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A cello sonata usually denotes a sonata written for cello
Cello

The violoncello is a bowed string instrument. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra....
 and piano
Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
, though other instrumentations are used, such as solo cello. The most famous Romantic-era
Romantic music

In music, romanticism is a term, often considered misleading, and concept derived from literature traditionally defined by attributes including, "interest in nature, medieval chivalry, mysticism, [and] remoteness [ Social alienation and Solitude]"....
 cellos sonatas are those written by Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
 and Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
. Some of the earliest cello sonatas were written in the 18th century by Francesco Geminiani
Francesco Geminiani

Francesco Saverio Geminiani was an Italy violinist, composer, and music theory....
 and Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed il Prete Rosso , was a Baroque music composer and Venice priest, as well as a famous virtuoso violinist, born and raised in the Republic of Venice....
.

(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.)








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A cello sonata usually denotes a sonata written for cello
Cello

The violoncello is a bowed string instrument. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra....
 and piano
Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
, though other instrumentations are used, such as solo cello. The most famous Romantic-era
Romantic music

In music, romanticism is a term, often considered misleading, and concept derived from literature traditionally defined by attributes including, "interest in nature, medieval chivalry, mysticism, [and] remoteness [ Social alienation and Solitude]"....
 cellos sonatas are those written by Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
 and Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
. Some of the earliest cello sonatas were written in the 18th century by Francesco Geminiani
Francesco Geminiani

Francesco Saverio Geminiani was an Italy violinist, composer, and music theory....
 and Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed il Prete Rosso , was a Baroque music composer and Venice priest, as well as a famous virtuoso violinist, born and raised in the Republic of Venice....
.

(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
    Charles-Valentin Alkan

    Charles-Valentin Alkan was a France composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day. His attachment to his Jewish origins is displayed both in his life and his work....
    • Sonate de Concert, Op. 47
  • Samuel Barber
    Samuel Barber

    Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is among his most popular compositions and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music....
    • Cello Sonata Op. 6
      Cello Sonata (Barber)

      The Cello sonata opus 6 by Samuel Barber is a sonata for cello and piano. It is in the key of C minor.It has three movement :#Tempo#Italian tempo markings...
       in C minor (1932)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
    • Cello Sonata Op. 5 No. 1 in F major (1796)
    • Cello Sonata Op. 5 No. 2 in G minor (1796)
    • Cello Sonata Op. 69
      Cello Sonata No. 3 (Beethoven)

      Ludwig van Beethoven's Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Opus_number 69 was writtenin 1808 in music. It consists of three Movement :# Tempo#Italian_tempo_markings, ma non tanto...
       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
    Easley Blackwood Jr.

    Easley Blackwood, , the son of Easley Blackwood Sr., is a professor of music, a concert pianist, a composer of music, some using unusual musical tuning, and the author of books on music theory, including his research into the properties of microtonal tunings and traditional harmony....
    • Cello Sonata, Op. 31
  • Johannes Brahms
    Johannes Brahms

    Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
    • Cello Sonata Op. 38
      Cello Sonata No. 1 (Brahms)

      The Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, opus number 38 written by Johannes Brahms in 1862–1865 has three movements:* Allegro non troppo, in E minor, in common time signature....
       in E minor (1862–5)
    • Cello Sonata Op. 99 in F major (1886)
    • Violin Sonata "Rain" Op. 78 (1878–9) is sometimes transcribed for cello.
  • Frank Bridge
    Frank Bridge

    Frank Bridge was an English composer....
    • Cello sonata in D minor, H. (Hindmarsh) 125 (1913-7)
  • Benjamin Britten
    Benjamin Britten

    Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit Order of the Companions of Honour was an England composer, conducting, viola and pianist....
    • Cello Sonata Op. 65 in C major (1961)
  • Elliot Carter
    • Cello Sonata (1948)
  • Frédéric Chopin
    Frédéric Chopin

    Fr?d?ric Chopin was a composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic music period. He is widely regarded as the greatest Polish composer, and one of music's greatest tone poets....
    • Cello Sonata Op. 65 in G minor (1845–6)
  • Claude Debussy
    Claude Debussy

    Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he is considered one of the most prominent figures working within the field of Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions....
    • Cello Sonata
      Cello Sonata (Debussy)

      The Cello Sonata is a late work by the French composer Claude Debussy. It was the first of a planned series of 'Six sonates pour divers instruments', however Debussy only completed two others, the Violin Sonata and the sonata for flute, viola and harp....
       in D minor (1915)
  • Frederick Delius
    Frederick Delius

    Frederick Albert Theodore Delius Order of the Companions of Honour was an England composer....
    • Cello Sonata
      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 music cellos sonatas are those written by Johannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven....
       (1916)
  • Felix Draeseke
    Felix Draeseke

    Felix August Bernhard Draeseke was a composer of the "New German School" admiring Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and much vocal and chamber music....
    • Cello Sonata op. 51 in D major (1890)
  • Antonín Dvorák
    Antonín Dvorák

    Anton?n Leopold Dvor?k was a Czechs composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms and melodies of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia....
    • Cello Sonata in F major (1865) lost (cello part extant)
  • Gabriel Fauré
    Gabriel Fauré

    Gabriel Urbain Faur? was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers....
    • Cello Sonata Op. 109 in D minor (1917)
    • Cello Sonata Op. 117 in G minor (1921)
  • Peter Racine Fricker
    Peter Racine Fricker

    Peter Racine Fricker was an England composer who lived in the United States of America for the last thirty years of his life.Fricker was born in London, and studied with R....
    • Cello Sonata
      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 music cellos sonatas are those written by Johannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven....
       (1956)
  • Bertold Hummel
    Bertold Hummel

