ...

**''Ask Havasi'' (part of the cycle ''Silk Road'') (1998) **''Oyan'' (2005) *

Maarten Altena Maarten van Regteren Altena (born January 22, 1943) is a Dutch composer and contrabassist. Altena attended the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (he studied contrabass) and graduated in 1968. Between 1980 and 1985, he studied composition with Robert ...

**''Figura'' (1993) *

Georges Aperghis Georges Aperghis ( el, Γιώργος Απέργης; born 23 December 1945) is a Greek composer working primarily in the field of experimental music theater but has also composed a large amount of non- programmatic chamber music. He lives in Fr ...

**''Quatres Récitations'' (1980) **''Sonate'' (1994) *

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 ...

**''Quasi Scherzando'' *

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 ...

**''Sufi Suite'' **''Song on Mt. San Angelo'' *

Georgi Arnaoudov Gheorghi Arnaoudov ( bg, Георги Арнаудов ; born 18 March 1957) is a Bulgarian composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, film, vocal, and piano music. His work has roots in minimal music. Life Gheorghi Arnaoudov was born in 1957 in Sof ...

**
Kells
' (1999) **''Three Sonets of Michelangelo'' (2014) *

Violet Archer Violet Louise Archer (24 April 191321 February 2000) was a Canadian composer, teacher, pianist, organist, and percussionist. Born Violet Balestreri in Montreal, Quebec, in 1913, her family changed their name to Archer in 1940. She died in Ottawa o ...

**''Improvisation'' (1983) *

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 ...

** ''Fantasy '' (1987) *

Daniel Asia Daniel Asia (born June 27, 1953) is an American composer. He was born in Seattle, Washington (U.S. state), Washington, in the United States of America. Biography He received a B.A. degree from Hampshire College and a M.M. from the Yale School of ...

** ''Cello Suite'' *

Lera Auerbach Lera Auerbach (russian: Лера Авербах, born Valeria Lvovna Averbakh, russian: Валерия Львовна Авербах; October 21, 1973) is a Soviet-born American classical composer and concert pianist.

** ''Sonata for Solo Violoncello, Op. 72'' (2003) ** ''La Suite dels Ocells omage to Pablo Casals' (2015)

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Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard w ...

** Six Suites (c. 1720) *

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 ...

**''Suite '', Op. 31, No. 1 ''Preludio e metamorfosi'' (1987–94) **''Suite '', Op. 31, No. 2 '' Tragica'' (1991–93) **''Suite '', Op. 31, No. 3 ''Vita et Mors'' (1991–93) **''Suite '', Op. 50, No. 4 (1994–96; written for Emmanuelle Bertrand) *

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 ...

**''Sonata No. 2'' * David N. Baker ** Sonata (1990) *

Don Banks Donald Oscar Banks (25 October 19235 September 1980) was an Australian composer of concert, jazz, and commercial music. Early life and education Jazz was Banks' earliest and strongest musical influence. He learned the saxophone as a boy in Aust ...

** ''Sequence'' (1967) *Gennady Banshchikov **Concerto for cello No. 3 for solo cello (1965) *

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 ...

** ''Sonata in G minor'' (1924) *

Rami Bar-Niv Rami Bar-Niv ( he, רמי בר-ניב; born December 1, 1945 in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine) is an Israeli pianist, composer, author, and instructor of master classes. Bar-Niv is a graduate of the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, where he st ...

**''Improvisation'' *

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 ...

**''Rhapsodic Ballad'' (1939) *

Conrad Beck Conrad Arthur Beck (16 June 1901, Lohn, Schaffhausen – 31 October 1989, Basel) was a Swiss composer. Life and works Beck was the son of a pastor. His stay in Paris between 1924 and 1933 proved crucial to his artistic development, where he ...

**''Epigrams '' (for

Paul Sacher Paul Sacher (28 April 190626 May 1999) was a Swiss conductor, patron and billionaire businessperson. At the time of his death Sacher was majority shareholder of pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche and was considered the third richest person i ...

) *Grant Belgarian **Elegy for solo cello *

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 ...

**''Music '' (1974) *

Richard Rodney Bennett Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (29 March 193624 December 2012) was an English composer of film, TV and concert music, and also a jazz pianist and occasional vocalist. He was based in New York City from 1979 until his death there in 2012.Zachary Woo ...

**Partita (2001) **Sonata **''Scena II'' (1973) *

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 ...

**''Sonata'', Op. 110 (1956) **Variations on "The Volga Boatmen", Op. 354 (1974) **''16 Etudes'', Op. 464 (1984) **Sonata, Op. 110 *

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 ...

**Suite "Prisme du Sud" (1970) * Gunnar Berg **Suite pour violoncelle seul (1950) *

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 ...

**''Iberian Notebook'' Suite (1980) *

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 ...

**''Les mots sont allés'' (1978; for

) **''Sequenza VIb'' (1981) **''Chanson pour Pierre Boulez'' (Song for

Pierre Boulez Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (; 26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war Western classical music. Born in Mont ...

) (2000) **''Sequenza XIV'' (2002) * Christoph Otto Beyer **''Sonate für Violoncello solo'' (2006) **''Passacaglia e Fuga'' * Gunther Bialas **''Romanze'' (for Hoelscher) (1987) *

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 ...

**''Suite No. 1 '' (1956) (written for

Zara Nelsova Zara Nelsova (December 23, 1918October 10, 2002) was a prominent cellist. Biography Nelsova was born as Sara Katznelson in Winnipeg, Canada, to parents of Jewish-Russian descent. Nelsova first performed at the age of five in Winnipeg. She eventu ...

) **''Suite No. 2'' (1956) (written for Zara Nelsova) **''Suite No. 3'' (1957) *

William Bolcom William Elden Bolcom (born May 26, 1938) is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, a Grammy Award, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. He ...

**''Suite in C minor'' (1994) *

Ennio Bolognini Ennio Bolognini (November 7, 1893—July 31, 1979) was an Argentine-born Americans, American cellist, guitarist, composer, Conductor (music), conductor, professional Boxer (boxing), boxer, pilot, and flight instructor. Though seldom remembered toda ...

**''Adagio and Allegro'' **''Fiesta Baska - Lamada Montanesa'' **''Seranata de Bolonini'' **''Seranata del Eco'' **''Serenata Del Gaucho'' **''Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Purcell'' **''Cello's Prayer'' *

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 ...

**"Soliloquy, Op. 59" *

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 ...

** Suite, Op. 41 * Hans Bottermund -

Janos Starker János or Janos may refer to: * János, male Hungarian given name, a variant of John Places * Janos Municipality, a municipality of Chihuahua ** Janos, Chihuahua, town in Mexico ** Janos Biosphere Reserve, a nature reserve in Chihuahua * Janos ...

**''Variations on a Theme by Paganini'' *

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 ...

** Suite in D major (2003) *

Reiner Bredemeyer Reiner Bredemeyer (2 January 1929 − 5 December 1995) was a German composer. He was born in Vélez, Santander and went to school in Breslau. In 1944 he was drafted into military service and was briefly held as a prisoner of war of the American ...

(1929–1995) **''Solo 1'' (1973) **''Solo 6'' (1980; written for H.J. Scheitzbach) *

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 ...

** Cello Suites (Suite No. 1, Op. 72 (1964), Suite No. 2, Op. 80 (1967), Suite No. 3, Op. 87 (1972)) **''Tema "Sacher"'' (for

) * Stephen Brown **Cello suites :: ''Takkakaw Falls'' (2003, 2004) :: ''Fire'' (2005, revised 2012) :: ''There Was a Lady in the East'' (2007) :: ''Lilies and the Roses'' (2011, revised 2013) :: ''Magneto'' (2012) :: ''Flowers of the Forest'' (2013) *

Leo Brouwer Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida (born March 1, 1939) is a Cuban composer, conductor, and classical guitarist. He is a Member of Honour of the International Music Council. Family He is the grandson of Cuban composer Ernestina Lecuona y Casado. ...

**''Sonata '' (1960) *

Mikhail Bukinik Mykhailo Yevsiyovych Bukinik ( uk, Михайло Євсійович Букінік) (1872–1947) was a Ukrainian cellist, composer, music educator and music critic of classical music. His four concert études for the solo cello were compul ...

**''4 Concert Etudes '' (No. 4 in F minor) *

Sylvano Bussotti Sylvano Bussotti (1 October 1931 – 19 September 2021) was an Italian composer of contemporary classical music, also a painter, set and costume designer, opera director and manager, writer and academic teacher. His compositions employ graphic n ...

**''Deborah Parker'' (1987) **''Variazione'' *Yuri Butzko **''Partita'' for solo cello

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John Cage John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading fi ...

**''One⁸'' (1991) **''59½ Seconds '' (1953) **''Atlas Eclipticallis'' (1961) **''Solo For Cello'' (1958) **''Variations I'' (1958) **''

Etudes Boreales ''Etudes Boreales'' is a set of etudes for cello and/or piano composed by John Cage in 1978. The set is a small counterpart to Cage's other etude collections - '' Etudes Australes'' for piano and '' Freeman Etudes'' for violin. ''Etudes Boreales'' ...

'' (1978) *

Elliott Carter Elliott Cook Carter Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American modernist composer. One of the most respected composers of the second half of the 20th century, he combined elements of European modernism and American "ultra- ...

**''Figment'' (1994) **''Figment No. 2, Remembering Mr. Ives'' (2001) *

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 ...

** ''Suite '' (1926) *Geghuni Chitchjan **''Sonata for solo cello'' (1983) *

Frédéric Chopin Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leadin ...

**Etude in A major, Op. 25, No. 1 (trans. Cassadó) * Nigel Clarke **''Spectroscope'' (1987) *

Grant Colburn Grant Colburn (born in Wisconsin in 1966) is an American composer, pianist and harpsichordist. He studied harpsichord with Igor Kipnis and composition with Irwin Sonenfield. He is the author of six published collections of neo-baroque and neo-rena ...

