List of compositions by György Ligeti explained

This is a list of compositions by György Ligeti.

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Orchestral

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 2003)

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)

Chamber/Instrumental

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)

Keyboard

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)

Vocal

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)
• Hungarian Rock (Arrangment for saxophones) (1978)

External links

• with complete catalogue and list of performances

Notes and References

1. Web site: György Ligeti . . 28 May 1923 . 14 August 2024.