A cello sonata is piece written sonata form, often with the instrumentation of a cello taking solo role with piano accompaniment. Some of the earliest cello sonatas were composed in the 18th century by Francesco Geminiani and Antonio Vivaldi, and since then other famous cello sonatas have grown to those by Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Fryderyk Chopin, and Richard Strauss among others.
The following list contains cello sonatas with or without accompanying instruments. See the See also list for more comprehensive lists divided up into solo and accompanied works.
List of major cello sonatas
Chronology of major cello sonatas
The following list (inevitably incomplete) tries to place the major sonatas and equivalent works for cello and piano or cello solo in chronological order of completion. It will be susceptible to uncertainty of dates, and whether original or revised versions are definitive.
See also
- List of compositions for cello and piano
- List of solo cello pieces
References
External links
- Complete Scores of Many Cello Sonatas
- Repertoire for Solo Cello
- Some Composers of Cello Works Dates need to be double-checked against other sources as they do not always agree.