**Sonata in D minor for baroque cello or viola da gamba (2009) *

Michael Colgrass Michael Charles Colgrass (April 22, 1932 – July 2, 2019) was an American-born Canada-based musician, composer, and educator. Life and career Colgrass was born in Brookfield, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His musical career began in Chicag ...

**''Wolf'' (1975) *

Giuseppe Colombi Giuseppe Colombi (Modena, 1635-Modena, 27 or 29 September 1694) was an Italian musician and composer, active in the Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flouris ...

(1635–1694) **''Chiacona a Basso Solo'' (1670) **''Toccata da Violone Solo'' (Toccata ) (1670) *

John Corigliano John Paul Corigliano Jr. (born February 16, 1938) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. His scores, now numbering over one hundred, have won him the Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards, Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, an ...

**''Fancy on a Bach air'' (1997; premiered by

Yo-Yo Ma Yo-Yo Ma (''Chinese'': 馬友友 ''Ma Yo Yo''; born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist. Born in Paris to Chinese parents and educated in New York City, he was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four and a half. He graduated from ...

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Henry Cowell Henry Dixon Cowell (; March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American composer, writer, pianist, publisher and teacher. Marchioni, Tonimarie (2012)"Henry Cowell: A Life Stranger Than Fiction" ''The Juilliard Journal''. Retrieved 19 June 202 ...

**''Gravely and Vigorously'' (Hymn & Fuguing Tune No. 17) (1963; in memory of Kennedy) *

George Crumb George Henry Crumb Jr. (24 October 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an American composer of avant-garde contemporary classical music. Early in his life he rejected the widespread modernist usage of serialism, developing a highly personal musical ...

** '' Sonata for Solo Cello'', (1955)

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Luigi Dallapiccola 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 ...

**Adagio (1947) **Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagio (1945) *

Jean-Luc Darbellay Jean-Luc Darbellay (born 2 July 1946) is a Swiss composer, conductor, clarinetist and physician. He was chairman of the Swiss Society for New Music and board member of the International Society for Contemporary Music. Darbellay is a member of t ...

**''Solo'' (1997) *

Michael Daugherty Michael Kevin Daugherty (born April 28, 1954) is an American composer, pianist, and teacher. He is influenced by popular culture, Romanticism, and Postmodernism. Daugherty's notable works include his Superman comic book-inspired ''Metropolis Sym ...

**''Jackie's Song'' (2000) *

Johann Nepomuk David Johann Nepomuk David (30 November 1895 – 22 December 1977) was an Austrian composer. Life and career David was born in Eferding. He was a choirboy in the monastery of Sankt Florian and studied at an episcopal teacher training college in Linz, ...

**2 Solo Sonatas *

Mario Davidovsky Mario Davidovsky (March 4, 1934 – August 23, 2019) was an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the United States, where he lived for the remainder of his life. He is best known for his series of compositions ca ...

**Synchronisms No. 3 (1964), and electronic sound *

Robert deMaine Robert DeMaine (born December 6, 1969 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an American virtuoso cellist, best known as Principal Cello of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Early life From a musical family, Robert DeMaine began learning music at age 4 fr ...

**''Twelve Études-Caprices'', Op. 31 (1999) **''Unaccompanied Sonata'' *

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 ...

Cadenza In music, a cadenza (from it, cadenza, link=no , meaning cadence; plural, ''cadenze'' ) is, generically, an improvisation, improvised or written-out ornament (music), ornamental passage (music), passage played or sung by a solo (music), sol ...

s for two cello concertos in D major and C major by

Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn ( , ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions to musical form have led ...

(1982) * Patrick van Deurzen **

Monologue In theatre, a monologue (from el, μονόλογος, from μόνος ''mónos'', "alone, solitary" and λόγος ''lógos'', "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud, though sometimes a ...

(2011) * David Diamond **''Sonata for Violoncello Alone'' (1959) * Friedhelm Dohl **''Fantasie - Kadenz'' **''Klezmeriana'' for solo cello (1983) *

Franco Donatoni Franco Donatoni (9 June 1927 – 17 August 2000) was an Italian composer. Biography Born in Verona, Donatoni started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local music academy. Later, he studied at the Milan Conservatory ...

**''Lame'' (1982) *

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 ...

**''113 Etudes for Cello'' * John Downey **''Lydian Suite'' (1975) * Zsolt Durkó **Solo Suite No. 1 (1979) *

Henri Dutilleux Henri Paul Julien Dutilleux (; 22 January 1916 – 22 May 2013) was a French composer active mainly in the second half of the 20th century. His small body of published work, which garnered international acclaim, followed in the tradition of ...

**Trois Strophes sur le Nom de SACHER (1976–82) (for

)

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David Eby David Robert Patrick Eby (born July 21, 1976) is a Canadian politician and lawyer who has been serving as the 37th and current premier of British Columbia since November 18, 2022, and has been serving as the leader of the British Columbia New De ...

**''Celtic Passage'' * Gerald Eckert **''Nôema'' (1992/93) * Søren Nils Eichberg **''Variations on a theme by Niccolo Paganini'' (2005) *

Jose Elizondo Jose is the English transliteration of the Hebrew and Aramaic name ''Yose'', which is etymologically linked to ''Yosef'' or Joseph. The name was popular during the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods. * Jose ben Abin * Jose ben Akabya *Jose the Galile ...

**''Unter dem Sternenhimmel des Rheins (Under the starry sky of the Rhine)'' (2020) **''Cantabrigian Reflections'' (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) **''Baroque Dances'' (1997) **''La alborada de la esperanza (The Dawn of Hope)'' (2018) **''Limoncello'' (2018) **''Crepúsculos (Twilights)'' (2018) **''Princesa de hadas (Fairy Tale Princess)'' (1995) **''Excursión a la montaña (Excursion to the Mountain)'' (1995) *

Hans Ulrich Engelmann Hans Ulrich Engelmann (8 September 1921 in Darmstadt - 8 January 2011) was a German composer. Biography Engelmann studied composition with Hermann Heiss and Wolfgang Fortner. He was a regular attendee of the Darmstadt International Summer Cou ...

**''Mini-music to Siegfried Palm'', Op. 38 (1970) *

Sven 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 ...

**Suite (1986) *

Gottfried von Einem Gottfried von Einem (24 January 1918 – 12 July 1996) was an Austrian composer. He is known chiefly for his operas influenced by the music of Stravinsky and Prokofiev, as well as by jazz. He also composed pieces for piano, violin and organ. Biog ...

**''Music'', Op. 108 (1996) *

Iván Erőd Iván Erőd ( hu, Erőd Iván ; 2 January 1936 – 24 June 2019; sometimes spelled ''Eröd'') was a Hungarian-Austrian composer and pianist. Educated in Budapest, he emigrated to Austria in 1956, where he studied at the Vienna Music Academy. He ...

**Hommage á Beethoven, Op. 24 (Rhapsodie für Violoncello solo über Themen der Sonate, Op. 102/1 von Ludwig van Beethoven) (1977) *

Rudolf George Escher Rudolf Escher (8 January 1912 in Amsterdam – 17 March 1980 in De Koog) was a Dutch composer and music theorist. He left compositions for chamber orchestra and orchestra, vocal and one electronic composition. Escher was also a poet, painter and ...

**Sonata for solo Violoncello (1945–48) *

Pozzi Escot Olga Pozzi-Escot Zapata (born 1 October 1933) is a Peruvian-born American composer, music theorist, and faculty member at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. Life Pozzi Escot was born in Lima, Peru, her father was a French pr ...

**Sonata (2002)

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Morton Feldman Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer. A major figure in 20th-century classical music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with the experimental New York School ...

**''Projection I'' (1950) **''Intersection IV'' (1953) * Richard Festinger **''Upon The Viol'' (2012) *

Ross Lee Finney Ross Lee Finney Junior (December 23, 1906–February 4, 1997) was an American composer who taught for many years at the University of Michigan. Life and career Born in Wells, Minnesota, Finney received his early training at Carleton College a ...

**''Chromatic Fantasy in E'' (1957) * Graciane Finzi **Theme and Variations to ''el cant dels ocells'' *

Elena Firsova Elena Olegovna Firsova (russian: link=no, Еле́на Оле́говна Фи́рсова; also ''Yelena'' or ''Jelena Firssowa''; born 21 March 1950) is a Russian composer. Life Firsova was born in Leningrad into the family of physicists Ol ...

**''The Rest is Silence'' (2002) * Luboš Fišer (1935–1999) **''Sonata'' (1987) * Thomas Flaherty **''Semi-Suite'' (1990) **''Remembrance of Things Present'' (2006) *

Alexandra Fol Alexandra Fol (born July 11, 1981) in Sofia, Bulgaria is a Bulgarian-Canadian composer who resides in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Fol has composed more than 40 works in different mediums, which have been performed by ensembles such as Sofia Philhar ...

**''Almost Serial'' (1999) *

Carlo Forlivesi Carlo Forlivesi (born 23 October 1971) is an Italian composer, performer and researcher. Forlivesi was born in Faenza, Emilia-Romagna. He studied at Bologna Conservatory, Milan Conservatory and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia of Rome ...

**''Più Mesto'' for 2-bow solo cello (2003) *

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. ...

**''Suite'' (Schott) (for

) **''Zum Spielen für den 70. Geburtstag: Theme and Variationen'' (1976) * Ilse Fromm-Michaels **Suite, Op. 15 (Sikorski) * Rudolf Escher **Sonata (1955)

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Domenico Gabrielli Domenico Gabrielli (15 April 1651 or 19 October 1659 – 10 July 1690) was an Italian Baroque composer and one of the earliest known virtuoso cello players, as well as a pioneer of cello music writing. Born in Bologna, he worked in the orchestra of ...

