Hungarian Rondo was composed by Zoltán Kodály in December 1917, drawing on material from the incidental music he had written for Zsigmond Móriczs play Pacsirtaszó (Skylarking). The rondo form is shaped out of four new-style Hungarian folk songs and an instrumental dance melody. Kodály prepared the piece in two somewhat different versions, one for two clarinets, two bassoons and string orchestra, and the other for cello and piano. The orchestral version received its first performance in Vienna on 12 January 1918 at a 'historical concert' organized by the War Ministry of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The cello version was premi?red by Miklós Zsámboky and Ottó Herz at the Budapest Academy of Music on 4 November 1927. Neither version appeared in print in the composers lifetime. The version for string orchestra was edited in 1976 by Ferenc Farkas and István Máriássy (and is distributed as a hire material under the order number K-1). The cello version appears here in print for the first time. The publication is based on the composers surviving manuscript and a contemporary manuscript copy of this. The fingerings are by the editor. / Violoncelle Et Piano

Version for Violoncello-César Franck's Sonata For Piano And Violin In A. Urtext edition for Cello.Unlike some of his other late works Franck?s Violin Sonata (HN293) composed in 1886 was well-received by thepublic and critics from the very start. The beautiful arrangement for Cello published in January 1888 distinguishes itself from the numerous other arrangements in that Franck expressly authorised it.The cellistJules Delsart who had heard a performance of the sonata in Paris in December 1887 was so delighted by it that he asked Franck?s permission to make a transcription of the Violin part for his own instrument. Delsartremained close to the original; he left the Piano part unaltered and transposed the Violin part only where necessary and appropriate into the lower register.