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MA cello training – examination and diploma requirements

Year 1, semester 1

  • Recommended etudes: 1 Paganini capriccio, or 1 Bukinik concert etude, or Popper: Hoheschule Etude No. 12, No. 32 or No. 33; or Piatti: Capriccio No. 3 or 6.
    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 following sonatas - Schubert: Arpeggione sonata; or Beethoven: Sonata in A Major; or Brahms: Sonata in F Major, or Poulenc: Sonata; or Dohnányi: Sonata; or Strauss: Sonata, or Sosztakovics: Sonata; or Mendelssohn sonatas
  • a Hungarian solo cello piece from the 20-21st century, with a length of at least 6 minutes up to 10 minutes must be chosen from the following:
    • Eötvös Péter: 2 Poems to Polly
    • Kurtág György: Jelek, Játékok, Üzenetek
    • Kocsár Miklós: Variazioni
    • Vajda János: Solo Sonata
    • Szokolay Sándor: Solo Sonata
    • Balassa Sándor: Three movements for cello
    • Lustyik Ákos: Bilder aus ungeschehenen Zeiten
    • Lendvay: Fifthmusic, Solo Sonata
    • Tóth Péter: Letter of Cyrano de Bergerac
    • Reményi: Solo “à livre ouvert”
    • Erőd: Hommage à Beethoven Op. 24
  • one prelude from Bach: Cello Suite No. 4, 5 or 6 (not played at a previous exam or at the entrance exam)

Year 1, semester 2

  • One full 20th century cello concerto of the student's choice, from which the exam committee chooses a ca. 20 minutes long movement or movements before the exam, which is to be performed as a concert.

Year 2 – diploma concert

The diploma concert programme must consist of works from at least 3 different time-periods. The diploma concert programme must be approved by the sub-department. Performance of a concerto is not mandatory, if the programme otherwise fulfills the requirements. 

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