Cello Handbook/Solo Cello

Solo Cello Repertoire

A

 * Joseph Marie Clément Ferdinand Dall’Abaco
 * (11) Caprices for Violoncello solo
 * Samuel Adler
 * Sonata for unaccompanied cello (1965)
 * Kalevi Aho
 * Solo IV for Violoncello solo (10 min.) (1997)
 * Hugh Aitken
 * For the Cello (1980)
 * Franghis Ali-Zadeh
 * Ask Havasi for violoncello solo (part of the cycle Silk Road) (dedicated to Ivan Monighetti) (10 min) (1998)
 * Oyan for violoncello (dedicated to Rostropovich) (8 min) (2005)
 * Maarten Altena
 * Figura for cello solo (1993)
 * Stoyan Angelov
 * Phrygian Fantasy for solo cello (2007)
 * Giovanni Battista Degl' Antonii (ca. 1610-1698)
 * Twelve Ricercate sopra il violoncello Op. 1 (1687)
 * Georges Aperghis
 * Quatres Récitations for solo cello (17 min) (1980)
 * Sonate for solo cello (12 min) ( 1994)
 * Gilbert Amy
 * Quasi Scherzando for Cello solo
 * Georgi Arnaoudov
 * Kells for solo cello (8 min) (1999)
 * Violet Archer
 * Improvisation for Solo Cello (1983)
 * Malcolm Arnold
 * Fantasy for Cello (1987)

B

 * Johann Sebastian Bach
 * Cello Suites (Bach)|Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello (ca. 1720)
 * Sonatas and partitas for solo violin#Transcriptions and orchestrations|The Sonata and partitas for solo cello (originally for solo violin)
 * Chaconne (from Partita No. 2 for cello solo, BWV 1004) (original is for violin solo)
 * Nicolas Bacri
 * Suite for cello solo, Op. 31 No. 1 Preludio e metamorfosi (1987-94)
 * Suite for cello solo, Op. 31 No. 2  Tragica (1991-93)
 * Suite for cello solo, Op. 31 No. 3 Vita et Mors (1991-93)
 * Suite for cello solo, Op. 50 No. 4 (1994-96) (Written for Emmanuelle Bertrand)
 * Roumen Balyosov
 * Welcome XX Century for solo cello (2000)
 * Suite No. 5 for solo cello, Op. 70b Sonata variata (2000-2001) (dedicated to Clémentine Meyer) (ed Peer Music)
 * Suite No. 6 for cello solo Op. 88 (2004) (ed. Le Chant du Monde)
 * Henk Badings
 * Sonata No. 2
 * Rumen Balyozov
 * Rhapsodic Improvisation for cello No. 1 (4 min) (1971)
 * Rhapsodic Improvisation for cello No. 2 (5 min) (1979)
 * Don Banks
 * Sequence for Solo Cello (1967)
 * Granville Bantock
 * Sonata in G minor for solo cello (1924)
 * George Barati
 * Piece for solo cello (1948)
 * Triple Exposure for unaccompanied cello (1967)
 * Rami Bar-Niv
 * Improvisation for cello solo (5 min) (1997)
 * Carmen Petra Basacopol
 * Suite for Violoncello solo Op. 48 No. 3 (1983)
 * Arnold Bax
 * Rhapsodic Ballad (1939)


 * Conrad Beck
 * Epigrams for cello solo, ( for Paul Sacher)


 * Elizabeth Bell
 * Soliloquy for Solo Cello (1980)
 * Paul Ben-Haim
 * Music for Violoncello Solo (9 min) (1974)
 * Richard Rodney Bennett
 * Partita for solo cello (10 min) (2001)
 * Sonata for solo cello
 * Scena II for solo cello (10 min) (1973)
 * Niels Viggo Bentzon
 * Sonata for cello solo Op. 110 (19 min) (1956)
 * Variations for Cello solo on "The Volga Boatmen", Op. 354 (21 min) (1974)
 * 16 Etudes for solo cello Op. 464 (18 min) (1984)
 * Sonata Op. 110
 * Esteban Benzecry
 * Suite "Prisme du Sud'' (1970)
 * Michael Berkeley
 * Iberian Notebook Suite for solo cello (15 min) (1980)
 * Luciano Berio
 * Les mots sont allés (1978) (for Paul Sacher)
 * Sequenza XIV for solo cello (12 min) (2002)
 * Sequenza VIb for solo cello (16 min) (1981)
 * Chanson pour Pierre Boulez (Song for P. Boulez) for solo cello (3 min) (2000)
 * Gunther Bialas
 * Romanze for solo cello (for Hoelscher) (1987)
 * Marshall Bialosky
 * Fantasy for solo cello (1974)
 * Jörg Birkenkötter
 * Solo for cello (1986)
 * Marc Bleuse
 * Soleil blanc for cello solo
 * Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
 * Suites 1–3 for solo cello (1956–7) (written for Zara Nelsova)
 * Robert Paul Block
 * ''Fantasy for Cello Solo (1973)
 * Karl Boelter
 * Of Two Minds for unaccompanied cello (6 min) (1978)
 * William Bolcom
 * Suite in c minor for solo cello (17 min) (1994)
 * Ennio Bolognini
 * Adagio an Allegro for solo cello
 * Fiesta Baska - Lamada Montanesa for solo cello
 * Seranata de Bolonini for solo cello
 * Seranata del Eco for solo cello
 * Serenata Del Gaucho for solo cello
 * Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Purcell
 * Cello's Prayer
 * Benjamin Boone
 * Buffing the Gut: A Jazz Etude for Cello Solo
 * Hans Bottermund - Janos Starker
 * Variations on a Theme by Paganini for unaccompanied cello)
 * Reiner Bredemeyer (1929-1995)
 * Solo 1 for cello solo (1973)
 * Solo 6 for cello solo (written for H.J. Scheitzbach) (1980)
 * Alvin Brehm
 * Variations for Cello Alone
 * Benjamin Britten
 * Cello Suites (Britten)
 * Suite for Cello solo no 1, Op. 72 (1964)
 * Suite for Cello solo no 2, Op. 80 (1967)
 * Suite for Cello solo no 3, Op. 87 (1972)


