Cello sonata

A cello sonata usually denotes a sonata written for cello and piano, though other instrumentations are used, such as solo cello. The most famous Romantic-era cellos sonatas are those written by Johannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven. Some of the earliest cello sonatas were written in the 18th century by Francesco Geminiani and Antonio Vivaldi.

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

List of Cello Sonatas

• Charles-Valentin Alkan
  • Sonate de Concert, Op. 47
• Samuel Barber
  • Cello Sonata Op. 6 in C minor (1932)
• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Cello Sonata Op. 5 No. 1 in F major (1796)
  • Cello Sonata Op. 5 No. 2 in G minor (1796)
  • Cello Sonata Op. 69 in A major (1808)
  • Cello Sonata Op. 102 No. 1 in C major (1815)
  • Cello Sonata Op. 102 No. 2 in D major (1815)
• Easley Blackwood
  • Cello Sonata, Op. 31
• Johannes Brahms
  • Cello Sonata Op. 38 in E minor (1862–5)
  • Cello Sonata Op. 99 in F major (1886)
  • Violin Sonata "Rain" Op. 78 (1878–9) Transcribed by the composer for Cello
• Frank Bridge
  • Cello sonata in D minor, H. (Hindmarsh) 125 (1913-7)
• Benjamin Britten
  • Cello Sonata Op. 65 in C major (1961)
• Elliot Carter
  • Cello Sonata (1948)
• Frédéric Chopin
  • Cello Sonata Op. 65 in G minor (1845–6)
• Claude Debussy
  • Cello Sonata in D minor (1915)
• Frederick Delius
  • Cello Sonata (1916)
• Felix Draeseke
  • Cello Sonata op. 51 in D major (1890)
• Antonín Dvořák
  • Cello Sonata in F major (1865) lost (cello part extant)
• George Enescu
  • Cello Sonata in F minor Op. 26 No. 1 (1898)
  • Cello sonata in C major Op. 26 No. 2 (1935)
• Gabriel Fauré
  • Cello Sonata Op. 109 in D minor (1917)
  • Cello Sonata Op. 117 in G minor (1921)
• Peter Racine Fricker
  • Cello Sonata (1956)
• Edvard Grieg
  • Cello Sonata Op. 36 in A minor (1883)
• Paul Hindemith
  • Cello Sonata op. 11 No. 3 (1919)
  • Cello Sonata (1948)
• Bertold Hummel
  • Cello Sonata in F op. 2 (1950)
  • Sonata brevis op. 11a (1955)
• John Ireland
  • Cello Sonata (1923)
• Dmitri Kabalevsky
  • Cello Sonata Op. 71 in B flat major (1962)
• Zoltan Kodaly
  • Cello Sonata op. 4 (1907)
  • Sonata for Solo Cello op. 8 (1915)
  • Cello Sonatine (1923)
• Lowell Liebermann
  • Cello Sonata No.1 Op.3 (1978)
  • Cello Sonata No.2 Op.61 (1998)
  • Cello Sonata No.3 Op.90 (2005)
  • Cello Sonata No.4 Op.108 (2008)
• Felix Mendelssohn
  • Cello Sonata Op. 45 in B-flat major (1838)
  • Cello Sonata Op. 58 in D major (1842–3) ([1])
• E.J. Moeran
  • Cello Sonata (1947)
• Sergei Prokofiev
  • Cello Sonata Op. 119 in C major (1949)
  • Sonata for Solo Cello in C♯ minor, Op. 134 (unfinished)
• Sergei Rachmaninov
  • Cello Sonata Op. 19 in G minor (1901)
• Alan Rawsthorne
  • Cello Sonata (1949)
• Franz Schubert
  • Sonata for Arpeggione D.821 in A minor is often transcribed for cello.
• Alfred Schnittke
  • Cello Sonata (Schnittke) (1978)
• Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Cello Sonata Op. 40 in D minor (1934)
• Kurt Weill
  • Sonata for Cello and Piano (1920)

Chronology of major cello sonatas

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

External links

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

See also