Cello Handbook/Solo Cello

Solo Cello Repertoire

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A

• Joseph Marie Clément Ferdinand Dall’Abaco
  • (11) Caprices for Violoncello solo
• Samuel Adler
  • Sonata for unaccompanied cello (1965)
• Kalevi Aho
  • Solo IV for Violoncello solo (10 min.) (1997)
• Hugh Aitken
  • For the Cello (1980)
• Franghis Ali-Zadeh
  • Ask Havasi for violoncello solo (part of the cycle Silk Road) (dedicated to Ivan Monighetti) (10 min) (1998)
  • Oyan for violoncello (dedicated to Rostropovich) (8 min) (2005)
• Maarten Altena
  • Figura for cello solo (1993)
• Stoyan Angelov
  • Phrygian Fantasy for solo cello (2007)
• Giovanni Battista Degl' Antonii (ca. 1610-1698)
  • Twelve Ricercate sopra il violoncello Op. 1 (1687)
• Georges Aperghis
  • Quatres Récitations for solo cello (17 min) (1980)
  • Sonate for solo cello (12 min) ( 1994)
• Gilbert Amy
  • Quasi Scherzando for Cello solo
• Georgi Arnaoudov
  • Kells for solo cello (8 min) (1999)
• Violet Archer
  • Improvisation for Solo Cello (1983)
• Malcolm Arnold
  • Fantasy for Cello (1987)

B

• Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Cello Suites (Bach)|Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello (ca. 1720)
  • Sonatas and partitas for solo violin#Transcriptions and orchestrations|The Sonata and partitas for solo cello (originally for solo violin)
  • Chaconne (from Partita No. 2 for cello solo, BWV 1004) (original is for violin solo)
• Nicolas Bacri
  • Suite for cello solo, Op. 31 No. 1 Preludio e metamorfosi (1987-94)
  • Suite for cello solo, Op. 31 No. 2 Tragica (1991-93)
  • Suite for cello solo, Op. 31 No. 3 Vita et Mors (1991-93)
  • Suite for cello solo, Op. 50 No. 4 (1994-96) (Written for Emmanuelle Bertrand)
• Roumen Balyosov
  • Welcome XX Century for solo cello (2000)
  • Suite No. 5 for solo cello, Op. 70b Sonata variata (2000-2001) (dedicated to Clémentine Meyer) (ed Peer Music)
  • Suite No. 6 for cello solo Op. 88 (2004) (ed. Le Chant du Monde)
• Henk Badings
  • Sonata No. 2
• Rumen Balyozov
  • Rhapsodic Improvisation for cello No. 1 (4 min) (1971)
  • Rhapsodic Improvisation for cello No. 2 (5 min) (1979)
• Don Banks
  • Sequence for Solo Cello (1967)
• Granville Bantock
  • Sonata in G minor for solo cello (1924)
• George Barati
  • Piece for solo cello (1948)
  • Triple Exposure for unaccompanied cello (1967)
• Rami Bar-Niv
  • Improvisation for cello solo (5 min) (1997)
• Carmen Petra Basacopol
  • Suite for Violoncello solo Op. 48 No. 3 (1983)
• Arnold Bax
  • Rhapsodic Ballad (1939) ([1])

• Conrad Beck
  • Epigrams for cello solo, ( for Paul Sacher)

• Elizabeth Bell
  • Soliloquy for Solo Cello (1980)
• Paul Ben-Haim
  • Music for Violoncello Solo (9 min) (1974)
• Richard Rodney Bennett
  • Partita for solo cello (10 min) (2001)
  • Sonata for solo cello
  • Scena II for solo cello (10 min) (1973)
• Niels Viggo Bentzon
  • Sonata for cello solo Op. 110 (19 min) (1956)
  • Variations for Cello solo on "The Volga Boatmen", Op. 354 (21 min) (1974)
  • 16 Etudes for solo cello Op. 464 (18 min) (1984)
  • Sonata Op. 110
• Esteban Benzecry
  • Suite "Prisme du Sud (1970)
• Michael Berkeley
  • Iberian Notebook Suite for solo cello (15 min) (1980)
• Luciano Berio
  • Les mots sont allés (1978) (for Paul Sacher) ([2])
  • Sequenza XIV for solo cello (12 min) (2002)
  • Sequenza VIb for solo cello (16 min) (1981)
  • Chanson pour Pierre Boulez (Song for P. Boulez) for solo cello (3 min) (2000)
• Gunther Bialas
  • Romanze for solo cello (for Hoelscher) (1987)
• Marshall Bialosky
  • Fantasy for solo cello (1974)
• Jörg Birkenkötter
  • Solo for cello (1986)
• Marc Bleuse
  • Soleil blanc for cello solo
• Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
  • Suites 1–3 for solo cello (1956–7) (written for Zara Nelsova) ([3])
• Robert Paul Block
  • Fantasy for Cello Solo (1973)
• Karl Boelter
  • Of Two Minds for unaccompanied cello (6 min) (1978)
• William Bolcom
  • Suite in c minor for solo cello (17 min) (1994)
• Ennio Bolognini
  • Adagio an Allegro for solo cello
  • Fiesta Baska - Lamada Montanesa for solo cello
  • Seranata de Bolonini for solo cello
  • Seranata del Eco for solo cello
  • Serenata Del Gaucho for solo cello
  • Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Purcell
  • Cello's Prayer
• Benjamin Boone
  • Buffing the Gut: A Jazz Etude for Cello Solo
• Hans Bottermund - Janos Starker
  • Variations on a Theme by Paganini for unaccompanied cello)
• Reiner Bredemeyer (1929-1995)
  • Solo 1 for cello solo (1973)
  • Solo 6 for cello solo (written for H.J. Scheitzbach) (1980)
• Alvin Brehm
  • Variations for Cello Alone
• Benjamin Britten
  • Cello Suites (Britten)

