List of Compositions Featuring the Cello

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This is a list of compositions that feature the violoncello, including solo works, sonatas, concerti, transcriptions and even chamber music pieces that feature the cello.
Order is by surname of composer and also LCC classification method.

Contents

Solo Cello

Albrecht, Ludwig

Alexander, Joseph

Alexanian, Diran

Anonymous

Aubert, Pierre François Olivier

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Baillot, Pierre

Baudiot, Charles Nicolas

Baumgärtner, Johann Baptist

Barbier, Jean

Beischer-Matyó, Tamás

Benito, Cosme José de

Berteau, Martin

Boccherini, Luigi

Bouma, Hugo

Bréval, Jean-Baptiste

Brückner, Oscar

Bukinik, Mikhail

Burke, James C.

Cossmann, Bernhard

Cuccoli, Arturo

Davydov, Karl

Dall'Abaco, Joseph

Dotzauer, Justus Friedrich

Duport, Jean-Louis

Feuillard, Louis

Fischer, Carl August

Fitzenhagen, Wilhelm

Flüeler, Joachim Karl Melchior

Forino, Luigi

Franchomme, Auguste

Fuchs-Schönbach, Ernst

Gabrielli, Domenico

Galli, Domenico

Girtain IV, Edgar

Grayson, Martin

Grützmacher, Friedrich

Gunn, John

Hallman, Joseph

Hammer, Xaver

Harrington, Jeffrey Michael

Heberlein, Hermann

Hegner, Anton

Hindemith, Paul

Karjinsky, Nicholas

Klengel, Julius

Kodály, Zoltán

Kotynia, Szymon

Kummer, Friedrich August

Lee, Sebastian

Leonovich, Yuriy

Lindley, Robert

Mandozzi, Orfeo

Merk, Joseph

Minyar-Beloruchev, Konstantin

Moja, Leonardo

Mojica, Natanael

Mollenhauer, Eduard

Moreno Sabio, José Miguel

Munck, Ernest de

Muntz-Berger, Joseph

Paganini, Niccolò

Piatti, Carlo Alfredo

Popper, David

Quarenghi, Guglielmo

Rabaud, Hippolyte François

Rachelle, Pietro

Raoul, Jean Marie

Reger, Max

Reinagle, Joseph

Romberg, Bernhard

Rosenthal, Yakov

Rüdinger, Fritz Albert Christian

Sánchez, José Luis

St. George Tucker, Tui

Schenck, Johann

Schröder, Carl

Schuster, Vincenz

Ševčík, Otakar (Sevcik)

Stiastny, Jan

Straeten, Edmund S J van der

Szuk, Leopold

Tartini, Giuseppe

Telemann, Georg Philipp

Tillière, Joseph Bonaventure

Uber, Alexander

Various

Vidal, Pablo

Werner, Josef

Ysaÿe, Eugène

Zwaag, Wim

Violoncello/Organ

Caplet, André

Fitzenhagen, Wilhelm

Goltermann, Georg

Guilmant, Alexandre

Huré, Jean

Kirchner, Theodor

Klengel, Julius

Merkel, Gustav Adolf

Wermann, Oskar

Violoncello/Piano

Abbiate, Louis

Achron, Joseph

Agazzi, Gaetano

Aguilar, Emanuel and St. Szczepanowski

Albrecht, Ludwig Carl

Alkan, Charles-Valentin

Allen, Paul Hastings

Aloiz, Vladislav Frantskovich

Anonymous

Ansorge, Conrad

Antoniotto, Giorgio

Arensky, Anton

Ariosti, Attilio (1666-1729)

Ascher, Joseph

Ashton, Algernon Bennett Langton

Asioli, Bonifacius

Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel

Bach, Johann Christian

Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Baci, Adolfo

Bakalian, Craig

Bantock, Granville

Barth, Rudolph

Baton, Rhené Emmanuel

Batta, Alexandre

Baur, Jean

Bayrhoffer, Carl

Bazilevsky, Georgy

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Belkin, Alan

Benda, Franz

Benedict, Julius and Batta, A.

