# List of solo cello pieces

This is a list of notable solo cello pieces. It includes arrangements and transcriptions.
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* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
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* See also
* References
* External links

## A

* Joseph Abaco
** 11 Capricci for Violoncello Solo
* Samuel Adler
** Sonata (1965)
* Kalevi Aho
** Solo IV (1997)
* Hugh Aitken
** For the Cello (1980)
* Franghis Ali-Zadeh
** Ask Havasi (part of the cycle Silk Road) (1998)
** Oyan (2005)
* Maarten Altena
** Figura (1993)
* Mark Andre
** iv 2 pour violoncelle solo (2007)
* Georges Aperghis
** Sonate (1994)
* Tanya Anisimova
** Song on Mt. San Angelo
* Georgi Arnaoudov
** Kells (1999)
** Three Sonets of Michelangelo (2014)
* Violet Archer
** Improvisation (1983)
* Malcolm Arnold
** Fantasy (1987)
* Daniel Asia
** Cello Suite
* Lera Auerbach
** Sonata for Solo Violoncello, Op. 72 (2003)
** La Suite dels Ocells [Homage to Pablo Casals] (2015)

## B

* Johann Sebastian Bach
** Cello Suites, BWV 1007–1012 (c. 1720)
* Nicolas Bacri
** Suite, Op. 31
** Suite, Op. 50, No. 4 (1994–96; written for Emmanuelle Bertrand)
* Henk Badings
** Sonata No. 2
* David N. Baker
** Sonata (1990)
* Don Banks
** Sequence (1967)
* Gennady Banshchikov
** Concerto for cello No. 3 for solo cello (1965)
* Granville Bantock
** Sonata in G minor (1924)
* Rami Bar-Niv
** Improvisation
* Arnold Bax
** Rhapsodic Ballad (1939)
* Sally Beamish
** Gala Water for solo cello (1988)
** The Wise Maid
* Conrad Beck
** Epigrams (for Paul Sacher)
* Grant Beglarian
** Elegy for Cellist for solo cello (1979)
* Paul Ben-Haim
** Music (1974)
* Richard Rodney Bennett
** Scena II (1973)
* Niels Viggo Bentzon
** Sonata, Op. 110 (1956)
** Variations on "The Volga Boatmen", Op. 354 (1974)
** 16 Etudes, Op. 464 (1984)
** Sonata, Op. 110
* Esteban Benzecry
** Suite "Prisme du Sud" (1970)
* Gunnar Berg
** Suite pour violoncelle seul (1950)
* Michael Berkeley
** Iberian Notebook Suite (1980)
* Luciano Berio
** Les mots sont allés (1978; for Paul Sacher)
** Sequenza VIb (1981)
** Chanson pour Pierre Boulez (Song for Pierre Boulez) (2000)
** Sequenza XIV (2002)
* Christoph Otto Beyer
** Sonate für Violoncello solo (2006)
** Passacaglia e Fuga
* Gunther Bialas
** Romanze (for Hoelscher) (1987)
* Jörg Birkenkötter
** Solo für Violoncello (1986)
* Ernest Bloch
** Suite No. 1 (1956) (written for Zara Nelsova)
** Suite No. 2 (1956) (written for Zara Nelsova)
** Suite No. 3 (1957)
* William Bolcom
** Suite in C minor (1994)
* Ennio Bolognini
** Adagio and Allegro
** Fiesta Baska - Lamada Montanesa
** Seranata de Bolonini
** Seranata del Eco
** Serenata Del Gaucho
** Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Purcell
** Cello's Prayer
* Nimrod Borenstein
** "Soliloquy, Op. 59"
* Sergei Bortkiewicz
** Suite, Op. 41
* Hans Bottermund - Janos Starker
** Variations on a Theme by Paganini
* Hendrik Bouman
** Suite in D major (2003)
* Reiner Bredemeyer (1929–1995)
** Solo 1 (1973)
** Solo 6 (1980; written for H.J. Scheitzbach)
* Allen Brings
** Sonata da chiesa for solo cello (1980, dedicated to Alexander Kouguell)
* Benjamin Britten
** Cello Suites (Suite No. 1, Op. 72 (1964), Suite No. 2, Op. 80 (1967), Suite No. 3, Op. 87 (1972))
** Tema "Sacher" (for Paul Sacher)
* Stephen Brown
** Cello suites
       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)
* Leo Brouwer
** Sonata (1960)
* Mikhail Bukinik
** 4 Concert Etudes (No. 4 in F minor)
* Sylvano Bussotti
** Deborah Parker (1987)
** Variazione
* Yuri Butzko
** Partita for solo cello

