Cello Sonata - Definition and Overview

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.

List of Cello sonatas

The following is only a partial list.

• Karl Friedrich Abel
  • Several sonatas
• Charles-Valentin Alkan
  • Cello sonata "Sonate de concert" Op. 47 in E (1857)
• Granville Bantock
  • several cello sonatas
• Samuel Barber
  • Cello sonata Op. 6 in C minor
• Arnold Bax
  • Sonata in E-flat (1923)
  • Sonatina in D (1933)
  • Legend-Sonata in F-sharp minor (1943)
• 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 (1808)
  • Cello sonata Op. 102 No. 1 in C (1815)
  • Cello sonata Op. 102 No. 2 in D (1815)
• William Sterndale Bennett
  • Cello Sonata (duo sonata) Op. 32
• Luigi Boccherini
  • many cello sonatas
• Alexander Borodin
  • Cello sonata in B minor
• Johannes Brahms
  • Cello sonata Op. 38 in E minor (1862–5)
  • Cello sonata Op. 99 in F (1886)
  • Violin sonata "Rain" Op. 78 (1878–9) is sometimes transcribed for cello.
• Frank Bridge
  • Cello sonata in D minor
• Benjamin Britten
  • Cello sonata Op. 65 in C
• Elliott Carter
  • Cello sonata (1948)
• Alfredo Casella
  • Cello Sonata No. 1 (Casella)
  • Cello Sonata No. 2 (Casella)
• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
  • Sonata for cello and harp
• Boris Chaikovskii
  • Cello sonata in E minor
• Frederic Chopin
  • Cello sonata Op. 65 in G minor (1845–6)
• Francesco Cilea
  • Cello sonata Op. 38 in D (1888)
• Henry Cowell
  • Cello sonata
• Claude Debussy
  • Cello sonata in D minor (1915)
• Frederick Delius
  • Cello sonata
• Ernö Dohnányi
  • Cello sonata Op. 8 in B-flat minor
• Felix Draeseke
  • Cello sonata Op. 5 in D
• Marcel Dupré
  • Sonata for cello and organ
• George Enescu
  • Cello sonata in F-sharp minor
  • Cello sonata in C
• Louise Farrenc
  • Cello sonata Op. 46 in B-flat (published 1861)
• Gabriel Fauré
  • Cello sonata Op. 109 in D minor (1917)
  • Cello sonata Op. 117 in G minor (1921)
• Robert Fuchs
  • Cello sonata Op. 29 in D minor
  • Cello sonata Op. 83 in E-flat minor
• Roberto Gerhard
  • Cello sonata
• Friedrich Gernsheim
  • Cello sonata Op. 12 in D minor
  • Cello sonata Op. 79 in E minor
• Alberto Ginastera
  • Cello sonata Op. 49 (1979)
• Karl Goldmark
  • Cello sonata Op. 39 in F
• Alexander Grechaninov
  • Cello sonata Op. 113 in E minor
• Edvard Grieg
  • Cello sonata Op. 36 in A minor (1883)
• Paul Hindemith
  • Cello sonatas and solo sonatas (the former 1919, little sonata 1942, sonata 1948)
• Vagn Holmboe
  • Solo Cello Sonata M. 241 (1968–9)
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel
  • Cello sonata Op. 104 in A
• Vincent d'Indy
  • Cello sonata Op. 84 in D
• John Ireland
  • Cello sonata in G minor (1923)
• Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky
  • Cello sonata Op. 71 in B-flat (1962)
• Friedrich Kiel
  • Cello sonata in A minor
• Zoltán Kodály
  • Cello sonata Op. 4 (1909–10)
  • Solo Cello Sonata Op. 8 (1915)
• Charles Koechlin
  • Cello sonata Op. 66
• Laszlo Lajtha
  • Cello sonata
• Édouard Lalo
  • Cello sonata in A minor
• Guillaume Lekeu
