John Addison (cellist)
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John Addison is an Australia
n cellist
with an international reputation as a soloist and performer of chamber music
, and especially as an interpreter of contemporary music
.
in 1966, Addison began his music studies as a chorister
at St John's Anglican Cathedral
under the direction of Organist and Master of Choristers, Dr Robert Boughen. He sang in the choir for six years, was appointed as Deputy Head Boy in 1980 and as Head Boy in the following year. As with all the Cathedral's choristers, he received a scholarship to the Anglican Church Grammar School
and continued his education there to matriculation.
Addison's first instrument was the flute
which he studied from the age of 10, and went on to win the Queensland Flute Eisteddfod (now known as the Queensland Flute Challenge), senior division, in 1983. Following a chance encounter with British cellist Imogen Rex, then teaching at his school, he commenced studies of that instrument with her in 1978.
In 1986, Addison began his degree program at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music
where his instrument teacher was the cellist, Christian Wojtowicz. He graduated with honours in 1990 and continued private studies with Sue-Ellen Paulsen, Principal Cellist of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
.
in 1991, based himself in Amsterdam
, and for several years was a member of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
and the Belgian ensemble I Fiamminghi.
By the late 1990s, Addison decided to focus on chamber music and solo playing. He then joined the Palmós Ensemble, was a founding member of both the Zephyr Kwartet and the Telesto Trio, and gave many solo recitals.
Over that whole period in The Netherlands, he attracted wide attention from the public and the critics, and in response received numerous engagements with groups such as Amsterdam's Nieuw Ensemble
and the Orkest de Volharding
, and the Insomnio Ensemble based in Utrecht
. He also made a large number of recordings covering solo, chamber and ensemble repertoire.
The performance of contemporary music is one of Addison's special interests. As he explains in his website:
He has particular rapport with the compositions of Cage, Crumb, Donatoni, Francesconi, Murat, Jeths, Scelsi, Sciarrino, Rădulescu and Gubaidulina. On many occasions, he has collaborated with composers while preparing to perform their music. In the case of Sofia Gubaidulina
, he has established an international reputation as an interpreter of her works and has received written endorsement from the composer herself which included the following remark:
Addison has now performed extensively throughout The Netherlands and other European countries including the United Kingdom
, Denmark
, Finland
, Belgium
, France
, Germany
, Spain
, Portugal
, the Czech Republic
, Italy
, Albania
, Slovenia
and Greece
, has received a number of engagements in Indonesia
, China
, Thailand
and Japan
, and returned to China in 2010. Regular engagements in Australia have included the 2006 Melbourne International Arts Festival
, the 2008 Adelaide Festival of Contemporary Music and the 2009 Soundstream: Adelaide New Music Festival. He has been invited to perform at the 2010 Soundstream: Adelaide New Music Festival.
In more recent times, a major interest for Addison has been the development of a methodology for the performance of contemporary cello repertoire. He was drawn to this by his observation that changes in music composition since about the beginning of the 20th century have placed new demands on cellists' techniques
, a need that has not been met in the teaching of the instrument which is still based largely on the technical requirements of music from the 19th century and earlier.
Addison is in the process of writing the first of three books on this subject. Volume 1, to be published in the near future by Donemus
, will deal entirely with his new techniques for the production of natural harmonics. He hopes his books will be influential not only in the teaching of practical performing skills, but that, before writing for the instrument, composers will use them to expand their knowledge of the cello's technical capabilities.
In 2010, Addison decided to return to Australia, believing that it is part of his responsibility to share in his own country the wealth of knowledge and experience he has accrued while overseas. He has based himself in Brisbane, one of Australia's most rapidly expanding cities, with an active music life. From there, he will have easy access to the rest of the country, as well as Asia, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. His involvements will include performing, teaching, writing, preparing a range of activities to increase public interest in music, and undertaking doctoral level studies.
(ω = Addison engaged in Australian Premiere)
(β = Written for Addison)
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n cellist
Cello
The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
with an international reputation as a soloist and performer of chamber music
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
, and especially as an interpreter of contemporary music
Contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms.-Categorization:...
.
Early life and education
Born in BrisbaneBrisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
in 1966, Addison began his music studies as a chorister
Anglican church music
Anglican church music is music that is written for liturgical performance in Anglican church services.Almost all of it is written for choir with or without organ accompaniment...
at St John's Anglican Cathedral
St John's Cathedral, Brisbane
St John's Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral of Brisbane and the metropolitan cathedral of the ecclesiastical province of Queensland, Australia...
under the direction of Organist and Master of Choristers, Dr Robert Boughen. He sang in the choir for six years, was appointed as Deputy Head Boy in 1980 and as Head Boy in the following year. As with all the Cathedral's choristers, he received a scholarship to the Anglican Church Grammar School
Anglican Church Grammar School
The Anglican Church Grammar School , is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for boys, located in East Brisbane, an inner suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.Founded in 1912 by Canon William Perry French Morris, Churchie has a non-selective...
and continued his education there to matriculation.