    Bertold Hummel was a German composer of modern classical music....
    • Cello Sonata in F op. 2 (1950)
    • Sonata brevis op. 11a (1955)
  • Edvard Grieg
    Edvard Grieg

    Edvard Grieg was a Norway composer and pianist who composed in the Romantic period. He is best known for his Piano Concerto , for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's Play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces....
    • Cello Sonata Op. 36
      Cello Sonata (Grieg)

      Edvard Grieg composed the Cello Sonata in A minor, Op. 36, his largest chamber music work, in 1883 marking a return to composition following a period when the composer had been pre-occupied with his conducting duties at the Bergen Symphony Orchestra as well as illness....
       in A minor (1883)
  • John Ireland
    John Ireland

    John Ireland may refer to:* John Ireland , American politician* John Ireland , American religious leader & academic* John Ireland , English composer...
    • Cello Sonata
      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 music cellos sonatas are those written by Johannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven....
       (1923)
  • Zoltan Kodaly
    Zoltán Kodály

    Zolt?n Kod?ly ; December 16, 1882 – March 6, 1967) was a Hungary composer, ethnomusicologist, education, linguistics, and philosophy....
    • Cello Sonata op. 4 (1907)
    • Sonata for Solo Cello op. 8 (1915)
    • Cello Sonatine (1923)
  • Lowell Liebermann
    Lowell Liebermann

    'Lowell Liebermann' is an American composer, pianist and Conducting.At the age of sixteen, Liebermann performed at the Carnegie Hall, playing his Piano Sonata, op....
    • 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
    Felix Mendelssohn

    Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn was a Germany composer, pianist, organist and conducting of the early Romantic music period....
    • Cello Sonata Op. 45
      Cello Sonata No. 1 (Mendelssohn)

      Felix Mendelssohn's Cello Sonata No. 1 in B flat major, Opus number. 45 was composed in October 1838. The work has three Movement :# Glossary of musical terminology...
       in B-flat major (1838)
    • Cello Sonata Op. 58
      Cello Sonata No. 2 (Mendelssohn)

      Felix Mendelssohn's Cello Sonata No. 2 in D major, Opus number. 58 was composed in June 1843. The work, which was dedicated to the Russian/Polish cellist Count Mateusz Wielhorski, has four Movement :...
       in D major (1842–3) ()
  • E.J. Moeran
    • Cello Sonata (1947)
  • Sergei Prokofiev
    Sergei Prokofiev

    Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century....
    • Cello Sonata Op. 119 in C major (1949)
    • Sonata for Solo Cello in C# minor, Op. 134 (unfinished)
  • Sergei Rachmaninov
    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conducting. He was one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, the last great representative of Russian late Romantic music in classical music....
    • Cello Sonata Op. 19 in G minor (1901)
  • Alan Rawsthorne
    Alan Rawsthorne

    Alan Rawsthorne was a United Kingdom composer....
    • Cello Sonata
      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 music cellos sonatas are those written by Johannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven....
       (1949)
  • Franz Schubert
    Franz Schubert

    Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 lieder, nine symphonies , liturgy music, operas, and a large body of chamber music and solo piano music....
    • Sonata for Arpeggione D.821 in A minor is often transcribed for cello.
  • Alfred Schnittke
    Alfred Schnittke

    Alfred Garyevich Schnittke was a Russian and Soviet Union composer. Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich....
    • Cello Sonata (Schnittke) (1978)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a List of Russian composers of the Soviet Union period.After a period influenced by Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky , Shostakovich developed a hybrid of styles as exemplified in his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ....
    • Cello Sonata Op. 40
      Cello Sonata (Shostakovich)

      The Sonata in D minor op.40 for Cello and Piano was one of Dmitri Shostakovich early works, composed in 1934 just prior to his Dmitri_Shostakovich#First_denunciation, notably the opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District , that was deemed too bourgeois and decadent for the Soviet people....
       in D minor (1934)


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See also

  • Violoncello
  • Bassoon sonata
    Bassoon sonata

    A bassoon sonata is a sonata for bassoon, often with piano accompaniment. Sonatas written for bassoon were relatively uncommon until the second half of the twentieth century....
  • Clarinet sonata
    Clarinet Sonata

    A clarinet sonata is piece of music in sonata form for clarinet, often with piano accompaniment.The Clarinet Sonatas by Brahms are of special significance to the clarinet repertoire....
  • Flute sonata
    Flute sonata

    A flute sonata is a sonata usually for flute and piano, though occasionally other accompanying instruments may be used. Flute sonatas in the Baroque period were very often accompanied in the form of basso continuo....
  • List of compositions for cello and piano
    List of compositions for cello and piano

    This is a compilation of pieces for cello and piano. This includes Sonatas as well as short pieces for cello and piano.See also the entries on cello and the List of compositions for cello and orchestra and List of solo cello pieces....
  • List of solo cello pieces
    List of solo cello pieces

    This is a compilation of major pieces for solo cello. See also the entries on cello and the list of compositions for cello and orchestra and List of compositions for cello and piano....
  • Piano sonata
    Piano sonata

    A piano sonata is a sonata written for unaccompanied piano. Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movement , although occasionally there are just one or two movements....
  • Viola sonata
    Viola sonata

    The viola sonata is a sonata for viola, sometimes with other instruments, usually piano. The earliest viola sonatas are difficult to date for a number of reasons:...
  • Violin sonata
    Violin sonata

    A violin sonata is a musical composition for solo violin, which is nearly always accompanied by a piano or other keyboard instrument, or by figured bass in the Baroque music....