Bennett, William Sterndale

Bernard, Émile

Berson, Michel

Berteau, Martin

Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von

Biéville, Francis de

Biene, Auguste van

Bilstin, Joury

Birckenstock, Johann Adam

Bizet, Georges

Blahetka, Leopoldina

Blanc, Adolphe

Blech, Leo

Bloch, Ernest

Bobrowicz, Jan Nepomucen

Boccherini, Luigi Rodolfo

Bockmühl, Robert Emile

Boëllmann, Léon

Boisdeffre, René de

Boissaux, Joachim

Boni, Pietro Gaetano

Bonis, Mel

Bononcini, Giovanni

Bortkiewicz, Sergei Eduardovich

Borodin, Alexander Porfirevich

Bosmans, Henriette

Bossi, Marco Enrico

Boulnois, Joseph

Braga, Gaetano

Brahms, Johannes

Breval, Jean-Baptiste

Bridge, Frank

Bruch, Max

Brückner, Oscar

Brukenthal, Bertha von

Burgmuller, Johann

Busoni, Ferruccio

Caix d'Hervelois, Louis de

Campioni, Carlo Antonio

Caplet, André

Caporale, Andrea

Čart, Jiří

Casella, Alfredo

Casella, Cesar

Cellitti, Venanzio

Cervetto, Giacobbe Basevi

Chaminade, Cécile

Charpentier, Antoine

Chausson, Ernest

Chavagnat, Edouard

Chevignard, Georges

Chopin, Frédéric and Franchomme, Auguste

Chopin, Frédéric

Cilèa, Francesco

Cirri, Giovanni Battista

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel

Converse, Frederick Shepherd

Cor-de-Lass, José

Corelli, Arcangelo

Cossmann, Bernhard

Couperin, François

Cuccoli, Arturo

Cui, César

Curti, Carlo

Dalla Bella, Domenico

D'Ambrosio, Alfredo

Danilevsky, V.

Dargomyzhsky, Aleksandr

David, Felicien

David, Ferdinand

Davies, Henry Walford

Davis, John David

Davydov, Karl Juljewitsch

Debussy, Claude

Delius, Frederick

Delune, Louis

Destenay, Edouard

Diémer, Louis

Dietrich, Albert Hermann

Disclez, Joseph

Dittersdorf, Carl Ditters von

Donizetti, Gaetano

Dotzauer, Friedrich

Dresden, Sem

Drdla, František Alois

Drigo, Riccardo

Dubois, Théodore

Dumas, Louis

Dumon, F. J.

Dunkler, Emile

Dupin, Paul

Duport, Jean Pierre

Dupuits, Jean-Baptiste

Dvořák, Antonín

Eccles, Henry

Eichborn, Hermann Ludwig

Elgar, Edward

Elling, Catharinus

Engels, H.

Emmanuel, Maurice

Erlanger, Gustav

Ernst, Heinrich Wilhelm

Eschmann, Johann Carl

Esposito, Michele

Ewald, Victor

Fabricius, Jacob

Fauconier, Benoit Constant

Fauré, Gabriel

Faure, Jean-Baptiste

Feltzer, W. H.

Fesca, Alexander

Fesch, Willem de

Ferroud, Pierre-Octave

Field, John

Fine, Vivian

Fischer, Adolphe

Fitzenhagen, Wilhelm

Flament, Edouard

Florimo, Francesco

Foote, Arthur

Forqueray, Antoine

Foster, Stephen

Foulds, John

Franchomme, Auguste

Franck, César

Franck, Eduard

Franco-Mendès, Jacques

Francoeur, François

Franz, Oscar

Frey, Emil

Friml, Rudolf

Fuchs, Robert

Gaito, Constantino

Gabrielli, Domenico

Gade, Niels

Galliard, Johann Ernst

Galuppi, Baldassare

Gasparini, Quirino

Gernsheim, Friedrich

Gillet, Ernest

Giraud, François-Joseph

Glass, Louis

Glazunov, Alexander

Glière, Reinhold

Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Gnesin, Mikhail Fabianovich

Godard, Benjamin Louis Paul

Godowsky, Leopold

Goens, Daniel Van

Goltermann, Georg Eduard

Goossens, Eugene

Gounod, Charles - Bach, J.S.