**'' Seven Ricercari'' (1689) *

Hans Gál Hans Gál OBE (5 August 1890 – 3 October 1987) was an Austrian composer, pedagogue, musicologist, and author, who emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1938. Life Gál was born to a Jewish family in the small village of Brunn am Gebirge, Lowe ...

** ''Sonata for violoncello solo op.109a'' (1982) *

Orlando Jacinto Garcia Orlando Jacinto Garcia (born 1954; surname sometimes spelled García) is a Cuban-American composer of contemporary classical music. Academic background Garcia received a DMA degree in composition from the University of Miami in 1985. He also studi ...

**''Crystalline Sounds of the Night'' *

Ada Gentile Ada Gentile (born 26 July 1947) is an Italian pianist and composer. Life Ada Gentile was born in Avezzano and attended the Conservatorio di St. Cecilia in Rome, graduating in piano and composition. She then completed a graduate degree at the Accad ...

**''Pervioloncellosolo'' () (1996) *

Michael Gielen Michael Andreas Gielen (20 July 19278 March 2019) was an Austrian conductor and composer known for promoting contemporary music in opera and concert. Principally active in Europe, his performances are characterized by precision and vivacity, aid ...

**''Weitblick'' Sonata (1991) *

Alberto Ginastera Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (; April 11, 1916June 25, 1983) was an Argentinian composer of classical music. He is considered to be one of the most important 20th-century classical composers of the Americas. Biography Ginastera was born in Buen ...

(1916–83) **''Puneña No. 2'', Op. 45 (''Hommage à

'') *

Detlev Glanert Detlev Glanert (born 6 September 1960) is a German opera composer, who has also composed numerous works for chamber and full orchestra, including three symphonies. Life Detlev Glanert was born in Hamburg in 1960. He came to music late, learnin ...

**''Fünf Wüstenlieder'' (five Desert Songs) (1999) *

Philip Glass Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimal music, minimalism, being built up fr ...

**''Songs and Poems'' (in 7 movements) (2007) **
Orbit
' (2013) *

Friedrich Goldmann Friedrich Goldmann (27 April 1941 – 24 July 2009) was a German composer and conductor. Life Born on 27 April 1941 in Siegmar-Schönau (since July 1951 incorporated into Chemnitz), Goldmann's music education began in 1951 when he joined the Dr ...

**''Cellomusik'' (1974) *

Marin Goleminov Marin Petrov Goleminov ( bg, Марин Петров Големинов; 28 September 1908 – 19 February 2000) was a Bulgarian composer, violinist, conductor and pedagogue. Life and career Goleminov was born in Kyustendil, Bulgaria; the son ...

**Sonata (1969) *

Osvaldo Golijov Osvaldo Noé Golijov (; born December 5, 1960) is an Argentine composer of classical music and music professor, known for his vocal and orchestral work. Biography Osvaldo Golijov was born in and grew up in La Plata, Argentina, in a Jewish family ...

**''Omaramor'' (1991) *Andrei Golovin **''Elegy'' for solo cello (1988) * Yevgeny Golubev **''2 Etudes'' for solo cello, Op. 46 (1961) **''Concert Aria'' for solo cello (1961) * Leonid Grabovsky (Hrabovsky) **''Hlas I'' (1990) **''Voices'' for solo cello (1990) *

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 ...

**Terezin Through the Eyes of the Children for Solo Cello (2012) *

Sofia Gubaidulina Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina (russian: Софи́я Асгáтовна Губaйду́лина, link=no , tt-Cyrl, София Әсгать кызы Гобәйдуллина; born 24 October 1931) is a Soviet-Russian composer and an established ...

**''Ten Preludes'' (1974) **''Quaternion'' for solo cello

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* Alois Haba **''Fantasy in quarter-tones'' (1924) *

Daron Hagen Daron Aric Hagen ( ; born November 4, 1961) is an American composer, writer, and filmmaker. 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 ...

** ''Suite'' (1985) ** ''Higher, Louder, Faster'', an editorial etude (1987) * Cristobal Halffter **''Variations on the theme eSACHERe'' (for

) * Hermann Haller **''Trois pieces pour violoncelle seul'' (3 pieces ) *

George Frideric Handel George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque music, Baroque composer well known for his opera#Baroque era, operas, oratorios, anthems, concerto grosso, concerti grossi, ...

**''Air and Variations "The Harmonious Blacksmith" ''from Suite for Harpsichord in E major, HWV 430 arr. Cassadó **''Passacaglia - Theme and Variations'' (arr. Zinoviy Dynov based on the Halvorsen version) *

John Harbison John Harris Harbison (born December 20, 1938) is an American composer, known for his symphonies, operas, and large choral works. Life John Harris Harbison was born on December 20, 1938, in Orange, New Jersey, to the historian Elmore Harris Harb ...

** Suite (1994) * Jonathan Harvey ** ''Curve with Plateaux'' for Helen Verney (1983) * Teppo Hauta-aho **''Improvatio'' (1971) *

David Philip Hefti David Philip Hefti (born 1975) is a Swiss composer and conductor. Career Born in St. Gallen, Hefti studied composition, conducting, clarinet and chamber music with Wolfgang Rihm, Cristóbal Halffter, Wolfgang Meyer, Rudolf Kelterborn and Elmar ...

** Ritus - 4 Dance Collages (2007) *

Bernhard Heiden Bernhard Heiden (b. Frankfurt-am-Main, August 24, 1910; d. Bloomington, IN, April 30, 2000) was a German and American composer and music teacher, who studied under and was heavily influenced by Paul Hindemith. Bernhard Heiden, the son of Ernst ...

**''Variations on "Lilliburlero"'' *

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 ...

**Cantilena I, Op. 24c (1970) **Cantilena II, Op. 26 (1970) **Poesie des pensées, Op. 23 (1970) *

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 ...

**''Serenade'' (1949) **''Capriccio'' (for

) (1976/1981) * Michael Hersch **''Sonata No. 1'' (1994) **''Sonata No. 2'' (2001) *

Kenneth Hesketh Kenneth Hesketh (born 20 July 1968) is a British composer of contemporary classical music in numerous genres including dance, orchestral, chamber, vocal and solo. He has also composed music for wind and brass bands as well as seasonal music for ...

**''Die hängende Figur ist Judas (Drei Perspektiven)'' (1998) **''IMMH'' (2014) * Jacques Hétu **Variations, Op. 11b (1967) *

Gilad Hochman Gilad Hochman ( he, גילעד הוכמן; born 26 July 1982 in Herzliya) is an Israeli classical music composer. Education Hochman was born to an Odessa native father and a Paris native mother and currently resides in Berlin, Germany. He began ...

** ''Rhapsody '' (2003) ** ''Ponderings on a Memory'' (2005) *

Jennifer Higdon Jennifer Elaine Higdon (born December 31, 1962) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto and three Grammy Award for Best Contempora ...

**''Suite'' (2002) *

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 ...

** Sonata, Op. 25, No. 3 (1923) * Joel Hoffman **''Concert-Study (Fantasie)'' (1977) **''unaccompanied minor'' (2007) * Robin Hoffmann **''Schleifers Methoden'' für Violoncello solo (2005) *

York Höller York Höller (; born 11 January 1944) is a German composer and professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. Biography Höller was born in Leverkusen. Between 1963 and 1970 he studied at the Cologne Musikhochschule: composition with ...

**''Sonata'' (1968) *

Heinz Holliger Heinz Robert Holliger (born 21 May 1939) is a Swiss virtuoso oboist, composer and conductor. Celebrated for his versatility and technique, Holliger is among the most prominent oboists of his generation. His repertoire includes Baroque and Classic ...

**''Chaconne '' (for

) (1975) **''Trema'' (1981) *

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 ...

** Solo Cello Sonata, M. 241 (1968–69) *

Imogen Holst Imogen Clare Holst (; 12 April 1907 – 9 March 1984) was a British composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and festival administrator. The only child of the composer Gustav Holst, she is particularly known for her education ...

**''Fall of the Leaf'' *

Joaquim Homs Joaquim Homs i Oller (; 21 or 22 August 1906 – 9 September 2003) was a Spanish composer. Homs was born in Barcelona, and studied cello until 1922. Afterwards, he self-educated himself in composition before studying on-and-off from 1931 t ...

**''Arbres al vent'' (1992) **''Soliloqui num. 4'' (1994) **''Capvespre vora el mar'' (1994) *

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 ...

**''Paduana'' in G major, H.181 (1945) *

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 ...

**''Yakamochi'', Op. 193 (1965) *Edgar Hovhanessian (Oganesyan) **''Sonata'' for solo cello (1970) *

Klaus Huber Klaus Huber (30 November 1924 – 2 October 2017) was a Swiss composer and academic based in Basel and Freiburg. Among his students were Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Jarrell, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm, and Kaija Saariaho. ...

**''Transpositio ad Infinitum für ein virtuoses Solocello'' (for

) *

Nicolaus A. Huber Nicolaus A. Huber (born 15 December 1939) is a German composer. Education Huber was born in Passau. From 1958 to 1962 he studied music education at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and subsequently composition with Franz Xaver Lehn ...

**''Der Ausrufer steigt ins Innere'' (1984) *

Tobias Hume Tobias Hume (possibly 1579 – 16 April 1645) was a Scottish composer, viol player and soldier. Little is known of his life. Some have suggested that he was born in 1579 because he was admitted to the London Charterhouse in 1629, a prerequisit ...

**''Kleine Stücke für Cello solo'' (Small pieces ) Book 1 (originally for Gamba) (arranged by Sabina Lehrmann) **(Cello solo pieces) Book 2 *

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 ...

**''Fantasia I in G'', Op. 77d1 (1952) **''Fantasia II in memoriam Pablo Casals'', Op. 97a (1993) **''Farewell'' (2002)

I

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 ...

