Classical Music
- Luciano Berio – Pastorale for piano
- Arthur Bliss – Checkmate (ballet)
- Rutland Boughton – Symphony No. 3 in B minor
- John Alden Carpenter – Piano Quintet
- Aaron Copland – El Salon Mexico
- David Diamond – Psalm
- George Dyson – Symphony in G major
- Hanns Eisler – String Quartet
- Ferenc Farkas – Concertino for Harp and Orchestra
- John Fernström – Viola Concerto
- Alan Hovhaness – Cello Concerto
- John Ireland – These Things Shall Be
- Frank Martin – Symphony
- Nikolai Medtner – sonate-idylle for piano, opus 56 in G major
- Nikolai Myaskovsky – revision of String Quartet No. 4, composition of Symphony No. 17 in G♯ minor and Symphony No. 18 in C major
- Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
- Ralph Vaughan Williams – Job: A Masque for Dancing (ballet)
- Heitor Villa-Lobos – Distribuição de Flores for flute and guitar
- Percy Whitlock – Wessex Suite
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