 * Tema "Sacher," for solo cello (for Paul Sacher)
 * Gregory Brown
 * Suite for solo cello
 * Leo Brouwer
 * Sonata for Solo Cello (1960)
 * Garrett Brynes
 * Sonata for solo cello (scordatura: IV = B; III = F) (7 min) (1993)
 * Sprocket! for cello solo (7 min) (2006)
 * Sylvano Bussotti
 * Deborah Parker for cello solo (1987)
 * Variazione for violoncello solo

C

 * John Cage
 * One8, for Cello Solo (1991)
 * 59 1/2 Seconds  for solo cello (1953)
 * Atlas eclipticallis for solo cello (1961)
 * Variations I (1958)
 * Etudes boreales for cello solo (1978)
 * Elliott Carter
 * Figment, for solo cello (5 min) (1994)
 * Figment No. 2, Remembering Mr. Ives, for cello solo (2001)
 * Gaspar Cassadó
 * Suite for Solo Cello
 * Nicholas Chase
 * Underneath My Skin for solo cello (2002)
 * Frederic Chopin
 * ''Etude in Ab Major Op. 25 No. 1 for cello solo (trans. Cassado)
 * Dimiter Christoff
 * Reflections of a lonely cello (2000)
 * Nigel Clarke
 * Spectroscope for solo cello (1987)
 * William Coble
 * Sonata for solo cello (1980)
 * Armand Coeck
 * Madreselva (Mother of the Forest) (1999)
 * Michael Colgrass
 * Wolf for solo cello (18 min) (1975)
 * Giuseppe Colombi (1635-1694)
 * Chiacona a Basso Solo for solo cello (1670)
 * Toccata da Violone Solo (Toccata for solo cello) (1670)
 * John Corigliano
 * Fancy on a Bach air for violoncello solo (primired by Yo-Yo Ma ) (1997)
 * Henry Dixon Cowell
 * For Unaccompanied Cello
 * Gravely and Vigoruously (in Memory of Kennedy) (Hymn & Fuguing Tune No. 17) for cello (1973)
 * George Crumb
 * Cello Sonata (1955)
 * Miklós Csemiczky
 * One minute Short Stories for cello solo

D

 * Raffaele D'Alessandro
 * Intermezzo for cello solo Op. 55 (8 min) (1946)
 * Luigi Dallapiccola
 * Adagio for Solo cello (1947)
 * Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagio (1945) (16 min)
 * Jean-Luc Darbellay
 * Solo for cello solo (1997)
 * Michael Daughterty
 * Jackie's Song for solo cello (2000)
 * Avraham Daus
 * The Twelfth Sonnet for cello (1968)
 * Johann Nepomuk David
 * 2 Solo Sonatas for cello
 * Mario Davidovsky
 * Synchronisms No. 3 (1964), for cello and electronic sound
 * Robert deMaine
 * Twelve Études-Caprices for solo cello Op. 31 (1999)
 * Unaccompanied Sonata for cello
 * David Diamond
 * Sonata for Violoncello Alone (1959)
 * Igor Dibák (1947)
 * Arietta for violoncello solo
 * Paul-Heinz Dittrich
 * Cello Einsatz for cello solo (1975)
 * Friedhelm Dohl
 * Fantasie - Kadenz for Violoncello solo
 * Josef Dorfman
 * Looking at Silence for cello (1983)
 * Franco Donatoni (1927-2000)
 * Lame for solo cello (1982)
 * John Downey
 * Lydian Suite for cello solo (1975)
 * Zsolt Durkó
 * Solo Suite No. 1 for cello (1979)
 * Tomas Dusatko
 * Melos II for solo cello
 * Henri Dutilleux
 * Trois Strophes sur le Nom de Sacher (1976-82) (for Paul Sacher)

E

 * David Eby
 * Celtic Passage for solo cello
 * Gerald Eckert
 * Nôema for solo cello (1992/93)
 * Søren Nils Eichberg
 * Variations on a theme by Niccolo Paganini for solo cello (2005)
 * Hans Ulrich Engelmann
 * mini-music to siegfried palm Op 38 for Violoncello solo (1970)
 * Sven Einar Englund
 * Suite for Solo Cello (1986)
 * Gottfried von Einem
 * Music for solo cello Op. 108 (11 min) (1996)
 * Pozzi Escot
 * Sonata for Solo Cello (7 min) (2002)

