Cello-Bibliothek

Johann Georg Christoph Schetky (1737-1824) grew up at the court of Hessen-Darmstadt where his father was in service to the landgrave Ludwig VIII as a musician and secretary. Schetky studied compositio...

Friedrich August Kummer (1797-1879) came from a family of musicians, studied violoncello with the renowned solo cellist Friedrich Dotzauer of the Dresden Court Chapel and then worked as a cellist firs...

Ursprünglich für den International Cello Congress 2005, 1000 Cellists Concert, komponiert, kann das einsätzige Stück auch von Amateuren gespielt werden. Diesem Anspruch der leichteren Spielbarkeit und...

The only work still known today by Noack, 'Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade' [Parade of the Brownies] Op. 5 was called a 'character piece' by the composer himself, and this 'marche en miniature' conveys w...

The cellist and maestro di capella Jaccini, a pupil of the cello player Domenico Gabrielli, lived and worked in Bologna. His Op. 1 consists of two cello sonatas; these are the earliest original compos...

Twelve symphonic cellos form the string group in Aribert Reimann's opera The House of Bernarda Alba, which earned the distinction of Best first performance of the year 2000. Solo II may be seen as an...

The composer Johanna Senfter (1879-1961) from Oppenheim studied composition with Max Reger in Leipzig. Her expressive style is characterised by polyphonic settings and late-Romantic harmony. Sonate fü...

Deep Slavic emotions and gripping virtuosity - that's what characterizes many compositions by Rodion Shchedrin. Even if he has been a cosmopolitan for a long time, the Moscow-born composer nevertheles...

'The idea of writing a 'Jazz Suite for cello solo' came out when I tried to imagine how it would have sounded like if one of the baroque masters (Gabrielli, Buxtehude, Bach) had lived in our time and...

After 'Jazz Suite' for solo violoncello (Schott, CB 224), the Italian cellist and jazz musician Lucio Amanti explores the possibilities of jazz music on the cello in this sonata with piano accompanime...

Goltermann (1824-1898) left a plethora of works for his instrument, including seven cello concertos which sometimes go to the limits of what was considered to be technically playable in his time. Even...

Mendelssohn's 'Song without Words' is the easiest of his original compositions for cello and piano and can be introduced to intermediate students. Our competitively priced edition is intended for educ...

Fauré initially wrote the Sicilienne as indicental music to Molière's 'Bourgeois gentilhomme' for small-scale string orchestra. In 1898 he wrote an arrangement for violoncello and piano which enjoys g...

A large number of works by the Italian musician Giovanni Battista Cirri (1724-1808) from Forlì were printed all his life. The busy cello virtuoso naturally wrote works for 'his' instrument mainly, inc...