Cello Sonata

Full title Sonata for cello and piano in G Major / Sonate für Violoncello G-Dur
Date composed 1923
Details Lebhaft, schwungvoll (Allegro con fuoco)
Sehr langsam (Adagio)
Rondo—Heiter belebt (Allegro ma non troppo)

Composition completed July 1923.
Performance duration: ca. 20 min.
Manuscript sources NYPL JOB 73-114 holograph score and part (38 numbered pages), with composer's note on title page of score: Wien, im Juli 1923. See also NYPL JPB 99-7 no. 109, Composers Facsimile Edition of holograph score.
Publication details Not published in composer's lifetime. Today publisher of record is ACA.
Availabiity Performance score and part available from ACA; score for perusal or study available from KWF.
Recordings Othmar Müller and Leonore Aumaier: Weigl, Müller-Hermann, Webern: Cello Music of the Fin de Siècle in Vienna (CD Camerata CMCD 28245, 2011 [recorded in England 19–23 October 2000; ed. Taiki Kubota, prod. Dominic Fyfe]). CD also includes Weigl's Two Pieces for cello and piano, Minuet for cello and piano, and 28 Variations on an Original Theme, as well as Johanna Müller-Hermann's Cello Sonata op. 17 and Webern's Two Pieces, Sonata for cello and piano, and Three Little  Pieces op. 11. Notes by Othmar Müller and Leonore Aumaier (English translation by Donald Hall).

Kermit Moore and Richard Woitach (LP: Orion ORS 80389, 1980). CD also includes Weigl's Two Pieces for cello and piano, the Viola Sonata, and Three Songs for male voice and piano.
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Cello Sonata: movement 1, Lebhaft, schwungvol
Othmar Müller and Leonore Aumaier

Performances (click icon to expand or collapse list)
4 October 1924 Vienna, Saal der Sezession, Wiener Musikfest: Joachim Stutschewsky, cello; Walter Kerschbaumer, piano. Also on the program: Josef Haydn, string quartet [as yet unidentified]; Alban Berg, String Quartet op. 3; Hanns Eisler, Piano Sonata op. 1; and Egon Wellesz, Geistliches Lied for soprano, violin, viola, and piano.
14 November 1924 Trieste, Italy: Ettore Sigon, cello; Federica Schmitz, piano.
23 November 1924 Trieste, Italy: Ettore Sigon, cello; Federica Schmitz, piano.
19 November 1940 Philadelphia, Friendship House, American Artists Interpreting Emigré Music: Ernest Silberstein, cello; Bernard Segall, piano.
21 November 1940 Philadelphia, private musicale, home of Mrs. Wasserman, Works by Karl Weigl: Benar Heifetz, cello; Karl Weigl, piano.
1 March 1946 New York, WNYC radio broadcast: George Finckel, cello; Karl Weigl, piano.
14 March 1946 New York, Hadley Studio, National Association for American Composers and Conductor: George Finckel, cello; Vivian Rivkin, piano.
11 February 1951 New York, Brooklyn Museum Concerts and WNYC radio broadcast, Karl Weigl Memorial Program; Marcel Hubert, cello; Rose Schiffmann, piano.
20 April 1959 New York, Mannes College of Music, Karl Weigl Memorial Concert: Marie R. Rosanoff, cello; Richard Woitach, piano.
22 February 1960 New York, Carnegie Recital Hall, Wolf—Mahler—Weigl: Laszlo Varga, cello; Robert Starer, piano.
2 April 1960 New York: further performance details unknown.
24 September 1961 New York, Brooklyn Museum Concerts, Karl Weigl Memorial Concert: Marie Rosanoff, cello;Richard Woitach, piano.
19 October 1974 New York, Donnell Library, Austrian Institute and Bruckner Society of America, Mahler—Weigl Program: Sandra Appelman, cello; Nancy Garniez, piano.
10 November 1974 New York, Brooklyn Museum, Karl Weigl Memorial Program: Sandra Appelman, cello; N. Gariniez, piano.
8 October 1977 New York, New York Public Library Donnell Library Center, Mahler—Weigl Program: Kermit Moore, cello; Richard Woitach, piano.
17 April 1988 London, South Bank, Purcell Room, Emigrés—A Mahler Link, A Weekend’s Celebration on the South Bank of the Music of Berthold Goldschmidt and Karl Weigl, concert 3: Cello Sonata and Two Pieces for cello and piano (Alexander Baillie and Shelagh Sutherland); Pictures from Childhood (Ingrid Culliford and Shelagh Sutherland). Also on program: Goldschmidt, Variations on a Palestine Shepherd’s Song and Clarinet Quartet.
17 April 1988 London, South Bank, Purcell Room, Emigrés—A Mahler Link, A Weekend’s Celebration on the South Bank of the Music of Berthold Goldschmidt and Karl Weigl, concert 3: Cello Sonata and Two Pieces for cello and piano (Alexander Baillie and Shelagh Sutherland); Pictures from Childhood (Ingrid Culliford and Shelagh Sutherland). Also on program: Goldschmidt, Variations on a Palestine Shepherd’s Song and Clarinet Quartet.
15 May 1998 Vienna, Konzertsaal am Rennweg, Wiener Schulen um Alexander Zemlinsky und Franz Schreker: Othmar Müller, cello; Leonore Aumaier, piano.
24 October 2000 London, Wigmore Hall: Othmar Müller, cello; unidentified pianist.
24 October 2004 Orono, Maine, University of Maine, Minsky Recital Hall: Thwarted Voices: Noreen Silver, cello; Phillip Silver, piano. Also on program: Zeisl, Die Heinzelmännchen, suite for piano; Frederick Holländer, Mélodie perverse for piano solo; Schreker, Zwei lyrisiche Gesänge; Ben-Haim, Japanischer Frühling for soprano, cello, and piano.
18 February 2006 Waterville, Maine, Colby College: Music at Colby, Thwarted Voices: Noreen Silver, cello; Phillip Silver, piano. Also on program: Erich Zeisl, Suite for piano; Alexander Zemlinsky, Piano Trio.