Classical Sheet Music for Cello

Unlike some of his other late works, Franck's Violin Sonata (HN 293), composed in 1886, was well-received by the public and critics from the very start. The beautiful arrangement for cello published i...

Good intentions are simply not good enough (to freely paraphrase Kurt Tucholsky): the arpeggione, a kind of hybrid instrument like a large bowed guitar, never won acceptance among musicians. This curi...

Variations on a well-liked theme, mainly from contemporary operas, were extremely popular at the end of the 18th century. Even the young Beethoven made several contributions to this genre. We do not k...

All cellists are familiar with Debussy's sonata, which he only composed in 1915, three years before his death. Debussy had, however, already written two works for violoncello and piano in 1882, when h...

Max Reger created his three suites for violoncello solo in 1914/15 for three important cellists and pedagogues of his time: Julius Klengel, Hugo Becker and Paul Grümmer. He also had a personal friends...

The most important source for Bach's Cello Suites is a copy made by his wife Anna Magdalena because the autograph is no longer extant. As further copies show, the actual musical text is scarcely probl...

Piatti's Twelve Caprices, op. 25, are the daily bread of all advanced players of the cello: Sir Yehudi Menuhin mentioned them in the same breath with the Bach Suites. Now Henle is presenting the very...

Like his father, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach wrote three sonatas for viola da gamba. They were written during his time at the Berlin court of Frederick the Great and gave the excellent viola da gamba pl...

Inhalt: Howard, Leslie, ed Isserlis, Steven, ed Élégie (with optional parts for harp and harmonium) Zweite Elegi oubliée La lugubre gondola Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth Consolations (with enchainement O d...