List of atonal compositions

• 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]

• John Cage
• Julian 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]

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

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

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

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

• 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]

• Franz Liszt
  • Bagatelle sans tonalité (1885), S.216a[23]

• Nicholas Maw
  • Essay (1961)[24]
  • Scenes and Arias (1962)[24]

• Henri Pousseur
  • Exercices (1956)[25]
• Krzysztof Penderecki
  • Emanationem
  • Partita per harpsichord

• 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]

• Arnold Schoenberg
  • George Lieder [The Book of the Hanging Gardens] (1909), Op. 15/1[26]
  • Erwartung (1909), Op. 17[27]
  • String Quartet No. 2 (1907), Op. 10, last movement[28]
  • Five Pieces for Orchestra (Fünf Orchesterstücke) (1909), Op. 16[29][30]
  • Pierrot Lunaire (1912), Op. 21[31]
  • Drei Klavierstücke (1909), Op. 11[32][33][34][35][36][37]
  • Four Orchestral Songs (1916), Op. 22[38]
  • Die glückliche Hand, Op. 18[39][40]
  • Herzgewächse (1911), Op. 20[41]
  • Die Jakobsleiter[42]
  • Sechs kleine Klavierstücke (1913), op. 19[43][44]
  • Five Pieces for Piano, op.23[45]
• Igor Stravinsky
  • The Rite of Spring (1913)[46][47]

• Louise Talma
  • Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (1979)[48]
  • The Ambient Air (1981)[48]
  • Full Circle (1985)[48]

• Edgard Varèse
  • Density 21.5 (1936)[49]
  • Offrandes (1922)[14]
  • Intégrales (1925)[14]
  • Arcana (1927)[14]
  • Déserts (1954)[50]

• Anton Webern
  • Five Movements (1909), Op. 5[51]
  • Six Pieces (1910), Op. 6[51]
  • Six Bagatelles (1913), Op. 9[51]
• Stefan Wolpe
  • Enactments (1953)[52]
  • Symphony (1956)[52]

Other composers with atonal pieces include Harrison Birtwistle & Peter Maxwell Davies,[53] Jacob Druckman, Barbara Kolb,[54] Henry Cowell, Claude Debussy, Brian Ferneyhough,[55] Alexander Goehr,[56] Lou Harrison, Paul Hindemith, Karel Husa, Charles Ives, György Ligeti, Witold Lutosławski, George Perle,[57] Sergei Prokofiev, David Raskin,[58] Nikolai Roslavets,[59] Hermann Schroeder, Alexander Scriabin, Charles Seeger, Igor Stravinsky, Fartein Valen, Tyshawn Sorey, and Iannis Xenakis.