## C

* John Cage
** One$^8$ (1991)
** 59½ Seconds (1953)
** Atlas Eclipticalis (1961)
** Solo for Cello (1958)
** Variations I (1958)
** Etudes Boreales (1978)
* Elliott Carter
** Figment (1994)
** Figment No. 2, Remembering Mr. Ives (2001)
* Gaspar Cassadó
** Suite (1926)
* Geghuni Chitchjan
** Sonata for solo cello (1983)
* Frédéric Chopin
** Etude in A♭ major, Op. 25, No. 1 (trans. Cassadó)
* Nigel Clarke
** Spectroscope (1987)
** Sonata in D minor for baroque cello or viola da gamba (2009)
* Michael Colgrass
** Wolf (1975)
* Giuseppe Colombi (1635–1694)
** Chiacona a Basso Solo (1670)
** Toccata da Violone Solo (Toccata ) (1670)
* John Corigliano
** Fancy on a Bach air (1997; premiered by Yo-Yo Ma)
* Henry Cowell
** Gravely and Vigorously (Hymn & Fuguing Tune No. 17) (1963; in memory of Kennedy)
* George Crumb
** Sonata for Solo Cello, (1955)

## D

* Luigi Dallapiccola
** Adagio (1947)
** Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagio (1945)
* Jean-Luc Darbellay
** Solo (1997)
* Michael Daugherty
** Jackie's Song (2000)
* Johann Nepomuk David
** 2 Solo Sonatas
* Mario Davidovsky
** Synchronisms No. 3 (1964), and electronic sound
* Robert deMaine
** Twelve Études-Caprices, Op. 31 (1999)
** Unaccompanied Sonata
* Edison Denisov
** Cadenzas for two cello concertos in D major and C major by Haydn (1982)
* Patrick van Deurzen
** Monologue (2011)
* David Diamond
** Sonata for Violoncello Alone (1959)
* Friedhelm Dohl
** Fantasie - Kadenz
** Klezmeriana for solo cello (1983)
* Franco Donatoni
** Lame (1982)
* Friedrich Dotzauer
** 113 Etudes for Cello
* John Downey
** Lydian Suite (1975)
* Zsolt Durkó
** Solo Suite No. 1 (1979)
* Henri Dutilleux
** Trois Strophes sur le Nom de SACHER (1976–82) (for Paul Sacher)

## E

* David Eby
** Celtic Passage
* Gerald Eckert
** Nôema (1992/93)
* Søren Nils Eichberg
** Variations on a theme by Niccolo Paganini (2005)
* Jose Elizondo
** Unter dem Sternenhimmel des Rheins (Under the starry sky of the Rhine) (2020)
** Cantabrigian Reflections (2020)
** Danzas Latinoamericanas (Latin American Dances) (1997)
** Otoño en Buenos Aires (Autumn in Buenos Aires) (1997)
** Pan de Azúcar (Sugar Loaf mountain) (1997)
** Atardecer Tapatío (Sunset in Guadalajara) (1997)
** Baroque Dances (1997)
** La alborada de la esperanza (The Dawn of Hope) (2018)
** Limoncello (2018)
** Crepúsculos (Twilights) (2018)
** Princesa de hadas (Fairy Tale Princess) (1995)
** Excursión a la montaña (Excursion to the Mountain) (1995)
* Hans Ulrich Engelmann
** Mini-music to Siegfried Palm, Op. 38 (1970)
* Sven Einar Englund
** Suite (1986)
* Gottfried von Einem
** Music, Op. 108 (1996)
* Iván Erőd
** Hommage à Beethoven, Op. 24 (Rhapsodie für Violoncello solo über Themen der Sonate, Op. 102/1 von Ludwig van Beethoven) (1977)
* Rudolf George Escher
** Sonata for solo Violoncello (1945–48)
* Pozzi Escot
** Sonata (2002)