F

 * Markus Faderudd
 * Ingrepp 2 for solo cello (1992)
 * Veronika Faglicová (1992)
 * Variations for cello solo (2011)
 * Evan Fein
 * Friday Night Fortune (2006)
 * Morton Feldman
 * Projection I for solo cello (3 min) (1950)
 * Intersection IV for solo cello (3 min) (1953)
 * David Fetherolf
 * Suite-Fantasia for Violoncello solo (22 min)
 * Suite for Violoncello Solo (5 min)
 * Ross Lee Finney
 *  Chromatic Fantasy In E for Violoncello Solo (1957)
 * Graciane Finzi
 * Theme and Variations to el cant dels ocells (10 min)
 * Elena Firsova
 * The Rest is Silence for violoncello solo (2002)
 * Luboš Fišer (1935-1999)
 * Sonata for cello solo (1987)
 * Tom Flaherty
 * Semi-Suite for solo cello (8 min) (1990)
 * Remembrance of Things Present (10 min) (2006)
 * Marius Flothuis
 * Sonata Op. 2
 * Alexandra Fol
 * Almost Serial for cello solo (1999)
 * Lenka Foltynova
 * Safranbolu for solo cello (8 min) (2003)
 * Wolfgang Fortner
 * Suite for Violoncello solo (Schott) (for Paul Sacher)
 * Zum Spielen für den 70. Geburtstag: Theme and Variationen for cello solo (1976)
 * Suite
 * Henning Frederichs
 * Tefilah (after the 55th Psalm) for cello solo (1990)
 * Ilse Fromm-Michaels
 * Suite for Cello solo Op. 15 (Sitkorski)

G

 * Domenico Gabrielli
 * Seven Ricercari for solo cello (1689)
 * Domenico Galli (1649-1697)
 * Trattenimento musicale 12 Unaccompanied Cello Sonatas (pieces) (1691)
 * Orlando Garcia
 * Crystalline Sounds of the Night for solo cello
 * Glenn Gass
 * Shojoshin-in chants for solo cello (5 movements)
 * Ada Gentile
 * Pervioloncellosolo (for cello solo) (1996)
 * Michael Gielen
 * Weitblick Sonata for cello solo (1991)
 * Alberto Ginastera (1916-83)
 * Puneña No. 2 for solo cello, Op. 45 (Hommage à Paul Sacher)
 * Detlev Glanert
 * Fünf Wüstenlieder (five Desert Songs) for solo cello (7 min) (1999)
 * Gerald Glynn
 * Changes for Cello (1975)
 * Vladimír Godár (1956)
 * Passacaglia for cello solo g minor
 * Friedrich Goldmann
 * Cellomusik for solo cello (12 min) (1974)
 * Marin Goleminov
 * Sonata for solo cello (8 min) (1969)
 * Osvaldo Golijov
 * Omaramor (1991) for solo cello
 * Frederic Goossen
 * Music for cello alone (1979)
 * Leonid Grabovsky
 * Hlas I for unaccompanied cello (1990)
 * Deidre Gribbin
 * The Blue Poet for solo cello (10 min) (2001)
 * Sean Grissom
 * Japanese Suite for solo cello (9 min)
 * Bowin'  for solo cello
 * Robert Gross
 * Epode
 * Sofia Gubaidulina
 * Ten Preludes for solo cello (1974)

H

 * Alois Haba
 * Fantasy in quarter-tones for cello solo (1924)
 * Parashkev Hadzhiev
 * Haidushko Horo for solo cello (1997)
 * Daron Hagen
 * Suite for Solo Cello (1985)
 * Higher, Louder, Faster, an editorial etude (1987)


