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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“The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always greater than its performance—Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, for instance, is always greater than its performance—whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being performed.”
—André Previn (b. 1929)