Classical Music
- George Antheil — Violin Sonata No. 4; String Quartet No. 3
- Pierre Boulez — Piano Sonata No. 2
- Havergal Brian — Symphony No. 7
- John Cage — Suite for Toy Piano
- Elliott Carter — Cello Sonata
- Aaron Copland — Red Pony Suite; Clarinet Concerto
- George Crumb — Alleluja for unaccompanied chorus
- Einar Englund — Symphony No. 2 Blackbird
- Ross Lee Finney — String Quartet No. 5
- Vagn Holmboe — Concerto No. 11 for trumpet and orchestra (his only trumpet concerto, but once called Chamber Concerto No. 11 because of its scoring)
- Dmitri Kabalevsky — Violin Concerto in C major
- Bohuslav Martinů — Piano Concerto No. 3; The Strangler (ballet)
- Nikolai Myaskovsky — Cello Sonata No. 2
- Andrzej Panufnik — Symphony No. 1 Sinfonia Rustica
- Francis Poulenc — Sonate pour violoncelle et piano, Op. 143 (1948)
- Sergei Prokofiev — The Story of a Real Man (opera, completed this year)
- Alan Rawsthorne — Violin Concerto No. 1
- Pierre Schaeffer — Étude aux chemins de fer
- William Schuman — Symphony No. 6
- Harold Shapero - Symphony for Classical Orchestra
- Dmitri Shostakovich — From Jewish Folk Poetry (song cycle)
- Richard Strauss — Four Last Songs
- Igor Stravinsky — Mass for Chorus and Double Wind Quintet
- Eduard Tubin — Double Bass Concerto
- Henning Wellejus — Violin Concerto in A minor
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