## F

* Morton Feldman
** Projection I (1950)
** Intersection IV (1953)
* Richard Festinger
** Upon The Viol (2012)
* Ross Lee Finney
** Chromatic Fantasy in E (1957)
* Graciane Finzi
** Theme and Variations to el cant dels ocells
* Elena Firsova
** The Rest is Silence (2002)
* Luboš Fišer (1935–1999)
** Sonata (1987)
* Thomas Flaherty
** Semi-Suite (1990)
** Remembrance of Things Present (2006)
* Alexandra Fol
** Almost Serial (1999)
* Carlo Forlivesi
** Più Mesto for 2-bow solo cello (2003)
* Wolfgang Fortner
** Suite (Schott) (for Paul Sacher)
** Zum Spielen für den 70. Geburtstag: Theme and Variationen (1976)
* Ilse Fromm-Michaels
** Suite, Op. 15 (Sikorski)
* Rudolf Escher
** Sonata (1955)

## G

* Domenico Gabrielli
** Seven Ricercari (1689)
* Hans Gál
** Sonata for violoncello solo op.109a (1982)
* Orlando Jacinto Garcia
** Crystalline Sounds of the Night
* Ada Gentile
** Pervioloncellosolo (1996)
* Michael Gielen
** Weitblick Sonata (1991)
* Alberto Ginastera (1916–83)
** Puneña No. 2, Op. 45 (Hommage à Paul Sacher)
* Detlev Glanert
** Fünf Wüstenlieder (five Desert Songs) (1999)
* Philip Glass
** Songs and Poems (in 7 movements) (2007)
** Orbit (2013)
* Friedrich Goldmann
** Cellomusik (1974)
* Marin Goleminov
** Sonata (1969)
* Osvaldo Golijov
** Omaramor (1991)
* Andrei Golovin
** Elegy for solo cello (1988)
* Yevgeny Golubev
** 2 Etudes for solo cello, Op. 46 (1961)
** Concert Aria for solo cello (1961)
* Leonid Grabovsky (Hrabovsky)
** Hlas I (1990)
** Voices for solo cello (1990)
* Olivier Greif
** Solo from Nô, Op. 154, for Christoph Henkel (1981) for solo cello
* Jorge Grundman
** Terezin Through the Eyes of the Children for Solo Cello (2012)
* Sofia Gubaidulina
** Ten Preludes (1974)
** Quaternion for solo cello