Grädener, Carl Georg Peter

Granados, Enrique

Graun, Karl Heinrich

Grazioli, Giovanni Battista

Grechaninov, Aleksandr

Grieg, Edvard

Grund, Friedrich Wilhelm

Grützmacher, Friedrich

Guerini, Francesco

Guiraud, Ernest

Hadley, Henry Kimball

Hainl, François George

Handel, George Frideric

Hann, Lewis Robert

Harraden, Ethel Rosalie

Harrington, Jeffrey Michael

Hauser, Miska

Have, William ten

Haydn, Joseph

Hegner, Anton

Hegner, Ludvig

Heise, Peter

Heller, Stephen

Henselt, Adolf von

Herbert, August Victor

Herbst, Fritz

Caix d'Hervelois, Louis de

Herz, Henri

Herzogenberg, Heinrich von

Hindemith, Paul

Hofmann, Richard

Holbrooke, Joseph

Hollman, Joseph

Honegger, Arthur

Hopf, Hermann

Hoth, Georg

Hubay, Jenö

Huber, Hans

Hummel, Ferdinand

Hummel, Johann Nepomuk

Humperdinck, Engelbert

Hurlstone, William Yeates

Huré, Jean

Husson Morel, Valeri

Indy, Vincent d'

Janetschek, Stephan Jaray

Janson, Jean-Baptiste

Jaques-Dalcroze, Emile

Jarnefelt, Armas

Jensen, Adolf

Jensen, Gustav

Jeral, Wilhelm

Joachim Albrecht, Prince of Prussia

Joachim, Joseph

Johnson, William Noel

Jonas, Ernst

Jongen, Joseph

Jungmann, Albert

Juon, Paul

Jurassowsky, Alexandre

Kahn, Robert

Kämpf, Karl

Karg-Elert, Sigfrid

Karjinsky, Nicholas

Kaschpérow, Léocadie

Kaun, Hugo

Kiefert, Johann Carl

Kiel, Friedrich

Kienzl, Wilhelm

Kirchner, Theodor

Kirnberger, Johann Philipp

Kjerulf, Halfdan

Klein, Bruno Oscar

Klein, Jacob

Klengel, Julius

Koch, Friedrich Ernst

Koreshchenko, Arseny

Kotoff, P.

Kousnetzoff, Alexander

Kozlow, P.

Krall, Emil

Krehl, Stephan

Krug, Arnold

Kryzhanovsky, Ivan

Kühnel, August

Kühner, Wilhelm

Kücken, Friedrich Wilhelm

Kummer, Friedrich

Kuula, Toivo

Kuznetsov, Alexander

Laboccetta, Domenico

Lachner, Ignaz

Lacombe, Louis

Ladukhin, Nikolay

Lalo, Edouard

Lamothe, Georges

Lamoury, Philipp

Lanzetti, Salvatore

Lazarus, Gustav

Le Borne, Fernand

Leclair, Jean-Marie

Leclercq, Edgard

Lee, Sebastian

(Il Trovatore, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Un Ballo in Maschera, Macbeth, I Lombardi, Ernani, Simon Boccanegra, Forza del Destino, Attila, Aroldo, Luisa Muller, I due Foscari, Ciovanna d'Arco)

