Chromatische Phantasie (German: Chromatic Fantasy) is an early piano composition by Hungarian composer György Ligeti.

[1] Ligeti wrote his Chromatische Phantasie in 1956 in Budapest, shortly before going into exile in Vienna due to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

The composition is scored for one solo piano and takes approximately 6 minutes to perform.

Scholar Elliot Sneider, who also transcribed the piece, has analysed this composition and has divided it into five contrasting sections.

After that, C♯1 pulsating notes are played, only this time just a bit faster, which then jumps to the cluster E1–F1 performed by the left hand.

Section C starts with the left hand playing short pulsating staccato B1–C2 tone clusters.