Suite for Cello solo no 1, Op. 72 (1964)

Suite for Cello solo no 2, Op. 80 (1967)

Suite for Cello solo no 3, Op. 87 (1972)

• • Tema "Sacher," for solo cello (for Paul Sacher)
• Gregory Brown
  • Suite for solo cello
• Leo Brouwer
  • Sonata for Solo Cello (1960) ([4])
• Garrett Brynes
  • Sonata for solo cello (scordatura: IV = B; III = F) (7 min) (1993)
  • Sprocket! for cello solo (7 min) (2006)
• Sylvano Bussotti
  • Deborah Parker for cello solo (1987)
  • Variazione for violoncello solo

C

• John Cage
  • One⁸, for Cello Solo ([5]) (1991)
  • 59 1/2 Seconds for solo cello (1953)
  • Atlas eclipticallis for solo cello (1961)
  • Variations I (1958)
  • Etudes boreales for cello solo (1978)
• Elliott Carter
  • Figment, for solo cello (5 min) (1994)
  • Figment No. 2, Remembering Mr. Ives, for cello solo (2001)
• Gaspar Cassadó
  • Suite for Solo Cello
• Nicholas Chase
  • Underneath My Skin for solo cello (2002)
• Frederic Chopin
  • Etude in Ab Major Op. 25 No. 1 for cello solo (trans. Cassado)
• Dimiter Christoff
  • Reflections of a lonely cello (2000)
• Nigel Clarke
  • Spectroscope for solo cello (1987)
• William Coble
  • Sonata for solo cello (1980)
• Armand Coeck
  • Madreselva (Mother of the Forest) (1999)
• Michael Colgrass
  • Wolf for solo cello (18 min) (1975)
• Giuseppe Colombi (1635-1694)
  • Chiacona a Basso Solo for solo cello (1670)
  • Toccata da Violone Solo (Toccata for solo cello) (1670)
• John Corigliano
  • Fancy on a Bach air for violoncello solo (primired by Yo-Yo Ma ) (1997)
• Henry Dixon Cowell
  • For Unaccompanied Cello
  • Gravely and Vigoruously (in Memory of Kennedy) (Hymn & Fuguing Tune No. 17) for cello (1973)
• George Crumb
  • Cello Sonata (1955)
• Miklós Csemiczky
  • One minute Short Stories for cello solo

D

• Raffaele D'Alessandro
  • Intermezzo for cello solo Op. 55 (8 min) (1946)
• Luigi Dallapiccola
  • Adagio for Solo cello (1947)
  • Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagio (1945) (16 min)
• Jean-Luc Darbellay
  • Solo for cello solo (1997)
• Michael Daughterty
  • Jackie's Song for solo cello (2000)
• Avraham Daus
  • The Twelfth Sonnet for cello (1968)
• Johann Nepomuk David
  • 2 Solo Sonatas for cello
• Mario Davidovsky
  • Synchronisms No. 3 (1964), for cello and electronic sound
• Robert deMaine
  • Twelve Études-Caprices for solo cello Op. 31 (1999)
  • Unaccompanied Sonata for cello
• David Diamond
  • Sonata for Violoncello Alone (1959)
• Igor Dibák (1947)
  • Arietta for violoncello solo
• Paul-Heinz Dittrich
  • Cello Einsatz for cello solo (1975)
• Friedhelm Dohl
  • Fantasie - Kadenz for Violoncello solo [6]
• Josef Dorfman
  • Looking at Silence for cello (1983)
• Franco Donatoni (1927-2000)
  • Lame for solo cello (1982)
• John Downey
  • Lydian Suite for cello solo (1975)
• Zsolt Durkó
  • Solo Suite No. 1 for cello (1979)
• Tomas Dusatko
  • Melos II for solo cello
• Henri Dutilleux
  • Trois Strophes sur le Nom de Sacher (1976-82) (for Paul Sacher)

E

• David Eby
  • Celtic Passage for solo cello
• Gerald Eckert
  • Nôema for solo cello (1992/93)
• Søren Nils Eichberg
  • Variations on a theme by Niccolo Paganini for solo cello (2005)
• Hans Ulrich Engelmann
  • mini-music to siegfried palm Op 38 for Violoncello solo (1970)
• Sven Einar Englund
  • Suite for Solo Cello (1986)
• Gottfried von Einem
  • Music for solo cello Op. 108 (11 min) (1996)
• Pozzi Escot
  • Sonata for Solo Cello (7 min) (2002)