Addison's first instrument was the flute
Flute
The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
which he studied from the age of 10, and went on to win the Queensland Flute Eisteddfod (now known as the Queensland Flute Challenge), senior division, in 1983. Following a chance encounter with British cellist Imogen Rex, then teaching at his school, he commenced studies of that instrument with her in 1978.
In 1986, Addison began his degree program at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music
Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music
The Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music forms part of the faculty of Arts at the University of Tasmania. It is a music training institution with courses and specializations in classical and contemporary music, music education, technology and composition....
where his instrument teacher was the cellist, Christian Wojtowicz. He graduated with honours in 1990 and continued private studies with Sue-Ellen Paulsen, Principal Cellist of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is the smallest of the six orchestras established by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation .-Activities:...
.
Professional involvement
Having received grants from Arts Tasmania and the Queen Elizabeth II Trust for Young Australians, Addison moved to The NetherlandsNetherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
in 1991, based himself in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
, and for several years was a member of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
The Netherlands Chamber Orchestra is a chamber orchestra based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The NKO is part of the Stichting Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest , along with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra . The core of the NKO is a group of at least 20 string instrumentalists...
and the Belgian ensemble I Fiamminghi.
By the late 1990s, Addison decided to focus on chamber music and solo playing. He then joined the Palmós Ensemble, was a founding member of both the Zephyr Kwartet and the Telesto Trio, and gave many solo recitals.
Over that whole period in The Netherlands, he attracted wide attention from the public and the critics, and in response received numerous engagements with groups such as Amsterdam's Nieuw Ensemble
Nieuw Ensemble
The Nieuw Ensemble was founded in 1980 in Amsterdam. It has a unique instrumental structure, using plucked instruments such as mandolin, guitar and harp in combination with wind, string and percussion. Ed Spanjaard has been the principal conductor since 1982...
and the Orkest de Volharding
Orkest de Volharding
Orkest de Volharding is a Dutch music ensemble, founded in 1972 by Louis Andriessen and saxophonist Willem Breuker, named after the eponymous Andriessen work. The line up for the original concert, on May 12, 1972, was three each of trumpets saxes and trombones, plus Andriessen on the piano...
, and the Insomnio Ensemble based in Utrecht
Utrecht (city)
Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...
. He also made a large number of recordings covering solo, chamber and ensemble repertoire.
The performance of contemporary music is one of Addison's special interests. As he explains in his website:
"Culture should reflect, as in the biological definition, a living organism. If we, as artists, remain reverentially entrenched in the 18th and 19th century repertoire then we condemn art to stagnate and die."In response, he has built up a substantial repertoire of 20th and 21st century works among which Dutch and Australian composers are well represented. Over thirty works have been written especially for him by composers from around the world. (See 3.1 Contemporary below)
He has particular rapport with the compositions of Cage, Crumb, Donatoni, Francesconi, Murat, Jeths, Scelsi, Sciarrino, Rădulescu and Gubaidulina. On many occasions, he has collaborated with composers while preparing to perform their music. In the case of Sofia Gubaidulina
Sofia Gubaidulina
Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, is a Russian composer of half Russian, half Tatar ethnicity.Gubaidulina's music is marked by the use of unusual instrumental combinations...
, he has established an international reputation as an interpreter of her works and has received written endorsement from the composer herself which included the following remark:
"My encounter with the cellist John Addison was a very significant and meaningful event for me. Evidently, this interpreter has almost all my cello works in his repertoire and he performs them with a profound understanding of their meaning and form. His playing is overwhelming in its impact; characterised by a multitude of tonal colours, subtle phrasing, a very beautiful and powerful sound, a strongly convincing conception of form, and perfection in solving every problem."
Addison has now performed extensively throughout The Netherlands and other European countries including the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
, Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
, Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
, the Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, Albania
Albania
Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...
, Slovenia
Slovenia
Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
and Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
, has received a number of engagements in Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
, China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
, Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
and Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, and returned to China in 2010. Regular engagements in Australia have included the 2006 Melbourne International Arts Festival
Melbourne International Arts Festival
Melbourne Festival is a celebration of dance, theatre, music, visual arts, multimedia, outdoor and free events held for 17 days each October in a number of venues across Melbourne, Australia.-History:...
, the 2008 Adelaide Festival of Contemporary Music and the 2009 Soundstream: Adelaide New Music Festival. He has been invited to perform at the 2010 Soundstream: Adelaide New Music Festival.
In more recent times, a major interest for Addison has been the development of a methodology for the performance of contemporary cello repertoire. He was drawn to this by his observation that changes in music composition since about the beginning of the 20th century have placed new demands on cellists' techniques
Bowed string instrument extended technique
String instruments are capable of producing a variety of extended technique sounds. These alternative playing techniques have been used extensively since the 20th century...
, a need that has not been met in the teaching of the instrument which is still based largely on the technical requirements of music from the 19th century and earlier.
Addison is in the process of writing the first of three books on this subject. Volume 1, to be published in the near future by Donemus
Donemus
Donemus is the Dutch institute dealing with the documentation of contemporary music composed in the Netherlands....
, will deal entirely with his new techniques for the production of natural harmonics. He hopes his books will be influential not only in the teaching of practical performing skills, but that, before writing for the instrument, composers will use them to expand their knowledge of the cello's technical capabilities.