**''Etude-Caprice pour un tombeau de Chopin'' (1949) **''Ghirlarzana'' (1950) *

Yoshirō Irino was a Japanese composer. Biography Irino was born in Soviet Vladivostok. He attended high school in Tokyo and went on to study economics at Tokyo Imperial University (now University of Tokyo). After World War II, Irino, along with colleagues ...

(1921–1980) **''Three Movements'' (1969)

J

Karl Jenkins Sir Karl William Pamp Jenkins (born 17 February 1944) is a Welsh multi-instrumentalist and composer. His best known works include the song " Adiemus" and the ''Adiemus'' album series; '' Palladio''; ''The Armed Man''; and his ''Requiem''. J ...

**Benedictus -

The Armed Man ''The Armed Man'' is a Mass by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins, subtitled "A Mass for Peace". The piece was commissioned by the Royal Armouries Museum for the Millennium celebrations, to mark the museum's move from London to Leeds, and it was dedic ...

(2001) * Jan Jirásek **''Dilema'' (1987) * Ben Johnston **''Toccata'' for Laurien Laufman (1984) *

Betsy Jolas Elizabeth Jolas (born 5 August 1926) is a Franco-American composer. 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 ...

**''Scion'' (1974) **Episode cinquième (1983) * Andre Jolivet **''Suite en Concert'' (1965) * Christian Jost **''Laulos'' (2005) *

Gordon Jacob Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob CBE (5 July 18958 June 1984) was an English composer and teacher. He was a professor at the Royal College of Music in London from 1924 until his retirement in 1966, and published four books and many articles about m ...

**''Serenade'' **''Divertimento'' *Jurgis Juozapaitis **''Sonata'' for solo cello

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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 ...

**''Études in Major and Minor'', Op. 68 (1961) *

Mauricio Kagel Mauricio Raúl Kagel (; 24 December 1931 – 18 September 2008) was an Argentine-German composer. Biography Kagel was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, into an Ashkenazi Jewish family that had fled from Russia in the 1920s . He studied music, his ...

**''Siegfriedp‘ '' (1971) *

Giya Kancheli Gia Kancheli ( ka, გია ყანჩელი; 10 August 1935 – 2 October 2019) was a Georgian composer. He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia but resided in Belgium. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kancheli lived first in B ...

**''Having Wept'' for solo cello (1994) *

Nikolai Kapustin Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin (russian: link=no, Никола́й Ги́ршевич Капу́стин ; 22 November 19372 July 2020) was a Soviet composer and pianist of Russian-Jewish descent. He played with early Soviet jazz bands such as the ...

**''Introduction and Scherzino'' for solo cello, Op. 93 (1999) **''Suite'' for cello solo, Op. 124 (2004) *Faradzh Karayev (aka Faraj Garayev) **''Terminus'' for solo cello (1985) *

Hugo Kauder Hugo Kauder (9 June 188822 July 1972) was an Austrian-Jewish composer, pedagogue, and music theorist. He defied the atonal trend of his generation with his uniquely harmonic, contrapuntal style. His legacy of over 300 works, many yet to be publish ...

**''Suite '' (1925) **''Second Suite '' (1924) * Frederick Kaufman **''Inner Sanctum'' (1999) *

Tālivaldis Ķeniņš Tālivaldis Ķeniņš (April 22, 1919 in Liepāja – January 20, 2008 in Toronto)Tali ...

**''Sonata for Cello Solo'' (1981) *

Jin Hi Kim Jin Hi Kim (born February 6, 1957 in Incheon, South Korea) is a composer and performer of ''geomungo, komungo'' and electric komungo, and a Korean music specialist. Kim is known as a pioneer for introducing ''geomungo'' (거문고, a Korean fre ...

**''Kee Maek #4'' (1995) *Natalie Klouda
''Suite for Solo Cello'' (2017, revised 2019)
*

Volker David Kirchner Volker David Kirchner (25 June 1942 – 4 February 2020) was a German composer and violist. After studies of violin and composition at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory, the Hochschule für Musik Köln and the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, he w ...

**''Und Salomo sprach'' (‘’And Salomo spoke”) (1987) **''Aus dem Buch der Konige'' 3 meditations (2000) **''Threnos'' (written for the Feuermann Competition 2006) *

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 ...

**Sonata-Fantasy in C major, Op. 104 (1974) * Adam Khudoyan **Sonata No. 1 (1961) **Sonata No. 2 ''Elegiac'' (1984) **Sonata No. 3 ''Pathetic'' (1993) * Mark Kilstofte **''You nfolding' for solo cello (1996) *

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 ...

** Suite in D-minor, Op. 56 ** ''Caprice in the Form of a Chaconne (with free use of a Theme by Robert Schumann)'', Op. 43 *

Alexander Knaifel Alexander Aronovich Knaifel (russian: Алекса́ндр Аро́нович Кна́йфель; also ''Knayfel'', ''Knayfel'', or ''Kneifel''; born 28 November 1943 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan) is a Russian composer known for his operas ''The Gho ...

**''Lamento'' for solo cello (1967) **''Capriccio'' for solo cello (1994) *

Zoltán Kodály Zoltán Kodály (; hu, Kodály Zoltán, ; 16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is well known internationally as the creator of the Kodály method of music ed ...

** Solo Cello Sonata, Op. 8 (1915) ** ''Capriccio'' (1915) *

Nikolai Korndorf Nikolai Sergeevich Korndorf (russian: Николáй Серге́евич Корндóрф, January 23, 1947 – May 30, 2001) was a Russian and Canadian (from 1991) composer and conductor. He was prolific both in Moscow, Russia, and in Vancouve ...

**''Passacaglia'' (1997) *

Irena Kosíková Irena Kosíková is a Czech organist and composer. Irena Kosíková was born in Prague the daughter of the banned philosopher Karel Kosík and the literary historian Růžena Grebeníčková. She began her organ studies with Prof. Jan Hora, tog ...

**''Stopy'' (2004) *

Ernst Krenek Ernst Heinrich Krenek (, 23 August 1900 – 22 December 1991) was an Austrian, later American, composer of Czech origin. He explored atonality and other modern styles and wrote a number of books, including ''Music Here and Now'' (1939), a study ...

** ''Suite'', Op. 84 (1942) *

Hanna Kulenty Hanna Kulenty (born March 18, 1961, in Białystok) is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. Since 1992, she has worked and lived both in Warsaw (Poland) and in Arnhem (Netherlands). Musical education After studying piano at the Karo ...

**''Sinequan: for violoncello (amplified and delay)'' (1993) **''Still Life with a Cello'' (1998) * Khristofer Kushnaryov :ru:Кушнарёв, Христофор Степанович) **''Sonata'' for solo cello (1932) * Mati Kuulberg ( :fi:Mati Kuulberg) **''Concerto-Sonata'' for solo cello (1973)

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* Sophie Lacaze ** ''Variations sur quatre haikus'' (2009) *

Helmut Lachenmann Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann (born 27 November 1935) is a German composer of contemporary classical music. His work has been associated with "instrumental musique concrète". Life and works Lachenmann was born in Stuttgart and after the end of ...

** ''Pression'' (1970) *

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 ...

** ''Partita'' (1972) ** ''A Single Voice'' (1995, written for

) **''Fantasy'' (1998) **''A Single Line'' (2004) *

Frank La Rocca Frank La Rocca (born in 1951 in New Jersey) is an American classical music composer. Life Frank La Rocca was born in 1951 in New Jersey. He studied at Yale and at the University of California at Berkeley. His early musical experiences ranged from ...

**''Secret Thoughts'' (1986) *

Henri Lazarof Henri Lazarof (Bulgarian: Хенри Лазаров) (April 12, 1932 – December 29, 2013) was a Bulgarian-American composer. Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, his formal musical training began in Israel under Paul Ben-Haim. After a short stint in Rome, ...

**''Momenti'' (1987) * Claude Ledoux **''Le Songe trouble de l'orchidee'' (1994) **''12 Studies - First book'' (1994) *

Benjamin Lees Benjamin Lees (January 8, 1924 – May 31, 2010) was an American composer of classical music. Early life Lees was born Benjamin George Lisniansky in Harbin, Manchuria, of Russian-Jewish descent. Lees was still an infant when his family emigra ...

**''Night Spectres'' (2000) *

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, ...

**Sonata, Op. 52 (1967) *

Tania Leon Tania Leon, born Ruth Naomi Leon, (Wellington, Western Cape, Wellington, May 4, 1945 – Nigtevecht, August 15, 1996) was a South African born teacher and women's activist. She was a member of the anti-apartheid movement in the Netherlands and of ...

**''4 Pieces'' (1981) *

Milcho Leviev Milcho Leviev ( bg, Милчо Левиев ; December 19, 1937 – October 12, 2019) was a Bulgarian composer, arranger, and jazz pianist. Career Leviev was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and graduated from the Bulgarian State Academy of Music in 1 ...

**''Reflected Meditation'' (1980) **''Augsburg Polka'' (1998) *

György Ligeti György Sándor Ligeti (; ; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the twentieth century" ...

Sonata Sonata (; Italian: , pl. ''sonate''; from Latin and Italian: ''sonare'' rchaic Italian; replaced in the modern language by ''suonare'' "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece ''played'' as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian ''cant ...

(1948–1953) *

Magnus Lindberg Magnus Gustaf Adolf Lindberg (born 27 June 1958) is a Finnish composer and pianist. He was the New York Philharmonic's composer-in-residence from 2009 to 2012 and has been the London Philharmonic Orchestra's composer-in-residence since the begin ...

**''Stroke'' (1984) **''Partia'' (2001) *

Franz Liszt Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...

** Sonata in B minor for solo cello (transcription by

Johann Sebastian Paetsch Johann Sebastian Paetsch (born in Colorado Springs, U.S. on April 11, 1964) is an American cellist and musician. Early musical education Paetsch began his cello studies with his father, Günther Paetsch (who was also a cellist), at the age of ...