F

• Markus Faderudd
  • Ingrepp 2 for solo cello (1992)
• Veronika Faglicová (1992)
  • Variations for cello solo (2011)
• Evan Fein
  • Friday Night Fortune (2006)
• Morton Feldman
  • Projection I for solo cello (3 min) (1950)
  • Intersection IV for solo cello (3 min) (1953)
• David Fetherolf
  • Suite-Fantasia for Violoncello solo (22 min)
  • Suite for Violoncello Solo (5 min)
• Ross Lee Finney
  • Chromatic Fantasy In E for Violoncello Solo (1957)
• Graciane Finzi
  • Theme and Variations to el cant dels ocells (10 min)
• Elena Firsova
  • The Rest is Silence for violoncello solo (2002)
• Luboš Fišer (1935-1999)
  • Sonata for cello solo (1987)
• Tom Flaherty
  • Semi-Suite for solo cello (8 min) (1990)
  • Remembrance of Things Present (10 min) (2006)
• Marius Flothuis
  • Sonata Op. 2
• Alexandra Fol
  • Almost Serial for cello solo (1999)
• Lenka Foltynova
  • Safranbolu for solo cello (8 min) (2003)
• Wolfgang Fortner
  • Suite for Violoncello solo (Schott) (for Paul Sacher)
  • Zum Spielen für den 70. Geburtstag: Theme and Variationen for cello solo (1976)
  • Suite
• Henning Frederichs
  • Tefilah (after the 55th Psalm) for cello solo (1990)
• Ilse Fromm-Michaels
  • Suite for Cello solo Op. 15 (Sitkorski)

G

• Domenico Gabrielli
  • Seven Ricercari for solo cello (1689)
• Domenico Galli (1649-1697)
  • Trattenimento musicale 12 Unaccompanied Cello Sonatas (pieces) (1691)
• Orlando Garcia
  • Crystalline Sounds of the Night for solo cello
• Glenn Gass
  • Shojoshin-in chants for solo cello (5 movements)
• Ada Gentile
  • Pervioloncellosolo (for cello solo) (1996)
• Michael Gielen
  • Weitblick Sonata for cello solo (1991)
• Alberto Ginastera (1916-83)
  • Puneña No. 2 for solo cello, Op. 45 (Hommage à Paul Sacher)
• Detlev Glanert
  • Fünf Wüstenlieder (five Desert Songs) for solo cello (7 min) (1999)
• Gerald Glynn
  • Changes for Cello (1975)
• Vladimír Godár (1956)
  • Passacaglia for cello solo g minor
• Friedrich Goldmann
  • Cellomusik for solo cello (12 min) (1974)
• Marin Goleminov
  • Sonata for solo cello (8 min) (1969)
• Osvaldo Golijov
  • Omaramor (1991) for solo cello
• Frederic Goossen
  • Music for cello alone (1979)
• Leonid Grabovsky
  • Hlas I for unaccompanied cello (1990)
• Deidre Gribbin
  • The Blue Poet for solo cello (10 min) (2001)
• Sean Grissom
  • Japanese Suite for solo cello (9 min)
  • Bowin' for solo cello
• Robert Gross
  • Epode
• Sofia Gubaidulina
  • Ten Preludes for solo cello (1974)

H

• Alois Haba
  • Fantasy in quarter-tones for cello solo (1924)
• Parashkev Hadzhiev
  • Haidushko Horo for solo cello (1997)
• Daron Hagen
  • Suite for Solo Cello (1985)
  • Higher, Louder, Faster, an editorial etude (1987)

• Cristobal Halffter
  • Variations for cello on the theme eSACHERe (for Paul Sacher)
• Hermann Haller
  • Trois pieces pour violoncelle seul (3 pieces for solo cello)
• Brooke Halpin
  • Serenata for unaccompanied cello
• George Frideric Handel
  • Air and Variations "The Harmonious Blacksmith" from Suite for Harpsichord in E major, HWV 430 arr. Gaspar Cassadó
  • Passacaglia - Theme and Variations for solo cello (arr. Zinoviy Dynov based on the Halvorsen version)
• John Harbison
  • Suite for Solo Cello (8 minutes) (1994)
• Jonathan Harvey
  • Curve with Plateaux for Helen Verney (1983)
• Joseph Haselbach
  • Abendlied for cello solo (1994)
• Teppo Hauta-aho
  • Improvatio for solo cello (10 min) (1971)
• Paul Hedwall
  • Three verses for unaccompanied cello (1979)
• Bernhard Heiden
  • Variations on "Lilliburlero"
• Paavo Heininen
  • Cantilena I Op. 24c (7 min) (1970)
  • Cantilena II Op. 26 (14 min) (1970)
• Petr Hejný (*1956)
  • Metal Sonata for cello solo (1983)
• Hans Werner Henze
  • Capriccio for Cello solo (for Paul Sacher) (1976/1981)
  • Serenade for cello solo (1949)
• Jörg Herchet
  • Komposition for Violoncello solo (1979)
• Michael Hersch
  • Sonata No. 1 for unaccompanied cello (35 min) (1994)
  • Sonata No. 2 for unaccompanied cello (40 min) (2001)
• Hans-Joachim Hespos
  • For cello solo (1964)
• Jacques Hétu
  • Variations for cello solo Op. 11b (1967)
• Volker Heyn
  • Blues in B-flat for solo cello (1981)
• Jennifer Higdon
  • Suite for solo cello (2002)
• Paul Hindemith
  • Sonata for Cello solo, Op. 25 No. 3 (1919)
• Dorothy Hindman
  • drowningXnumbers for solo amplified cello (15min) (1994)
• Joel Hoffman
  • Concert-Study (Fantasie) for solo cello (10 min) (1977)
  • unaccompanied minor for cello solo (5 min) (2007)
• York Höller
  • Sonata for solo cello (1968)
• Heinz Holliger
  • Chaconne for cello solo (for Paul Sacher) (1975)
  • Trema for Violoncello solo (1981)
• Vagn Holmboe
  • Solo Cello Sonata M. 241 (1968–9)
• Imogen Holst
  • Fall of the Leaf for solo cello
• Colin Holter
  • Variations: Go Rin No Sho for solo cello (2003)
• Alfred Holzhausen
  • NGC 7027 for solo cello (2000)
• Joaquim Homs
  • Arbres al vent for solo cello (5 min) (1992)
  • Soliloqui num. 4 (4 min) (1994)
  • Capvespre vora el mar (4 min) (1994)
• Arthur Honegger
  • Paduana for solo cello in G major H181 (1945)
• Gerhard Müller-Hornbach
  • An der Schwelle for Violoncello solo (1990)
• Alan Hovhaness
  • Yakamochi for cello solo Op. 193 (1965) (15 min)
• Petar Hristoskov
  • Fantasia for solo cello Op. 15 (1967)
  • Ruchenitsa for cello solo (1997)
• Klaus Huber
  • Transpositio ad Infinitum für ein virtuoses Solocello (for Paul Sacher)
• Nicolaus A. Huber
  • Der Ausrufer steigt ins Innere for solo cello (1984)
• Tobias Hume (1569-1645)
  • Kleine Stücke für Cello solo (Small pieces for cello solo) Book 1 (originally for Gamba) (arranged by Sabina Lehrmann)
  • (Cello solo pieces) Book 2