 * Cristobal Halffter
 * Variations for cello on the theme eSACHERe (for Paul Sacher)
 * Hermann Haller
 * Trois pieces pour violoncelle seul (3 pieces for solo cello)
 * Brooke Halpin
 * Serenata for unaccompanied cello
 * George Frideric Handel
 * Air and Variations "The Harmonious Blacksmith" from Suite for Harpsichord in E major, HWV 430 arr. Gaspar Cassadó
 * Passacaglia - Theme and Variations for solo cello (arr. Zinoviy Dynov based on the Halvorsen version)
 * John Harbison
 * Suite for Solo Cello (8 minutes) (1994)
 * Jonathan Harvey
 * Curve with Plateaux for Helen Verney (1983)
 * Joseph Haselbach
 * Abendlied for cello solo (1994)
 * Teppo Hauta-aho
 * Improvatio for solo cello (10 min) (1971)
 * Paul Hedwall
 * Three verses for unaccompanied cello (1979)
 * Bernhard Heiden
 * Variations on "Lilliburlero"
 * Paavo Heininen
 * Cantilena I Op. 24c (7 min) (1970)
 * Cantilena II Op. 26 (14 min) (1970)
 * Petr Hejný (*1956)
 * Metal Sonata for cello solo (1983)
 * Hans Werner Henze
 * Capriccio for Cello solo (for Paul Sacher) (1976/1981)
 * Serenade for cello solo (1949)
 * Jörg Herchet
 * Komposition for Violoncello solo (1979)
 * Michael Hersch
 * Sonata No. 1 for unaccompanied cello (35 min) (1994)
 * Sonata No. 2 for unaccompanied cello (40 min) (2001)
 * Hans-Joachim Hespos
 * For cello solo (1964)
 * Jacques Hétu
 * Variations for cello solo Op. 11b (1967)
 * Volker Heyn
 * Blues in B-flat for solo cello (1981)
 * Jennifer Higdon
 * Suite for solo cello (2002)
 * Paul Hindemith
 * Sonata for Cello solo, Op. 25 No. 3 (1919)
 * Dorothy Hindman
 * drowningXnumbers for solo amplified cello (15min) (1994)
 * Joel Hoffman
 * Concert-Study (Fantasie) for solo cello (10 min) (1977)
 * unaccompanied minor for cello solo (5 min) (2007)
 * York Höller
 * Sonata for solo cello (1968)
 * Heinz Holliger
 * Chaconne for cello solo (for Paul Sacher) (1975)
 * Trema for Violoncello solo (1981)
 * Vagn Holmboe
 * Solo Cello Sonata M. 241 (1968–9)
 * Imogen Holst
 * Fall of the Leaf for solo cello
 * Colin Holter
 * Variations: Go Rin No Sho for solo cello (2003)
 * Alfred Holzhausen
 * NGC 7027 for solo cello (2000)
 * Joaquim Homs
 * Arbres al vent for solo cello (5 min) (1992)
 * Soliloqui num. 4 (4 min) (1994)
 * ''Capvespre vora el mar (4 min) (1994)
 * Arthur Honegger
 * Paduana for solo cello in G major H181 (1945)
 * Gerhard Müller-Hornbach
 * An der Schwelle for Violoncello solo (1990)
 * Alan Hovhaness
 * Yakamochi for cello solo Op. 193 (1965) (15 min)
 * Petar Hristoskov
 * Fantasia for solo cello Op. 15 (1967)
 * Ruchenitsa for cello solo (1997)
 * Klaus Huber
 * Transpositio ad Infinitum für ein virtuoses Solocello (for Paul Sacher)
 * Nicolaus A. Huber
 * Der Ausrufer steigt ins Innere for solo cello (1984)
 * Tobias Hume (1569-1645)
 * Kleine Stücke für Cello solo (Small pieces for cello solo) Book 1 (originally for Gamba) (arranged by Sabina Lehrmann)
 * (Cello solo pieces) Book 2

I

 * Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)
 * Etude-Caprice pour un tombeau de Chopin for solo cello (1949)
 * Ghirlarzana for solo cello (1950)
 * Yoshiro Irino
 * Three movements for cello solo (12 min) (1969)

J

 * Laurie A. Jarski
 * Solo for unaccompanied cello (1990)
 * William Jeths
 * Bella Figura for cello solo (1959)
 * Jan Jirásek (*1955)
 * Dilema for cello solo (1987)
 * Ben Johnston
 * Toccata for Laurien Laufman (1984)


 * David Johnstone
 * Fantasy on a theme of J.S.Bach (1999)
 * Tango Concierto (2001)
 * Virtuoso Concert Pieces for Solo Cello (15 Pieces) rev.2006


 * Betsy Jolas
 * Scion for cello solo (1974)
 * Episode cinquième for cello solo (1983)
 * Andre Jolivet
 * Suite en Concert for cello solo (1965)
 * Christian Jost
 * Laulos for solo cello (2005)
 * Gordon Jacob
 * Serenade for solo cello
 * Divertimento for solo cello
 * Karl Henrik Juusela
 * Apollo and Daphne for solo cello (5 min) (1987)

K

 * Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky
 * Etudes in Major and Minor for cello solo Op. 68(1961)
 * Mauricio Kagel
 * Unguis incarnatus est
 * Siegfriedp‘  for cello (1971)
 * Istvan Kardos
 * Capriccio for solo cello (1958)
 * Tommi Kärkkäinen
 * Variations for solo cello (1999)
 * Hugo Kauder
 * Suite for unaccompanied cello (1925
 * Second Suite for unaccompanied cello (1924)
 * Frederick Kaufman
 * Inner Sanctum for solo cello (10 min) (1999)
 * Daniel Kessner
 * ''11 Studies for solo violoncello (1990-91)
 * Jin Hi Kim
 * Kee Maek #4 for cello solo (9 min) (1995)
 * Leon Kirchner
 * For Cello Solo (1986)
 * Irena Kosíková
 * Stopy for Cello Solo (2005)
 * Volker David Kirchner
 * Und Salomo sprach (4 min) (and Salomo spoke) for cello solo (1987)
 * Aus dem Buch der Konige 3 meditations for solo cello (13 min) (2000)
 * Threnos for solo cello (written for the Feuermann Competition 2006)
 * Aram Khachaturian
 * Sonata-Fantasy in C major for cello solo, Opus 104 (1974)
 * Adam Khudoyan
 * Sonata No. 1 for solo cello (1961)
 * Sonata No. 2 for solo cello (1984)
 * Sonata No. 3 for solo cello (1993)
 * Juliane Klein
 * Aus der Wand die Rinne 1 for cello solo (1996)
 * 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
 * Josef Klíč
 * V půli kopce 13 Compositions for solo cello (2004)
 * Zoltán Kodály
 * Cello Solo Sonata op. 8 (1915)
 * Capriccio for unaccompanied cello (1915)
 * Nikolai Korndorf
 * Passacaglia for solo cello (1997)
 * Irena Kosíková
 * Stopy for cello solo (2004)
 * Ernst Krenek
 * Suite for Cello Solo op. 84 (1939)
 * Hanna Kulenty
 * Still Life with a Cello for cello solo (1998)