## H

* Alois Haba
** Fantasy in quarter-tones (1924)
* Daron Hagen
** Suite (1985)
** Higher, Louder, Faster, an editorial etude (1987)
* Cristobal Halffter
** Variations on the theme eSACHERe (for Paul Sacher)
* Hermann Haller
** Trois pieces pour violoncelle seul (3 pieces )
* George Frideric Handel
** Air and Variations "The Harmonious Blacksmith" from Suite for Harpsichord in E major, HWV 430 arr. Cassadó
** Passacaglia - Theme and Variations (arr. Zinoviy Dynov based on the Halvorsen version)
* John Harbison
** Suite (1994)
* Jonathan Harvey
** Curve with Plateaux for Helen Verney (1983)
* Teppo Hauta-aho
** Improvatio (1971)
* David Philip Hefti
** Ritus - 4 Dance Collages (2007)
* Bernhard Heiden
** Variations on "Lilliburlero"
* Paavo Heininen
** Cantilena I, Op. 24c (1970)
** Cantilena II, Op. 26 (1970)
** Poesie des pensées, Op. 23 (1970)
* Hans Werner Henze
** Serenade (1949)
** Capriccio (for Paul Sacher) (1976/1981)
* Michael Hersch
** Sonata No. 1 (1994)
** Sonata No. 2 (2001)
* Kenneth Hesketh
** Die hängende Figur ist Judas (Drei Perspektiven) (1998)
** IMMH (2014)
* Jacques Hétu
** Variations, Op. 11b (1967)
* Gilad Hochman
** Rhapsody (2003)
** Ponderings on a Memory (2005)
* Jennifer Higdon
** Suite (2002)
* Paul Hindemith
** Sonata, Op. 25, No. 3 (1923)
* Joel Hoffman
** Concert-Study (Fantasie) (1977)
** unaccompanied minor (2007)
* Robin Hoffmann
** Schleifers Methoden für Violoncello solo (2005)
* York Höller
** Sonata (1968)
* Heinz Holliger
** Chaconne (for Paul Sacher) (1975)
** Trema (1981)
* Vagn Holmboe
** Solo Cello Sonata, M. 241 (1968–69)
* Imogen Holst
** Fall of the Leaf
* Joaquim Homs
** Arbres al vent (1992)
** Soliloqui num. 4 (1994)
** Capvespre vora el mar (1994)
* Arthur Honegger
** Paduana in G major, H.181 (1945)
* Michael Hoppé and Martin Tillmann
** Solo Cello Characteristics
* Alan Hovhaness
** Yakamochi, Op. 193 (1965)
* Edgar Hovhanessian (Oganesyan)
** Sonata for solo cello (1970)
* Klaus Huber
** Transpositio ad Infinitum für ein virtuoses Solocello (for Paul Sacher)
* Nicolaus A. Huber
** Der Ausrufer steigt ins Innere (1984)
* Tobias Hume
** Kleine Stücke für Cello solo (Small pieces ) Book 1 (originally for Gamba) (arranged by Sabina Lehrmann)
** (Cello solo pieces) Book 2
* Bertold Hummel
** Fantasia I in G, Op. 77d1 (1952)
** Fantasia II in memoriam Pablo Casals, Op. 97a (1993)
** Farewell (2002)

## I

* Jacques Ibert
** Etude-Caprice pour un tombeau de Chopin (1949)
** Ghirlarzana (1950)
* Yoshirō Irino (1921–1980)
** Three Movements (1969)
* Airat Ichmouratov (1973)
** Praeludium in G Major for Cello Solo, Op. 69 (2021)

## J

* Karl Jenkins
** Benedictus - The Armed Man (2001)
* Jan Jirásek
** Dilema (1987)
* Ben Johnston
** Toccata for Laurien Laufman (1984)
* Betsy Jolas
** Scion (1974)
** Episode cinquième (1983)
* Andre Jolivet
** Suite en Concert (1965)
* Christian Jost
** Laulos (2005)
* Gordon Jacob
** Serenade
** Divertimento
* Jurgis Juozapaitis
** Sonata for solo cello

## K

* Dmitry Kabalevsky
** Études in Major and Minor, Op. 68 (1961)
* Mauricio Kagel
** Siegfriedp‘ (1971)
* Giya Kancheli
** Having Wept for solo cello (1994)
* Nikolai Kapustin
** Introduction and Scherzino for solo cello, Op. 93 (1999)
** Suite for cello solo, Op. 124 (2004)
* Faradzh Karayev (aka Faraj Garayev)
** Terminus for solo cello (1985)
* Hugo Kauder
** Suite (1925)
** Second Suite (1924)
* Frederick Kaufman
** Inner Sanctum (1999)
* Tālivaldis Ķeniņš
** Sonata for Cello Solo (1981)
* Jin Hi Kim
** Kee Maek #4 (1995)
* Natalie Klouda
** Suite for Solo Cello (2017, revised 2019)
* Volker David Kirchner
** Und Salomo sprach (‘’And Salomo spoke”) (1987)
** Aus dem Buch der Konige 3 meditations (2000)
** Threnos (written for the Feuermann Competition 2006)
* Aram Khachaturian
** Sonata-Fantasy in C major, Op. 104 (1974)
* Adam Khudoyan
** Sonata No. 1 (1961)
** Sonata No. 2 Elegiac (1984)
** Sonata No. 3 Pathetic (1993)
* Mark Kilstofte
** You [unfolding] for solo cello (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
* Alexander Knaifel
** Lamento for solo cello (1967)
** Capriccio for solo cello (1994)
* Zoltán Kodály
** Solo Cello Sonata, Op. 8 (1915)
** Capriccio (1915)
* Nikolai Korndorf
** Passacaglia (1997)
* Irena Kosíková
** Stopy (2004)
* Ernst Krenek
** Suite, Op. 84 (1942)
* Hanna Kulenty
** Sinequan: for violoncello (amplified and delay) (1993)
** Still Life with a Cello (1998)
* György Kurtág
** Pilinszky János: Gérard de Nerval (1986, for Zoltán Kocsis) for solo cello
** 19 Jelek, játékok és üzenetek (Signs, Games and Messages) (1987–2008) for solo cello
** Schatten (Shadows) (1999, for Miklós Perényi)
** Az hit (Faith)
** Hommage à John Cage, Elakadó szavak (Faltering Words) for solo cello
** György Kroó in memoriam (1997) for solo cello
** For Steven: In Memoriam Pauline Mara (2010), for solo cello
** The Hilary Jig (to Hilary Behrens 90) (2017, fellow-composer Márta Kurtag)
* Khristofer Kushnaryov ru:Кушнарёв, Христофор Степанович)
** Sonata for solo cello (1932)
* Mati Kuulberg (fi:Mati Kuulberg)
** Concerto-Sonata for solo cello (1973)