) * Jerry Liu ** Suite 7 Days (2012) ** Calor (2016) *

Vassily Lobanov Vasily Pavlovich Lobanov also Vassily Lobanov (Васи́лий Па́влович Лоба́нов, born 2 January 1947) is a Russian composer and pianist. He has been a Duo-Partner of Sviatoslav Richter Biography Vasily Lobanov was born in Mo ...

**''Sonata'' for solo cello (1963) **''Fantasie'', Op. 48 (1987) *

Pietro Locatelli Pietro Antonio Locatelli (3 September 1695 in Bergamo – 30 March 1764 in Amsterdam) was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist. Biography Bergamo Little is known about Locatelli's childhood. In his early youth he was the third violinist ...

**''Il Laberinto Armonico'' (transcription by

Rohan de Saram Deshamanya Rohan de Saram (born 9 March 1939) is a British-born Sri Lankan cellist. Until his 30s, he made his name as a classical artist, but has since become renowned for his involvement in and advocacy of contemporary music. He travels widely an ...

) *

Alvin Lucier Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr. (May 14, 1931 – December 1, 2021) was an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. A long-time music professor at Wesleyan University in Mi ...

** ''Indian Summer'' (1993) *

Witold Lutosławski Witold Roman Lutosławski (; 25 January 1913 – 7 February 1994) was a Polish composer and conductor. Among the major composers of 20th-century classical music, he is "generally regarded as the most significant Polish composer since Szyman ...

**''Sacher Variation'' (1975; for

)

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* Peter Machajdík **''Ponor (2019)'' **''Wolds (2019)'' **''Lullaby (1999)'' *Olga Magidenko **''Site of the Heart'', Op. 60 (1998) *

Enrico Mainardi Enrico Mainardi (19 May 1897, in Milan – 10 April 1976, in Munich) was an Italian cellist, composer, and conductor. At the age of thirteen, in 1910, Mainardi had already begun his career as a cello virtuoso who toured the concert halls of Europ ...

**''Sonata breve'' (1942) **''Sonata'' (1959) *

Ivo Malec Ivo Malec (30 March 1925, in Zagreb – 14 August 2019, in Paris) was a Croatian-born French composer, music educator and conductor. One of the earliest Yugoslav composers to obtain high international regard, his works have been performed by s ...

**Arco-1 (1987) *Vitold Malishevsky **''Suite'' *

Andrew March Andrew March is an English composer (born 1973). He was the winner of the first-ever Masterprize International Composing Competition, Masterprize Composition Competition with his piece ''Marine — à travers les arbres''. Andrew studied compo ...

**''Three Pieces for Solo Cello (2011)'' * Steven Harry Markowitz **''Impromptu'' **''A Brief Adventure'' * Pamela J. Marshall **''Soliloquy'' *

Donald Martino Donald James Martino (May 16, 1931 – December 8, 2005) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American composer. Biography Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Martino attended Plainfield High School. He began as a clarinetist, playing jazz for fun and p ...

** ''Parisonatina Al’Dodecafonia'' (1964) *

Tauno Marttinen Tauno Olavi Marttinen (27 September 1912 – 18 July 2008) was a Finnish composer of contemporary classical music. Born in Helsinki, Marttinen studied in Viipuri and Helsinki. His earliest works are mainly late romantic. His output includes ...

**''Impression, Op. 140'' (1978) *

Colin Matthews Colin Matthews, OBE (born 13 February 1946) is an English composer of contemporary classical music. Noted for his large-scale orchestral compositions, Matthews is also a prolific arranger of other composer's music, including works by Berlioz, ...

**''Palinode'' (1992) * David Matthews **''Fantasia'', Op. 8 (1971) **''Songs and Dances of Mourning'', Op. 12 (1976) **''Journeying Songs'', Op. 95 (2004) *

Rudolf Matz Rudolf Matz (19 September 1901 – 22 March 1988) was a Croatian composer who wrote about 500 instrumental and vocal compositions. Matz lived in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. He was born in Zagreb, 1901 and di ...

**''11 Caprices'' **''Ombres et lumières'' (Lights and Shadows) **''Suite in C major'' **''Tema con Variazioni '' *

Toshiro Mayuzumi Toshiro Mayuzumi (黛敏郎 ''Mayuzumi Toshirō'' ; 20 February 1929 – 10 April 1997) was a Japanese composer known for his implementation of Avant-garde music, avant-garde instrumentation alongside traditional Japanese musical technique ...

**''Bunraku'' (1960) *

John McCabe John McCabe may refer to: *John McCabe (composer) (1939–2015), British composer and classical pianist *John McCabe (writer) (1920–2005), Shakespearean scholar and biographer *Christopher John McCabe Christopher John McCabe (born 20 Oc ...

**''Partita'' (1966) *

Alfred Mendelssohn Alfred Mendelsohn (17 February 1910 – 9 May 1966) was a Romanian composer. Mendelsohn studied from 1927 to 1931 at the Music Academy in Vienna with Joseph Marx Joseph Rupert Rudolf Marx (11 May 1882 – 3 September 1964) was an Austrian comp ...

**''Suite'' (1960) *

Usko Meriläinen Usko Aatos Meriläinen (January 27, 1930 – November 12, 2004) was a Finnish composer. He was born in Tampere. Usko Meriläinen studied orchestral conducting with Leo Funtek and composition with Aarre Merikanto at the Sibelius Academy. Meriläine ...

**''Arabesques'' (1964) *

Krzysztof Meyer Krzysztof Meyer (born 11 August 1943) is a Polish composer, pianist, and music scholar, formerly Dean of the Department of Music Theory (1972–1975) at the State College of Music (now Academy of Music in Kraków), and president of the Union of P ...

**''Sonata'' (1964) **''Moment musical'' (1976) **''Monologue'' (1990) *

Peter Mieg Peter Mieg (5 September 1906 – 7 December 1990) was a Swiss composer, painter and journalist. Biography Mieg was born in Lenzburg where he spent almost all his life. He studied art history, archaeology, music history as well as French and ...

**''La sombre'' (1971) **''L'aérienne'' (1975) * Eric Moe **''The Lone Cello'' (1998) for 'cello solo *

Robert Moevs Robert Walter Moevs (2 December 1920 – 10 December 2007) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. He was known for his highly chromatic music. Career Moevs was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and served in the United States Army ...

**''Heptachronon'' (1969) * Alan Mills **''Song & Dance'' for solo cello (2007) *

Roberto Molinelli Roberto Molinelli (born 1963, Ancona) is an Italian composer, conductor and violist. 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 ...

**''Crystalligence'' (commissioned by Enrico Dindo) (2005) * Dexter Morrill **''Fantasy'' (1995) *

Robert Muczynski Robert Muczynski (March 19, 1929 – May 25, 2010) was a Polish-American composer. Muczynski studied piano with Walter Knupfer and composition with Alexander Tcherepnin at DePaul University in Chicago, where he received both his Bachelor of M ...

**''Gallery: Suite (on paintings of

Charles Burchfield Charles Ephraim Burchfield (April 9, 1893 – January 10, 1967) was an American painter and visionary artist, known for his passionate watercolors of nature scenes and townscapes. The largest collection of Burchfield's paintings, archives and j ...

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Isabel Mundry Isabel Mundry (born 20 April 1963) is a German composer. Life and work Isabel Mundry was born in Schlüchtern (Germany) in 1963 and studied composition at the Hochschule der Künste and electronic music, musicology and history at the Berlin Tech ...

**''Komposition'' (1992/93) **''Komposition'' (1997)

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*Florie Namir **''Rolling, fantasia for cello solo'' (2004) *Lior Navok **''Fantasy'' (1998) *Arkady Nesterov **''Sonata'' for solo cello * Joaquin Nin-Culmell **''Suite'' *

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 ...

**''Threnody'' (1998) *

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 ...

**''Clamavi'' (1980)

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Mark O'Connor Mark O'Connor (born August 5, 1961) is an American fiddle player and composer whose music combines bluegrass, country, jazz and classical. A three-time Grammy Award winner, he has won six Country Music Association Musician Of The Year awards ...

**''Appalachia Waltz'' (composer's own transcription of original version for solo violin) *Mikhail Osokin **''Sonata'' for solo cello * Terry Winter Owens **''Cellestial Music, Book 1'' (2003)

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Younghi Pagh-Paan Younghi Pagh-Paan (born 1945) is a South Korean composer. Life Pagh‑Paan was born in Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea. She studied music at the Seoul National University from 1965 to 1971. In 1974 she received a DAAD scholarship to s ...

**''AA-GA I'' (1984) *

Hilda Paredes Hilda Paredes (born Tehuacan, Puebla, 1957) is one of Mexico's leading contemporary composers, and has received many prestigious awards for her work. She currently resides in London, and is married to the noted English violinist, Irvine Arditti. B ...

**''Zuhuy Kak'' (1997) *

Robert Parris Robert Parris (21 May 1924, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 5 December 1999, Washington, D. C.) was a composer and professor of music. He was born in Philadelphia, attended the University of Pennsylvania, then the Juilliard School in New York. Amon ...

**''Fantasy and Fugue'' (1954) *Boris Parsadanjan **''Sonata'' for solo cello (1973) * Paul Patterson **''Suite'', Op. 62 *Sergei Pavlenko **''Sonata'' for solo cello (1983) *

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 ...

**''Capriccio per Siegfried Palm'' (1968) **''Per Slava'' (1986) **''Suite for Solo Cello'' (2013) xpanded version of previously published "Divertimento"*

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 Sonata (1947) **Hebrew Melodies *

Vincent Persichetti Vincent Ludwig Persichetti (June 6, 1915 – August 14, 1987) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, he was known for his integration of various new ideas in musical composition into his own wo ...