L

 * Ezra Laderman
 * Partita for solo cello (27 min) (1972)
 * A Single Voice for solo cello (9 min) (1995)
 * Fantasy for solo cello (Schirmer) (15 min) (1998)
 * A Single Line for solo cello (2004)
 * Fung Lam
 * Caged for solo cello (with two bows) (2006)
 * Henri Lazarof
 * Momenti for solo cello (16 min) (1987)
 * Konrad Lechner
 * Strada Senza Ritorno for cell solo (1978)
 * Benjamin Lees
 * Night Spectres for unaccompanied cello (2000)
 * Kenneth Leighton
 * Sonata for cello solo Op. 52 (1967) (19 min)
 * Troy Lennerd
 * Piece for solo violoncello (2005)
 * Tania Leon
 * 4 Pieces for solo cello (1981)
 * Yuriy Leonovich
 * Fantasie-Impromptu, Op.58 (2004)
 * Milcho Leviev
 * Reflected Meditation for cello (4 min) (1980)
 * Augsburg Polka for cello solo (4 min) (1998)
 * György Ligeti
 * Cello sonata for solo cello (1948-1953)
 * Magnus Lindberg
 * Stroke for solo cello (4'20) (1984)
 * Vassily Lobanov
 * Fantasie for cello solo Op. 48 (1987)
 * Pietro Locatelli
 * Il Laberinto Armonico (transcription for cello solo by Rohan de Saram) (solo cello)
 * Alain Louvier
 * Raga for voloncello solo
 * Alvin Lucier
 * Indian Summer (1993)
 * Witold Lutosławski
 * Sacher Variation (1975) (for Paul Sacher)

M

 * Enrico Mainardi
 * Sonata breve'' for violoncello solo (Schott) (1942)
 * Sonata for cello (1959)
 * Ivo Malec
 * Arco-1 (published by "Salabert") (1987)
 * Michio Mamiya
 * Sonata for violoncello solo (25 min) (1968-9)
 * Tigran Manssurjan
 * Stucke (Pieces for solo cello)
 * Das Buch (The Book)
 * Capriccio for solo cello (5 min)
 * Lamento
 * Madrigal in Memoriam Oleg Kagen
 * Suite


 * Pamela J. Marshall
 * Soliloquy for Solo Cello
 * Heinz Marti
 * Ombra for violoncello solo (1979)
 * Donald Martino
 * Parisonatina Al’Dodecafonia for violoncello solo (1964)
 * Eugen-Mihai Marton
 * Solo for cello (1971)
 * Colin Matthews
 * Palinode for cello solo (1992)
 * David Matthews
 * Fantasia for cello Op. 8 (1971)
 * Songs and Dances of Mourning for cello Op. 12 (1976)
 * Journeying Songs for solo cello Op. 95 (2004)
 * Jiří Matys (*1927)
 * Fantasie and Rondo for cello solo (1982)
 * Rudolf Matz
 * 11 Caprices for Unaccompanied Cello
 * Ombres et lumières (Lights and Shadows) for solo cello
 * Suite in C major for violoncello solo
 * Tema con Variazioni for violoncello solo
 * Toshiro Mayuzumi
 * Bunraku for solo cello (1960)
 * John McCabe
 * Partita (1966) (12 min)
 * Matthew McConnell
 * Sonata for Solo Cello (2007)
 * Tilo Medek
 * Schattenspiele for cello solo (1978)
 * Eine Stele fur Bernd Alois Zimmermann for cello solo (1976)
 * Krzysztof Meyer
 * Sonata for violoncello solo (1959)
 * Moment musicial for cello (1976)
 * Monologue for cello solo (1990)
 * Aaron Minsky
 * Ten American Cello Etudes (1988)
 * Three Concert Etudes for solo cello (1990)
 * Judaic Concert Suite for solo cello (2003)
 * Eric Moe (1954-  )
 * The Lone Cello (1998) for 'cello solo (11 min)
 * Robert Moevs
 * Heptachronon for solo cello (8 min) (1969)
 * Roberto Molinelli
 * Crystalligence for Violoncello solo (commissioned by Enrico Dindo) (8 min) (2005)
 * Dexter Morrill
 * Fantasy for cello solo (1995)
 * Roland Moser
 * Wie ein Walzer auf Glas for solo cello (1986)
 * Robert Muczynski
 * Gallery: Suite for solo cello (on paintings of Charles Burchfield) (1966)
 * Henriette Müller
 * Fantasie No. 1 version for solo violoncello (6 min) (2004)
 * Isabel Mundry
 * Komposition for solo cello (1992/93)
 * Komposition for solo cello (1997)
 * Igal Myrtenbaum
 * La Sefira for cello

N

 * Marc Neikrug
 * Sonata for solo cello (1967)
 * George Newson
 * Variations for cello alone (1957)
 * Maria A. Niederberger
 * Daedaleum for solo cello (1983)
 * Tokuhide Niimi
 * Ohju for Violoncello solo (1987)
 * Lazar Nikolov
 * From the Music of Orpheus II for cello solo (2002)
 * Joaquin Nin-Culmell
 * Suite for Cello solo
 * Akira Nishimura
 * Threnody for solo cello (11 min) (1998)
 * Lior Navok
 * Fantasy for Cello solo (5 min) (1998)