## L

* Sophie Lacaze
** Variations sur quatre haikus (2009)
* Helmut Lachenmann
** Pression (1970)
* Ezra Laderman
** Partita (1972)
** A Single Voice (1995, written for Tanya Anisimova)
** Fantasy (1998)
** A Single Line (2004)
* Frank La Rocca
** Secret Thoughts (1986)
* Henri Lazarof
** Momenti (1987)
* Claude Ledoux
** Le Songe trouble de l'orchidee (1994)
** 12 Studies - First book (1994)
* Benjamin Lees
** Night Spectres (2000)
* Kenneth Leighton
** Sonata, Op. 52 (1967)
* Marian Lejava
** Adieu (2008)
* Tania Leon
** 4 Pieces (1981)
* Milcho Leviev
** Reflected Meditation (1980)
** Augsburg Polka (1998)
* György Ligeti
** Sonata (1948–1953)
* Magnus Lindberg
** Stroke (1984)
** Partia (2001)
* Franz Liszt
** Sonata in B minor for solo cello (transcription by Johann Sebastian Paetsch)
* Jerry Liu
** Suite 7 Days (2012)
** Calor (2016)
* Vassily Lobanov
** Sonata for solo cello (1963)
** Fantasie, Op. 48 (1987)
* Pietro Locatelli
** Il Laberinto Armonico (transcription by Rohan de Saram)
* Alvin Lucier
** Indian Summer (1993)
* Witold Lutosławski
** Sacher Variation (1975; for Paul Sacher)

## M

* Peter Machajdík
** Ponor (2019)
** Wolds (2019)
** Lullaby (1999)
* Olga Magidenko
** Site of the Heart, Op. 60 (1998)
* Enrico Mainardi
** Sonata breve (1942)
** Sonata (1959)
* Ivo Malec
** Arco-1 (1987)
* Vitold Malishevsky
** Suite
* Benedetto Marcello
** Cello sonatas
* Andrew March
** Three Pieces for Solo Cello (2011)
* Ljubica Marić
** Monodia Octoïca for solo cello
* Steven Harry Markowitz
** Impromptu
** A Brief Adventure
* Pamela J. Marshall
** Soliloquy
* Donald Martino
** Parisonatina Al’Dodecafonia (1964)
* Tauno Marttinen
** Impression, Op. 140 (1978)
* Colin Matthews
** Palinode (1992)
* David Matthews
** Fantasia, Op. 8 (1971)
** Songs and Dances of Mourning, Op. 12 (1976)
** Journeying Songs, Op. 95 (2004)
* Rudolf Matz
** 11 Caprices
** Ombres et lumières (Lights and Shadows)
** Suite in C major
** Tema con Variazioni
* Toshiro Mayuzumi
** Bunraku (1960)
* John McCabe
** Partita (1966)
* Alfred Mendelssohn
** Suite (1960)
* Usko Meriläinen
** Arabesques (1964)
* Krzysztof Meyer
** Sonata (1964)
** Moment musical (1976)
** Monologue (1990)
* Peter Mieg
** La sombre (1971)
** L'aérienne (1975)
* Eric Moe
** The Lone Cello (1998) for 'cello solo
* Robert Moevs
** Heptachronon (1969)
* Alan Mills
** Song & Dance for solo cello (2007)
* Roberto Molinelli
** Crystalligence (commissioned by Enrico Dindo) (2005)
* Dexter Morrill
** Fantasy (1995)
* Robert Muczynski
** Gallery: Suite (on paintings of Charles Burchfield) (1966)
* Isabel Mundry
** Komposition (1992/93)
** Komposition (1997)

