List of atonal compositions

This is an incomplete list of atonal musical compositions. Pieces are listed by composer.

B

• Béla Bartók
  • Eight Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, Op. 20^[1]
  • Three Etudes for Piano, Op. 18^[1][2][3]
  • First Sonata for Violin and Piano (1921)^[4]
  • Second Sonata for Violin and Piano (1922)^[1][4]
• John J. Becker
  • Symphonia brevis (1929)^[5]
  • Concerto arabesque (1930)^[5]
• Alban Berg
  • Lulu^[6][7]
  • Wozzeck^[6][7]
  • Chamber Concerto (1925)^[8]
• Johanna Beyer
  • Clusters (1936)^[9]
• Chester Biscardi
  • At the Still Point (1977)^[10]
• Henry Brant
  • Ghost Nets (1988)^[11]

C

• John Cage
• Julián Carrillo
  • Symphony No. 3 (1940)^[12]
• Elliott Carter
  • String Quartet No. 1 (1950)^[13]
• Ruth Crawford Seeger
  • Nine preludes for piano (1925–28)^[14]
  • Piano Study in Mixed Accents (1930)^[14]

D

• Mario Davidovsky
  • String Quartet No. 1 (1954)^[15]
  • Concertino for Percussion and String Orchestra (1954)^[15]
  • Noneto (1956)^[15]

E

• Duke Ellington
  • The Clothed Woman (1947)^[16][17]

F

• Vivian Fine
  • Four Polyphonic Pieces for Piano (1931)^[18]
  • Four Songs (1933)^[18]
• Lukas Foss
  • Time Cycle (1960)^[19]
  • Echoi (1963)^[19]

G

• Miriam Gideon
  • The Hound of Heaven (1945)^[20]
  • String Quartet (1946)^[20]
  • Symfonia Brevis (1953)^[20]
  • Mixco (1957)^[20]
  • Of Shadows Numberless (1966)^[20]

K

• Leon Kirchner
  • Piano Trio No. 1 (1954)^[21]
  • String Quartet No. 3 (1966)^[21]
  • Lily (1977)^[21]
  • Music for Twelve (1985)^[21]
  • Music for Cello and Orchestra (1992)^[21]
• Ernst Krenek
  • Symphony No. 2 (1922)^[22]

L

• Franz Liszt
  • Album-Leaf 'Prélude omnitonique', S.166e^[23]
  • Bagatelle sans tonalité (1885), S.216a^[24]

M

• Nicholas Maw
  • Essay (1961)^[25]
  • Scenes and Arias (1962)^[25]

P

• Zoltan Paulinyi
  • LUME 1 + 2 for solo viola pomposa and 2 orchestras (2018)
  • Biblioteca (alias Library): chamber opera (2011)
  • Preço do Perdão: chamber opera (2012)
• Henri Pousseur
  • Exercices (1956)^[26]
• Krzysztof Penderecki
  • Emanationem
  • Partita per harpsichord

R

• Dane Rudhyar
  • Pentagrams Nos. 1-4 (1924–26)^[14]
  • Three Paeans (1925–27)^[14]
  • Granites (1929)^[14]
• Carl Ruggles
  • Angels (1921)^[14]
  • Vox clamans in deserto (1923)^[14]
  • Portals (1926)^[14]
  • Sun-Treader (1933)^[14]

S

• Arnold Schoenberg
  • George Lieder [The Book of the Hanging Gardens] (1909), Op. 15/1^[27]
  • Erwartung (1909), Op. 17^[28]
  • String Quartet No. 2 (1907), Op. 10, last movement^[29]
  • Five Pieces for Orchestra (Fünf Orchesterstücke) (1909), Op. 16^[30][31]
  • Pierrot lunaire (1912), Op. 21^[32]
  • Drei Klavierstücke (1909), Op. 11^{[33][34][35][36][37][38]}
  • Four Orchestral Songs (1916), Op. 22^[39]
  • Die glückliche Hand, Op. 18^[40][41]
  • Herzgewächse (1911), Op. 20^[42]
  • Die Jakobsleiter^[43]
  • Sechs kleine Klavierstücke (1913), Op. 19^[44][45]
  • Five Pieces for Piano, Op. 23^[46]
• Igor Stravinsky
  • The Rite of Spring (1913)^[47][48]

T

• Louise Talma
  • Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (1979)^[49]
  • The Ambient Air (1981)^[49]
  • Full Circle (1985)^[49]

V

• Edgard Varèse
  • Density 21.5 (1936)^[50]
  • Offrandes (1922)^[14]
  • Intégrales (1925)^[14]
  • Arcana (1927)^[14]
  • Déserts (1954)^[51]

W

• Anton Webern
  • Five Movements (1909), Op. 5^[52]
  • Six Pieces (1910), Op. 6^[52]
  • Six Bagatelles (1913), Op. 9^[52]
• Stefan Wolpe
  • Enactments (1953)^[53]
  • Symphony (1956)^[53]

Other composers

Other composers with atonal pieces include Harrison Birtwistle & Peter Maxwell Davies,^[54] Jacob Druckman, Barbara Kolb,^[55] Henry Cowell, Claude Debussy, Brian Ferneyhough,^[56] Alexander Goehr,^[57] Lou Harrison, Mårten Hagström, Paul Hindemith, Karel Husa, Charles Ives, György Ligeti, Witold Lutosławski, George Perle,^[58] Sergei Prokofiev, David Raksin,^[59] Nikolai Roslavets,^[60] Hermann Schroeder, Alexander Scriabin, Charles Seeger, Igor Stravinsky, Fartein Valen, Tyshawn Sorey, and Iannis Xenakis.

See also

• List of dodecaphonic and serial compositions
• List of music students by teacher
• List of tone rows and series