1948 in Music - Classical Music

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