## N

* 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)

## O

* 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)

## P

* Younghi Pagh-Paan
** AA-GA I (1984)
* Hilda Paredes
** Zuhuy Kak (1997)
* Robert Parris
** Fantasy and Fugue (1954)
* Boris Parsadanjan
** Sonata for solo cello (1973)
* Paul Patterson
** Suite, Op. 62
* Sergei Pavlenko
** Sonata for solo cello (1983)
* Krzysztof Penderecki
** Capriccio per Siegfried Palm (1968)
** Per Slava (1986)
** Suite for Solo Cello (2013) [Expanded version of previously published "Divertimento"]
* George Perle
** Cello Sonata (1947)
** Hebrew Melodies
* Vincent Persichetti
** Solo Cello Sonata, Op. 54
* Sven Holger Philippsen
** Cellosolosonate Nr.1 in 4 Sätzen (1988)
       Praeludium - Vivace e con fuoco
       Élégie (Adagio con affetto)
       Rondo vivacissimo
* Carlo Alfredo Piatti
** Capriccio on the cavatina "I tuoi frequenti palpiti" from ‘’Niobe’’ by Giovanni Pacini, Op. 22
** 12 Caprices, Op. 25 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
* 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)

## R

* Nikolai Rakov
** Waltz for solo cello
* Shulamit Ran
** Fantasy Variations (2003)
* Alexander Raskatov
** Dramatic Games for solo cello (1979)
** Kyrie Eleison (1992)
* Einojuhani Rautavaara
** Sonata, Op. 46 (1969)
* Max Reger
** 3 Suites, Op. 131c (1914)
*** Suite No. 1 in G major
*** Suite No. 2 in D minor
*** Suite No. 3 in A minor
* Aribert Reimann
** Solo II (1981)
* Phillip Rhodes
** Three Pieces
* Alan Ridout
** Partita (1959)
* Wolfgang Rihm
** Great (1972)
* Joaquin Rodrigo
** Como una fantasía (1979)
* Scott Roller
** Mutamusic (1983)
* Bernhard Romberg
** Sonata in E minor Op. 38 No. 1
** Sonata in G major Op. 38 No. 2
* Lucia Ronchetti
** Forward and downward, turning neither to the left nor to the right (2017)
* Ned Rorem
** After Reading Shakespeare Nine movements alone (written for Sharon Robinson; 1980)
* Hilding Rosenberg
** Intermezzo (1974)
* Miklos Rozsa
** Toccata capricciosa, Op. 36 (1979; in memory of Piatigorsky)
* Edmund Rubbra
** Improvisation, Op. 124 (pub. 1967)
* Elena Ruehr
** Lift (2013) for solo cello, premiered at MIT (written for Jennifer Kloetzel)
** Cricket the Fiddler (2020), commissioned by Jennifer Kloetzel, solo cello, premiered online October 2020, ca 8’
** Cloud Forest (2015) solo cello, 8 minutes, commissioned by Rhonda Rider
* Peter Ruzicka
** Sonata, Op. 9 (1969)
** Stille Four Epilogues (1976)

## S

* 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 unaccompanied 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)
** Ent-Gegnung (Re-Tort) music for cello (2020)
* 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)
* Laura Schwendinger
** All the Pretty Horses (2009)
** Primavera Trasformata(2020)
* 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 (Russkie Naigryshi), Op. 79 (1990)
* Alexander Shchetynsky
** Sonata (2001)
* Bright Sheng
** Diu Diu Dong (Seven Tunes Heard in China) (1995)
* 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
** Kablimba (all pizzicato)
* 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
** Cello Sonata Unaccompanied (1997)

