The Boy Paganini Fantasia for Cello and Piano

Born in Erfurt, the composer Edward Mollenhauer (1827-1914) achieved success in America as a soloist and teacher. His best-known pieces for young violinists are The Infant Paganini and The Boy Paganini.
The Boy Paganini is an impressive concert piece which is more demanding. Its two movements call for changes of metre, harmonics and pizzicato. Other challenges include chords on all four strings and simple passages in octaves.
On the cello the technical requirements call for first to fourth position and the player should have completed volume 4 of Early Start on the Cello in order to master this work.