Lefebvre, Charles

Legge, Robin Humphrey

Lekeu, Guillaume

Lemoine, Henry

Leoncavallo, Ruggiero

Liadov, Anatoly

Lickl, Ferdinand Karl

Liégeois, Cornélis

Lilienthal, Abraham Wolf

Lindner, Auguste

Liszt, Franz

Locatelli, Pietro Antonio

Loeillet (of London), Jean-Baptiste

Loeilly, Jean Baptiste

Lotti, Antonio

Lutz, Henri

Löw, Josef

Lupresti, Plácido

Luzzatto, Fortunato

Macbeth, Allan

MacCunn, Hamish

MacDowell, Edward Alexander

  • from the 10 Woodland Sketches, Op.51

Macfarren, Walter Cecil

Mackenzie, Alexander Campbell

Magnard, Albéric

Mak, Raphael

Maleingreau, Paul de

Manasse, Otto

Manookian, Jeff

Marais, Marin

Marais, Roland

Marcello, Benedetto

Marchal, Carlos

Marie, Gabriel Prosper

Martini, Padre

Mattioli, Lino

Martucci, Giuseppe

Marx-Markus, Charles

Massenet, Jules

Mason, William

Mattheson, Johann

Matys, Karl

Méhul, Etienne Nicolas

Mélant, Charles

Melartin, Erkki

Mellarde, Pierre

Mendelssohn, Arnold Ludwig

Mendelssohn, Felix

Merk, Joseph

Merighi, Vincenzo

Merkel, Gustav Adolf

Migot, Georges Elbert

Moeremans, Leo

Moffat, Alfred

Mohr, Désiré

Moja, Leonardo

Moniuszko, Stanisław

Moor, Emanuel

Moszkowski, Moritz

Mouquet, Jules

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Mussorgsky, Modest

Myaskovsky, Nikolay

Nardini, Pietro

Nedbal, Oskar

Neilson, Cecil

Nemerovsky, Aleksandr

Neruda, Franz

Nevin, Ethelbert

Nicodé, Jean Louis

Nölck, August

Noren, Heinrich Gottlieb

Offenbach, Jacques

Onslow, Georges

Ornstein, Leo

Pachelbel, Johann

Pachulski, Henryk

Paderewski, Ignacy Jan

Paganini, Niccolò

Panchenko, Semën Viktorovich

Paradis, Maria Theresia von

Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings

Pasqualini, P

Patouart

Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista

Pester, Alfred

Pfeffinger, Philippe Jacques

Pfitzner, Hans

Piatti, Carlo Alfredo

Pierné, Gabriel

Pilati, Mario

Pillois, Jacques

Popp, Wilhelm A. O.

Poppé, Vera

Popplewell Royle, Thomas

Popper, David

Potolovsky, Nokolai

Prokofiev, Sergey

Porpora, Nicola Antonio

Purcell, Henry

Quarenghi, Guglielmo

Rabaud, Hippolyte François

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

Radecke, Robert

Raff, Joseph Joachim

Rameau, Jean-Philippe

Rasmussen, Alfred

Ravel, Maurice

Reber, Napoléon Henri

Reger, Max

Régis, C.

Reinecke, Carl

Reissiger, Carl Gottlieb

Renard, Félix

René, Charles

Renié, Henriette

Rheinberger, Josef Gabriel

Ries, Ferdinand

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay

Rinkens, Wilhelm

Roeder, Otto

Roger-Ducasse, Jean

Romberg, Bernhard

Ronchini, Ferdinando

Röntgen, Julius

Ropartz, Guy

Rosenhain, Jacques or Jacob

Rossini, Giacchino

Rousseau, Samuel Alexandre

Różycki, Ludomir

Rubinstein, Anton

Rubio, Agustin

Saint-Saëns, Camille

Sandré, Gustave

Sammartini, Giovanni Battista (also spelled St Martini)

Sanderson, Wilfred

Sauvaget, Alfred

Scharwenka, Xaver

Scharwenka, Philipp

Schellschmidt, A.H.

Schjelderup, Gerhard Rosenkrone

Schmitt, Florent

Schmidt, F.W.

Schmidt, Oscar

Scholz, Bernhard

Schrattenholz, Leo

Schröder, Carl

Schröter, Max

Schubert, François

Schubert, Franz

Schubert, Johannes

  • [Cello Sonata, Op.6 (Schubert, Johannes)|Cello Sonata, Op.6]]