In 2010, Addison decided to return to Australia, believing that it is part of his responsibility to share in his own country the wealth of knowledge and experience he has accrued while overseas. He has based himself in Brisbane, one of Australia's most rapidly expanding cities, with an active music life. From there, he will have easy access to the rest of the country, as well as Asia, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. His involvements will include performing, teaching, writing, preparing a range of activities to increase public interest in music, and undertaking doctoral level studies.
Contemporary
(α = Addison engaged in World Premiere)(ω = Addison engaged in Australian Premiere)
(β = Written for Addison)
- AdèsThomas AdèsThomas Adès is a British composer, pianist and conductor.-Biography:Adès studied piano with Paul Berkowitz and later composition with Robert Saxton at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London...
- Arcadiana, Op 12 (1994) - AndriessenLouis AndriessenLouis Andriessen is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam. He teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague...
- Facing Death (1990) - BerioLuciano BerioLuciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.-Biography:Berio was born at Oneglia Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian...
- Sequenza XIV (2002) - Bollen - Étude for solo cello “Artificial, Unstable”β (1992)
- Bollo - Seven Movements for solo cello (2007); Duo, for two cellosβ (2008)
- BroadstockBrenton BroadstockBrenton Broadstock is an Australian composer.Brenton Broadstock - Australian Composer - was born in Melbourne, Australia. He studied History, Politics and Music at Monash University, and later composition and theory with Donald Freund at the University of Memphis in the USA and with Peter...
- Clear Flame Within, for cello with piano (1996) - Bruinen - Gravityβ (2006); Pavane, for bass clarinet, cello, piano and live electronicsLive electronic musicLive electronic music generally utilizes instrumental or electronic sounds but excludes those that have been prerecorded. The timbres of the various sounds may then be transformed extensively during performance using devices such as amplifiers, filters, ring modulators and other forms of circuitry...
β (2008) - CageJohn CageJohn Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
- String Quartet in Four PartsString Quartet in Four PartsString Quartet in Four Parts is a string quartet by John Cage, composed in 1950. It is one of the last works Cage wrote that is not entirely aleatoric. Like Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano and the ballet The Seasons , this work explores ideas from Indian philosophy.-General...
(1953) - CrawfordRuth Crawford SeegerRuth Crawford Seeger , born Ruth Porter Crawford, was a modernist composer and an American folk music specialist.-Life:...
- String QuartetString Quartet (Crawford-Seeger)Ruth Crawford's String Quartet is "regarded as one of the finest modernist works of the genre" . The composition or piece is in four untitled movements.-First Movement:The first movement is a fine example of twelve-tone study...
(1931) - Crivici arr. Plooij - Amazon Ants, for string quartetβ (2002)
- CrumbGeorge CrumbGeorge Crumb is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres, alternative forms of notation, and extended instrumental and vocal techniques. Examples include seagull effect for the cello , metallic vibrato for the piano George Crumb (born...
- Sonata for cello (1955); Black Angels (Images I) (1970)Black Angels (Crumb)Black Angels , subtitled "Thirteen Images from the Dark Land" is an avant-garde work composed by George Crumb for "electric string quartet." It was composed over the course of a year and is dated "Friday the Thirteenth, March 1970 " as written on the score...
; Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) (1971) - CutlerJoe CutlerJoe Cutler is a British composer who studied music at the Universities of Huddersfield and Durham, before a scholarship at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, Poland. He has taught composition at the Birmingham Conservatoire since 2000, and since 2005 he has been the Head of Composition there...
- Archie, for violin, cello and harpsichord (2005) - DillenOscar van DillenOscar Ignatius Joannes van Dillen is a Dutch composer, conductor, and instrumentalist.-Education:Van Dillen studied North-Indian classical music with Jamaluddin Bhartiya at the Tritantri School in Amsterdam and bansuri with Gurbachan Singh Sachdev at the Bansuri School of Music in Berkeley,...
- Objet Privé (das Ding an mich), for cello soloβ (1999); Forecast, for violin, cello and bayanBayan (accordion)The bayan is a type of chromatic button accordion developed in Russia in the early 20th century and named after 11th-century bard Boyan.-Characteristics:The bayan differs from western chromatic button accordions in some details of construction:...
β (2004); String Quartet No 2 (2007) - DunTan DunTan Dun is a Chinese contemporary classical composer, most widely known for his scores for the movies Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero.-Early life in China:...
- Eight Colours, for string quartet (1986) - DonatoniFranco DonatoniFranco Donatoni was an Italian composer.Born in Verona, he started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local Music Academy...
- "Alfred, Alfred", opera in seven scenes and six intermezziα (1995) - EdwardsRoss Edwards (composer)Ross Edwards is an Australian composer of a wide variety of music including orchestral and chamber music, choral music, children's music, opera and film music. He is not to be confused with a British up and coming singer-songwriter of the same name.-Life:Ross Edwards was born in Sydney...
