Siegfried Palmʼs Contribution to the Development of Extended Cello Techniques

This paper deals with album of pieces by Avant-garde composers for cello-solo completed by Siegfried Palm. This is a collection of extracts to be used as studies to modern cello playing with comments and descriptive notes given by Palm himself. The Palm studies are the part of a series Pro Musica Nova by Breitkopf und Härtel, that includes similar books for flute, piano, oboe, violin, viola, guitar and clari­net. These pieces include particular aspects of technique often found in contemporary scores such as graphic notation, special kinds of extended techniques, and at the same time this album helps to approach some modern composers’ languages. It’s nearly an only book of this kind for cello, which shows how cellists’ traditional technical boundaries are stretched in modern music and in what senses traditional technique was expanded according to twentieth century’ composers ideas