About the same time as Strauss wrote the Sonata, he also wrote a single movement Romanze for cello and orchestra.
The piece was completed on 17 June 1883, and was performed a few times by Hans Wihan, who premiered it on 15 February 1884 at Baden-Baden and went on to perform it in Aachen, Freiburg, and elsewhere[REF] It was dedicated to Anton Ritter von Knözinge.