1955 in Music - Classical Music

Classical Music

  • Arthur Bliss – Violin Concerto
  • Henry Cowell – Symphony No. 12
  • George Crumb
    • Diptych for orchestra
    • Sonata for solo cello
  • Mario Davidovsky
    • Quintet for Clarinet and Strings
    • Suite Sinfonica Para "El Payaso" for orchestra
  • Einar Englund – Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Ferenc Farkas – Bukki Varlatok
  • Gerald Finzi – Cello Concerto
  • Hans Werner Henze – Symphony No. 4
  • Alan Hovhaness – Symphony No. 2 Mysterious Mountain
  • Witold Lutosławski – Dance Preludes (2nd version for clarinet and chamber group)
  • Bohuslav Martinů
    • The Epic of Gilgamesh
    • The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca
    • Oboe Concerto
  • Darius Milhaud
    • Symphony No. 5
    • Symphony No. 6
  • Luigi Nono
    • Canti per tredeci, for 13 instruments
    • Incontri, for 24 instruments
  • Walter Piston – Symphony No. 6
  • Edmund Rubbra – Piano Concerto
  • John Serry, Sr. – American Rhapsody
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen – Klavierstücke V–VIII
  • Alexandre Tansman
    • Concerto for Orchestra
    • Capriccio for Orchestra
  • Michael Tippett – Sonata for Four Horns
  • Ernst Toch – Symphony No. 3
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony No. 8
  • William Walton – Johannesburg Festival Overture
  • Franz Waxman – Sinfonietta for Strings and Timpani
  • Iannis Xenakis – Pithoprakta for orchestra

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