O

 * Mark O'Connor
 * Appalachia Waltz (composer's own transcription of original version for solo violin)
 * Paul Rovsing Olsen
 * Partita for solo cello Op. 75
 * Matthew Owens
 * Kol Nidrei for solo cello (10 min) (1998)
 * The Rowell Sonata for unaccompanied cello (25 min) (1996)
 * Terry Winter Owens
 * Cellestial Music, Book 1 for solo cello (2003)

P

 * Niccolò Paganini
 * 24 caprices for cello solo (Arranged by Luigi Silva)
 * 1 in G major
 * 2 in D minor
 * 3 in E minor
 * 4 in C minor
 * 5 in A minor
 * 6 in G minor
 * 7 in A minor
 * 8 in E flat major
 * 9 in G major
 * 10 in G minor
 * 11 in C major
 * 12 in A flat major
 * 13 in B flat major
 * 14 in E flat major
 * 15 in D minor
 * 16 in B minor
 * 17 in E flat major
 * 18 in C major
 * 19 in E flat major
 * 20 in D major
 * 21 in C major
 * 22 in F major
 * 23 in E flat major
 * 24 in A minor


 * Younghi Pagh-Paan
 * AA-GA I for solo cello (1984)
 * Hilda Paredes
 * Zuhuy Kak for solo cello (1997)
 * Robert Parris
 * Fantasy and Fugue for solo cello (10 min) (1954)
 * Paul Patterson
 * Suite Op. 62 for cello solo
 * Krzysztof Penderecki
 * Capriccio per Siegfried Palm, for solo cello (1968)
 * Per Slava, for solo cello (1986)
 * Divertimento, for solo cello (1994)
 * George Perle
 * Cello Sonata (1947)
 * Hebrew Melodies, for solo cello
 * Vincent Persichetti
 * Solo Cello Sonata op. 54
 * Gyula Petendi
 * 9 Solo pieces for solo cello
 * Carlo Alfredo Piatti
 * 12 Caprices, Op. 25
 * Capriccio op. 22 for cello solo on the aria, cavatina, "I tuoi frequenti palpiti", from Niobe by Giovanni Pacini
 * Alfred Peschek
 * Cellare for cello solo (2005)
 * Astor Piazzolla
 * 6 Tango Etudes For Solo Cello (arr. Karttunen)
 * Simeon Pironkoff
 * Entrata e Capriccio for solo cello (11 min) (1980)
 * Robert H. P. Platz
 * Senko-hana-bi (In Yoshitake's garden) for cello (1997-2000)
 * Conrad Pope
 * Sonata for Violoncello alone (12 min) (1972)
 * Sergei Prokofiev
 * Solo Cello Sonata op. 133 (1953) (completed by Blok in 1996)
 * March from Music for Children, Op. 65 - (ed Piatigorsky)
 * Henri Pusher
 * Paganiana assisted for solo cello (35 min) (1982)
 * Nineteenth root of eight quarters for cello solo (15 min) (1976)
 * Veli-Matti Puumala
 * Epitaph for solo cello (1995)

R

 * Shulamit Ran
 * Fantasy Variations for cello solo (2003)
 * Alexander Raskatov
 * Kyrie Eleison for solo cello (1992)
 * Einojuhani Rautavaara
 * Sonata for Cello Solo (14 min) (1969)
 * Max Reger
 * Suite No 1 in G major Suites (3) for Cello solo, Op. 131c (1914)
 * Suite No 2 in D minor Suites (3) for Cello solo, Op. 131c
 * Suite No 3 in A minor Suites (3) for Cello solo, Op. 131c
 * Aribert Reimann
 * Solo II for solo cello (1981)
 * Heiner Reitz
 * 12 Caprices für Violoncello Solo (recorded on Telos TLS 025)
 * Phillip Rhodes
 * Three Pieces for solo cello (6 min)
 * Alan Ridout
 * Partita for cello solo (1959)
 * Wolfgang Rihm (*1952)
 * Grat for Violoncello solo (1972)
 * Frank la Rocca
 * Secret Thoughts for unaccompanied cello (10 min)(1986)
 * Joaquin Rodrigo
 * Como una fantasía (8 min) (1979)
 * Scott Roller
 * Mutamusic for solo cello (1983)
 * Ned Rorem
 * After Reading Shakespeare Nine movements for cello alone (written for Sharon Robinson) (21 min) (1980)
 * Hilding Rosenberg (1892 - 1985)
 * Intermezzo (1974)
 * Bruce Craig Roter
 * Sonatine Solo Cello
 * Miklos Rozsa
 * Toccata capricciosa for solo cello op. 36 (in memory of Piatigorsky) (1979)
 * Edmund Rubbra
 * Improvisation, for Solo Cello Op. 124 (published in 1967)
 * Peter Ruzicka
 * Sonata for Violoncello solo Op. 9 (12 min) (1969)
 * Stille Four Epilogues for Violoncello solo (10 min) (1976)

