List of solo cello pieces

This is a list of notable solo cello pieces. It includes arrangements and transcriptions.

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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)

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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
    • Threnody (1998)
  • Arne Nordheim
    • Clamavi (1980)

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  • Mark O'Connor
    • 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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Praeludium - Vivace e con fuoco
Élégie (Adagio con affetto)
Rondo vivacissimo
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’’ by Giovanni Pacini, Op. 22
  • Gregor Piatigorsky
    • Syrinx
    • A Stroll
  • Ástor Piazzolla
    • 6 Tango Etudes (arr. Karttunen)
  • Wolfgang Plagge
    • Jakobsstigen, Op. 20 : Fantasy (1983)
    • Music , Op. 54 (1990)
  • Peteris Plakidis
    • Two Variations for solo cello (1976)
  • Robert H.P. Platz
    • Senko-hana-bi (In Yoshitake's garden) (1997–2000)
  • Conrad Pope
    • Sonata for Violoncello alone (1972)
  • Gerhard Präsent
    • A Rayas for violoncello solo (2001–02)
  • Sergei Prokofiev
    • 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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  • Kaija Saariaho
    • Petals (1988)
    • Près (1992)
    • Spins & Spells (1997)
    • Sept Papillons (2000)
  • Aulis Sallinen
    • Elegy for Sebastian Knight, Op. 10 (1964)
    • Sonata, Op. 26 (1971)
  • Vadim Salmanov
    • Monologue for solo cello (1970)
  • Esa-Pekka Salonen
    • Yta III (1987)
  • Timothy Salter
    • Scintilla for solo cello (2003)
  • David Sampson
    • Three Arguments for unanccompanied cello (1993)
  • Ruben Sarkisjan
    • Cercio Ceclamando (Cycle of Declamations) for solo cello (2001)
  • Ahmed Adnan Saygun
    • Partita, Op. 31 (1954)
  • Robert Saxton
    • Sonata on a Theme of Sir William Walton (1999)
  • Giacinto Scelsi
    • Triphon (1956)
    • Trilogie (1957/65)
    • Voyages (1985)
    • Maknongan (1976)
  • Gerhard Schedl
    • Aus Zwei Stücke aus der Schatz-Truhe
  • Peter Schickele (P. D. Q. Bach)
    • 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
    • Aposiopesis Music for violoncello (1990)
    • Morgenlachen (Morning Laughter) Music for violoncello (1997)
    • Fehlversteck (Flawed Hide-Out) Five musical sketches for a cellist (2007)
  • Artur Schnabel (1882–1951)
    • Sonata (in four movements) (1931)
  • Alfred Schnittke
    • Klingende Buchstaben (Sounding Letters) (1988)
    • Madrigal in Memoriam Oleg Kagan (1990)
    • Improvisation (1993)
  • Franz Schubert
    • Erlkönig - Le Roi des Aulnes (The Erlking or Elf King; adapted in 1890 by Bernhard Cossmann
  • Gunther Schuller
    • Fantasy, Op. 19 (1960)
  • Salvatore Sciarrino
    • Due Studi (1947)
    • Ai Limiti Della Notte (1984)
  • Peter Sculthorpe
    • Requiem (1979)
    • Threnody (In memory of Stuart Challender) (1991)
    • Into the Dreaming (1993)
    • Tailitnama Song (1997)
  • Roger Sessions
    • Six Pieces (1966)
  • Rodion Shchedrin
    • Russian Tunes for solo cello, Op.79 (1990)
  • Alexander Shchetynsky
    • Sonata (2001)
  • Bright Sheng
    • Diu Diu Dong (Seven Tunes Heard in China) (1995)
  • Rodion Shchedrin
    • Russian Tunes (Russkie Naigryshi), Op. 79 (1990)
  • Makoto Shinohara
    • Evolution (1986–90)
  • Jean Sibelius
    • 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
    • Monody (1976)
    • Shades III
    • Shades IV (1983)
  • Giovanni Sollima
    • La luna (1986)
    • 6 Caprices (1987)
    • Segno (1992)
    • Anno uno (1993)
    • The Songlines (1993)
    • Lamentatio (1998)
    • Pasolini fragments (1998)
    • Alone (1999)
  • Halsey Stevens
    • 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
    • Julie-O
    • Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
  • Viktor Suslin
    • Chanson contre raison Sonata (1984)
    • Schatz-insel (1990)
  • Randall Svane
    • Suite No. 1 (1979)
    • Suite No. 2 (1982)
    • Suite No. 3 (1988)
  • Takehiko Sueoka

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  • Edson Zampronha
    • Elegia and electroacoustics (2009)
    • Two Takes (2008)
    • Toccata (1989)
  • Bernd Alois Zimmermann
    • 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

See also

References
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