A cello sonata is piece written sonata form, often with the instrumentation of a cello taking solo role with piano accompaniment.[1] Some of the earliest cello sonatas were composed in the 18th century by Francesco Geminiani and Antonio Vivaldi, and since then other famous cello sonatas have grown to those by Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Sergei Rachmaninoff among others.
The following list contains cello sonatas with or without accompanying instruments. See the See also list for more comprehensive lists divided up into solo and accompanied works.
See main article: Cello Sonata (Franck/Delsart).
The following list (inevitably incomplete) tries to place the major sonatas and equivalent works for cello and piano or cello solo in chronological order of completion. It will be susceptible to uncertainty of dates, and whether original or revised versions are definitive.
| Year | Composer | Work | Key | Opus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1696 | Sonata No. 3 | C major | Op. 3 | ||
| 1717-23 | 6 Unaccompanied Cello Suites | G, D minor, C E, C minor & D | |||
| early 18th century - 1739 | At least 12 Cello Sonatas | ||||
| early 18th century - 1741 | |||||
| 1760s - 1805 | At least 19 Cello Sonatas | ||||
| 1796 | Cello Sonata No. 1 | F major | Op. 5, No. 1 | ||
| 1796 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Cello Sonata No. 2 | G minor | Op. 5, No. 2 | |
| 1807-8 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Cello Sonata No. 3 | A major | Op. 69 | |
| 1815 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Cello Sonata No. 4 | C major | Op. 102, No. 1 | |
| 1815 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Cello Sonata No. 5 | D major | Op. 102, No. 2 | |
| 1838 | Cello Sonata No. 1 | B major | Op. 45 | ||
| 1842-3 | Felix Mendelssohn | Cello Sonata No. 2 | D major | Op. 58 | |
| 1846 | Cello Sonata | G minor | Op. 65 | ||
| 1856 | Cello Sonata | A minor | |||
| 1856 | Sonate de concert | E major | Op. 47 | ||
| 1862-5 | Cello Sonata No. 1 | E minor | Op. 38 | ||
| 1872-3 | Cello Sonata No. 1 | C minor | Op. 32 | ||
| 1883 | Cello Sonata | A minor | Op. 36 | ||
| 1883 | Cello Sonata | F major | Op. 6 | ||
| 1886 | Johannes Brahms | Cello Sonata No. 2 | F major | Op. 99 | |
| 1892 | F minor | ||||
| 1898 | Max Reger | Cello Sonata No. 2 | G minor | Op. 28 | |
| 1899 | Cello Sonata | B major | Op. 8 | ||
| 1901 | Cello Sonata | G minor | Op. 19 | ||
| 1904 | Max Reger | Cello Sonata No. 3 | F major | Op. 78 | |
| 1905 | Camille Saint-Saëns | Cello Sonata No. 2 | F major | Op. 123 | |
| 1907 | Cello Sonata | Op. 4 | |||
| 1907 | Cello Sonata | A major | Op. 80 | ||
| 1910 | Max Reger | Cello Sonata No. 4 | A minor | Op. 116 | |
| 1910-11 | Cello Sonata | A major | Op. 20 | ||
| 1911 | Cello Sonata No. 1 | D major | Op. 12 | ||
| 1912 | Max Reger | Cello Suites 1, 2 and 3 | G, D minor & A minor | Op. 131 | |
| 1913 | Cello Sonata | E minor | Op. 35 | ||
| 1915 | Cello Sonata | D minor | L. 135 | ||
| 1915 | Zoltán Kodály | Solo Cello Sonata | Op. 8 | ||
| 1916 | Cello Sonata | D minor | |||
| 1913-17 | Cello Sonata | D minor | |||
| 1917 | Cello Sonata No. 1 | D minor | Op. 109 | ||
| 1921 | Gabriel Fauré | Cello Sonata No. 2 | G minor | Op. 117 | |
| 1923 | Solo Sonata for Cello | Op. 25 No. 3 | |||
| 1923 | Cello Sonata | G minor | |||
| 1929 | Rhapsody for Cello and Piano | Sz 88 | |||
| 1932 | Cello Sonata | C minor | Op. 6 | ||
| 1932-33 | Suite Italienne for cello and piano | ||||
| 1934 | Cello Sonata | D minor | Op. 40 | ||
| 1938 | Cello Sonata No. 2 | Op. 81 | |||
| 1939 | Cello Sonata No. 1 | ||||
| 1941 | Bohuslav Martinů | Cello Sonata No. 2 | |||
| 1944 | Zoltán Gárdonyi | Cello Sonata | |||
| 1948 | Cello Sonata | Op 143 | |||
| 1948 | Cello Sonata | ||||
| 1949 | Cello Sonata | C major | Op. 119 | ||
| 1949 | Cello Sonata | ||||
| 1952 | Bohuslav Martinů | Cello Sonata No. 3 | |||
| 1956-57 | Cello Suites 1, 2 and 3 | ||||
| 1961 | Cello Sonata | C major | |||
| 1962 | Cello Sonata | B major | Op. 71 | ||
| 1964 | Benjamin Britten | Suite for Cello Solo No. 1 | G major | Op. 72 | |
| 1966 | Cello Sonata | ||||
| 1967 | Benjamin Britten | Suite for Cello Solo No. 2 | D major | Op. 80 | |
| 1971 | Benjamin Britten | Suite for Cello Solo No. 3 | Op. 87 | ||
| 1978 | Cello Sonata |