- Monos 1, for solo cello (1970) - Van Eijden - Ornament II Seikilos liedβ (2003); String Quartet No 2β (unknown); String Quartet No 3β (2001–03)
- FeldmanMorton FeldmanMorton Feldman was an American composer, born in New York City.A major figure in 20th century music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown...
- Four Songs to e. e. cummings, for soprano, piano and cello (1951); Structures, for string quartet (1951); Piano Quartet (1985) - Francesconi - Primo quartetto (Musica per Quattro Archi)α (1976); Islands, for piano and twelve instruments (1992); "Gesualdo considered as a murderer", chamber operaα (2004)
- GentileAda Gentile-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 Accademia di Santa Cecilia with Goffredo Petrassi...
- Quartetto III (2000) - GubaidulinaSofia GubaidulinaSofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, is a Russian composer of half Russian, half Tatar ethnicity.Gubaidulina's music is marked by the use of unusual instrumental combinations...
- "Rubaiyat", cantata for baritone and chamber ensemble (1969); Concordanza, for chamber ensemble (1971); In Croce, for cello and organ (1979); Sieben Worte, for cello, bayan and string orchestra (1982); Hommage à T.S. Eliot, for soprano and octet (1987); Sonata for violin and cello "Freue Dich" (1988); Silenzio, for bayan, violin, and cello (1991); Und das Fest ist im vollem Gang, for cello and orchestra (1993); Sonnengesang, for cello, two percussionists and chamber choirω (1997) - HamburgJeff HamburgJeff Hamburg is an American composer. Born in Philadelphia, he studied acoustics and composition at the University of Illinois and moved to the Netherlands in 1978 to continue his studies at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Louis Andriessen. In 1986, he received the Conservatory Prize...
- String Quartet No 2 "Hashkivenu"α (2002) - Havelaar - Nocturne for cello and pianoβ (c.2002); String Quartet No 2β (1999–2000)
- HenzeHans Werner HenzeHans Werner Henze is a German composer of prodigious output best known for "his consistent cultivation of music for the theatre throughout his life"...
- String Quartet No 4 (1976) - Hijman - String Quartet (1934)
- Isadora - Letter to Liz, for solo cello (1990); Fronds, string quartetβ (2006)
- Jeths - Arcate (String Quartet No 1) (1990); ...Un vago ricordo..., string quartet (1996); Bella Figura, for solo cello (1999); Falsa/Ficta, for cello and orchestra (1999)
- KagelMauricio KagelMauricio Kagel was a German-Argentine composer. He was notable for his interest in developing the theatrical side of musical performance .-Biography:...
- Siegfried PSiegfried PalmSiegfried Palm 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 him....
, for solo cello (1971); Acustica (1968–70) - Karski - The Impulse Within, for string quartet and percussionβ (1994)
- KayDon Kay (composer)Donald Henry Kay AM is an Australian classical composer.Don Kay attained a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Melbourne after which he taught music at Colac High School, Victoria, 1957-59. He then went on to teach music at Peckham Manor Comprehensive School for Boys, London, UK 1959-64...
- Cloud Patterns, for solo cello (1988); Cello Sonata (1999); The Legend of Moinee, for cello and orchestra (1988); String Quartet No 1 (c 1956) - Koenders - Trias politica, for bass clarinet, cello, piano and live electronicsβ (c 2002); OP=OPβ (2006)
- KulentyHanna KulentyHanna Kulenty is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. Since 1992, she has worked and lived both in Warsaw and in Arnhem .- Musical education :...
- String Quartet No 2 (1992); A Fourth Circle, for cello and piano (1994) - KurtágGyörgy KurtágGyörgy Kurtág is a Hungarian composer of contemporary music.- Biography :György Kurtág was born in Lugoj in the Banat region, Romania.In 1946, he began his studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he met his wife, Márta, and also György Ligeti, who became a close friend...
- "Hommage à Mihály András", Twelve Microludes for String Quartet, Op 13 (1977–78) - Kyriakides - PNEuma, for bassoon, cello and piano (1999); quarternion, for string quartet and electronicsβ (2002)
- LimLiza LimLiza Lim is an Australian composer.Lim writes concert music as well as music theatre and has collaborated with artists on a number of installation and video projects...
- Hell, for string quartet (1992) - LoevendieTheo LoevendieTheo Loevendie is a Dutch composer and clarinet player.Loevendie studied composition and clarinet at the Conservatoire of Amsterdam. Initially he concentrated on jazz music. As off 1968 he also wrote concert music, among which operas, concertos and chamber music...
- Lerchen-Trio, for clarinet, cello and piano, in memoriam Olivier Messiaen (1992) - McGowanNed McGowanNed McGowan is an American composer and flutist based in Amsterdam.“McGowan’s music strives for an idiom in which various musics – American popular, European classical and avant-garde, Carnatic, a fascination with proportionally intricate rhythms, the use of microtones in the search for new...
- Devil's Dustβ (2006) - Philipp MaintzPhilipp Maintz-Professional career:Maintz studied composition with Michael Reudenbach and Robert HP Platz, and electronic music with Karlheinz Essl. He studied further at the CRFMW of the University of Liège and the IRCAM . He received the Ernst von Siemens Composer' Prize in 2005...
