Partituras para instrumentos de cuerdas

At the beginning of the 1870s, Saint-Saëns displayed a particular partiality for the violoncello. He composed his first cello sonata in December 1872, immediately after having completed the first cell...

Aparte del Cuarteto para piano op. 13 y la Sonata para violín op. 18, la Sonata para violonchelo op. 6 figura entre las obras de música de cámara más maduras de la obra temprana de Strauss. Se aprecia...

Las dos Sonatas op. 5 fueron escritas en 1796 expresamente para la actuación del joven Beethoven con el virtuoso violonchelista Jean Louis Duport en la corte de Berlín. Que no se viera eclipsado por e...

A finales del siglo XVIII, el violonchelista y compositor Jean-Baptiste Bréval no sólo escribió conciertos virtuosos para su instrumento, sino también sonatas y dúos más sencillos que siguen formando...

Prokofiev’s late Cello Sonata is inextricably linked with the name Mstislav Rostropovich. The then twenty-year-old cellist delighted the composer to such an extent during a performance in Moscow in 19...

It is well known that Chopin almost exclusively wrote works for solo piano. Only for the cello did he make some exceptions: two works - a Polonaise brillante and the Duo Concertant (HN 788) were writt...

It was only with his late works that Debussy, an unconventional innovator, turned back to tradition. In 1915 he had six sonatas for various instruments in mind. He was only to complete three of them b...

The most important source for Bach's Cello Suites is a copy made by his wife Anna Magdalena because the autograph is no longer extant. As further copies show, the actual musical text is scarcely probl...

Besides two genuine cello 'hits' from the pen of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy -- the 'Variations op. 17' and the 'Song without Words op. 109' -- this urtext edition contains a little sensation: the pre...

The a-minor Concerto is a true gem in the repertoire of great cello music. David Geringas provided the fingerings for this Urtext edition for which editor Peter Jost supplied a detailed preface. Johan...

Ysaye's Cello Sonata, unlike its companion piece for violin solo, has remained relatively unknown. All the same, it merits special attention as it was written at the same time as the Violin Sonatas an...

Originally, Lalo was meant to follow an officer's career but his musical talent soon became apparent and so he decided to become a musician. Every cellist is familiar with his Cello Concerto in d mino...

Piano Reduction by G. F. Ghedini

originally for Oboe and Piano.

originally for Voice and Piano.

originally for Cello and Orchestra (1883).

Historical notes from Bryan Hesford

Vermutlich für zwei Bassetthörner gedacht sind die Zwölf Duos für zwei Blasinstrumente. Das Autograph trägt die Überschrift Di Wolfgang Amadé Mozart mp. Wien den 27t Jullius 1786 untern Kegelschieben,...

Bernhard Romberg (1767-1841) probably was the greatest cello virtuoso of his time and compared to Paganini in his lifetime. He gave cello lessons at the famous Conservatoire de Paris among others.Romb...