List of compositions by Sofia Gubaidulina

This is an incomplete list of compositions by the Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina (1931–2025). She was highly prolific, producing numerous chamber, orchestral and choral works. Her output has been described as exploring the tensions between Western and Eastern music, and is characterised by "innovative use of microtonality and chromaticism, rhythm over form and a use of contrasting tonalities.

Gubaidulina incorporated unusual instrumental combinations. In Erwartung ("In Anticipation") combines a range of percussion instruments (bongos, güiros, temple blocks, cymbals and tam-tams among others) with a saxophone quartet. Melodically, she uses frequent and intense chromatic motifs rather than long melodic phrases. She sought to use music to attain unity with the divine. She achieved this through the use of micro-chromaticism (i.e., quarter tones) and frequent glissandi. Explaining her use of harmonics, specifically in her Rejoice! sonata for violin and cello, Gubaidulina said that "the possibility for string instruments to derive pitches of various heights at one and the same place on the string can be experienced in music as the transition to another plane of existence. And that is joy.

Asked in 2011 about her increasing prolificacy as she got older and if she ever felt like slowing down, Gubaidulina replied that she had "many interesting projects, more than I can ever make...and there are always new soundscapes to explore."