## T

* Emil Tabakov
** Bis (1982)
* Josef Tal
** Suite for cello (1937)
** Sonata for cello (1937)
** Treatise for cello (1973)
** In Memoriam of a Dear Friend for cello (1985)
* Giuseppe Tartini
** L'Arte dell'Arco (The Art of the Bow) 50 variations on Corelli's Gavotte from Op.5, No.10 (1758) (transcribed by Paul Bazelaire)
* John Tavener
** Thrinos (1990)
** Chant (1995)
* Boris Tchaikovsky
** Suite (in six movements) (1946)
** Suite in five movements (1960)
* Alexander Tcherepnin
** Suite, Op. 76 (1946)
* James Tenney
** Cellogram for Joel Krosnick (1971)
* Dimitri Terzakis
** Omega 1 (1978)
** Dialog der Seele mit ihrem Schatten (1991; for Siegfried Palm)
* Augusta Read Thomas
** Spring Song (1995)
* Jukka Tiensuu
** Balzo
* Ton That Tiet
** Bois terre
* Boris Tishchenko
** Sonata No. 1, Op. 18 (1960)
** Sonata No. 2, Op. 76 (1979)
* Ernst Toch
** Impromptu in three movements, Op. 90c (1963)
** Glosa (2004)
* Javier Torres Maldonado
** Tiento (2000; also version for cello and electronics, 2003)
* Paul Tortelier
** Suite in D minor (1944)
* Donald Tovey
** Solo Cello Sonata in D, Op. 50
* Sulkhan Tsintsadze
** Chonguri (Tchonguri) (1978)
** Sonata (1975)

## U

* Chinary Ung
** Kshe Buon (1981)

## V

* Fabio Vacchi
** In alba mia, dir... (1995)
* Johanna Varner
** The Windmill, MCV 2001 (2019)
* Pēteris Vasks
** Gramata cellam (Das Buch) (1978)
* Sándor Veress
** Sonata (1935)
* Carl Vine
** Inner World (1994)
* Param Vir
** Flame (1997)
* Giovanni Battista Vitali
** Partite per il Violone (1680)
** Partita sopra diverse Sonate
* Antonio Vivaldi
** Cello Sonatas RV 38-47 (c. 1720-1730)
* Vladimir Vlasov
** Ballade for solo cello
** Improvisation for solo cello
* Wladimir Vogel
** Poeme (1974)

## W

* Wolfram Wagner
** Sonata, Op. 31 (1990)
* Gwyneth Walker
** In Memoriam (1980)
* William Walton
** Passacaglia (1980)
* Rodney Waschka II
** Ravel Remembers Fascism (1991)
* Graham Waterhouse
** Three Pieces for Solo Cello, Op. 28 (1992)
** Threnody (2002)
** in nomine for cello solo (2013)
** Variations for Cello Solo (2019)
* Ben Weber
** Dance, Op. 28 (1948)
** Dance, Op. 31 (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 (1968)
* Egon Wellesz
** Cello Sonata, Op. 31 (1920)
** Suite op. 39 (1924)
* Richard Wernick
** Suite No. 1 (2003)
** Suite No. 2 (2007)
* David Wilde
** The Cellist of Sarajevo - A Lament in Rondo Form, Op. 12
* Adrian Williams
** Solo Cello Sonata (1976–77)
* John Williams
** Three Pieces (2001)
* Richard Edward Wilson
** Lord Chesterfield to his Son (1987)
** Music (1971)
* Stefan Wolpe
** Piece Alone (1966)
* William Wordsworth
** Sonata for Violoncello (1961)
* 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

* James Yannatos
** Sonata
* Yehuda Yannay
** I can't fathom it... and projections (1993)
** Tangoul Morṭii (Tango of Death) (1997)
* Eugène Ysaÿe
** Cello Sonata, Op. 28 (1924)
* Isang Yun
** Glissées (1970) for Siegfried Palm
** Seven Etudes (1993)
* Ludmilla Yurina
** Irrlicht for solo cello (2000)
* Iraida Yusupova
** Dreams' Music for solo cello (1990)

## Z

* 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