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BA cello training – examination and diploma requirements

Year 1, semester 1

15-minute programme of student's choice

Year 1, semester 2

  • Recommended etudes: Popper: Hohe Schule No. 5.7.15.19., Grützmacher 16. és Dotzauer 86. 88. 92. students have to choose two of these for the exam, from which the exam committee chooses one to be performed at the exam
  • two movements from the solo cello suites or partitas of Bach
  • 10-minute selected piece of student's choice
  • Recommended pieces for study purposes: Davidov, Popper, Piatti

Year 2, semester 1

  • Recommended etudes: Servais: Etude No. 2; Piatti: Capriccio No. 9 or 11; Cossmann: Etude No. 2 in G major from Op. 10; Popper: Hoheschule Etude No. 18, No. 22 or No. 25; or Dotzauer: No. 104. students have to perform one of these
  • One complete work from Bach's first three suites: the exam committe will choose at most 3 movements to be performed at the time of the exam
  • 5-10 minute selected programme of student's choice

Year 2, semester 2

One full cello concerto of the student's choice from the works of Luigi Boccherini or Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. The Bach pieces are to be played from the Eulenburg, the Breitkopf Urtext, or newer, similar critical editions, or from the new critical edition that can be downloaded from the www.cpebach.org website. In case of any doubt, the student has to consult their main subject professor(s). The Boccherini concertos are to be played mainly from the sheet music of the Schott publisher, the sheet music on the imslp.org website are to be avoided.

Type of performance: together with a chamber music group

Year 3, semester 1

  • two movements from Hindemith: Sonata for Solo Cello; or one movement from George Crumb: Sonata for Solo Cello; or the 2nd movement from Ligeti: Sonata for Solo Cello, or 1 longer or 2 shorter (min. 5-6 minutes) movement(s) from Britten: Suites for Solo Cello; or Lutoslawski: Sacher Variation; or one or two movements from Dallapiccola: Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagio; or two movements from Veress: Sonata for Solo Cello; or Kodály: a movement from a Solo sonata
  • Boccherini's Sonata with cello accompaniment, possibly with a harpsichord

Year 3, semester 2, diploma concert

  • one prelude or two dance movements from the solo cello suites of Bach or from the solo cello suites of Reger
  • one movement from a chamber piece of max. 15 minutes: duo or larger group piece, where the cellist has an outstanding role
  • movement from a cello concerto or a solo part from an important 20th century cello piece of max. 10 minutes

BA graduating students should play a min. 25-minute long programme, but the programme should be chosen, so that it does not exceed 35 minutes of stage presence at the most. The diploma concert is to be performed without breaks and without sheet music, in front of an audience. 

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