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=====Cello concerto=====
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The 'core' repertoire—performed the most of any cello concertos—are by [[Edward Elgar|Elgar]], [[Antonín Dvořák|Dvořák]], Saint-Saëns, Haydn, [[Dmitri Shostakovich|Shostakovich]] and Schumann, but many more concertos are performed nearly as often.

Baroque era:
* Vivaldi's cello concertos [[Ryom-Verzeichnis|RV]]&nbsp;398–403, 405–414 and 416–424

Classical era:
* Haydn wrote two cello concertos (for cello, oboes, horns, and strings), which are the most important works in that genre of the classical era.{{sfn|Cuming|1949}} 
* [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]] wrote three cello concertos and [[Luigi Boccherini]] wrote twelve cello concertos.{{sfn|Kory|2005}}

Romantic era:
* [[Antonín Dvořák]]'s cello concerto ranks among the supreme examples from the Romantic era while [[Robert Schumann]]'s focuses on the lyrical qualities of the instrument.
* The instrument was also popular with composers of the Franco-Belgian tradition: [[Camille Saint-Saëns|Saint-Saëns]] and [[Henri Vieuxtemps|Vieuxtemps]] wrote two cello concertos each and [[Édouard Lalo|Lalo]] and [[Joseph Jongen|Jongen]] one.
* [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]]'s contribution to the genre is a series of [[Variations on a Rococo Theme]]. He also left very fragmentary sketches of a projected Cello Concerto. Cellist [[Yuriy Leonovich]] and Tchaikovsky researcher [[Brett Langston]] published [[Cello Concerto (Tchaikovsky/Leonovich)|their completion]] of the piece in 2006.{{sfn|Peterson|Galván|Stout|2006}}
* [[Carl Reinecke]], [[David Popper]] and [[Julius Klengel]] also wrote cello concertos that were popular in their time and are still played occasionally nowadays.
* [[Elgar]]'s popular concerto, while written in the early 20th century, belongs to the late romantic period stylistically.

20th century:
* An important factor for the 20th-century cello concerto was the rise of virtuoso cellist [[Mstislav Rostropovich]]. His outstanding technique and passionate playing prompted dozens of composers to write pieces for him, first in his native Soviet Union and then abroad. Among such compositions may be listed [[Sergei Prokofiev]]'s [[Symphony-Concerto (Prokofiev)|Symphony-Concerto]], [[Dmitri Shostakovich]]'s two cello concertos, [[Benjamin Britten]]'s [[Cello Symphony (Britten)|Cello-Symphony]] (which emphasizes, as its title suggests, the equal importance of soloist and orchestra), [[Henri Dutilleux]]' ''[[Tout un monde lointain...]]'', [[Cristóbal Halffter]]'s two cello concertos, [[Witold Lutosławski]]'s cello concerto, [[Dmitry Kabalevsky]]'s two cello concertos, [[Aram Khachaturian]]'s ''Concerto-Rhapsody'', [[Arvo Pärt]]'s ''Pro et Contra'', [[Alfred Schnittke]], [[André Jolivet]] and [[Krzysztof Penderecki]] second cello concertos, [[Sofia Gubaidulina]]'s ''[[The Canticle of the Sun (Gubaidulina)|Canticles of the Sun]]'', [[Luciano Berio]]'s ''Ritorno degli Snovidenia'', [[Leonard Bernstein]]'s ''Three Meditations'', [[James MacMillan]]'s cello concerto and [[Olivier Messiaen]]'s ''[[Concert à quatre]]'' (a quadruple concerto for cello, piano, oboe, flute and orchestra).
* In addition, several important composers who were not directly influenced by Rostropovich wrote cello concertos: [[Samuel Barber]], [[Elliott Carter]], [[Carlos Chávez]], [[Miguel del Aguila]], [[Alexander Glazunov]], [[Hans Werner Henze]], [[Paul Hindemith]], [[Arthur Honegger]], [[Erich Wolfgang Korngold]], [[György Ligeti]], [[Bohuslav Martinů]], [[Darius Milhaud]], [[Nikolai Myaskovsky]], [[Einojuhani Rautavaara]], [[Joaquín Rodrigo]], [[Toru Takemitsu]], [[William Walton]], [[Heitor Villa-Lobos]], and [[Bernd Alois Zimmermann]] for instance.{{sfn|Lee|2002}}