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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

  • Popper: Hoheschule No. 5, 7, 15 or 19; Grützmacher No. 16; or Dotzauer No. 86, 88 or 92: students have to prepare two of these etudes from which the exam committee chooses one to be performed at the exam
  • two movements from the solo cello suites or partitas of Bach
  • (recommended concertos: Davidov, Popper, Piatti)
  • 10-minute selected piece of student's choice

Year 2, semester 1

  • 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 prepare two of these etudes from which the exam committee chooses one to be performed at the exam
  • one complete Bach cello suite: the exam committe will choose at most 3 movements to be performed at the time of the exam
  • (recommended pieces: Bartók: Rhapsody; Janáček: Pohádka; Stravinsky: Suite Italienne; Mendelssohn: Variations concertantes; Beethoven: Variations)
  • 15-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

  • Popper: Hoheschule Etude No. 9 in E flat major, No. 13 in E flat major, No. 20 in G minor or No. 28 in A major; Servais: Caprice No. 4; or Dotzauer No. 112: students have to prepare two of these etudes from which the exam committee chooses one to be performed at the exam
  • 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 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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