I

• Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)
  • Etude-Caprice pour un tombeau de Chopin for solo cello (1949)
  • Ghirlarzana for solo cello (1950)
• Yoshiro Irino
  • Three movements for cello solo (12 min) (1969)

J

• Laurie A. Jarski
  • Solo for unaccompanied cello (1990)
• William Jeths
  • Bella Figura for cello solo (1959)
• Jan Jirásek (*1955)
  • Dilema for cello solo (1987)
• Ben Johnston
  • Toccata for Laurien Laufman (1984)

• David Johnstone
  • Fantasy on a theme of J.S.Bach (1999)
  • Tango Concierto (2001)
  • Virtuoso Concert Pieces for Solo Cello (15 Pieces) rev.2006

• Betsy Jolas
  • Scion for cello solo (1974)
  • Episode cinquième for cello solo (1983)
• Andre Jolivet
  • Suite en Concert for cello solo (1965)
• Christian Jost
  • Laulos for solo cello (2005)
• Gordon Jacob
  • Serenade for solo cello
  • Divertimento for solo cello
• Karl Henrik Juusela
  • Apollo and Daphne for solo cello (5 min) (1987)

K

• Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky
  • Etudes in Major and Minor for cello solo Op. 68(1961)
• Mauricio Kagel
  • Unguis incarnatus est
  • Siegfriedp‘ for cello (1971)
• Istvan Kardos
  • Capriccio for solo cello (1958)
• Tommi Kärkkäinen
  • Variations for solo cello (1999)
• Hugo Kauder
  • Suite for unaccompanied cello (1925
  • Second Suite for unaccompanied cello (1924)
• Frederick Kaufman
  • Inner Sanctum for solo cello (10 min) (1999)
• Daniel Kessner
  • 11 Studies for solo violoncello (1990-91)
• Jin Hi Kim
  • Kee Maek #4 for cello solo (9 min) (1995)
• Leon Kirchner
  • For Cello Solo (1986) ([7])
• Irena Kosíková
  • Stopy for Cello Solo (2005)
• Volker David Kirchner
  • Und Salomo sprach (4 min) (and Salomo spoke) for cello solo (1987)
  • Aus dem Buch der Konige 3 meditations for solo cello (13 min) (2000)
  • Threnos for solo cello (written for the Feuermann Competition 2006)
• Aram Khachaturian
  • Sonata-Fantasy in C major for cello solo, Opus 104 (1974)
• Adam Khudoyan
  • Sonata No. 1 for solo cello (1961)
  • Sonata No. 2 for solo cello (1984)
  • Sonata No. 3 for solo cello (1993)
• Juliane Klein
  • Aus der Wand die Rinne 1 for cello solo (1996)
• Julius Klengel
  • Suite in d-minor, op.56
  • Caprice in the Form of a Chaconne (with free use of a Theme by Robert Schumann) Op.43
• Josef Klíč
  • V půli kopce 13 Compositions for solo cello (2004)
• Zoltán Kodály
  • Cello Solo Sonata op. 8 (1915)
  • Capriccio for unaccompanied cello (1915)
• Nikolai Korndorf
  • Passacaglia for solo cello (1997)
• Irena Kosíková
  • Stopy for cello solo (2004)
• Ernst Krenek
  • Suite for Cello Solo op. 84 (1939)
• Hanna Kulenty
  • Still Life with a Cello for cello solo (1998)

