List of compositions by György Ligeti

Orchestral

Concertos

• Concert românesc
• Cello Concerto, for Siegfried Palm
• Chamber Concerto, for 13 instrumentalists
• Double Concerto, for flute, oboe and orchestra
• Piano Concerto
• Violin Concerto
• Hamburg Concerto, for horn and chamber orchestra with 4 obbligato natural horns

  Works for chamber orchestra

• Fragment
• Ramifications, for string orchestra or 12 solo strings

  Works for full orchestra

• Apparitions
• Atmosphères
• Lontano
• Melodien
• San Francisco Polyphony

  Chamber/Instrumental

Works for string quartet

• Andante and Allegretto, for string quartet
• String Quartet No. 1 Métamorphoses nocturnes
• String Quartet No. 2

  Works for string duet

• Baladă şi joc , for two violins
• Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg, for violin and cello

  Sonatas for a solo instrument

• Sonata for Solo Cello
• Sonata for Solo Viola

  Works for wind quintet

• Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet
• Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet

  Others

• Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano
• The Big Turtle Fanfare from the South China Sea, for trumpet

  Keyboard

Works for solo piano

• Four Early Piano Pieces: Basso Ostinato
• Due capricci
• Invention
• Musica ricercata
• Chromatische Phantasie
• Trois Bagatelles, for David Tudor
• Études pour piano, Book 1, six etudes
• Études pour piano, Book 2, eight etudes
• L'arrache-coeur
• Études pour piano, Book 3, four etudes

  Works for piano four-hands

• Induló
• Polifón etüd
• Allegro
• Három lakodalmi tánc
• Sonatina

  Works for two pianos

• Three Pieces for Two Pianos

  Works for harpsichord

• Continuum
• Passacaglia ungherese
• Hungarian Rock

  Works for organ

• Ricercare – Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi
• Volumina
• Two Studies for Organ:
• * Harmonies
• * Coulée

  Adaptations for player piano

• From Études pour piano, Book 2:
• * No. VII: Galamb borong
• * No. IX: Vertige
• * No. X: Der Zauberlehrling
• * No. XI: En suspens
• * No. XIII: L'escalier du diable
• * No. XIVa: Coloana fără sfârşit
• Continuum

  Adaptations for barrel organ

• Capriccio nº 1 & nº 2
• Invention
• Continuum
• Hungarian Rock

  Vocal

Works for chorus

• Idegen földön
• Betlehemi királyok
• Húsvét
• Magos Kősziklának
• Magány
• Bujdosó
• Két kánon
• * Ha folyóvíz volnék
• * Pletykázó asszonyok
• Lakodalmas
• Hortobágy
• Haj, ifjuság!
• Kállai kettős
• Inaktelki nóták
• Pápainé
• Mátraszentimrei dalok
• Éjszaka – Reggel
• Lux Aeterna
• Three Fantasies after Friedrich Hölderlin
• Magyar Etüdök, for 16 voices after Sándor Weöres
• Nonsense madrigals, for 6 male voices, partly on poems by Lewis Carroll. The Alphabet was written for The King's Singers.

  Songs

• Három Weöres-dal, voice and piano
• Négy lakodalmi tánc, three voices or female choir and piano
• Öt Arany-dal, voice and piano
• Der Sommer, voice and piano
• Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedűvel

  Works for instrumentalists and singers

• Aventures
• Nouvelles Aventures
• Requiem, for soprano and mezzo-soprano solo, mixed chorus and orchestra
• Clocks and Clouds, for 12 female voices and orchestra

  Opera

• Le Grand Macabre

  Electronic

• Glissandi
• Artikulation
• Pièce électronique no. 3
• Rondeau, One-man theatre for an actor and tape

  Miscellaneous

• Poème Symphonique, for 100 metronomes