** Solo Cello Sonata, Op. 54 * Sven Holger Philippsen **Cellosolosonate Nr.1 in 4 Sätzen (1988) ::Praeludium - Vivace e con fuoco ::Élégie (Adagio con affetto) ::Rondo vivacissimo *

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 orig ...

**12 Caprices, Op. 25 :: 1 in G minor: Allegro quasi presto :: 2 in E-flat major: Andante Religioso :: 3 in B-flat major: Moderato :: 4 in D minor: Allegretto :: 5 in F major: Allegro comodo :: 6 in A-flat major: Adagio Largamente :: 7 in C major: Maestoso :: 8 in A minor: Moderato ma energico :: 9 in D major: Allegro :: 10 in B minor: Allegro deciso :: 11 in G major: Adagio. Allegro :: 12 in E minor: Allegretto **Capriccio on the cavatina "I tuoi frequenti palpiti" from ‘’

Niobe In Greek mythology, Niobe (; grc-gre, Νιόβη ) was a daughter of Tantalus and of either Dione, the most frequently cited, or of Eurythemista or Euryanassa, the wife of Amphion and the sister of Pelops and Broteas. Her father was the ru ...

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Giovanni Pacini Giovanni Pacini (11 February 17966 December 1867) was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas. The fami ...

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Gregor Piatigorsky Gregor Piatigorsky (, ''Grigoriy Pavlovich Pyatigorskiy''; August 6, 1976) was a Russian Empire-born American cellist. Biography Early life Gregor Piatigorsky was born in Ekaterinoslav (now Dnipro, Ukraine) into a Jewish family. As a child, ...

**''Syrinx'' **''A Stroll'' *

Ástor Piazzolla Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (, ; March 11, 1921 – July 4, 1992) was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger. His works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed ''nuevo tango'', incorporating elements from ...

**6 Tango Etudes (arr. Karttunen) *

Wolfgang Plagge Wolfgang Plagge (born 23 August 1960 in Oslo, Norway by Dutch parents) is a Norwegian composer and pianist. Biography Plagge started playing the piano as four years old, and made a sensational recital debut in the University Hall in Oslo, only ...

**''Jakobsstigen'', Op. 20 : Fantasy (1983) **''Music '', Op. 54 (1990) *Peteris Plakidis **''Two Variations'' for solo cello (1976) *

Robert H.P. Platz Robert Hugo Philip Platz (born 16 August 1951) is a German classical composer. Born in Baden-Baden, Platz studied music theory and composition (with Wolfgang Fortner), musicology (with Elmar Budde) and piano in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, betw ...

**''Senko-hana-bi'' (In Yoshitake's garden) (1997–2000) *

Conrad Pope Conrad Pope is an American composer and orchestrator. He has worked on numerous films and has collaborated with composers such as John Williams, James Newton Howard, Alan Silvestri, Danny Elfman, Mark Isham, James Horner, John Powell, Alexan ...

**''Sonata for Violoncello alone'' (1972) *

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 ...

**''A Rayas'' for violoncello solo (2001–02) *

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 ...

** Solo Cello Sonata, Op. 133 (1953) (unfinished; completed by Blok in 1996) **''March from Music for Children, Op. 65'' - (ed. Piatigorsky)

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*Nikolai Rakov **''Waltz'' for solo cello *

Shulamit Ran Shulamit Ran ( he, שולמית רן; born October 21, 1949, in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli-American composer. She moved from Israel to New York City at 14, as a scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music. Her Symphony (1990) won her th ...

**''Fantasy Variations'' (2003) *

Alexander Raskatov Alexander Mikhailovich Raskatov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Раска́тов; born 9 March 1953, in Moscow) is a Russian composer. Life Alexander Raskatovs father was a leading journalist of the magazine ''Krokodil'', h ...

**''Dramatic Games'' for solo cello (1979) **''Kyrie Eleison'' (1992) *

Einojuhani Rautavaara Einojuhani Rautavaara (; 9 October 1928 – 27 July 2016) was a Finnish composer of classical music. Among the most notable Finnish composers since Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), Rautavaara wrote a List of compositions by Einojuhani Rautavaara, gre ...

**''Sonata, Op. 46'' (1969) *

Max Reger Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, as a musical director at the Paulinerkirche, Leipzig, Leipzig University ...

** 3 Suites, Op. 131c (1914) ***Suite No. 1 in G major ***Suite No. 2 in D minor ***Suite No. 3 in A minor *

Aribert Reimann Aribert Reimann (born 4 March 1936) is a German composer, pianist and accompanist, known especially for his literary operas. His version of Shakespeare's ''King Lear'', the opera ''Lear (opera), Lear'', was written at the suggestion of Dietrich F ...

**''Solo II'' (1981) * Phillip Rhodes **''Three Pieces'' *

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 ...

**''Partita'' (1959) *

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 ...

**''Great'' (1972) * Joaquin Rodrigo **''Como una fantasía'' (1979) *

Scott Roller Scott Roller is an artist whose work has appeared in role-playing games. Career His '' Dungeons & Dragons'' work includes interior art for '' Monster Manual II'' (2002), ''Savage Species'' (2003), '' Arms and Equipment Guide'' (2003), '' Ghostwal ...

**''Mutamusic'' (1983) *

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 ...

**''Sonata in E minor Op. 38 No. 1'' **''Sonata in G major Op. 38 No. 2'' * Lucia Ronchetti **''Forward and downward, turning neither to the left nor to the right'' (2017) *

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 ...

**''After Reading Shakespeare'' Nine movements alone (written for Sharon Robinson; 1980) * Hilding Rosenberg **Intermezzo (1974) * Miklos Rozsa **''Toccata capricciosa'', Op. 36 (1979; in memory of Piatigorsky) *

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 ...

** Improvisation, Op. 124 (pub. 1967) *

Elena Ruehr Elena Ruehr (born 1963, Ann Arbor) is an American musician, music educator and composer. Life and career Elena Ruehr's parents were a mathematician and an English professor. She grew up in Houghton, Michigan and began piano lessons at age four. Sh ...

** Lift (2013) for solo cello, premiered at MIT (written for Jennifer Kloetzel) **Cricket the Fiddler (2020), commissioned by Jennifer Kloetzel, solo cello, premiered online October 2020, ca 8’ **Cloud Forest (2015) solo cello, 8 minutes, commissioned by Rhonda Rider *

Peter Ruzicka Peter Ruzicka (born 3 July 1948) is a German composer and conductor of classical music. He was director of the Hamburg State Opera, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Hamburg and the Salzburg Festival. Ruzicka was managing director and Intendant of ...

**''Sonata'', Op. 9 (1969) **''Stille'' Four Epilogues (1976)

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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 ...

**''Petals'' (1988) **''Près'' (1992) **''Spins & Spells'' (1997) ** '' Sept Papillons'' (2000) *

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 ...

**Elegy for Sebastian Knight, Op. 10 (1964) **Sonata, Op. 26 (1971) *Vadim Salmanov **''Monologue'' for solo cello (1970) *

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 ...

**''Yta III'' (1987) *

Timothy Salter Timothy Salter (born in Mexborough, Yorkshire in 1942) is an English composer, conductor and pianist. Biography Timothy Salter studied at St John's College, Cambridge, where he won the John Stewart of Rannoch Scholarship in sacred music. His ...

**''Scintilla'' for solo cello (2003) * David Sampson **''Three Arguments'' for unaccompanied cello (1993) *Ruben Sarkisjan **''Cercio Ceclamando'' (Cycle of Declamations) for solo cello (2001) *

Ahmed 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 maste ...

**''Partita'', Op. 31 (1954) *

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 ...

** Sonata on a Theme of Sir William Walton (1999) *

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, ...

**''Triphon'' (1956) **''Trilogie'' (1957/65) ** ''Voyages'' (1985) ** ''Maknongan'' (1976) * Gerhard Schedl **''Aus Zwei Stücke aus der Schatz-Truhe'' *

Peter Schickele "Professor" Peter Schickele (; born July 17, 1935) is an American composer, musical educator, and parody, parodist, best known for comedy albums featuring his music, but which he presents as being composed by the fictional P. D. Q. Bach. He also ...

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P. D. Q. Bach P. D. Q. Bach is a fictional composer invented by the American musical satirist Peter Schickele, who developed a five-decade-long career performing the "discovered" works of the "only forgotten son" of the Bach family. Schickele's music combines ...

) **''Vermillion Suite'' (1987) **''Suite No. 1 All By Its Lonesome'' **'' Suite No. 2 All By Its Lonesome'' *Josef Schillinger **''Dance Suite'' for solo cello, Op.20 (1928) * Thomas Daniel Schlee **''Three Signs'', Op. 53 (2002) *

Friedemann Schmidt-Mechau Friedemann is a German given name meaning "peace man". * Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach * Friedemann Friese, a German board game designer * Friedemann Schulz von Thun Friedemann (surname) * Nanc ...

**''Aposiopesis'' Music for violoncello (1990) **''Morgenlachen (Morning Laughter)'' Music for violoncello (1997) **''Fehlversteck (Flawed Hide-Out)'' Five musical sketches for a cellist (2007) **''Ent-Gegnung (Re-Tort)'' music for cello (2020) *

Artur Schnabel Artur Schnabel (17 April 1882 – 15 August 1951) was an Austrian-American classical pianist, composer and pedagogue. Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura. Among the 20th centur ...

(1882–1951) **Sonata (in four movements) (1931) *

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 ...

**''Klingende Buchstaben'' (Sounding Letters) (1988) **''Madrigal in Memoriam Oleg Kagan'' (1990) **''Improvisation'' (1993) *

Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wor ...

**''Erlkönig - Le Roi des Aulnes'' (''The Erlking or Elf King''; adapted in 1890 by

Bernhard Cossmann Bernhard Cossmann (17 May 1822 – 7 May 1910) was a German cellist. Born in Dessau, he first studied under Theodore Muller. During his life, he worked for the Grand Opera in Paris and became acquainted with Franz Liszt, with whom he went to Weim ...