L

• Ezra Laderman
  • Partita for solo cello (27 min) (1972)
  • A Single Voice for solo cello (9 min) (1995)
  • Fantasy for solo cello (Schirmer) (15 min) (1998)
  • A Single Line for solo cello (2004)
• Fung Lam
  • Caged for solo cello (with two bows) (2006)
• Henri Lazarof
  • Momenti for solo cello (16 min) (1987)
• Konrad Lechner
  • Strada Senza Ritorno for cell solo (1978)
• Benjamin Lees
  • Night Spectres for unaccompanied cello (2000)
• Kenneth Leighton
  • Sonata for cello solo Op. 52 (1967) (19 min)
• Troy Lennerd
  • Piece for solo violoncello (2005)
• Tania Leon
  • 4 Pieces for solo cello (1981)
• Yuriy Leonovich
  • Fantasie-Impromptu, Op.58 (2004)
• Milcho Leviev
  • Reflected Meditation for cello (4 min) (1980)
  • Augsburg Polka for cello solo (4 min) (1998)
• György Ligeti
  • Cello sonata for solo cello (1948-1953)
• Magnus Lindberg
  • Stroke for solo cello (4'20) (1984)
• Vassily Lobanov
  • Fantasie for cello solo Op. 48 (1987)
• Pietro Locatelli
  • Il Laberinto Armonico (transcription for cello solo by Rohan de Saram) (solo cello)
• Alain Louvier
  • Raga for voloncello solo
• Alvin Lucier
  • Indian Summer (1993)
• Witold Lutosławski
  • Sacher Variation (1975) (for Paul Sacher)

M

• Enrico Mainardi
  • Sonata breve for violoncello solo (Schott) (1942)
  • Sonata for cello (1959)
• Ivo Malec
  • Arco-1 (published by "Salabert") (1987)
• Michio Mamiya
  • Sonata for violoncello solo (25 min) (1968-9)
• Tigran Manssurjan
  • Stucke (Pieces for solo cello)

Das Buch (The Book)

Capriccio for solo cello (5 min)

Lamento

Madrigal in Memoriam Oleg Kagen

Suite

• Pamela J. Marshall
  • Soliloquy for Solo Cello
• Heinz Marti
  • Ombra for violoncello solo (1979)
• Donald Martino
  • Parisonatina Al’Dodecafonia for violoncello solo (1964)
• Eugen-Mihai Marton
  • Solo for cello (1971)
• Colin Matthews
  • Palinode for cello solo (1992)
• David Matthews
  • Fantasia for cello Op. 8 (1971)
  • Songs and Dances of Mourning for cello Op. 12 (1976)
  • Journeying Songs for solo cello Op. 95 (2004)
• Jiří Matys (*1927)
  • Fantasie and Rondo for cello solo (1982)
• Rudolf Matz
  • 11 Caprices for Unaccompanied Cello
  • Ombres et lumières (Lights and Shadows) for solo cello
  • Suite in C major for violoncello solo
  • Tema con Variazioni for violoncello solo
• Toshiro Mayuzumi
  • Bunraku for solo cello (1960)
• John McCabe
  • Partita (1966) (12 min)
• Matthew McConnell
  • Sonata for Solo Cello (2007)
• Tilo Medek
  • Schattenspiele for cello solo (1978)
  • Eine Stele fur Bernd Alois Zimmermann for cello solo (1976)
• Krzysztof Meyer
  • Sonata for violoncello solo (1959)
  • Moment musicial for cello (1976)
  • Monologue for cello solo (1990)
• Aaron Minsky
  • Ten American Cello Etudes (1988)
  • Three Concert Etudes for solo cello (1990)
  • Judaic Concert Suite for solo cello (2003)
• Eric Moe (1954- )
  • The Lone Cello (1998) for 'cello solo (11 min)
• Robert Moevs
  • Heptachronon for solo cello (8 min) (1969)
• Roberto Molinelli
  • Crystalligence for Violoncello solo (commissioned by Enrico Dindo) (8 min) (2005)
• Dexter Morrill
  • Fantasy for cello solo (1995)
• Roland Moser
  • Wie ein Walzer auf Glas for solo cello (1986)
• Robert Muczynski
  • Gallery: Suite for solo cello (on paintings of Charles Burchfield) (1966)
• Henriette Müller
  • Fantasie No. 1 version for solo violoncello (6 min) (2004)
• Isabel Mundry
  • Komposition for solo cello (1992/93)
  • Komposition for solo cello (1997)
• Igal Myrtenbaum
  • La Sefira for cello

N

• Marc Neikrug
  • Sonata for solo cello (1967)
• George Newson
  • Variations for cello alone (1957)
• Maria A. Niederberger
  • Daedaleum for solo cello (1983)
• Tokuhide Niimi
  • Ohju for Violoncello solo (1987)
• Lazar Nikolov
  • From the Music of Orpheus II for cello solo (2002)
• Joaquin Nin-Culmell
  • Suite for Cello solo
• Akira Nishimura
  • Threnody for solo cello (11 min) (1998)
• Lior Navok
  • Fantasy for Cello solo (5 min) (1998)