- Inner Circle, for string quartet (2003-04/06) - De Man - Miden Agan(1996)β; Rush, for seven instruments (2003); Edgeβ (2006); Sonneries, for violin, cello and harpsichordβ (2007)
- Martin - An Outburst of Time, for string quartet (2004)
- MessiaenOlivier MessiaenOlivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...
- Quatuor pour la fin du tempsQuatuor pour la fin du tempsQuatuor pour la fin du temps, also known by its English title Quartet for the End of Time, is a piece of chamber music by the French composer Olivier Messiaen. It was premiered in 1941...
, for violin, cello, clarinet and piano (1940–41) - Murat - Ares, string quartetα,β (2001); Caro Pierrot,…, for solo celloβ (2002); Accelerazioni dell' Anima Pulsantefor string quartetβ (2006)
- Nas - Withorwithout, for string quartetβ (2005)
- Nasveld - String Quartet Iα (2000)
- NonoLuigi NonoLuigi Nono was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music and remains one of the most prominent composers of the 20th century.- Early years :Born in Venice, he was a member of a wealthy artistic family, and his grandfather was a notable painter...
- Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima, for string quartet (2000) - PendereckiKrzysztof PendereckiKrzysztof Penderecki , born November 23, 1933 in Dębica) is a Polish composer and conductor. His 1960 avant-garde Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima for string orchestra brought him to international attention, and this success was followed by acclaim for his choral St. Luke Passion. Both these...
- Capriccio per Siegfried Palm, for solo cello (1968); String Quartet No 2 (1968) - QuQu Xiao-SongQu Xiao-Song is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music.He is a 1983 graduate of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where he studied composition with Du Mingxin...
- "Life on a String", chamber operaα (1998) - RădulescuHoratiu RadulescuHoraţiu Rădulescu was a Romanian-French composer, best known for the spectral technique of composition.-Biography:Rădulescu was born in Bucharest, where he studied the violin privately with Nina Alexandrescu, a pupil of Enescu, and later studied composition at the Bucharest Academy of Music ,...
- Urlicht (unknown); Fifth String Quartet "before the universe was born" (1990/95) - ReichSteve ReichStephen Michael "Steve" Reich is an American composer who together with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass is a pioneering composer of minimal music...
- Different Trains, for string quartet and tapeDifferent TrainsDifferent Trains is a three-movement piece for string quartet and tape written by Steve Reich in 1988. It won a Grammy Award in 1990 for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.The work's three movements have the following titles:... - Royé - String quartet “without title” (1996)
- SciarrinoSalvatore SciarrinoSalvatore Sciarrino is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music.-Biography:In his youth, Sciarrino was attracted to the visual arts, but began experimenting with music when he was twelve. Though he had some lessons from Antonino Titone and Turi Belfiore, he is primarily self-taught as a...
- Due Studi, for cello solo (1947); Sei quartetti brevi per archi (Six Short String Quartets) (1947- ) - ScelsiGiacinto ScelsiGiacinto Scelsi , Count of Ayala Valva was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French....
- String Quartet No 3 (1963); Aitsi - version as String Quartet No 5 (1985) - SculthorpePeter SculthorpePeter Joshua Sculthorpe AO OBE is an Australian composer. Much of his music has resulted from an interest in the music of Australia's neighbours as well as from the impulse to bring together aspects of native Australian music with that of the heritage of the West...
- The loneliness of Bunjil, for string trio (1954); Requiem, for cello alone (1979); Threnody, for solo cello (1991); String Quartet No 8 (1978) - SitskyLarry SitskyLazar Sitsky AM, usually referred to as Larry Sitsky, born 10 September 1934, is an Australian composer, pianist, and music educator and scholar...
- Improvisation and Cadenza, for solo cello (1969) - Stanfield - Danse, for two cellosβ (c 1995); Splinter, for solo celloβ (1999)
- Swoger-Ruston - Corrections and Amplifications, for electric guitar and string quartetβ (2004)
- Tamminga - Powerchords, for string quartet and live electronicsβ (2006); Riot of Colour, for bass clarinet, cello, piano and live electronicsα,β (2008)
- Termos - String Quartet No 2β (2002)
- TsoupakiCalliope Tsoupaki-Biography:Calliope Tsoupaki was born in Piraeus, Greece. She studied piano and music theory at the Hellinicon Conservatory in Athens and composition with Yannis Ioannithis. She continued her studies with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and graduated in 1992.After ending...
- Adieu, for cello and bassoon (1999); String Quartet No 2β (1993) - UstvolskayaGalina UstvolskayaGalina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya, also Ustwolskaja or Oustvolskaia was a Russian composer of classical music.-Early years:From 1937 to 1947 she studied at the college attached to the Leningrad Conservatory . She subsequently became a postgraduate student and taught composition at the college...
- Sonata for cello and piano (1946); Grand Duo for piano and cello (1959) - Ter VeldhuisJacob ter VeldhuisJacob ter Veldhuis, also known as Jacob TV, is a Dutch avant-garde classical composer. Ter Veldhuis favors tonal, melodic compositions, avoiding the dissonance of some recent classical music. Many of his works build melodies around samples of the human voice, as in Steve Reich's composition...
