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Three Pieces (2001) Richard Edward Wilson. Lord Chesterfield to his Son (1987) Music (1971) Stefan Wolpe. Piece Alone (1966) William Wordsworth. Sonata for Violoncello (1961) [38] Charles Wuorinen. Cello Variations I to Fred Sherry (1970) Cello Variations II (1975) Cello Variations III (1997)
Two Pieces (1899) Cello sonata (1913) Three Little Pieces for cello and piano, Op. 11 (1914) Karl Weigl. Cello Sonata (1923) Two Pieces for cello and piano (1940) Menuetto for cello and piano (1948) Kurt Weill. Cello sonata; Mieczysław Weinberg. Cello sonata, Op. 21 in C (1945) Cello sonata, Op. 63 in G minor (1958–59) Leo Weiner
Ma's sister, Ya tong sang, played the viola and piano professionally before obtaining a medical degree from Harvard and becoming a pediatrician. [9] The family moved to Boston when Ma was seven. [10] [11] From the age of three, Ma played the drums, violin, piano, and later viola, but settled on the cello in 1960 at age four. When three-year-old ...
Other possible instruments for the suite include a cello da spalla, a version of the violoncello piccolo played on the shoulder like a viola, as well as a viola with a fifth string tuned to E, called a viola pomposa. As the range required in this piece is very large, the suite was probably intended for a larger instrument, although it is ...
Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, his last major completed work, is a cornerstone of the solo cello repertoire. Elgar composed it in the aftermath of the First World War , when his music had already become out of fashion with the concert-going public.
In 1865, early in his career, Dvořák started a Cello Concerto in A major (B. 10). The piece was written for Ludevít Peer, whom he knew well from the Provisional Theatre Orchestra in which they both played. He handed the cello score (with piano accompaniment) over to Peer for review but neither bothered to finish the piece.
A cello sonata is piece written sonata form, often with the instrumentation of a cello taking solo role with piano accompaniment. [1] 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, and Sergei Rachmaninoff among others.
His first encounter with a cello-like instrument was from witnessing a local travelling Catalan musician, who played a cello-strung broom handle. Upon request, his father built him a crude cello, using a gourd as a sound-box. When Casals was eleven, he first heard the real cello performed by a group of traveling musicians, and decided to ...