O

• Mark O'Connor
  • Appalachia Waltz (composer's own transcription of original version for solo violin)
• Paul Rovsing Olsen
  • Partita for solo cello Op. 75
• Matthew Owens
  • Kol Nidrei for solo cello (10 min) (1998)
  • The Rowell Sonata for unaccompanied cello (25 min) (1996)
• Terry Winter Owens
  • Cellestial Music, Book 1 for solo cello (2003)

P

• Niccolò Paganini
  • 24 caprices for cello solo (Arranged by Luigi Silva) [8]

1 in G major

2 in D minor

3 in E minor

4 in C minor

5 in A minor

6 in G minor

7 in A minor

8 in E flat major

9 in G major

10 in G minor

11 in C major

12 in A flat major

13 in B flat major

14 in E flat major

15 in D minor

16 in B minor

17 in E flat major

18 in C major

19 in E flat major

20 in D major

21 in C major

22 in F major

23 in E flat major

24 in A minor

• Younghi Pagh-Paan
  • AA-GA I for solo cello (1984)
• Hilda Paredes
  • Zuhuy Kak for solo cello (1997)
• Robert Parris
  • Fantasy and Fugue for solo cello (10 min) (1954)
• Paul Patterson
  • Suite Op. 62 for cello solo
• Krzysztof Penderecki
  • Capriccio per Siegfried Palm, for solo cello (1968)
  • Per Slava, for solo cello (1986)
  • Divertimento, for solo cello (1994)
• George Perle
  • Cello Sonata (1947)
  • Hebrew Melodies, for solo cello
• Vincent Persichetti
  • Solo Cello Sonata op. 54
• Gyula Petendi
  • 9 Solo pieces for solo cello
• Carlo Alfredo Piatti
  • 12 Caprices, Op. 25
  • Capriccio op. 22 for cello solo on the aria, cavatina, "I tuoi frequenti palpiti", from Niobe by Giovanni Pacini
• Alfred Peschek
  • Cellare for cello solo (2005)
• Astor Piazzolla
  • 6 Tango Etudes For Solo Cello (arr. Karttunen)
• Simeon Pironkoff
  • Entrata e Capriccio for solo cello (11 min) (1980)
• Robert H. P. Platz
  • Senko-hana-bi (In Yoshitake's garden) for cello (1997-2000)
• Conrad Pope
  • Sonata for Violoncello alone (12 min) (1972)
• Sergei Prokofiev
  • Solo Cello Sonata op. 133 (1953) (completed by Blok in 1996)
  • March from Music for Children, Op. 65 - (ed Piatigorsky)
• Henri Pusher
  • Paganiana assisted for solo cello (35 min) (1982)
  • Nineteenth root of eight quarters for cello solo (15 min) (1976)
• Veli-Matti Puumala
  • Epitaph for solo cello (1995)

R

• Shulamit Ran
  • Fantasy Variations for cello solo (2003)
• Alexander Raskatov
  • Kyrie Eleison for solo cello (1992)
• Einojuhani Rautavaara
  • Sonata for Cello Solo (14 min) (1969)
• Max Reger
  • Suite No 1 in G major Suites (3) for Cello solo, Op. 131c (1914)
  • Suite No 2 in D minor Suites (3) for Cello solo, Op. 131c
  • Suite No 3 in A minor Suites (3) for Cello solo, Op. 131c
• Aribert Reimann
  • Solo II for solo cello (1981)
• Heiner Reitz
  • 12 Caprices für Violoncello Solo (recorded on Telos TLS 025)
• Phillip Rhodes
  • Three Pieces for solo cello (6 min)
• Alan Ridout
  • Partita for cello solo (1959)
• Wolfgang Rihm (*1952)
  • Grat for Violoncello solo (1972)
• Frank la Rocca
  • Secret Thoughts for unaccompanied cello (10 min)(1986)
• Joaquin Rodrigo
  • Como una fantasía (8 min) (1979)
• Scott Roller
  • Mutamusic for solo cello (1983)
• Ned Rorem
  • After Reading Shakespeare Nine movements for cello alone (written for Sharon Robinson) (21 min) (1980)
• Hilding Rosenberg (1892 - 1985)
  • Intermezzo (1974)
• Bruce Craig Roter
  • Sonatine Solo Cello
• Miklos Rozsa
  • Toccata capricciosa for solo cello op. 36 (in memory of Piatigorsky) (1979)
• Edmund Rubbra
  • Improvisation, for Solo Cello Op. 124 (published in 1967)
• Peter Ruzicka
  • Sonata for Violoncello solo Op. 9 (12 min) (1969)
  • Stille Four Epilogues for Violoncello solo (10 min) (1976)

