List of compositions by György Ligeti

This is a 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 și 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)
 * The Big Turtle Fanfare from the South China Sea, for trumpet (1985)
 * Duo, for violin and piano (1946)

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 – Monument – Selbstporträt – Bewegung (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 Sándor 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)
 * Rondeau, One-man theatre for an actor and tape (1976)

Miscellaneous

 * Poème Symphonique, for 100 metronomes (1962)