List of compositions by Elliott Carter
This is a list of works by the American composer Elliott Carter.
Ballet
- Pocahontas
- The Minotaur, choreographed by George Balanchine and John Taras
Opera
- ''What Next?''
Choral
- Tarantella for men's chorus and two pianos
- Let's Be Gay for women's chorus and two pianos
- Harvest Home for a cappella choir
- To Music for a cappella choir
- Heart Not So Heavy for a cappella choir
- The Defense of Corinth for speaker, men's chorus and piano four hands
- The Harmony of Morning for women's chorus and chamber orchestra
- Musicians Wrestle Everywhere for mixed chorus a capella or with strings
- Emblems for men's chorus and piano
Concertante
- Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras
- Piano Concerto
- Oboe Concerto
- Violin Concerto
- Clarinet Concerto
- Cello Concerto
- Boston Concerto
- Dialogues for piano and chamber orchestra
- Mosaic for harp and ensemble
- Soundings for piano and orchestra
- Horn Concerto
- Interventions for piano and orchestra
- Flute Concerto
- Concertino for bass clarinet and chamber orchestra
- Two Controversies and a Conversation for piano, percussion, and chamber orchestra
- Dialogues II for piano and chamber orchestra
Orchestra
- Symphony No. 1
- Holiday Overture
- Variations for Orchestra
- Concerto for Orchestra
- A Symphony of Three Orchestras
- Three Occasions for Orchestra
- Symphonia: sum fluxae pretium spei
- Three Illusions for Orchestra
- Sound Fields for string orchestra
- Instances for chamber orchestra
Large ensemble
- Penthode for ensemble
- Asko Concerto for sixteen players
- Réflexions for ensemble
- Wind Rose for wind ensemble
Chamber
- Pastoral for english horn and piano
- Canonic Suite for four alto saxophones or four clarinets
- Elegy for viola and piano, also version for string quartet
- Cello Sonata
- Woodwind Quintet
- Eight Etudes and a Fantasy for wind quartet
- String Quartet No. 1
- Sonata for flute, oboe, cello, and harpsichord
- String Quartet No. 2
- Canon for 3
- String Quartet No. 3
- Brass Quintet
- Duo for violin and piano
- Birthday Fanfare for three trumpets, vibraphone, and glockenspiel
- Triple Duo
- Esprit rude/esprit doux for flute and clarinet
- Canon for 4
- String Quartet No. 4
- Enchanted Preludes for flute and cello
- Con leggerezza pensosa for clarinet, violin, and cello
- Quintet for piano and winds
- Trilogy for oboe and harp
- Esprit rude/esprit doux II for flute, clarinet, and marimba
- Fragment I for string quartet
- String Quartet No. 5
- Luimen for ensemble
- Quintet for piano and string quartet
- Fragment II for string quartet
- Oboe Quartet, for oboe, violin, viola, and cello
- Hiyoku for two clarinets
- Au Quai for bassoon and viola
- Call for two trumpets and horn
- Clarinet Quintet
- Tintinnabulation for percussion sextet
- Tre Duetti for violin and cello
- Nine by Five for wind quintet
- Trije glasbeniki for flute, bass clarinet, and harp
- String Trio
- Double Trio for trumpet, trombone, percussion, piano, violin and cello
- Rigmarole for cello and bass clarinet
- Epigrams for violin, cello, and piano
Voice
- My Love Is in a Light Attire for voice and piano
- Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred for voice and guitar
- A Mirror on Which to Dwell for soprano and ensemble
- Syringa for mezzo-soprano, bass-baritone, guitar, and ensemble
- Three Poems of Robert Frost for baritone and ensemble
- In Sleep, in Thunder for tenor and ensemble
- Of Challenge and of Love for soprano and piano
- Tempo e Tempi for soprano, oboe, clarinet, violin, and cello
- Of Rewaking for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
- In the Distances of Sleep for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra
- Mad Regales for six solo voices
- La Musique for solo voice
- Poems of Louis Zukofsky for mezzo-soprano and clarinet
- On Conversing with Paradise for baritone and chamber orchestra
- What Are Years for soprano and chamber orchestra
- A Sunbeam's Architecture for tenor and chamber orchestra
- Three Explorations for bass-baritone, winds, and brass
- The American Sublime for baritone and large ensemble
Piano
- Piano Sonata
- Night Fantasies
- 90+
- Two Diversions
- Retrouvailles
- Two Thoughts about the Piano
- ''Tri-Tribute''
Solo instrumental
- Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
- Changes for guitar
- Scrivo in Vento for flute
- Gra for clarinet, also version for trombone
- Figment for cello
- A 6-letter Letter for English horn
- Shard for guitar
- Four Lauds for solo violin
- "Statement – Remembering Aaron"
- "Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi"
- "Rhapsodic Musings"
- "Fantasy – Remembering Roger"
- Figment II for cello
- Steep Steps for bass clarinet
- Retracing for bassoon
- HBHH for oboe
- Figment III for contrabass
- Figment IV for viola
- Figment V for marimba
- Retracing II for horn
- Retracing III for trumpet
- Retracing IV for tuba
- Retracing V for trombone
- Mnemosyné for violin
- Figment VI for oboe