Classical Music
- Malcolm Arnold – English Dances for Orchestra, op. 33
- Pierre Boulez – Polyphonie X
- John Cage – Imaginary Landscape No. 4
- Elliott Carter – String Quartet No. 1
- George Crumb – Prelude and Toccata for piano
- Mario Davidovsky – String Quartet No. 1
- Henri Dutilleux – Symphony No. 1
- George Enescu – String Quartet No. 2
- Morton Feldman – Structures
- Howard Ferguson – Piano Concerto in D
- Gerald Finzi – All This Night
- Lukas Foss – Piano Concerto No. 2
- Roberto Gerhard – Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
- Reinhold Glière – Concerto for Horn and Orchestra
- Vagn Holmboe – Symphony No. 8
- Gordon Jacob – Concerto for Flute and Strings
- György Ligeti – Concert românesc for Orchestra
- Peter Mennin – String Quartet No. 2
- Vincent Persichetti – Symphony No. 4 completed
- Allan Pettersson – Seven Sonatas for Two Violins
- Joseph Guy Ropartz – String Quartet No. 6 in F
- Edmund Rubbra – String Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Op. 73
- Mátyás Seiber – Concertino for Clarinet and String Orchestra
- Roger Sessions – String Quartet No. 2
- Dmitri Shostakovich – Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues for Piano op. 87 finished
- Karlheinz Stockhausen – Kreuzspiel
- Eduard Tubin – Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano
- Heitor Villa-Lobos – Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra
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