S
''Sonata for cello solo No. 1, Op. 39 (11 min) (1993)
 * Kaija Saariaho
 * Petals (1988)
 * Près (1992)
 * ''Spins & Spells for cello (1997)
 * Sept Papillons (2000)
 * Dimiter Sagaev
 * Fresco for solo cello (2002)
 * Nocturne fro solo cello (2001)
 * Aulis Sallinen
 * Elegy for Sebastian Knight for Solo Cello, Op. 10 (1964) (5')
 * Sonata for Solo Cello Op. 26 (1971) (12')
 * David Sampson (composer)
 * Three Arguments for unaccompanied cello (1993)
 * Marc Satterwhite
 * Witnesses of Time (Four studies on photographs by Flor Garduño) (2003)
 * Ahmed Adnan Saygun
 * Partita for solo cello Op. 31 (1954)
 * Giacinto Scelsi
 * Triphon (1956)
 * Trilogie (1957/65)
 * Voyages (1985)
 * Maknongan (1976)
 * Gerhard Schedl
 * Aus Zwei Stücke aus der Schatz-Truhe (Written for Geringas) (3 min)
 * Peter Schickele (P. D. Q. Bach)
 * Vermillion Suite for solo cello (12 min) (1987)
 * Suite No. 1 for Cello All By Its Lonesome
 * Suite No. 2 for Cello All By Its Lonesome
 * Harold Schiffman
 * Sonata Quasi una Fantasia for solo violoncello (5 min) (1977)
 * ''Kate's Suite for Solo violoncello (7 min) (1999)
 * Suite from Wake for solo violoncello (10 min) (2004)
 * Thomas Daniel Schlee
 * Three Signs Op. 53 for violoncello solo (2002)
 * Artur Schnabel (1882-1951)
 * Sonata for Solo Cello (in four movements) (25 min) (written for Piatigorsky) (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 for Violoncello solo
 * Gunther Schuller
 * Fantasy, Opus 19 (1960)
 * Salvatore Sciarrino
 * Due Studi for cello solo (1947)
 * Ai Limiti Della Notte for cello solo (1984)
 * Francesco Scipriani (1678-1753)
 * Principij da imparare a suonare il violoncello e con 12 toccate a solo (12 Toccaten) for cello solo (ca 1720)
 * Ciro G. Scotto
 * Introspection for solo cello (1999)
 * Peter Sculthorpe
 * Requiem for Cello Alone (1979)
 * Threnody for solo cello (In memory of Stuart Challender) (1991)
 * Into the Dreaming for cello alone (1993)
 * Tailitnama Song for cello solo (1997)
 * Anatolijus Senderovas
 * Cantus II for solo cello (written for David Geringas) (8 min) (1993)
 * Roger Sessions
 * Six Pieces for Solo Cello (1966)
 * Bright Sheng
 * Diu Diu Dong (Seven Tunes Heard in China) (2 min) (1995)
 * Rodion Shchedrin (1932- )
 * Russian Tunes (Russkie Naigryshi) Op. 79 for cello solo (1990)
 * Makoto Shinohara
 * Evolution for cell solo (1986-90)
 * Alan Shockley
 * Abschrift von unbekannter Hand for solo violoncello (2004)
 * Jean Sibelius
 * Theme and Variations for Cello solo in d minor (12 min) (written in 1887) (discovered in 1995)
 * Paul Siskind
 * Three Epiphanies for cello solo (12 min) (1987)
 * Haskell Small
 * Suite for solo Cello
 * Dmitry Nikolayevich Smirnov
 * Monogram for solo cello Op. 58A (3 min) (1990)
 * Elegy in memory of Edison Denisov for solo cello Op. 97a (1997)
 * Family Portrait for solo cello Op. 108 (9 min) (1998)
 * Postlude in memory of Alfred Schnittke for solo cello Op. 112A (9 min) (2000)
 * Bagatelle for cello solo Op. 128A (2 min) (2001)
 * Saga to S.A. Gubaidulina for cello solo Op. 130 (7 min) (2001)
 * Naresh Sohal
 * Monody for solo cello (3 min) (1976)
 * Shades III for cello solo
 * Shades IV for cello solo (14 min) (1983)
 * Giovanni Sollima
 * La luna for solo cello (7 min) (1986)
 * 6 Caprices for solo cello (1987)
 * Segno for cello solo (6 min) (1992)
 * Anno uno for cello solo (8 min) (1993)
 * The Songlines for solo cello (1993)
 * Lamentatio for cello solo (5 min) (1998)
 * Pasolini fragments for cello (5 min) (1998)
 * Alone for solo cello (7 min) (1999)
 * Øystein Sommerfeldt
 * ''Monologi for cello solo op. 45,(7 min)(ca. 1976)
 * Elizabeth Start
 * Union for solo cello (3 min) (2006)
 * Miloš Štědroň (*1942)
 * Dances of King Lear for cello solo (1995)
 * Halsey Stevens
 * Sonata for Solo Cello (five movements - Introduction, Ciaccona, Scherzo, Notturno, Finale) (dedicated to Gabor Rejto) (1958)
 * Nikolai Stoikov
 * Mark Summer
 * Julie-O
 * Viktor Suslin
 * Chanson contre raison Sonata for solo cello (13 min)(1984)
 * Schatz-insel for cello solo (3 min) (1990)
 * Robert Suter
 * Elegie for cello solo (11 min) (1969)
 * Randall Svane
 * Suite No. 1 for unaccompanied cello (1979)
 * Suite No. 2 for unaccompanied cello (1982)
 * Suite No. 3 for unaccompanied cello (1988)

