Cello sonata

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

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

List of major cello sonatas

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.

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

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References

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