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Fauré's Opus 24 is an Elegy featuring this instrument. Schumann wrote Five Pieces in Folk Style for this instrument and piano. Saint-Saëns's first concerto for this instrument is in A minor and in one movement. This instrument plays the opening theme of the first movement of Dvorak's piano quintet and Mendelssohn's first piano trio. Late in his life, (*) Schumann wrote a one-movement concerto for this non-piano instrument in A minor. This instrument is the soloist in Bloch's Schelomo, Bruch's Kol Nidrei, and Strauss's Don Quixote. This is the lower instrument featured in Brahms's Double Concerto, and Elgar's last major work was an E minor concerto for this instrument. Dvorak wrote a B minor concerto for it. For 10 points, name this low string instrument played by Mstislav Rostropovich and Yo-Yo Ma.
Fauré's Opus 24 is an Elegy featuring this instrument. Schumann wrote Five Pieces in Folk Style for this instrument and piano.
violoncello