Schuberth, Charles

Schumann, Georg

Schumann, Robert

Schvartz, Émile

Scriabin, Aleksandr

Scognamillo, Enrico

Seitz, Fritz

Servais, Adrien-François

Sgambati, Giovanni

Shapleigh, Bertram Lincoln

Sherwood, Percy

Sibelius, Jean

Sidoroff, Lew

Sidorowitch, Constantin

Siklós, Albert

Simpson, Christopher

Sinding, Christian

Sinigaglia, Leone

Sitt, Hans

Sjögren, Emil

Smetana, Bedřich

Smyth, Ethel

Sokalsky, Vladimir

Sokolov, Nikolay

Somervell, Arthur

Spohr, Louis

Stainlein, Comte de, Louis

Stanford, Charles Villiers

Stern, Leopold Lawrence

Stiastny, Jan

Stiehl, Heinrich

Stojowski, Sigismond

Straeten, Edmund S J van der

Stransky, Joseph

Strauss, Henry

Strauss, Richard

Street, Joseph

Strelezki, Anton

Stubbe, Arthur

Suk, Josef

Sulzer, Joseph

Svendsen, Johan

Swert, Jules de

Szerémi, Gustave

Szuk, Leopold

Tarnoffsky, A.

Tartini, Giuseppe

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr

Tellefsen, Thomas Dyke Acland

Tenaglia, Antonio Francesco

Terschak, Adolf

Thalberg, Sigismond

Théron, J.

Thieriot, Ferdinand

Thiessen, Karl

Thomassin, Désiré

Thome, Francis

Thuille, Ludwig

Tillière, Joseph Bonaventure

Toselli, Enrico

Tovey, Donald Francis

Tricklir, Jean Balthasar

Triemer, Johann Sewald

Trinkhaus, Georg John

Turner, Alfred Dudley

Umlauft, Paul

Vandini, Antonio

Valentini, Giuseppe

Various

Varlamov, Aleksandr

Vaubourgoin, Julien Fernand

Veracini, Francesco Maria

Vierne, Louis

Viet, W. H.

Vieuxtemps, Henri

Villa-Lobos, Heitor

Vivaldi, Antonio

Volkmann, Robert

Vollweiler, Charles

Voříšek, Jan Václav

Wachtmeister, Axel Raoul

Wade, John Francis

Wagner, Richard

Waldteufel, Emile

Walenn, Gerald

Weber, Carl Maria von

Weber, F.

Webern, Anton

Wekerlin, Jean-Baptiste Théodore

Welb, Heinrich

Wellings, Joseph Milton

Weingärtner, J.

Wendel, Bruno

Wermann, Oskar

Widor, Charles-Marie

Wieniawski, Henryk

Williams, Alberto

Wilm, Nicolai von

Wolf, Hugo

Woelfl, Joseph

Woollett, Henry

Wüerst, Richard

Wüllner, Franz

Yokoyama, Shin-Itchiro

Yradier, Sebastián

Zanella, Amilcare

Zapff, Oskar

Zaremba, Sigismund Vladislavovich

Żeleński, Władysław

Zemlinsky, Alexander von

Zipoli, Domenico

Zitterbart Jr., Fidelis

Zocarini, Matteo

Zwaag, Wim

Zyka, Joseph Benedikt

Strings Only

Violin/Cello

See List of Compositions for String Duo

Viola and Cello

See List of Compositions for String Duo

Violoncelli

2 Celli

Aubert, Pierre François Olivier

Azais, Pierre-Hyacinthe

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Barrière, Jean-Baptiste

Battanchon, Félix

Baur, Jean

Bazilevsky, Georgy

Breuer, Bernhard

Breval, Jean-Baptiste

Büchler, Ferdinand

Burgmüller, Friedrich

Cervetto, Giacobbe Basevi (father)

Cervetto, James (son)

Cirri, Giovanni Battista

Cupis, François

Donizetti, Gaetano

Dotzauer, Friedrich

Duport, Jean-Louis

Duport, Jean-Pierre

Filtz, Johann Anton

Fortia de Piles, Alphonse-Toussaint-Joseph-André-Marie-Marseille de

Geminiani, Francesco

Giordani, Tommaso

Guignon, Jean-Pierre

Grayson, Martin

Gross, Johann Benjamin

Grützmacher, Friedrich

Handel, George Frideric

Horton, J. R.

