Cello Sonata in F major Op. 6
Strauss's only cello sonata, written at nineteen and published in 1883. The work sits just before his turn to the tone poems: it is still in the conservative Brahmsian vein, with a first movement built on broad lyrical themes, a brooding slow movement in F minor, and a dashing finale. Cellists value the sonata as one of the major late-Romantic German chamber works for the instrument, sitting in repertoire alongside the Brahms sonatas and predating the Rachmaninoff.
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Write the first performer's note, a practice note on a specific passage, or an interpretive school you'd defend in front of colleagues.
I. Allegro con brio
II. Andante ma non troppo
III. Finale: Allegro vivo
Henle Verlag
Urtext edition based on the autograph and first edition. Clean engraving with a short critical commentary.
Universal Edition
Original Aibl edition, later acquired by Universal. The standard source text.