- String Quartet No 2 "Postnuclear Winterscenario" (1991–94); Doggy Steps, for violin, cello, harpsichord and tapeβ (2007) - VivierClaude Vivier-Biography:Born to unknown parents in Montreal, Vivier was adopted at the age of three by a poor French-Canadian family. From the age of thirteen, he attended boarding schools run by the Marist Brothers, a religious order that prepared young boys for a vocation in the priesthood. At the age of...
- String Quartet No 1α (1968); Pièce pour violoncelle et piano (1975); Liebesgedichte (1975); Paramirabo, for flute, violin, cello and piano (1978) - Voorvelt - 4/4, string quartet (1999)β; Who's pushing the pedal, for solo celloβ (2000) Four Parts, string quartetβ (2003)
- Vriezen - Eindig Stuk, for electric guitar, string quartetβ (2004)
- Waller-Vigil - Ziehen und Sehnen, for string quartet and percussionβ (2005)
- Wieringa - Zorro, for piano, cello and bandoneónBandoneónThe bandoneón is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay. It plays an essential role in the orquesta típica, the tango orchestra...
α(2006) - WoodJames Wood (composer)James Wood is a British composer, percussionist and conductor -Life:James Wood studied organ in Cambridge. He also studied at the Royal Academy of Music...
- Deploration sur la mort de Gérard Grisey, for marimbaMarimbaThe marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. It consists of a set of wooden keys or bars with resonators. The bars are struck with mallets to produce musical tones. The keys are arranged as those of a piano, with the accidentals raised vertically and overlapping the natural keys ...
and string quartetα(2000) - Woof - Triangulation, for bass clarinet, cello, piano and live electronicsβ (c 2002);Tromba Marina, for string quartet and multi channel live electronicsβ (2008)
- Wullur - Baliade, for string quartet and chromatic tuned gamelanβ (2001)
- XenakisIannis XenakisIannis Xenakis was a Romanian-born Greek ethnic, naturalized French composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers...
- Kottos, for solo cello (1977) - Van Zijp - Mel Benniget, for chromatic gamelan and celloβ (1998)
Twentieth century
- BarberSamuel BarberSamuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music...
- Cello Concerto (1945)Cello Concerto (Barber)Samuel Barber's Cello Concerto in A minor , completed on 22 November 1945, was the second of his three concertos . Barber was commissioned to write his concerto for Raya Garbousova, an upstart Russian cellist, by Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra... - BosmansHenriëtte BosmansHenriëtte Hilda Bosmans was a Dutch composer.Bosmans was born in Amsterdam, the daughter of Henri Bosmans, principal cellist of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the pianist Sara Benedicts, piano teacher at the Amsterdam Conservatory. Her father died when she was 6 months old...
- Cello Sonata (1919) - DebussyClaude DebussyClaude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was 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 (1915)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 sonata for violin and the sonata for flute, viola and harp. The sonata for cello and piano was written... - DeliusFrederick DeliusFrederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH was an English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family of German extraction, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce...
- Cello Concerto (1921) - DohnányiErno DohnányiErnő Dohnányi was a Hungarian conductor, composer, and pianist. He used the German form of his name Ernst von Dohnányi for most of his published compositions....
Konzertstück in D major for cello and orchestra, Op 12 (1904) - ElgarEdward ElgarSir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
- Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85 (1919)Cello Concerto (Elgar)Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, his last notable work, is a cornerstone of the solo cello repertoire. Elgar composed it in the aftermath of the First World War, by which time his music had gone out of fashion with the concert-going public... - Escher - Sonate concertante for cello and piano (1943)
- FrançaixJean FrançaixJean René Désiré Françaix was a French neoclassical composer, pianist, and orchestrator, known for his prolific output and vibrant style.-Life:...
- Fantaisie for cello and ensemble (1935); Variations de concert for cello and string orchestra (1953) - IvesCharles IvesCharles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original"...
- Piano Trio (c1909–10, rev c1914–15)Piano Trio (Ives)The Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano is a work by the American composer Charles Ives. According to Charles Ives’ wife, the three movements of the piano trio are a reflection of Ives’ college days at Yale. He started writing the piece in 1904,... - Kabelevsky - Cello Concerto No 2 in C minor, Op 77 (1964)
- Lutosławski - Cello Concerto (1969–70)
- MartinůBohuslav MartinuBohuslav Martinů was a prolific Czech composer of modern classical music. He was of Czech and Rumanian ancestry. Martinů wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Martinů became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic...
- Sonata No 3 for cello and piano (1952) - PiazzollaÁstor PiazzollaÁstor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...
-Le Grand Tango, for cello and piano (1982) - PijperWillem PijperWillem Pijper ; Zeist, 8 September 1894 - Utrecht, 18 March 1947) was a Dutch composer, music critic and music teacher.-Life:Pijper was born at Zeist, near Utrecht, on 8 September 1894 of strict Calvinist working-class parents. His father, who sometimes played psalm accompaniments on the harmonium,...