Gunther Schuller Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, educator, publisher, and jazz musician. Biography and works Early years Schuller was born in Queens, New York City, ...

**Fantasy, Op. 19 (1960) *

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 ...

**All the Pretty Horses (2009) **Primavera Trasformata(2020) *

Salvatore Sciarrino Salvatore Sciarrino (born 4 April 1947) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. Described as "the best-known and most performed Italian composer" of the present day, his works include ''Quaderno di strada'' (2003) and ''La porta d ...

**''Due Studi'' (1947) **''Ai Limiti Della Notte'' (1984) *

Peter Sculthorpe Peter Joshua Sculthorpe (29 April 1929 – 8 August 2014) was an Australian composer. Much of his music resulted from an interest in the music of countries neighboring Australia as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of Aborigin ...

** ''Requiem'' (1979) **''Threnody'' (In memory of Stuart Challender) (1991) **''Into the Dreaming'' (1993) **''Tailitnama Song'' (1997) *

Roger Sessions Roger Huntington Sessions (December 28, 1896March 16, 1985) was an American composer, teacher and musicologist. He had initially started his career writing in a neoclassical style, but gradually moved further towards more complex harmonies and ...

** Six Pieces (1966) *Rodion Shchedrin **''Russian Tunes'' for solo cello, Op.79 (1990) *

Alexander Shchetynsky Alexander Shchetynsky (Shchetinsky) ( uk, Олекса́ндр Степа́нович Щети́нський; russian: Алекса́ндр Степа́нович Щети́нский; Aleksandr Stepanovich Shchetins'kiy) is a Ukrainian composer. ...

**Sonata (2001) *

Bright Sheng Bright Sheng ( Chinese: 盛宗亮 pinyin: ''Shèng Zōngliàng''; born December 6, 1955) is a Chinese-born American composer, pianist and conductor. Sheng has earned many honors for his music and compositions, including a MacArthur Fellowship in ...

** ''Diu Diu Dong'' (Seven Tunes Heard in China) (1995) *

Rodion Shchedrin Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin ( rus, Родион Константинович Щедрин, , rədʲɪˈon kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪtɕ ɕːɪˈdrʲin; born 16 December 1932) is a Soviet and Russian composer and pianist, winner of USSR State ...

**''Russian Tunes (Russkie Naigryshi)'', Op. 79 (1990) * Makoto Shinohara **''Evolution'' (1986–90) *

Jean Sibelius Jean Sibelius ( ; ; born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius; 8 December 186520 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and 20th-century classical music, early-modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country's greatest com ...

**Theme and Variations in D minor (written in 1887, discovered in 1995) *Sergei Slonimsky **''3 Pieces'' for solo cello (1964) * Haskell Small **Suite * Dmitry Smirnov **''Monogram'', Op. 58A (1990) **''Elegy'' in memory of Edison Denisov, Op. 97a (1997) **''Family Portrait'', Op. 108 (1998) **''Postlude in memory of Alfred Schnittke'', Op. 112A (2000) **''Bagatelle'', Op. 128A (2001) **''Saga to S.A. Gubaidulina'', Op. 130 (2001) *

Naresh Sohal Naresh Sohal (18 September 1939 – 30 April 2018)
was a ...

**''Monody'' (1976) **''Shades III'' **''Shades IV'' (1983) *

Giovanni Sollima Giovanni Sollima (born 24 October 1962 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy) is an Italian composer and cellist. He was born into a family of musicians and studied cello with Giovanni Perriera and composition with his father, Eliodoro Sollima, at the Con ...

**''La luna'' (1986) **''6 Caprices'' (1987) **''Segno'' (1992) **''Anno uno'' (1993) **''The Songlines'' (1993) **''Lamentatio'' (1998) **''Pasolini fragments'' (1998) **''Alone'' (1999) *

Halsey Stevens Halsey Stevens (December 3, 1908 – January 20, 1989) was a music professor, biographer, and composer of American music. Life Halsey Stevens was born in Scott, New York and educated at Syracuse University and the University of California, Ber ...

**''Sonata'' (five movements - Introduction, Ciaccona, Scherzo, Notturno, Finale) (1958) * Peter Vukmirovic Stevens ** ''August Ruins'' (2010) ** ''Tempus Edax Rerum'' (2011) ** ''Etude for Raising the Dead'' (2011) ** ''Versatile Hammers'' (2011) ** ''Thunder, Perfect Mind'' (2012) *

Mark Summer Mark Summer is the original cellist of the Turtle Island Quartet; he is a co-founder of the quartet and performed with Turtle Island (a.k.a. Turtle Island String Quartet) from its founding in 1985 until the fall of 2015. Biography Born on Apri ...

** ''Julie-O'' ** ''Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming'' ** ''Kablimba'' (all pizzicato) *

Viktor Suslin Viktor Yevseyevich Suslin (russian: Ви́ктор Евсе́евич Су́слин; June 13, 1942, Miass, Ural, Russia – July 10, 2012, Hamburg, Germany) was a Russian composer. An associate of Sofia Gubaidulina's, together with her and Vy ...

**''Chanson contre raison'' Sonata (1984) **''Schatz-insel'' (1990) *Randall Svane **''Suite No. 1'' (1979) **''Suite No. 2'' (1982) **''Suite No. 3'' (1988)
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Emil Tabakov Emil Tabakov ( bg, Емил Табаков ; born August 21, 1947) is a Bulgarian conductor, composer and double-bass player. Life and career Emil Tabakov was born in Ruse, Bulgaria. In 1974 he studied at the Bulgarian State Music Academy with ...

**''Bis'' (1982) *

Josef Tal Josef Tal ( he, יוסף טל; September 18, 1910 – August 25, 2008) was an Israeli composer. He wrote three Hebrew operas; four German operas, dramatic scenes; six symphonies; 13 concerti; chamber music, including three string quartets; ...

**Suite for cello (1937) **Sonata for cello (1937) **''Treatise'' for cello (1973) **''In Memoriam of a Dear Friend'' for cello (1985) *

Giuseppe Tartini Giuseppe Tartini (8 April 1692 – 26 February 1770) was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era born in the Republic of Venice. Tartini was a prolific composer, composing over a hundred of pieces for the violin with the majority of ...

**''L'Arte dell'Arco'' (The Art of the Bow) 50 variations on Corelli's Gavotte from Op.5, No.10 (1758) (transcribed by

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 ...

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John Tavener Sir John Kenneth Tavener (28 January 1944 – 12 November 2013) was an English composer, known for his extensive output of choral religious works. Among his best known works are '' The Lamb'' (1982), '' The Protecting Veil'' (1988), and ''Song ...

**''Thrinos'' (1990) **''Chant'' (1995) *

Boris Tchaikovsky Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky (russian: Бори́с Алекса́ндрович Чайко́вский; 10 September 1925 – 7 February 1996), PAU, was a Soviet and Russian composer, born in Moscow, whose oeuvre includes orchestral works, cha ...

**''Suite '' (in six movements) (1946) **''Suite in five movements'' (1960) *

Alexander Tcherepnin Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin (russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Черепни́н, link=no; 21 January 1899 – 29 September 1977) was a Russian-born composer and pianist. His father, Nikolai Tcherepnin (pupil of Nikol ...

**''Suite'', Op. 76 (1946) *

James Tenney James Tenney (August 10, 1934 – August 24, 2006) was an American composer and music theorist. He made significant early musical contributions to plunderphonics, sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, process music, spectral music, microtonal ...

** ''Cellogram'' for Joel Krosnick (1971) *

Dimitri Terzakis Dimitri Terzakis ( el, Δημήτρης Τερζάκης; born March 12, 1938 in Athens) is a Greek composer. His father was the author Angelos Terzakis. From 1959–1964 Terzakis studied composition with Yannis Papaioannou at the Athens Helle ...

**''Omega 1'' (1978) **''Dialog der Seele mit ihrem Schatten'' (1991; 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 ...

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Augusta Read Thomas Augusta Read Thomas (born April 24, 1964) is an American composer and professor. Biography Thomas studied composition with Oliver Knussen at Tanglewood; Jacob Druckman at Yale University; Alan Stout and Bill Karlins at Northwestern University ...

** ''Spring Song'' (1995) *

Jukka Tiensuu Jukka Santeri Tiensuu (born 30 August 1948) is a Finnish contemporary classical composer, harpsichordist, pianist and conductor. Career Tiensuu was born in Helsinki. After extensive musical studies (piano, harpsichord, conducting, composing, histor ...

** ''Balzo'' * Ton That Tiet **''Bois terre'' *

Boris Tishchenko Boris Ivanovich Tishchenko (Russian Бори́с Ива́нович Ти́щенко; 23 March 1939 – 9 December 2010) was a Russian and Soviet composer and pianist. Life Tishchenko was born in Leningrad. He studied at the Leningrad Music ...

**Sonata No. 1, Op. 18 (1960) **Sonata No. 2, Op. 76 (1979) *

Ernst Toch Ernst Toch (; 7 December 1887 – 1 October 1964) was an Austrian composer of classical music and film scores. He sought throughout his life to introduce new approaches to music. Biography Toch was born in Leopoldstadt, Vienna, into the family ...

**''Impromptu'' in three movements, Op. 90c (1963) **''Glosa'' (2004) *

Javier Torres Maldonado Javier Torres Maldonado (born 1968) is a Mexican composer internationally recognized for, mostly, his orchestral, chamber, vocal and electro-acoustic works. Biography Born in Chetumal (Mexico), José Javier Torres Maldonado studied violin and co ...

**''Tiento'' (2000; also version for cello and electronics, 2003) *

Paul Tortelier Paul Tortelier (21 March 1914 – 18 December 1990) was a French cellist and composer. After an outstanding student career at the Conservatoire de Paris he played in orchestras in France and the US before the Second World War. After the war he b ...

