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BA cello training – examination and diploma requirements

Year 1, semester 1

15-minute programme:

  • one piece with piano, or a movement from a concerto
  • one etude
  • one Bach movement

Year 1, semester 2

  • one compulsory etude: Popper: Hohe Schule No. 5, Grützmacher No. 16 or Dotzauer No. 88
  • one movement from the solo cello suites or partitas of Bach, or from the solo cello suites of Reger
  • compulsory piece – one movement of a cello concerto

Year 2, semester 1

  • Grützmacher: Etude No. 16 in C major, or Piatti: Capriccio No. 9 or 11, vor Cossmann: Etude No. 2 in G major from Op. 10, or Popper: Hoheschule Etude No. 22 in G major,
  • one prelude from Bach: Cello Suite No. 1, 2 or 3 (not played at a previous exam or at the entrance exam), or one movement from the solo cello suites of Reger
  • one movement from Bartók: Rhapsody No 1, or two movements from Janáček: Pohádka
  • one movement from a cello concerto of the 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 is to consult with the main subject teachers. 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.

Year 3, semester 1

  • Popper: Hoheschule Etude No. 9 in E flat major, or No. 13 in E flat major, or No. 20 in G minor, or Servais: Caprice No. 4
  • 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 (if possible, the opening movement of a sonata)
  • one (fast) movement from a cello concerto of the student's choice

BA graduating students should play a min. 20-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. Not adhering to the time frames results in an invalid examination.

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