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Cello concerto
A cello concerto (sometimes called a violoncello concerto) is a concerto for solo cello with orchestra or, very occasionally, smaller groups of instruments.
These pieces have been written since the Baroque era if not earlier. However, unlike the violin, the cello had to face harsh competition from...
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Cello Concerto No. 1
The Cello Concerto No. 1 in E Flat Major, Opus 107, was written by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1959. He wrote it for Mstislav Rostropovich, who memorized the work in four days and gave the premiere in Leningrad under Yevgeny Mravinsky, on October 4, 1959...
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Cello Concerto No. 2
The Cello Concerto No. 2, Opus 126, was written by Dmitri Shostakovich in the spring of 1966 in the Crimea. Like the first concerto, it was written for Mstislav Rostropovich, who gave the premiere in Moscow under Yevgeny Svetlanov on 25 September...
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Cello Concerto
The Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129, by Robert Schumann was completed in a period of only two weeks, between 10 October and 24 October 1850, shortly after Schumann became the music director at Düsseldorf.
The concerto was never played in Schumann...
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Cello Concerto
Sir Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85 was his last notable work, and is a cornerstone of the solo cello repertoire.
The piece was composed during the summer of 1919 at Elgar's secluded cottage named "Brinkwells" in Sussex, where...
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Cello Concerto
The Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191 by Antonín Dvořák is the most often performed and recorded cello concerto. It was Dvořák's last solo concerto, and was written in 1894-1895 for his friend, the cellist Hanuš Wihan, but premiered by the...
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Cello Concerto
Édouard Lalo wrote his Cello Concerto in D minor in 1876, in collaboration with Parisian cellist Adolphe Fischer. The work was premiered the following year at the Cirque d'Hiver with Fischer as soloist.
The concerto is written in three movements:...
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Cello Concerto No. 2 in D
Joseph Haydn's Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Hob. VIIb/2, for cello and orchestra was composed in 1783. Haydn composed the piece for the cellist Antonín Kraft, a cellist of Prince Nikolaus's Esterházy Orchestra. Though the piece's authenticity was...
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Cello Concerto No. 9
Luigi Boccherini's Cello Concerto No. 9 in B flat Major, G.482 was written in either the late 1760s or early 1770s. Boccherini, a talented cellist, composed twelve concertos for his instrument. German cellist Friedrich Grützmacher chose this...
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Cello Concerto No. 1
Camille Saint-Saëns composed his Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33 in 1872, when the composer was age 37. He wrote this work for the Belgian cellist, viola de gamba player and instrument maker Auguste Tolbeque. Tolbeque was part of a...
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Cello Concerto
Samuel Barber's Cello Concerto in A Minor (op. 22), completed on 22 November 1945, was the second of his three concertos (the first being his Violin Concerto, his third is the Piano Concerto). Barber was commissioned to write his concerto for Raya...
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Cello Concerto No. 1
Antonín Dvořák wrote his first Cello Concerto in A major B.10 in 1865.
Unlike its brother, the B minor Concerto, Op.104, the A major Concerto has been more than overlooked. Written for cellist Ludevít Peer, it was discovered by composer Günter...
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Cello Concerto
Cello Concerto in C Major Op.4 - Antonín Kraft was principal cellist under Joseph Haydn. Haydn, Beethoven and other composers dedicated their cello works to him. The cello parts to Haydn's D major Cello Concerto and Beethoven's Triple Concerto, Op...
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Cello Concerto in D Minor
Cello Concerto (1926) - This piece, like the Suite for Cello Solo, has folk music elements: Spanish, Oriental, and Impressionistic. Cassado studied composition with Maurice Ravel. So it is not surprising when a Ravelian "carnival music" is heard in...
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Cello Concerto in E Major
The Cello Concerto in E major was not written by Tchaikovsky. It was created by the cellist Gaspar Cassadó, who took about nine of Tchaikovsky's piano pieces (from Piano Pieces, Op.72), and orchestrated them as, collectively, a concerto.
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Cello Concerto
The Cello Concerto in D major is Arthur Sullivan’s only concerto. It was premièred on November 24, 1866 at the Crystal Palace with August Manns conducting and was one of Sullivan's earliest major works.
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Cello Concerto No.2
Boccherini's Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major, G. 479 naturally takes the back seat to the Friedrich Grützmacher ever-famous arrangement of the B-flat Concerto. But no less attention was given to the D Major Concerto. This Concerto was arranged and...
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Cello Concerto No. 2
Saint-Saëns' Cello Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 119, is written in two movements, like his Fourth Piano Concerto. It was composed for a Dutch Cellist, Joseph Hollmann, in 1902. The Second Concerto is much more virtuosic than the First, but does...
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Cello Concerto
Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 58 is a concerto written by Sergey Prokofiev between 1933 and 1938. Its duration is approximately 35 minutes. It consists of three movements:
The concerto was premiered on November 26, 1938 in Moscow by the USSR State...
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Cello Concerto
The Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 40, was composed by Gerald Finzi in 1955.
The piece is in three movements:
The concerto was written as the result of a request by John Barbirolli, and first performed by Barbirolli and the Hallé Orchestra, with...
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