Cello Concerto

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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 in the Large Hall of the Leningrad Conservatory....

• 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 Garbousova, an upstart Russian cellist, by...

• 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 doubted for some time, most experts believe that the...

• 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 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 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

  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...

• 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 reorchestrated by at least a half a dozen hand:...

• 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 English cellist Leo Stern. The piece is scored for...