S

• Kaija Saariaho
  • Petals (1988)
  • Près (1992)
  • Spins & Spells for cello (1997)
  • Sept Papillons (2000)
• Dimiter Sagaev
  • Fresco for solo cello (2002)
  • Nocturne fro solo cello (2001)
• Aulis Sallinen
  • Elegy for Sebastian Knight for Solo Cello, Op. 10 (1964) (5')
  • Sonata for Solo Cello Op. 26 (1971) (12')
• David Sampson (composer)
  • Three Arguments for unaccompanied cello (1993)
• Marc Satterwhite
  • Witnesses of Time (Four studies on photographs by Flor Garduño) (2003)
• Ahmed Adnan Saygun
  • Partita for solo cello Op. 31 (1954)
• Giacinto Scelsi
  • Triphon (1956)
  • Trilogie (1957/65)
  • Voyages (1985)
  • Maknongan (1976)
• Gerhard Schedl
  • Aus Zwei Stücke aus der Schatz-Truhe (Written for Geringas) (3 min)
• Peter Schickele (P. D. Q. Bach)
  • Vermillion Suite for solo cello (12 min) (1987)
  • Suite No. 1 for Cello All By Its Lonesome
  • Suite No. 2 for Cello All By Its Lonesome
• Harold Schiffman
  • Sonata Quasi una Fantasia for solo violoncello (5 min) (1977)
  • Kate's Suite for Solo violoncello (7 min) (1999)
  • Suite from Wake for solo violoncello (10 min) (2004)
• Thomas Daniel Schlee
  • Three Signs Op. 53 for violoncello solo (2002)
• Artur Schnabel (1882-1951)
  • Sonata for Solo Cello (in four movements) (25 min) (written for Piatigorsky) (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 for Violoncello solo
• Gunther Schuller
  • Fantasy, Opus 19 (1960)
• Salvatore Sciarrino
  • Due Studi for cello solo (1947)
  • Ai Limiti Della Notte for cello solo (1984)
• Francesco Scipriani (1678-1753)
  • Principij da imparare a suonare il violoncello e con 12 toccate a solo (12 Toccaten) for cello solo (ca 1720)
• Ciro G. Scotto
  • Introspection for solo cello (1999)
• Peter Sculthorpe
  • Requiem for Cello Alone (1979)
  • Threnody for solo cello (In memory of Stuart Challender) (1991)
  • Into the Dreaming for cello alone (1993)
  • Tailitnama Song for cello solo (1997)
• Anatolijus Senderovas
  • Cantus II for solo cello (written for David Geringas) (8 min) (1993)
• Roger Sessions
  • Six Pieces for Solo Cello (1966)
• Bright Sheng
  • Diu Diu Dong (Seven Tunes Heard in China) (2 min) (1995)
• Rodion Shchedrin (1932- )
  • Russian Tunes (Russkie Naigryshi) Op. 79 for cello solo (1990)
• Makoto Shinohara
  • Evolution for cell solo (1986-90)
• Alan Shockley
  • Abschrift von unbekannter Hand for solo violoncello (2004)
• Jean Sibelius
  • Theme and Variations for Cello solo in d minor (12 min) (written in 1887) (discovered in 1995)
• Paul Siskind
  • Three Epiphanies for cello solo (12 min) (1987)
• Haskell Small
  • Suite for solo Cello
• Dmitry Nikolayevich Smirnov
  • Monogram for solo cello Op. 58A (3 min) (1990)
  • Elegy in memory of Edison Denisov for solo cello Op. 97a (1997)
  • Family Portrait for solo cello Op. 108 (9 min) (1998)
  • Postlude in memory of Alfred Schnittke for solo cello Op. 112A (9 min) (2000)
  • Bagatelle for cello solo Op. 128A (2 min) (2001)
  • Saga to S.A. Gubaidulina for cello solo Op. 130 (7 min) (2001)
• Naresh Sohal
  • Monody for solo cello (3 min) (1976)
  • Shades III for cello solo
  • Shades IV for cello solo (14 min) (1983)
• Giovanni Sollima
  • La luna for solo cello (7 min) (1986)
  • 6 Caprices for solo cello (1987)
  • Segno for cello solo (6 min) (1992)
  • Anno uno for cello solo (8 min) (1993)
  • The Songlines for solo cello (1993)
  • Lamentatio for cello solo (5 min) (1998)
  • Pasolini fragments for cello (5 min) (1998)
  • Alone for solo cello (7 min) (1999)
• Øystein Sommerfeldt
  • Monologi for cello solo op. 45,(7 min)(ca. 1976)
• Elizabeth Start
  • Union for solo cello (3 min) (2006)
• Miloš Štědroň (*1942)
  • Dances of King Lear for cello solo (1995)
• Halsey Stevens
  • Sonata for Solo Cello (five movements - Introduction, Ciaccona, Scherzo, Notturno, Finale) (dedicated to Gabor Rejto) (1958)
• Nikolai Stoikov

Sonata for cello solo No. 1, Op. 39 (11 min) (1993)

• Mark Summer
  • Julie-O
• Viktor Suslin
  • Chanson contre raison Sonata for solo cello (13 min)(1984)
  • Schatz-insel for cello solo (3 min) (1990)
• Robert Suter
  • Elegie for cello solo (11 min) (1969)
• Randall Svane
  • Suite No. 1 for unaccompanied cello (1979)
  • Suite No. 2 for unaccompanied cello (1982)
  • Suite No. 3 for unaccompanied cello (1988)

