Cello Sonata in D major, Op. 51
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Composed
- 1890
- Duration
- 35'
- Publisher
- Robert Forberg, Leipzig (1892); new edition announced by Wollenweber, Munich, with the International Draeseke Society
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About this piece
Draeseke wrote his only cello sonata in the winter of 1890 ('During this winter I wrote my violoncello sonata', he noted in his memoirs). Friedrich Grützmacher gave the first performance, and Draeseke dedicated the published score (Robert Forberg, Leipzig, 1892) to Julius Klengel. It is a large three-movement work of about 35 minutes, and the International Draeseke Society counts its Largo among the high points of his output. Draeseke, a leading member of the Liszt-Wagner 'New German School', had been losing his hearing since an ear infection in 1853 and was almost completely deaf in later life.
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