- Janos Starker: The World of Music According to Starker (IU Press)
- Here is the long-awaited autobiography of one of the greatest cellists of the 20th century.
Janos Starker describes his harrowing days as an alien Jew in Hungary before and during WWII,
his early struggles to gain a professional foothold, his orchestral career in the Metropolitan
Opera and Chicago Symphony, and finally his ascension to the pinnacle of his profession and his
many world tours and recordings. The book is a fascinating look into the life and art of one of
our true cello icons.
- Grisha by Margaret Bartley (Otis Mountain Press)
- This book is a novelistic look at the early life of the great cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. It
describes his hard life in Russia and Germany, and traces the start of his colorful international
career as the world's premiere touring cello virtuoso. It ends in, when Piatigorsky escaped from the
gathering storm of WWII and found refuge in a home in the Adirondacks. This is the first biography
of any kind about this world-famous artist.
- Emmanuel Feuermann by Annette Morreau (Yale University Press)
- A biography of this amazing cellist is complemented by an audio CD.
- The Cambridge Companion to the Cello edited by Robin Stowell (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
- The Great Cellists by Margaret Campbell
- The Cello by Elizabeth Cowling
- Cello Playing of Today by Maurice Eisenberg (1983)
- Rudolf Matz: Cellist, Teacher, Composer by Margery Enix (Dominis Publishing, 1996)
- Matz, Rudolf: The Complete Cellist, edited by Lev Aronson. 2 Vols. (Tetra Music Corporation, 1974)
- The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie (Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2000).
- How I Play How I Teach by Paul Tortelier (Chester Music, 1988)
- The Adventures of a Cello by Carlos Prieto, Alvaro Mutis, and Elena C. Murray (2006)
- Complete Cello Technique: The Classic Treatise on Cello Theory and Practice by Diran Alexanian (2003)
- Cello Story by Dimitry Markevitch and Florence W. Seder (1984)
- Cello by William Pleeth (Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides, 2001)
- Cello Technique: Principles and Forms of Movement by Gerhard Mantel and Barbara Haimberger Thiem (1995)
- The Art of Playing the Cello by Walter Grimmer and Maurice Gendron
- A Manual of Essential Cello Techniques by Gordon Epperson
- Essay on the Craft of Cello Playing by Christopher Bunting
- Mstislav Rostropovich: The Musical Life of the Great Cellist, Teacher, and Legend by Elizabeth Wilson (Faber and Faber)
- Guilhermina Suggia: Cellist by Anita Mercier
- Pablo Casals by Robert Baldock
- One Hundred Years of Violoncello: A History of Technique and Performance Practice, 1740-1840 by Valerie Walden
- The Solo Cello by Dimitry Markevitch
- The Violin Family (W.W. Norton and Company, 1989)
- A volume from The New Grove Musical Instruments Series. It is a well-bound paperback book, about five inches wide and eight inches high, with thick glossy
covers. There are 315 pages, including the index. Chapter Six is entitled "The Violoncello," and is
written by Klaus Marx, with Malcolm Boyd and Sonya Monosoff. It deals with the evolution, technique,
performers and repertoire of the cello.
- French Cello Sonatas 1871-1939 by Stephen Sensbach
- Casals and the Art of Interpretation by David Blum
- The Violoncello and Its History by Wilhelm Joseph Von Wasielewski
- History of the Violoncello: The Viol Da Gamba, Their Precursors and Collateral Instruments by Edmund S. A. Van Der Straeten
- Jacqueline Du Pre: Her Life, Her Music, Her Legend by Elizabeth Wilson
- The Art Of Cello Playing by Louis Jr. Potter (1973)
- The Lost Cellos of Lev Aronson by Frances Brent
- Joy and Sorrows: Reflections by Pablo Casals as told to Albert Kahn
- Bowed Arts-Reflections of Bernard Greenhouse on His Life and Music by Laurinel Owen (Kronberg Academy)
- A Cellist's Life by Colin Hampton
- Mstislav Rostropovich: The Twentieth-Century Revolutionary by Dr. Alexander Ivashkin
- Rosindust: Teaching, Learning and Life from a Cellist's Perspective by Cornelia Watkins
- 21st-Century Cellists: Conversations on Art and Craft with Yo-Yo-Ma, Hai-Ye Ni, David Finkel and Others (String Letter Publishing)
- Bach, the Fencing Master by Anner Bylsma (Bylsma's Fencing Mail)
- The Baroque Cello Revival: An Oral History by Paul Laird
- The Strad's Cello Heroes
- Features exclusive interviews with some of today's top cellists, including Steven Isserlis,
Ralph Kirshbaum, Mischa Maisky and Natalia Gutman, alongside historic articles from The Strad's
archive on Pierre Fournier, Daniil Shafran, Pablo Casals, Emanuel Feuermann, Jacqueline du Pre,
Gregor Piatigorsky and others.