Cello excerpt
Fauré, Élégie in C minor, Op. 24
Molto adagio
A standard cello showpiece, grieving, songful, then thunderous in its central episode.
At a glance
- Instrument
- Cello
- Composer
- Gabriel Fauré
- Work
- Élégie in C minor, Op. 24
- Movement
- Molto adagio
- Era
- Late-Romantic (c. 1880–1910)
- Composed
- 1880
- Key
- C
- Metre
- 4/4
- Tempo
- Molto adagio · ♩ ≈ 56
- Clef
- Bass clef
- Level
- Intermediate, university level
- Audition list
- Not a standard excerpt
How to practise it
The bow style, the trouble spots, and the stylistic decisions that come up most often on this excerpt.
Style
French elegance, restrained at first, building inexorably.
Tags
Work on the technique underneath
Arco's cello curriculum builds the bow strokes, positions, and clef reading this excerpt assumes, with recorded cello playback throughout.