1947 in Music - Classical Music

Classical Music

  • Milton Babbitt – Three Compositions for Piano
  • Samuel Barber – Knoxville: Summer of 1915
  • Lennox Berkeley – Piano Concerto in B-flat
  • Pierre Boulez - "Second Piano Sonata"
  • Doreen Carwithen (Mary Alwyn) – ODTAA (One Damn Thing After Another)
  • Paul Creston – Fantasy for Trombone
  • George Crumb
    • Gethsemane for small orchestra
    • Three Early Songs for Voice and Piano
  • David Diamond – String Quartet No. 3
  • Maurice Duruflé – Requiem
  • Henri Dutilleux – oboe Sonata
  • Einar Englund – Symphony No. 1 War Symphony
  • Vittorio Giannini – Variations on a Cantus Firmus
  • Morton Gould – American Salute
  • Vagn Holmboe – Symphony No. 6
  • Charles Ives – Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840–60 (Concord Sonata, revised version)
  • Miloslav Kabeláč – Overture No. 2 for large orchestra
  • Gian Francesco Malipiero
    • Symphony No. 5 (Concertante in Eco)
    • Symphony No. 6 (degli Archi)
  • Nikolai Myaskovsky
    • Pathetic Overture in C Minor, Op.76
    • String Quartet No. 12 in G, Op.77
  • Sergei Prokofiev
    • Symphony No. 6 in E-flat Minor
    • Symphony No. 4 in C Major (extensively revised version)
  • Edmund Rubbra – Symphony No. 5
  • Mátyás Seiber – Ulysses (cantata)
  • Harold Shapero – Symphony for Classical Orchestra
  • Igor Stravinsky
    • Orpheus (ballet)
    • Petrushka (ballet) (2nd version)
  • Edgard Varèse – Tuning Up
  • William Walton – String Quartet in A minor (1945–47)

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