List of solo cello pieces

A

Joseph Abaco

(11) Caprices

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)

Georges Aperghis

Quatres Récitations (1980)

Sonate (1994)

Gilbert Amy

Quasi Scherzando

Tanya Anisimova

Sufi Suite

Song on Mt. San Angelo

Georgi Arnaoudov

Kells (1999)

Three Sonets of Michelangelo (2014)

Violet Archer

Improvisation (1983)

Malcolm Arnold

Fantasy (1987)

Lera Auerbach

Sonata doe Solo Violocello, Op. 72 (2003)

La Suite dels Ocells [Homage to Pablo Casals] (2015)

B

Johann Sebastian Bach

Six Suites (c. 1720)

Sonatas and partitas (originally for solo violin)

Nicolas Bacri

Suite , Op. 31, No. 1 Preludio e metamorfosi (1987–94)

Suite , Op. 31, No. 2 Tragica (1991–93)

Suite , Op. 31, No. 3 Vita et Mors (1991–93)

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)

Conrad Beck

Epigrams (for Paul Sacher)

Grant Belgarian

Elegy for solo cello

Paul Ben-Haim

Music (1974)

Richard Rodney Bennett

Partita (2001)

Sonata

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)

Gunther Bialas

Romanze (for Hoelscher) (1987)

Ernest Bloch

Suite No. 1 (1956) (written for Zara Nelsova)

Suite No. 3 (1957) (written for Zara Nelsova)

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)

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

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

One⁸ (1991)

59½ Seconds (1953)

Atlas Eclipticallis (1961)

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)

Grant Colburn

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) (1973; in memory of Kennedy)

George Crumb

Sonata for Solo Cello, (1955)

César Cui

Orientale

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)

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)

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 á 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)

Tom 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)

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)

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)

Jennifer Higdon

Suite (2002)

Paul Hindemith

Sonata, Op. 25, No. 3 (1923)

Joel Hoffman

Concert-Study (Fantasie) (1977)

unaccompanied minor (2007)

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)

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)

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

Unguis incarnatus est

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

Terminus for solo cello (1985)

Hugo Kauder

Suite (1925)

Second Suite (1924)

Frederick Kaufman

Inner Sanctum (1999)

Jin Hi Kim

Kee Maek #4 (1995)

Irena Kosíková

Stopy (2005)

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 Elegaic (1984)

Sonata No. 3 Pathetic (1993)

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

Aleksandr 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

Still Life with a Cello (1998)

Khristofer Kushnaryov

Sonata for solo cello (1932)

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)

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)

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

Olga Magidenko

Site of the Heart, Op. 60 (1998)

Enrico Mainardi

Sonata breve (1942)

Sonata (1959)

Ivo Malec

Arco-1 (1987)

Vitold Malishevsky

Suite

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)

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)

Divertimento (1994)

George Perle

Cello Sonata (1947)

Hebrew Melodies

Vincent Persichetti

Solo Cello Sonata, Op. 54

Sven Holger Philippsen

Cellosolosonate Nr.1 in 4 Sätzen (1988)

Carlo Alfredo Piatti

12 Caprices, Op. 25

Capriccio on the cavatina "I tuoi frequenti palpiti" from ‘’Niobe’’ by Giovanni Pacini, Op. 22

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)

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)

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 unanccompanied 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)

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)

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 for solo cello, Op.79 (1990)

Alexander Shchetynsky

Sonata (2001)

Bright Sheng

Diu Diu Dong (Seven Tunes Heard in China) (1995)

Rodion Shchedrin

Russian Tunes (Russkie Naigryshi), Op. 79 (1990)

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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