# Cello Handbook/Solo Cello

Solo Cello Repertoire

## 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)
* 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)
** 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)
* 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)
* 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
** One$^8$, for Cello Solo (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
* 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)
* 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)
       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)
* 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)
* 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)