Composer
May 28, 1923 – June 12, 2006
Credits:
Music:
Allegro
(1943); Andante and Allegretto, for string quartet (1950); Apparitions
(1958–1959); Artikulation (1958); Atmosphères (1961); Aventures (1962); Baladă
și joc (Ballad and Dance) (1950); Betlehemi királyok (Kings of Bethlehem)
(1946); Bujdosó (The fugitive) (1946); Capriccio nº 1 & nº 2 (1947); Cello
Concerto (1966); Chamber Concerto (1969–1970); Chromatische Phantasie (1956);
Clocks and Clouds (1973); Concert românesc (1951); Continuum (1968); Continuum
(1970) (adapted for two Player Pianos); Continuum (1970); Coulée (1969); Der
Sommer (1989); Double Concerto (1972); Due capricci (1947); Éjszaka – Reggel
(Night, morning) (1955); Études pour piano, Book 1, six etudes (1985); Études
pour piano, Book 2, eight etudes (1988–1994); Études pour piano, Book 3, four
etudes (1995–2001); Four Early Piano Pieces: Basso Ostinato (1941); Fragment
(1961); From Études pour piano, Book 2:Ha folyóvíz volnék (1947); Haj, ifjuság!
(Hey, youth!) (1951); Hamburg Concerto (1998–1999); Harmonies (1967); Három
lakodalmi tánc (Three Wedding Dances) (1950); Három Weöres-dal (Three Weöres
Songs) (1946–1947); Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg (1982); Hortobágy (1951);
Hungarian Rock (Chaconne) (1978); Húsvét (Easter) (1946); Idegen földön (Far
from home) (1945–1946); Inaktelki nóták (Tunes from Inaktelk) (1953); Induló
(March) (1942); Invention (1948); Kállai kettős (1952); Lakodalmas (Wedding
dance) (1950); L'arrache-coeur (1994); Le Grand Macabre (1975–1977); lissandi
(1957); Lontano (1967); Lux Aeterna (1966); Magány (Solitude) (1946); Magos
Kősziklának (From the high rocks) (1946); Magyar Etüdök, for 16 voices after
Sándor Weöres (1983); Mátraszentimrei dalok (Songs from Mátraszentimre) (1955);
Melodien (1971); Musica ricercata (1951–1953); Négy lakodalmi tánc (1950); No.
IX: Vertige (1990); No. VII: Galamb borong (1988); 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); Nonsense
madrigals (1988–1993); Nouvelles Aventures (1962–1965); Öt Arany-dal (Five
Arany Songs) (1952); Pápainé (Widow Pápai) (1953); Passacaglia ungherese
(1978); Piano Concerto (1985–88); Pièce électronique no. 3 (1957–1958);
Pletykázó asszonyok (1952); Poème Symphonique (1962); Polifón etüd (Polyphonic
Étude) (1943); Ramifications (1968–1969); Requiem, for soprano and
mezzo-soprano solo, mixed chorus and orchestra (1963–1965); Ricercare – Omaggio
a Girolamo Frescobaldi (1953); Rondeau, One-man theatre for an actor and tape
(1976); San Francisco Polyphony (1973–1974); Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedűvel
(With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles) (2000); Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet (1953);
Sonata for Solo Cello (1948/1953); Sonata for Solo Viola (1991–1994); Sonatina
(1950); String Quartet No. 1 Métamorphoses nocturnes (1953–1954); String
Quartet No. 2 (1968); Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet (1968); The Big Turtle
Fanfare from the South China Sea, for trumpet (1985); Three Fantasies after
Friedrich Hölderlin (1982); Three Pieces for Two Pianos – Monument – Selbstporträt
– Bewegung (1976); Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano (1982); Trois Bagatelles,
for David Tudor (1961); Violin Concerto (1989–93); Volumina (1961–62, revised
1966).
Movies and
television:
2001: A Space
Odyssey (1968); 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984); 2020: a toilet paper
odyssey (2020); 56 villanás (2007); A Warning to the Curious (1972); Anónimo
(2003); As Above, So Below (2014); Aurora (2018); Bang Bang Orangutang (2005);
Barbie (2023); Berlin murmures (1991); Beyond My Reflection (2015); Blink of an
Eye (2015); Brainwash (2010); Bruno n'a pas d'agent (1999); C'è musica &
musica (1972); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005); Club 2 (1983);
Csalog-Kurtág-Ligeti; Der Paradiesgarten (1970); Die Früchte der Arbeit (1977);
Ekpyrosis (2013); Elemental Mass (2013); Embers (2015); Enter the Green Abyss
(2022); Eyes Wide Shut (1999); Fist of Fury (1972); For the End of Time (2009);
Giraffe (2019); Godzilla (2014); György Ligeti - Ein Komponist gibt Auskunft
(1970); Heat (1995); Homecoming (2018); Hot for Cash (1974); Intervalo (2012);
Jean Tardieu ou le 'voir-dit' (1991); Kinderspiel (2015); Klang aus dem Chaos -
Aspekte der Neuen Musik (1969); La ira (1989); Le Grand Macabre (2012); Lemming
(2005); Letters from War (2016); Little Spain (2011); Lonely Child: The
Imaginary World of Claude Vivier (1988); Magánszám - Üljön le Hajós Andrással!
(2003); Másnap (2004); Mediterranea (2011); Memoir of War (2017); Menschen
& Mächte (2016); Merci La Vie (1991); Miss Gulag (2007); Mission Hill
(1999–2002); Morrer no mar (1984); Musica ricercata (2023); Mutter (2002); NDR
Talk Show (1989); Omnibus (1976); Orson Welles's the Other Side of the Wind: A
Film by Orson Welles (2011); Other Worlds (2020); Over Your Cities Grass Will
Grow (2010); Paper Girls (2022); Polyformia (2008); Reel Iconic (2015); Requiem
(1986); Schalcken the Painter (1979); Screen Two (1985); Shutter Island (2010);
Stanley Kubrick in Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001); Strada Pia
(1983); Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (2015); The Fear (El Miedo); (2006); The Great Performance (2008); The
Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017); The Miracle of Tekir (2015); The Pervert's
Guide to Ideology (2012); The Shining (1980); The Silent Witness (1978); The
Trouville Zone (2013); The Vanity (2020); The War (2007); The Whole Town's
Sleeping (2014); The Young Hitchikers (1971); Tulevaisuus ei ole entisensä
(2002); Um Filme Sem História (2002); Viagem a Portugal (2011); Winterspelt
1944 (1978).
