Classical Music
- Hendrik Andriessen – Concerto for Organ and Orchestra
- Malcolm Arnold – English Dances for orchestra, op. 27
- Alexander Arutiunian – Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra
- Arno Babadjanian – Heroic Ballade
- Ernest Bloch – Suite hébraïque
- Karl-Birger Blomdahl – Symphony No. 3 Facetter
- Pierre Boulez –
- Polyphonie X
- Le soleil des eaux, for soprano, chorus and orchestra (second version)
- John Cage – String Quartet in Four Parts
- Arnold Cooke – Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello
- George Crumb – A Cycle of Greek Lyrics for voice and piano
- Jesús Guridi – Cuarteto en la menor
- Karl Amadeus Hartmann – Symphony No. 5 Symphonie Concertante
- Hans Henkemans – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
- Ernst Krenek – Suite for String Trio Parvula Corona Musicalis
- Jerry Dwayne Jones – Saga-Symphony
- Bohuslav Martinů –
- Concerto No. 2 for two violins and orchestra
- Duo No. 2, for Violin and Viola
- Intermezzo for Large Orchestra
- Sinfonietta La Jolla, in A major, for piano and chamber orchestra
- Trio No. 2, for violin, cello, and piano, in D minor
- Luigi Nono – Variazioni canoniche sulla serie dell’op.41 di A. Schönberg, for chamber orchestra
- Vincent Persichetti – Divertimento for Band
- Allan Pettersson – First Concerto for Strings
- Walter Piston – Symphony No. 4
- Arnold Schoenberg –
- Psalm 130 “De profundis”, op. 50b
- Modern Psalm, op. 50c (unfinished)
- Humphrey Searle – Poem for 22 Strings
- John Serry, Sr. – Eight Accordion Quartet Arrangements
- Karlheinz Stockhausen –
- Choral ("Wer uns trug mit Schmerzen in dies Leben"), for a cappella choir, Nr. 1/9 (1950)
- Chöre für Doris, for a cappella choir, Nr. (1950)
- Drei Lieder, for alto voice and chamber orchestra, Nr. 1/10 (1950)
- Jeremy Julio Riggins – Violin Sonata (revision)
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