Cello Concerto

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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 distinguished family of musicians closely associated with...

• 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.56 were written to fit his technique. Haydn's D...

• 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. There are three movements: At the concert at which Sullivan’s Irish Symphony was first performed...

• 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 Raphael years later. Raphael orchestrated and heavily...

• 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's lifetime. It was premièred on 9 June 1860, four...

• 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 Christopher Bunting as the soloist at the Cheltenham...