  • Cello sonata in F (finished by Vincent d'Indy)
• György Ligeti
  • Cello sonata
• Albéric Magnard
  • Cello sonata Op. 20 in A
• Benedetto Marcello
  • 12 sonatas (1730s)
• Bohuslav Martinu
  • Cello Sonata No. 1 (1939)
  • Cello Sonata No. 2 (1941)
  • Cello Sonata No. 3 (1952)
• Felix Mendelssohn
  • Cello sonata Op. 45 in B-flat (1838)
  • Cello sonata Op. 58 in D (1843)
• Ernest John Moeran
  • Cello sonata in A minor (1947)
• Nikolai Myaskovsky
  • Cello sonata Op. 12 in D (1911)
  • Cello sonata Op. 81 in A minor (1948–9)
• Vitezslav Novák
  • Cello sonata Op. 66 in G minor
• Vincent Persichetti
  • Solo Cello Sonata Op. 54
• Hans Pfitzner
  • Cello sonata Op. 1 in F-sharp minor
• Gabriel Pierné
  • Cello sonata Op. 46 in F-sharp minor
• Francis Poulenc
  • Cello sonata (1948)
• Sergei Prokofiev
  • Cello sonata Op. 119 in C (1949)
  • Solo Cello Sonata Op. 133 (completed by Blok)
• Sergei Rachmaninov
  • Cello sonata Op. 19 in G minor
• Joachim Raff
  • Cello sonata Op. 183 in D (1873)
• Max Reger
  • Cello sonata Op. 5 in F minor (1892?)
  • Cello sonata Op. 28 in G minor (1898?)
  • Cello sonata Op. 78 in F (1904)
  • Cello sonata Op. 116 in A minor (1910?)
• Carl Reinecke
  • Cello sonata Op. 42 in A minor
  • Cello sonata Op. 89 in D
  • Cello sonata Op. 238 in G
• Joseph Rheinberger
  • Cello sonata Op. 92 in C
• Ferdinand Ries
  • Cello sonata Op. 20 in C
  • Cello sonata Op. 21 in A
  • Cello sonata Op. 125 in G minor
• Joseph Guy Ropartz
  • Cello sonata Op. 119 in G minor
  • Cello sonata in A minor
• Edmund Rubbra
  • Cello sonata Op. 60 in G minor (1946)
• Anton Rubinstein
  • Cello sonata Op. 18 in D (1855)
  • Cello sonata Op. 39 in G (1857)
• Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Cello sonata Op. 32 in C minor (1872)
  • Cello sonata Op. 123 in F (1905)
• Alfred Schnittke
  • Cello Sonata No. 1 (1978)
  • Cello Sonata No. 2 (1993–4)
• Franz Schubert
  • Sonata for the arpeggione D.821 in A minor is often transcribed for cello.
• Ervin Schulhoff
  • Cello sonata
• Vissarion Shebalin
  • Cello sonata in C
• Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Cello sonata Op. 40 in D minor (1934)
• David Stanley Smith
  • Cello sonata Op. 59
• Charles Villiers Stanford
  • Cello Sonata No. 1
  • Cello Sonata No. 2
• Richard Strauss
  • Cello sonata Op. 6 in F
• Ernst Toch
  • Cello sonata Op. 50 (1929)
• Donald Francis Tovey
  • Cello sonata Op. 4 in F
  • Solo Cello Sonata Op. 50 in D
• Moisei Vainberg
  • Cello sonata Op. 21 in C (1945)
  • Cello sonata Op. 63 in G minor (1958–9)
  • Solo Cello Sonata No. 1 Op. 72 (1960)
  • Solo Cello Sonata No. 2 Op. 86 (1965)
  • Solo Cello Sonata No. 3 Op. 106 (1971)
  • Solo Cello Sonata No. 4 Op. 140 (1986)
• Louis Vierne
  • Cello sonata Op. 27 in B minor (1910)
• Heitor Villa-Lobos
  • at least two cello sonatas
• Anton Webern
  • Cello sonata (1913)
• Kurt Weill
  • Cello sonata
• Egon Joseph Wellesz
  • Solo Cello Sonata Op. 31 in C
• Charles-Marie Widor
  • Cello sonata Op. 80 in A (1907)
• Eugène Ysaÿe
  • Sonata for unaccompanied cello