- Sonata No 1 for cello and piano (1919); Sonata No 2 for cello and piano (1924) - ProkofievSergei ProkofievSergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
- Cello Sonata in C major, Op 119 (1949) - RavelMaurice RavelJoseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
- Sonata for violin and cello (1920–22); Piano Trio in A minor (1914) - RespighiOttorino RespighiOttorino Respighi was an Italian composer, musicologist and conductor. He is best known for his orchestral "Roman trilogy": Fountains of Rome ; Pines of Rome ; and Roman Festivals...
- Adagio con variazioni for cello and orchestra (1920) - ShostakovitchDmitri ShostakovichDmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
- Piano Trio No 1 in C minor, Op 8 (1923)Piano Trio No. 1 (Shostakovich)Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor for violin, violoncello and piano is a chamber composition by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.It was created as a student work in 1923 and its last 16 bars were completed later by Shostakovich's pupil, Boris Tishchenko. Alternative solutions have been provided by...
; Cello Sonata in D minor, Op 40 (1934)Cello Sonata (Shostakovich)The Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, Op. 40, was one of Shostakovich's early works, composed in 1934 just prior to his censure by Soviet authorities of his music, notably the opera Lady Macbeth of Mtensk, that was deemed too bourgeois and decadent for the Soviet people...
; Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 57 (1940)Piano Quintet (Shostakovich)The Piano Quintet in G Minor, opus 57, by Dmitri Shostakovich is one of his best known chamber works. Like most piano quintets, it is written for piano and string quartet ....
; Piano Trio No 2 in E minor, Op 67 (1944)Piano Trio No. 2 (Shostakovich)The Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67, by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1944, in the midst of World War II.-Composition history:The composition was dedicated to Shostakovich's good friend, Ivan Sollertinsky, a Russian polymath and avid musician, who had recently died at age 41. The work...
; Seven Songs on Poems by Alexander BlokSeven Songs on Poems by Alexander BlokSeven Songs on Poems by Alexander Blok is a vocal-instrumental suite by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. It was inspired by verses of poet Alexander Blok ....
| Seven Songs on Poems of Alexander BlokAlexander BlokAlexander Alexandrovich Blok was a Russian lyrical poet.-Life and career:Blok was born in Saint Petersburg, into a sophisticated and intellectual family. Some of his relatives were literary men, his father being a law professor in Warsaw, and his maternal grandfather the rector of Saint Petersburg...
, for soprano, violin, cello and piano, Op 127 (1967); Cello Concerto No 2, Op 126 (1966)Cello Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)The Cello Concerto No. 2, Opus 126, was written by Dmitri Shostakovich in the spring of 1966 in the Crimea. Like the first concerto, it was written for Mstislav Rostropovich, who gave the premiere in Moscow under Yevgeny Svetlanov on 25 September 1966 at the composer's 60th birthday concert... - WebernAnton WebernAnton Webern was an Austrian composer and conductor. He was a member of the Second Viennese School. As a student and significant follower of Arnold Schoenberg, he became one of the best-known exponents of the twelve-tone technique; in addition, his innovations regarding schematic organization of...
- Cello Sonata, Op post (1914); String Quartet, Op 28 (1936)String Quartet (Webern)The String Quartet, Op. 28 by Anton Webern is written for the standard string quartet group of two violins, viola and cello. It was the last piece of chamber music that Webern wrote The String Quartet, Op. 28 by Anton Webern is written for the standard string quartet group of two violins, viola and... - WelleszEgon WelleszEgon Joseph Wellesz was an Austrian-born British composer, teacher and musicologist, notable particularly in the field of Byzantine music.- Life :...
- Suite for cello solo, Op 39 (1924)
Romantic
- BrahmsJohannes BrahmsJohannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
- Piano Trio in B major, Op 8 (1854)Piano Trio No. 1 (Brahms)The Piano Trio in B, opus 8, by Johannes Brahms was composed during 1854. The composer produced a revised version of the work in 1891. It is scored for piano, violin and cello, and it is the only work of Brahms to exist today in two published versions, although it is almost always the revised...
; Cello Sonata No 1 in E minor, Op 38 (1862-65)Cello Sonata No. 1 (Brahms)The Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38, actually entitled "Sonate für Klavier und Violoncello", was written by Johannes Brahms in 1862–5.-Background:...
; Piano Trio in C major, Op 87 (1880-2)Piano Trio No. 2 (Brahms)The Piano Trio in C, opus 87, by Johannes Brahms was composed during 1880-2. It is scored for piano, violin and cello. It was first performed at a chamber music evening in Frankfurt-on-Main on 29 December 1882.The trio is in four movements:...
; Cello Sonata No 2 in F major, Op 99 (1886)Cello Sonata No. 2 (Brahms)The Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99 was written by Johannes Brahms in 1886, more than twenty years after completing his first cello sonata...
; Piano Trio in C minor, Op 101 (1886)Piano Trio No. 3 (Brahms)The Piano Trio in C minor, opus 101, by Johannes Brahms is scored for piano, violin and cello, and was written in the summer of 1886 while Brahms was on vacation in Hofstetten, Switzerland... - FauréGabriel FauréGabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...
