List of selected contemporary repertoire for guitar

This is a list of selected contemporary repertoire for guitar. The pieces in this list were composed by notable composers (outside of the so-called "guitar world"), or composers whose work has significance in contemporary classical music history. For more pieces and pieces of earlier eras, visit the list of compositions for guitar.

Solo

• Claudio Ambrosini - Rap
• Constantinos Chizaris - Guitariana
• Hans Erich Apostel - Sechs Musiken
• Milton Babbitt - Composition
• Clarence Barlow - Until
• Richard Barrett - Colloid
• Xavier Benguerel - Versus, Cantus
• Luciano Berio - Sequenza XI
• Sergio Blardony - Sueño que despierto
• John E. Bower - Preliminary Hearing ()
• Benjamin Britten - Nocturnal
• Sylvano Bussotti - Rara
• Elliott Carter - Changes; Shard
• Aldo Clementi - 12 Variazioni, Fantasia su frammenti di M.G.
• James Dillon - Shrouded Mirrors
• Franco Donatoni - Algo, Åse (Algo II)
• Mikael Edlund - Små Fötter
• Brian Ferneyhough - Kurze Schatten II
• Carlo Forlivesi - Diferencias sobre el Finsterling
• Christopher Fox - Chile
• Luca Francesconi - Alborada
• Erik Förare - Grande Caprice Vulgaire
• Alberto Ginastera - Sonata for guitar, op. 47
• Hans Werner Henze - Drei Tentos; Royal Winter Music I and II
• Hans Joachim Hespos - Kitara
• Hans Holewa - Fantasia e Ricercare
• Mansoor Hosseini - Zapp Music
• Klaus K. Hübler - Fantasia e Ricercare
• Reuben Jelleyman - Soliloquy
• Karin Jeppson - Invocazione
• Ernst Krenek - Suite
• Meyer Kupferman - Echoes from Barcelona; Strumming; Pipedream Sonata
• Dylan Lardelli - First Ice (Lachrymae); ¿No hay quien nos desate?
• Hans Ulrich Lehmann - ...etwas Klang von meiner; Oberfläche…
• Georges Lentz - Ingwe
• Christer Lindwall - Eclipse
• Bruno Maderna - Y Después
• Giacomo Manzoni - Echi
• Mikos Maros - Drawing; Capriccio
• Eduardo Martin - Preludio, Son y Allegro
• Peter Maxwell Davies - Hill runes
• Tristan Murail - Tellur; Vampyr!
• Louisa Nicklin - Locus; Too (sur)real
• Michael Norris - Traiga Cuentos la Guitarra
• Maurice Ohana - Si le jour parait....., Tiento
• Marco Oppedisano - Urban Mosaic for solo electric guitar
• Yves-Marie Pasquet - Rosace pour Notre-Dame de Casalibus
• Goffredo Petrassi - Suoni Notturni, Nunc
• Gerhard Präsent (born 1957) - Praeludium und Toccata
• Roger Reynolds - The Behaviour of Mirrors
• Rolf Riehm - Toccata Orpheus; Notturno für die trauerlos Sterbenden; Variationen über ein Thema von Heinz Teuchert
• Uros Rojko - Passing Away
• Fausto Romitelli - TV Trash Trance
• Lars Sandberg - Arena
• Sven-David Sandström - Away From
• Giacinto Scelsi - Ko-Tha
• Stefano Scodanibbio - Dos Abismos
• Humphrey Searle - Five
• Cornelius Schwer - Sub-version
• Eliott Sharp - Amygdala, Seek
• Alexander Shchetynsky - Five Miniatures
• Gerhard Stäbler - ..Schloss die Augen, vor Glück….
• Harri Noun Suilamo - fretwork circle
• Bent Sørensen - Angelùs Waltz, Shadow Siciliano
• Toru Takemitsu - Folios; Equinox; In the Woods; All in twilight
• Giorgio Tedde - Tap
• Michael Tippett - The Blue Guitar
• Fabio Vacchi - Plynn
• William Walton - Five Bagatelles
• Michael Whiticker - Tulku
• Heitor Villa-Lobos - 12 Etudes

Two guitars

• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Les Guitares bien tempérées
• Brian Ferneyhough - no time (at all)
• Helmut Lachenmann - Salut für Caudwell
• Rolf Riehm - Au bord du jour; KlageTrauerSehnsucht; Lamento di Tristano
• Alexander Shchetynsky - Three Sketches in Quartertones

Works with tape/electronics

• Mauro Bagella - Söder Mälarstrand 61
• Fabio Cifariello Ciardi - Scaenae Intimae
• Hans-Ola Ericsson - Melody to the memory...
• Dror Feiler - Herkos Odonton
• Giuseppe Giuliani - Erinnerung
• Georg Katzer - Dialogue Immaginaire
• Josh Levine - Downstream
• Tod Machover - Deplacements
• Dugal McKinnon - A Single Hurt Colour
• Diego Minchiacchi - Ritual for the new morning
• Jon Christopher Nelson - Wawes of refraction
• Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint
• Bo Rydberg - Self/Model
• Giorgio Tedde - Tap
• Michael Whittaker - In Prison Air
• Tommy Zwedberg - Gir

Concertos

• Malcolm Arnold Serenade for guitar and strings
• Richard Barrett Colloid - E for guitar and ensemble
• Xavier Bengeruel Tempo for guitar and strings
• Luciano Berio Chemins V for guitar and orchestra
• Leo Brouwer Tres Danzas concertantes for guitar and strings
• Alvaro Carlevaro Eco Errante for guitar and ensemble
• Aldo Clementi Serenade* for guitar and ensemble
• Michael Colina "Goyescana" concerto for guitar and orchestra
• Paul Davies Genji's visit to Utsusemi* for guitar and ensemble
• Edison Denisov Concerto for guitar and orchestra
• Franco Donatoni Algo III for guitar and chamberorch, Algo IV* for guitar and ensemble
• Luca Francesconi A Fuoco* for guitar and ensemble
• Hilding Hallnäs Concerto for guitar and strings
• Hans Holewa Concertino for guitar and ensemble
• Jan W Morthenson Sonora for guitar and stringorchestra
• Jan Novák Concentus Euridicae for guitar and strings
• Maurice Ohana Tres Graficos for guitar and orchestra
• Maurizio Pisati Senti! for guitar and strings*
• Sven-David Sandström Lonesome for guitar and orchestra
• Toru Takemitsu To the edge of dream for guitar and orchestra
• Constantinos Chizaris Concerto N.1 "Homage to H.Villa-Lobos" for guitar and full orchestra
• Fabio Vacchi Notturno concertante* for guitar and orchestra
• Herman Rechberger Golpe de corazón* for guitar and orchestra
• Herman Rechberger Concierto florál* for guitar and orchestra

External links

• Database of contemporary guitar music