**''Suite in D minor'' (1944) *

Donald Tovey Sir Donald Francis Tovey (17 July 187510 July 1940) was a British musical analyst, musicologist, writer on music, composer, conductor and pianist. He had been best known for his '' Essays in Musical Analysis'' and his editions of works by Bach ...

** Solo Cello Sonata in D, Op. 50 *

Sulkhan Tsintsadze Sulkhan Fyodorovich Tsintsadze ( ka, სულხან ცინცაძე), (August 23, 1925 in Gori, Transcaucasian SSR, Soviet Union – September 15, 1991 in Tbilisi, Georgia) was one of Georgia's foremost composers. Education Tsin ...

**''Chonguri'' (Tchonguri) (1978) **''Sonata'' (1975)

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Chinary Ung Chinary Ung ( km, អ៊ុង ឈីណារី ) (born November 24, 1942 in Takéo, Cambodia) is a composer currently living in California, United States. Career After arriving in the US in 1965 to study clarinet, he turned to composition ...

**''Kshe Buon'' (1981)

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Fabio Vacchi Fabio Vacchi (; born February 19, 1949), is an Italian composer. Biography Training and debut Fabio Vacchi studied at the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini of Bologna with Giacomo Manzoni and Tito Gotti. In 1974 he participated in the cou ...

**''In alba mia, dir...'' (1995) * Johanna Varner **''The Windmill'', MCV 2001 (2019) *

Pēteris Vasks Pēteris Vasks (born 16 April 1946) is a Latvian composer. Biography Vasks was born in Aizpute, Latvia, into the family of a Baptist pastor. He trained as a violinist at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, as a double-bass player wi ...

**''Gramata cellam'' (Das Buch) (1978) *

Sándor Veress Sándor Veress (, – ) was a Swiss composer of Hungarian origin. He was born in Kolozsvár/Klausenburg, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, nowadays called Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and died in Bern. The first half of hi ...

** Sonata (1935) *

Carl Vine Carl Edward Vine, (born 8 October 1954) is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music. From 1975 he has worked as a freelance pianist and composer with a variety of theatre and dance companies, and ensembles. Vine's catalogue inclu ...

**Inner World (1994) *

Param Vir Param Vir is a British composer originally from India. Born in Delhi into a family life permeated with Indian classical music, Param Vir's strong interest in music developed as a teenager when attending a Catholic school, Roman Catholic secon ...

**''Flame'' (1997) *

Giovanni Battista Vitali Giovanni Battista Vitali (18 February 1632 – 12 October 1692) was an Italian composer and violone player. Life and career Vitali was born in Bologna and spent all of his life in the Emilian region, moving to Modena in 1674. His teacher in his ...

**''Partite per il Violone'' (1680) **Partita sopra diverse Sonate *Vladimir Vlasov **''Ballade'' for solo cello **''Improvisation'' for solo cello *

Wladimir Vogel Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Vogel (17 February/29 February 1896 – 19 June 1984) was a Swiss composer of German and Russian descent. Life Born in Moscow, Vogel first studied composition in Moscow with Alexander Scriabin, then between 1918 and 192 ...

**''Poeme'' (1974)

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Wolfram Wagner Wolfram Wagner (born 28 September 1962 in Vienna) is an Austrian composer and flautist. He graduated from the University of Music in Vienna, Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and the Frankfurt Conservatory. In 1992 he was appointed pr ...

**Sonata, Op. 31 (1990) *

Gwyneth Walker Gwyneth Van Anden Walker (born 22 March 1947) is an American music educator and composer. Biography Walker was born in New York to a Quaker family and grew up in New Canaan, Connecticut. She began her first efforts at composition at an early age a ...

**''In Memoriam'' (1980) *

William Walton Sir William Turner Walton (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include ''Façade'', the cantat ...

** ''Passacaglia'' (1980) *

Rodney Waschka II Rodney Waschka II is an American composer known for his algorithmic compositions and his theatrical works. Biography Waschka studied at Brooklyn College, at the Institute of Sonology, then newly part of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and e ...

**''Ravel Remembers Fascism'' (1991) *

Graham Waterhouse Graham Waterhouse (born 2 November 1962) is an English composer and cellist who specializes in chamber music. He has composed a cello concerto, ''Three Pieces for Solo Cello'' and ''Variations for Cello Solo'' for his own instrument, and string ...

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Three Pieces for Solo Cello ''Three Pieces for Solo Cello'' op. 28, is a composition for cello in three movements by Graham Waterhouse, dedicated to cellist Siegfried Palm in 1992. The composer, a cellist himself, wrote it to "exploit the characteristics" of his instrument. ...

'', Op. 28 (1992) **''Threnody'' (2002) **''in nomine for cello solo'' (2013) **''

Variations for Cello Solo ''Variations for Cello Solo'' (''Variationen für Violoncello solo'') is a composition written by Graham Waterhouse in 2019. The variations depict characters of personalities. The cellist and composer performed the world premiere in Vienna in 20 ...

'' (2019) * Ben Weber **''Dance'', Op. 28 (1948) **''Dance'', Op. 31 (1949) *

Mieczysław Weinberg Mieczysław Weinberg (8 December 1919 – 26 February 1996) was a Polish-born Soviet composer and pianist. Names Much confusion has been caused by different renditions of the composer's names. In official Polish documents made before he mov ...

(or Vainberg) ** Solo Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. 72 (1960) ** Solo Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 86 (1965) ** Solo Cello Sonata No. 3, Op. 106 (1971) ** Solo Cello Sonata No. 4, Op. 140 (1986) **''Twenty-four Preludes'', Op. 100 (1968) *

Egon Wellesz Egon Joseph Wellesz CBE (21 October 1885 – 9 November 1974) was an Austrian, later British composer, teacher and musicologist, notable particularly in the field of Byzantine music. Early life and education in Vienna Egon Joseph Wellesz was ...

** Cello Sonata, Op. 31 (1920) ** Suite op. 39 (1924) *

Richard Wernick Richard Wernick (born January 16, 1934, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American composer. He is best known for his chamber and vocal works. His composition ''Visions of Terror and Wonder'' won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Career Wernick b ...

** Suite No. 1 (2003) ** Suite No. 2 (2007) * David Wilde ** ''The Cellist of Sarajevo'' - A Lament in Rondo Form, Op. 12 * Adrian Williams **Solo Cello Sonata (1976–77) *

John Williams John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932)Nylund, Rob (15 November 2022)Classic Connection review ''WBOI'' ("For the second time this year, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic honored American composer, conductor, and arranger John Williams, who wa ...

**''Three Pieces '' (2001) *

Richard Edward Wilson Richard Edward Wilson (born May 15, 1941) is an American composer and pianist. Rejecting serialism, to some extent Wilson engages in tonality, though often with the use of considerable chromaticism. His ''oeuvre'' includes orchestral, operati ...

**''Lord Chesterfield to his Son'' (1987) **''Music '' (1971) *

Stefan Wolpe Stefan Wolpe (25 August 1902, Berlin – 4 April 1972, New York City) was a German-Jewish-American composer. He was associated with interdisciplinary modernism, with affiliations ranging from the Bauhaus, Berlin agitprop theater and the kibbutz mo ...

**''Piece Alone'' (1966) *

Charles Wuorinen Charles Peter Wuorinen (; June 9, 1938 – March 11, 2020) was an American composer of contemporary classical music based in New York City. He performed his works and other 20th-century music as pianist and conductor. He composed more than ...

**''Cello Variations I'' to

Fred Sherry Fred Sherry (born 1948) is an American cellist who is particularly admired for his work as a chamber musician and concert soloist. He studied with Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School before winning the Young Concert Artists International Auditions ...

(1970) **''Cello Variations II'' (1975) **''Cello Variations III'' (1997)

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Iannis Xenakis Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; el, Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" Κλέαρχου Ξενάκης, ; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde ...

** ''Kottos'' (1977) ** ''

Nomos Alpha ''Nomos Alpha'' ( el, Νόμος α΄) is a piece for solo cello composed by Iannis Xenakis in 1965, commissioned by Radio Bremen for cellist Siegfried Palm, and dedicated to mathematicians Aristoxenus of Tarentum, Évariste Galois, and Felix Kl ...

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Yehuda Yannay Yehuda Yannay (born May 26, 1937) is a composer. He was born in Timișoara, Romania, and emigrated to Israel in 1951. In Israel, he studied at the Rubin Academy, Tel Aviv. He subsequently studied at Brandeis University, the Tanglewood Music Ce ...

**''I can't fathom it...'' and projections (1993) **''Tangoul Morṭii (Tango of Death)'' (1997) *

Eugène Ysaÿe Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe (; 16 July 185812 May 1931) was a Belgian virtuoso violinist, composer, and conductor. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tsar". Legend of the Ysaÿe violin Eugène Ysaÿe ...

** Cello Sonata, Op. 28 (1924) *

Isang Yun Isang Yun, also spelled Yun I-sang (17 September 1917 – 3 November 1995), was a Korean-born composer who made his later career in West Germany. Early life and education Yun was born in Sancheong (Sansei), Korea under Japanese rule, Chōsen ...

**''Glissées'' (1970) for

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* Edson Zampronha **''Elegia'' and electroacoustics (2009) **''Two Takes'' (2008) **''Toccata'' (1989) *

Bernd Alois Zimmermann Bernd Alois Zimmermann (20 March 1918 – 10 August 1970) was a German composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera ''Die Soldaten'', which is regarded as one of the most important German operas of the 20th century, after those of Berg. As a ...

** Sonata (1959–60) ** ''Short Studies (4) '' (1970) *Sergei Zhukov **''Sonata-Capriccio'' for solo cello (1980) **''Paraphrase on van Eyck's poem De Tuinman en de Dood'' for solo cello (2003) *Vassily Zverev **''Sonata-Fantasy'' for solo cello

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