T

 * Emil Tabakov
 * Bis for solo cello (4 min) (1982)
 * Huguety Tagell
 * Flamenco for solo cello
 * Luigi Taglietti (1668-1715)
 * 8 pieces for cello solo (1697)
 * Dimitar Tapkoff
 * Sonata for cello solo (7 min) (1978)
 * Giuseppe Tartini
 * L'Arte dell'Arco (The Art of the Bow) 50 variations on Correlli's Gavotte from op.5 no.10 for cello solo (1758) (transcribed by Paul Bazelaire)
 * Hristo Tsanoff
 * Seven concert etude for solo violoncello, rom the series concert etudes " Play of the mind "(2005)link
 * John Tavener
 * Thrinos for cello solo (1990)
 * Chant for cello (1995)
 * Boris Tchaikovsky
 * Suite for cello solo (in six movements) (1946)
 * Suite in five movements for solo cello (written for Rostropovich) (1960)
 * Alexander Tcherepnin
 * Suite for Solo Cello op. 76 (1946)
 * Georg Philipp Telemann
 * 12 Fantasias for cello solo
 * James Tenney
 * Cellogram for Joel Krosnick (1971)
 * Dimitri Terzakis
 * Omega 1 for cello solo (1978)
 * Augusta Read Thomas
 * Spring Song (1995)
 * Ton That Tiet
 * Bois terre for cello solo
 * Boris Tishchenko
 * Sonata for Solo Cello No. 1 Op. 18 (1960)
 * Sonata for Solo Cello No. 2 Op. 76 (1979)
 * Ernst Toch
 * Impromptu for cello solo in three movements Op. 90c (for Piatigorsky) (8 min) (1963)
 * Paul Tortelier
 * Suite in D minor for solo cello (1944)
 * Donald Francis Tovey
 * Solo Cello Sonata op. 50 in D
 * Aaron Travers
 * ''Gertrude's Child for violoncello solo (11 min) (2002-05)
 * Sulkhan Fyodorovich Tsintsadze (1925-1992)
 * Chonguri for cello solo (written for Daniil Shafran)(1978)
 * Sonata for cello solo (1975)
 * Katsuhiro Tsubono
 * Solo cello piece
 * Tapio Tuomela
 * Pendulum for solo cello (1985)

U

 * Chinary Ung
 * Kshe Buon for solo cello (1981)

V

 * Fabio Vacchi
 * In alba mia,dir... (1995)


 * Moisei Vainberg see Mieczyslaw Weinberg


 * Janos Vajda
 * Just for you for Cello solo (1985)
 * Pēteris Vasks
 * Gramata cellam (Das Buch) for solo cello (1978)
 * Gary Verkade
 * Specimen for solo cello (1997)
 * Sándor Veress
 * Sonata for cello solo (1935)
 * Carl Vine
 * Inner World (for solo cello with CD accompaniment) (1994)
 * Param Vir
 * Flame for solo cello (12 min) (1997)
 * Mihaly Virizlay
 * Sonata for Unaccompanied Cello (1965)
 * Giovanni Battista Vitali (1644-1692)
 * Partite per il Violone (Partita for solo cello) (1680)
 * Partita sopra diverse Sonate (14 min)
 * Wladimir Vogel
 * Poeme for violoncello solo (1974)

W

 * Wolfram Wagner
 * Sonata Op. 31 for violoncello solo (1990)
 * Gwyneth Walker
 * In Memoriam for cello (1980)
 * William Walton
 * Passacaglia for solo cello (written for Rostropovich)(1980)
 * Meira Warshauer
 * In Memoriam September 11, 2001 for solo cello (5 min) (2001)
 * Ben Weber
 * Dance for unaccompanied cello op. 28 (1948)
 * Dance Op. 31 for solo cello (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 for solo cello (1968) Sikorski Edition
 * Egon Wellesz
 * Cello Sonata op. 31 (1920)
 * Suite for Cello Solo op. 39 (1924)
 * Jacques Wildberger
 * Study for violoncello solo (6 min) (1971)
 * tantôt libre, tantôt recherchée for cello solo (7 min) (1992-3)
 * David Wilde
 * The Cellist of Sarajevo - A Lament in Rondo Form for Solo Cello, op. 12
 * Adrian Williams
 * Solo Cello Sonata (1976-77)
 * Richard Edward Wilson
 * Lord Chesterfield to his Son (1987)
 * Music for Solo Cello (1971)
 * Stefan Wolpe
 * Piece for Cello 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

 * Victoria Yagling
 * ''Suite for Violoncello Solo No. 1
 * ''Suite for Violoncello Solo No. 2
 * James Yannatos
 * Sonata for solo cello (15 min)
 * Yehuda Yannay
 * I can't fathom it... for solo cello (1993)
 * Eugène Ysaÿe
 * Cello Sonata op. 28 (1924)
 * Isang Yun
 * Glissées for Cello Solo (1970)
 * Seven Etudes for Cello Solo (1993)

Z

 * Roger Zahab
 * Amnesia Kiss for cello solo (10 min) (1995)
 * An Opening Piece fro solo cello (2.5 min)
 * for Jim Hinkley for solo cello (1 min) (1989)
 * reaching after for solo cello (scordature) (9 min) (2003)
 * reMemoring Peace for solo cello (2 min) (1989)
 * Edson Zampronha
 * Toccata for solo violoncello (4 min) (1989)
 * Bernd Alois Zimmermann
 * Sonata for cello solo (1959-60)
 * Four short studies for cello solo (1970)