Cello Concerto No. 1 topic

Antonín Dvořák wrote his first Cello Concerto in A major B.10 in 1865. Unlike its brother, the B minor Concerto, Op.104, the A major Concerto has been more than overlooked. Written for cellist Ludevít Peer, it was discovered by composer Günter Raphael years later. Raphael orchestrated and heavily edited the work in the late 1920s, making it more his own than Dvořák's. The Concerto was left un-orchestrated by Dvořák, existing only in piano-score form. Over an hour long, the Concerto's outer... full article at wikipedia