List of compositions by György Ligeti

Concertos

Concert românesc (1951)

Cello Concerto, for Siegfried Palm (1966)

Chamber Concerto, for 13 instrumentalists (1969–70)

Double Concerto, for flute, oboe and orchestra (1972)

Piano Concerto (1985–88)

Violin Concerto (1989–93)

Hamburg Concerto, for horn and chamber orchestra with 4 obbligato natural horns (1998–99, revised 2002)

Works for chamber orchestra

Fragment (1961)

Ramifications (1968–69), for string orchestra or 12 solo strings

Works for full orchestra

Apparitions (1958–59)

Atmosphères (1961)

Lontano (1967)

Melodien (1971)

San Francisco Polyphony (1973–74)

Works for string quartet

Andante and Allegretto, for string quartet (1950)

String Quartet No. 1 Métamorphoses nocturnes (1953–54)

String Quartet No. 2 (1968)

Works for string duet

Baladă şi joc (Ballad and Dance), for two violins (1950)

Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg, for violin and cello (1982)

Sonatas for a solo instrument

Sonata for Solo Cello (1948/1953)

Sonata for Solo Viola (1991–94)

Works for wind quintet

Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet (1953)

Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet (1968)

Others

Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano (1982)

Works for solo piano

Four Early Piano Pieces: Basso Ostinato (1941)

Due capricci (1947)

Invention (1948)

Musica ricercata (1951–53)

Chromatische Phantasie (1956)

Trois Bagatelles, for David Tudor (1961)

Études pour piano, Book 1, six etudes (1985)

Études pour piano, Book 2, eight etudes (1988–94)

L'arrache-coeur (1994)

Études pour piano, Book 3, four etudes (1995–2001)

Works for piano four-hands

Induló (March) (1942)

Polifón etüd (Polyphonic Étude) (1943)

Allegro (1943)

Három lakodalmi tánc (Three Wedding Dances) (1950)

Sonatina (1950)

Works for two pianos

Three Pieces for Two Pianos (1976)

Works for harpsichord

Continuum (1968)

Passacaglia ungherese (1978)

Hungarian Rock (Chaconne) (1978)

Works for organ

Ricercare – Omaggio a Girolamo Frescobaldi (1953)

Volumina (1961–62, revised 1966)

Two Studies for Organ:

Harmonies (1967)

Coulée (1969)

Adaptations for player piano

From Études pour piano, Book 2:

No. VII: Galamb borong (1988) (adapted for two Player Pianos)

No. IX: Vertige (1990)

No. X: Der Zauberlehrling (1994)

No. XI: En suspens (1994)

No. XIII: L'escalier du diable (1993)

No. XIVa: Coloana fără sfârşit (original version for Player Piano) (1993)

Continuum (1970) (adapted for two Player Pianos)

Adaptations for barrel organ

Capriccio nº 1 & nº 2 (1947)

Invention (1948)

Continuum (1970)

Hungarian Rock (Chaconne) (1978)

Works for chorus

Idegen földön (Far from home) (1945–46)

Betlehemi királyok (Kings of Bethlehem) (1946)

Húsvét (Easter) (1946)

Magos Kősziklának (From the high rocks) (1946)

Magány (Solitude) (1946)

Bujdosó (The fugitive) (1946)

Két kánon

Ha folyóvíz volnék (1947)

Pletykázó asszonyok (1952)

Lakodalmas (Wedding dance) (1950)

Hortobágy (1951)

Haj, ifjuság! (Hey, youth!) (1951)

Kállai kettős (1952)

Inaktelki nóták (Tunes from Inaktelk) (1953)

Pápainé (Widow Pápai) (1953)

Mátraszentimrei dalok (Songs from Mátraszentimre) (1955)

Éjszaka – Reggel (Night, morning) (1955)

Lux Aeterna (1966)

Three Fantasies after Friedrich Hölderlin (1982)

Magyar Etüdök, for 16 voices after Sandor Weöres (1983)

Nonsense madrigals, for 6 male voices (1988–93), partly on poems by Lewis Carroll. The Alphabet was written for The King's Singers.

Songs

Három Weöres-dal (Three Weöres Songs), voice and piano (1946–47)

Négy lakodalmi tánc (Four Wedding Dances, adaptions of Hungarian folk songs), three voices or female choir (SMezA) and piano (1950)

Öt Arany-dal (Five Arany Songs), voice and piano (1952)

Der Sommer, voice and piano (1989)

Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedűvel (With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles) (2000)

Works for instrumentalists and singers

Aventures (1962)

Nouvelles Aventures (1962–65)

Requiem, for soprano and mezzo-soprano solo, mixed chorus and orchestra (1963–65)

Clocks and Clouds, for 12 female voices and orchestra (1973)

Opera

Le Grand Macabre (1975–77, second version 1996)

Electronic

Glissandi (1957)

Artikulation (1958)

Pièce électronique no. 3 (1957–58, not realized until 1996)

Miscellaneous

Poème Symphonique, for 100 metronomes (1962)