T

• Emil Tabakov
  • Bis for solo cello (4 min) (1982)
• Huguety Tagell
  • Flamenco for solo cello
• Luigi Taglietti (1668-1715)
  • 8 pieces for cello solo (1697)
• Dimitar Tapkoff
  • Sonata for cello solo (7 min) (1978)
• Giuseppe Tartini
  • L'Arte dell'Arco (The Art of the Bow) 50 variations on Correlli's Gavotte from op.5 no.10 for cello solo (1758) (transcribed by Paul Bazelaire)
• Hristo Tsanoff
  • Seven concert etude for solo violoncello, rom the series concert etudes " Play of the mind "(2005)link
• John Tavener
  • Thrinos for cello solo (1990)
  • Chant for cello (1995)
• Boris Tchaikovsky
  • Suite for cello solo (in six movements) (1946)
  • Suite in five movements for solo cello (written for Rostropovich) (1960)
• Alexander Tcherepnin
  • Suite for Solo Cello op. 76 (1946)
• Georg Philipp Telemann
  • 12 Fantasias for cello solo
• James Tenney
  • Cellogram for Joel Krosnick (1971)
• Dimitri Terzakis
  • Omega 1 for cello solo (1978)
• Augusta Read Thomas
  • Spring Song (1995)
• Ton That Tiet
  • Bois terre for cello solo
• Boris Tishchenko
  • Sonata for Solo Cello No. 1 Op. 18 (1960)
  • Sonata for Solo Cello No. 2 Op. 76 (1979)
• Ernst Toch
  • Impromptu for cello solo in three movements Op. 90c (for Piatigorsky) (8 min) (1963)
• Paul Tortelier
  • Suite in D minor for solo cello (1944)
• Donald Francis Tovey
  • Solo Cello Sonata op. 50 in D
• Aaron Travers
  • Gertrude's Child for violoncello solo (11 min) (2002-05)
• Sulkhan Fyodorovich Tsintsadze (1925-1992)
  • Chonguri for cello solo (written for Daniil Shafran)(1978)
  • Sonata for cello solo (1975)
• Katsuhiro Tsubono
  • Solo cello piece
• Tapio Tuomela
  • Pendulum for solo cello (1985)

U

• Chinary Ung
  • Kshe Buon for solo cello (1981)

V

• Fabio Vacchi
  • In alba mia,dir... (1995)

• Moisei Vainberg see Mieczyslaw Weinberg

• Janos Vajda
  • Just for you for Cello solo (1985)
• Pēteris Vasks
  • Gramata cellam (Das Buch) for solo cello (1978)
• Gary Verkade
  • Specimen for solo cello (1997)
• Sándor Veress
  • Sonata for cello solo (1935) ([9])
• Carl Vine
  • Inner World (for solo cello with CD accompaniment) (1994)
• Param Vir
  • Flame for solo cello (12 min) (1997)
• Mihaly Virizlay
  • Sonata for Unaccompanied Cello (1965)
• Giovanni Battista Vitali (1644-1692)
  • Partite per il Violone (Partita for solo cello) (1680)
  • Partita sopra diverse Sonate (14 min)
• Wladimir Vogel
  • Poeme for violoncello solo (1974)

W

• Wolfram Wagner
  • Sonata Op. 31 for violoncello solo (1990)
• Gwyneth Walker
  • In Memoriam for cello (1980)
• William Walton
  • Passacaglia for solo cello (written for Rostropovich)(1980)
• Meira Warshauer
  • In Memoriam September 11, 2001 for solo cello (5 min) (2001)
• Ben Weber
  • Dance for unaccompanied cello op. 28 (1948)
  • Dance Op. 31 for solo cello (1949)
• Mieczysław Weinberg (or Vainberg)
  • 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)
  • Twenty-four Preludes Op. 100 for solo cello (1968) Sikorski Edition
• Egon Wellesz
  • Cello Sonata op. 31 (1920)
  • Suite for Cello Solo op. 39 (1924) ([10])
• Jacques Wildberger
  • Study for violoncello solo (6 min) (1971)
  • tantôt libre, tantôt recherchée for cello solo (7 min) (1992-3)
• David Wilde
  • The Cellist of Sarajevo - A Lament in Rondo Form for Solo Cello, op. 12
• Adrian Williams
  • Solo Cello Sonata (1976-77)
• Richard Edward Wilson
  • Lord Chesterfield to his Son (1987)
  • Music for Solo Cello (1971)
• Stefan Wolpe
  • Piece for Cello Alone (1966)
• Charles Wuorinen
  • Cello Variations I to Fred Sherry (1970)
  • Cello Variations II (1975)
  • Cello Variations III (1997)

X

• Iannis Xenakis
  • Kottos (1977)
  • Nomos alpha (1966)

Y

• Victoria Yagling
  • Suite for Violoncello Solo No. 1
  • Suite for Violoncello Solo No. 2
• James Yannatos
  • Sonata for solo cello (15 min)
• Yehuda Yannay
  • I can't fathom it... for solo cello (1993)
• Eugène Ysaÿe
  • Cello Sonata op. 28 (1924)
• Isang Yun
  • Glissées for Cello Solo (1970)
  • Seven Etudes for Cello Solo (1993)

Z

• Roger Zahab
  • Amnesia Kiss for cello solo (10 min) (1995)
  • An Opening Piece fro solo cello (2.5 min)
  • for Jim Hinkley for solo cello (1 min) (1989)
  • reaching after for solo cello (scordature) (9 min) (2003)
  • reMemoring Peace for solo cello (2 min) (1989)
• Edson Zampronha
  • Toccata for solo violoncello (4 min) (1989)
• Bernd Alois Zimmermann
  • Sonata for cello solo (1959-60)
  • Four short studies for cello solo (1970)