The Cello Concerto in A minor by Robert Schumann was completed in 1850, shortly after Schumann became the music director of Düsseldorf. It is considered one of his more daring and adventurous works, due to the length of the exposition and the other-worldly quality of the opening.
Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85 was English composer Edward Elgar's last notable work, and is a cornerstone of the solo cello repertoire.
AntonÃn Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor, Opus 104 is one of the most well-known cello concerti. It is performed very frequently, and many recordings exist. It was Dvořák's last solo concerto, and was written in 1894-1895 for his friend and cellist HanuÅ¡ Wihan.
Lalo's Cello Concerto in D minor is the only cello concerto written by Lalo. The piece was written in 1877, inspired by Camille Saint-Saëns's Cello Concerto in A minor.
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 the Boston Symphony Orchestra. While composing, Barber asked Garbousova to play her entire repertoire for him so that he could understand her performing style.
Cello Concerto in C Major Op.4 - AntonÃn 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.
The Cello Concerto in D major is Arthur Sullivan’s only concerto. It was premièred on November 24 1866 at the Crystal Palace with August Manns conducting and was one of Sullivan's earliest major works.
Unfinished works have always fascinated composers, music theorists, and historians; Tchaikovsky's projected Cello Concerto is no different. After the composer's death, the sketches to the Concerto were found among the sketches to the Pathetique Symphony. The 60-bar piano score was only a part of a cello concerto promised to Julius Poplavskii and Anatoli Brandukov by Pyotr Illich Tchaikovsky.