- Piano Quartet No 1 in C minor, Op 15 (1876–79, Finale rev 1883); Élégie, for cello and orchestra, Op 24 (1883); Piano Quartet No 2 in G minor, Op 45 (1885–86) - FranckCésar FranckCésar-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....
- Cello Sonata in A major (1886) - GriegEdvard GriegEdvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in...
- Cello Sonata in A minor, Op 36 (1883)Cello Sonata (Grieg)Edvard Grieg composed the Cello Sonata in A minor, Op. 36, his largest chamber 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. Grieg dedicated the piece to his... - JongenJoseph JongenMarie-Alphonse-Nicolas-Joseph Jongen was a Belgian organist, composer, and music educator.-Biography:Jongen was born in Liège. On the strength of an amazing precocity for music, he was admitted to the Liège Conservatoire at the extraordinarily young age of seven, and spent the next sixteen years...
- Piano Trio No1 in B minor, Op 10 (1897) - Kuyper - Ballade, for cello and piano, Op 11 (1910)
- RachmaninoffSergei RachmaninoffSergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
- Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19 (1910)Cello Sonata (Rachmaninoff)Sergei Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19, a sonata for cello and piano, was completed in November 1901 and published a year later. As typical of sonatas in the Romantic period, it has four movements. Rachmaninoff disliked calling it a cello sonata because he thought the two instruments... - R StraussRichard StraussRichard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...
- Don Quixote, Op 35 (1897)Don Quixote (Strauss)Don Quixote, Op. 35, is a composition by Richard Strauss for cello, viola and large orchestra. Subtitled Phantastische Variationen über ein Thema ritterlichen Charakters , the work is based on the novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. Strauss composed this work in Munich in 1897...
Classical
- BeethovenLudwig van BeethovenLudwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
- Sonata No 1 in F Major, Op 5 No 1 (1796); Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 5 No 2 (1796); Variations in G Major, on 'See the conq'ring hero comes' from Judas Maccabaeus, WoO 45(1796); Variations in F major, on "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" from Die Zauberflöte, Op 66 (1796); Variations in E flat major, on "Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen" from Die Zauberflöte, WoO 46(1801); Concerto for violin, cello and piano in C major "Triple Concerto", Op 56 (1803)Triple Concerto (Beethoven)Ludwig van Beethoven's Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C Major, Op. 56, more commonly known as the Triple Concerto, was composed in 1803 and later published in 1804 under Breitkopf & Hartel. The choice of the three solo instruments effectively makes this a concerto for piano trio and the...
; Cello Sonata No 3 in A major, Op 69 (1808)Cello Sonata No. 3 (Beethoven)Ludwig van Beethoven's Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69 was writtenin 1808. It consists of three movements:# Allegro, ma non tanto# Scherzo# Adagio cantabile – Allegro vivacein contrast to the normal sonata form fast–slow–fast....
; Piano Trio No 5 in D major "Ghost", Opus 70 No 1 (1808) - SchubertFranz SchubertFranz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
- Piano Quintet in A major “Trout”, D 667 (1819)Trout QuintetThe Trout Quintet is the popular name for the Piano Quintet in A major by Franz Schubert. In Otto Erich Deutsch's catalogue of Schubert's works, it is D. 667...
; Sonata in A minor for arpeggione and pianoArpeggione SonataThe Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano, D. 821, was written by Franz Schubert in Vienna in November 1824. The sonata is the only substantial composition for the arpeggione which remains extant today...
"ArpeggioneArpeggioneThe arpeggione is a six-stringed musical instrument, fretted and tuned like a guitar, but bowed like a cello, and thus similar to the bass viola da gamba...
Sonata", D 821 (1824); Piano Trio No 1 in B flat major, D 898 (1827)Piano Trio No. 1 (Schubert)The Trio No. 1 in B-flat major for piano, violin, and cello, D. 898, was written by Franz Schubert in 1827. The composer finished the work in 1828, in the last year of his life. It was published in 1836 as Opus 99, eight years after the composer's death....
; Piano Trio No 2 in E flat major, D 929 (1827)Piano Trio No. 2 (Schubert)The Trio No. 2 in E-flat major for piano, violin, and violoncello, D. 929, was one of the last compositions completed by Franz Schubert, dated November 1827. It was published by Probst as opus 100 in late 1828, shortly before the composer's death and first performed at a private party in January...
; String Quintet in C major, D 956 (1828)String Quintet (Schubert)The String Quintet in C major, D. 956, op. posth. 163, is a piece of chamber music written by Franz Schubert. It was composed during the summer of 1828, two months before his death, and is Schubert's final chamber work. The Quintet was first performed on 17 November 1850 at the Musikverein in...
Baroque
- J S BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
- Cello Suites (c 1770-23): Suite No 1 in G major, BWV 1007; Suite No 2 in D minor, BWV 1008; Suite No 3 in C major, BWV 1009; Suite No 5 in C minor, BWV 1011Cello Suites (Bach)The Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by Johann Sebastian Bach are some of the most performed and recognizable solo compositions ever written for cello...