Hus-Desforges, Pierre Louis

Klengel, Julius

Kraft, Antonin

Kummer, Friedrich August

Lee, Sebastian

Lepin, Henry-Noël

Lindley, Robert

Marcello, Benedetto

Massart, Jean-Noël

Masse, Jean Baptiste

Matys, Karl

Mercadante, Saverio

Meerts, L. J.

Moja, Leonardo

Muntz-Berger, Joseph

Moór, Emanuel

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Neubauer, Franz Christoph

Offenbach, Jacques

Paulinyi, Zoltan

Platti, Giovanni Benedetto

Pleyel, Ignaz

Quarenghi, Guglielmo

Renat, H.

Rey, Jean-Baptiste

Romberg, Bernhard

Salivas, Pietro

Schuberth, Carl

Servais, Adrien-François

Stiastny, Jan

Tillière, Joseph Bonaventure

Vidal, Pablo

Viotti, Giovanni Battista

Wenzel, Hermann

Werner, Josef


3 Celli

Battanchon, Félix

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Dotzauer, Friedrich

Handel, George Frideric

La Tombelle, Fernand de

Limmer, Franz

Mandozzi, Orfeo

Popper, David


4 Celli

Bach, Johann Sebastian

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Chopin, Frédéric

Debussy, Claude

Fitzenhagen, Wilhelm

Forino, Luigi

Lachner, Franz Paul

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Verdi, Giuseppe

Wagner, Richard

Werner, Josef


6 Celli

Strnad, Oliver

Zanella, Amilcare

12 Celli

Klengel, Julius

Verdi, Giuseppe

Other Chamber Music Works

Duos

Duos (Cello/Guitar)

Bobrowicz, Jan Nepomucen

Burgmuller, Johann

Call, Leonhard von

Degen, Søffren

Dotzauer, Justus Friedrich

Romberg, Bernhard

Schiker, Antoine


Duos (Cello and Other Instruments)

Bukinik, Mikhail

Dragonetti, Domenico

Hallman, Joseph

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Rossini, Gioacchino


Trios

Abel, Carl Friedrich

Berlioz, Hector

Brahms, Johannes

Bréval, Jean-Baptiste

Drigo, Riccardo

Farrenc, Louise

Giuliani, Mauro

Haydn, Joseph

Herold, E.

Hofmann, Leopold

Porpora, Nicola Antonio

Reinhard, August

Snoer, Johannes

Stamitz, Carl Philipp

Vivaldi, Antonio

Walckiers, Eugene

Weber, Otto "* Abschied (for Violin, Cello and Harp)


Piano Trios (Violin, Cello, Piano)

See List of Compositions for Piano Trio

String Trios (Violin, Viola, Cello)

See List of Compositions for String Trio

Voice, Cello and Piano

Adam, Adolphe

Anton, P. G.

Fabricius, Jacob

Fontana, B.C.

Gounod, Charles

Luzzi, Luigi

Millard, Harrison

Leavitt, W.J.D.

Panseron, Auguste Mathieu

Piatti, Alfredo Carlo

Read, Angelo

Robaudi, Vincenzo

Saroni, Herrman S.

Quartets

String Quartets

See For 2 violins, viola, cello
See List of Compositions for String Quartet

Piano Quartets

(violin, viola, cello, piano)

See List of Compositions for Piano Quartet

Other Quartets

Chopin, Frederic

Schubert, Franz

Quintets

See List of Compositions for String Quintet

Rolfes, Christoph

Merighi, Vincenzo

Zandonai, Riccardo

Piano Quintets

See List of Compositions for Piano Quintet

Others

String Sextets

(2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos)

See List of Compositions for String Sextet

String Octets

(4 Violins, 2 Violas, 2 Cellos)

See List of Compositions for String Octet

Concertante Works

See Also
Category:For cello, orchestra
Concertante Works feat. Violoncello


See Also

Wasielewski, Joseph von

Orchestral Cello Parts

See List of Compositions with Orchestral Cello Parts and List of Orchestra or Band Pieces with Parts Available

Strauss, Richard

Composers who were Cellists

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