1958 in Music - Classical Music

Classical Music

• Tadeusz Baird – Four Essays
• Ernest Bloch – Suite for Viola Solo (fragmentary)
• Benjamin Britten –

Nocturne, for tenor, 7 obbligato instruments, and strings, Op. 60

Noye’s Fludde, Op. 59

Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente, for voice and piano, Op. 61

• Earle Brown – Pentathis, for flute, bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone, harp, piano, violin, viola, and cello
• John Cage –

Aria, for solo voice

Concert, for piano and orchestra

Fontana Mix, for tape

Haiku, for any instruments

Music Walk, for piano (one or more players, also using radio and/or recordings)

Solo for Voice 1

TV Köln, for piano

Variations I, for any number of players, and any means

• Carlos Chávez – Invención, for piano
• Aldo Clementi – Episodi
• Henry Cowell –

Andrée’s Birthday, for treble instrument

Birthday Piece, for 2 treble instruments

Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra

Duet, for 2 soprano instruments

, for 2 treble instruments

Henry’s Hornpipe, for treble instrument

Introduction and Allegro, for viola and harpsichord or piano

Jim’s B’day, for piano

Love to Sidney, for soprano instrument and piano:Rondo for Brass, for 3 trumpets, 2 horns, and 2 trombones

Lullaby for Philio, for treble instrument:Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 12, for 3 horns

Wedding Rondo, for unaccompanied clarinet

• Luigi Dallapiccola –

Concerto per la notte di Natale dell’anno 1956, for soprano and chamber orchestra (revised version)

Requiescant, for chorus and orchestra

• Mario Davidovsky – String Quartet No. 2
• Peter Maxwell Davies –

Prolation, for orchestra

Sextet, for flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, piano, violin, and cello

• Morton Feldman –

Ixion (Summerspace) (ballet), for ten instruments

Piano, for piano four-hands

Two Instruments, for horn and cello

• Benjamin Frankel – Symphony No. 1
• Alberto Ginastera –

Hay que bañar al nene (film score)

El límite (incidental music)

Primavera de la vida (film score)

String Quartet No. 2, Op. 26

• Ferde Grofé – Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D
• Dmitri Kabalevsky – In the Magic Forest
• Mauricio Kagel – Anagrama, for soprano, alto, baritone, bass, speaking chorus, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, 3 percussionists, celesta, 2 pianos, and 2 harps
• Leon Kirchner – String Quartet No. 2
• György Ligeti – Artikulation
• Bohuslav Martinů – Piano Concerto No. 5, H. 366; The Parables H. 367; Estampes; Duo No. 2 for Violin and Cello
• Peter Mennin – Piano Concerto
• Darius Milhaud – String Sextet, Op. 368
• José Pablo Moncayo –

Pequeño nocturno, for piano

Symphony No. 2 (unfinished)

Tierra (ballet), for orchestra

• Thea Musgrave – String Quartet
• Luigi Nono

Cori di Didone, for chorus and percussion

Piccola gala notturna veneziana in onore dei 60 anni di Heinrich Strobel, for 14 instruments

La terra e la compagna, for soprano, tenor, chorus, and instruments

• Harry Partch – Windsong, film score for ensemble of original instruments
• Goffredo Petrassi –

Saluto augurale, for orchestra

Serenata, for flute, harpsichord, percussion, viola, and contrabass

String Quartet

• George Rochberg – Cheltenham Concerto, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, and strings
• Ned Rorem – Symphony No. 3
• Edmund Rubbra – Pezzo Ostinato (Rubbra collections page with description) and Violin Concerto, Opp. 102 and 103.
• Carl Ruggles – Exaltation
• Dieter Schnebel –

für stimmen ( … missa est): dt 31,6, for 12 vocal ensembles

Raum-Zeit Y, for instruments

• Alfred Schnittke – Oratorio Nagasaki
• Humphrey Searle – Symphony No. 2, Op. 33 (1956–8); Variations and Finale, Op. 34
• Roger Sessions –

String Quintet

Symphony No. 4

• Dmitri Shostakovich – Moskva, Cheryomushki, operetta, Op. 105
• Toru Takemitsu –

Kamitsukareta kaoyaku (film score)

Kokusen’ya, incidental music

Pananpe no omoigakenai shōri no hanashi, for tenor, baritone, clarinet, vibraphone, piano, guitar, and percussion

Solitude sonore, for orchestra

Sora, uma, soshite shi, for tape

Tableau noir, for speaker and chamber orchestra

Yume no hoshi (television music)

Utau dake, for chorus

• Eduard Tubin – Symphony No. 7
• Edgard Varèse – Poème électronique' (1957–58)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony No. 9
• Anatol Vieru –

Concerto for Flute and Orchestra

Eight Miniatures, for piano

• Heitor Villa-Lobos –

Bendita sabedoria, for six-part choir

Fantasia, for wind orchestra

Fantasia concertante, for orchestra of cellos (at least 32 instruments)

Green Mansions (film score, concert arrangement as Forest of the Amazon)

Magnificat alleluia, solo voice, chorus, and orchestra

A menina das nuvens, musical adventure in three acts

• Leó Weiner – Concerto for Violin No. 1 in D major
• Stefan Wolpe –

Dust of Sorrow, for SATB choir

The Hour Glass (dramatic scene)

The Way a Crow, for SATB choir

• Bernd Alois Zimmermann –

Impromptu, for orchestra

Omnia tempus habent, canatata for soprano and 17 instruments