1959 in Music - Classical Music

Classical Music

• Juhan Aavik – Requiem
• Jean Absil –
  • Danses bulgares, op. 103, for piano
  • Passacaglia in memoriam Alban Berg, op. 101, for piano
  • Rhapsody No. 5, op. 102, for 2 pianos
• Murray Adaskin – Saskatchewan Legend, for orchestra
• Samuel Adler – Toccata, Recitation, and Postlude, for organ
• Stephen Albert – Toccatas (2), for piano
• William Alwyn –
  • Symphony No. 4
  • Trio for strings
• Hendrik Andriessen –
  • Missa populi, for solo voice, congregation, and organ
  • Signum Magnum, for soprano, choir, and organ
  • Suite, for flute or recorder and piano
  • Tota pulchra, anima mea, for 2 voices and organ
• Jurriaan Andriessen – Sonata da camera, for flute, viola, and guitar
• Louis Andriessen –
  • Nocturnen, for soprano and chamber orchestra
  • Percosse, for flute, trumpet, bassoon, and percussion
• István Anhalt –
  • Electronic Composition No. 1 "Sine nomine I"
  • Electronic Composition No. 2 "Sine nomine II"
• Hans Erich Apostel –
  • Fantasie, op. 31b, for piano
  • Österreichische Miniaturen (5), for orchestra
  • Vier kleine Klavierstücke, op. 31a, for piano
• Malcolm Arnold –
  • Concerto, for guitar and chamber orchestra, op. 67
  • Song of Simeon, op. 69 (nativity masque), for mimes, solo voices, and chamber orchestra
  • Sweeney Todd, op. 68 (ballet)
  • William Blake Songs, op. 66, for alto and strings
• Claude Arrieu –
  • Fantaisie lyrique, for ondes martenot and piano
  • Suite, for string orchestra
• Robert Ashley – Piano Sonata ("Christopher Columbus crosses to the New World in the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria using only dead reckoning and a crude astrolabe")
• Larry Austin – Homecoming, cantata for soprano and jazz quintet
• Jan Bach – Toccata, for orchestra
• Sven-Erik Bäck – A Game around a Game, for orchestra
• Henk Badings –
  • Capriccio, for violin, 2 tapes, and "elektromagnetische Klangfiguren"
  • Die Frau von Andros, ballet, electronic music
  • Jungle, ballet, electronic music
  • Languentibus in purgatorio, for mixed choir
  • Psalm 147, for children’s chorus, chamber chorus, chorus, and orchestra
• Claude Baillif – Mouvements pour deux, op. 27, for flute and piano
• Tadeusz Baird – Espressioni varianti, for violin and orchestra
• Leonardo Balada – Musica en cuatro tiempos, for piano
• Samuel Barber – Nocturne (Homage to John Field), op. 33, for piano
• Jean Barraqué – … au-delà du hasard, for soprano, SA choir, 20 instruments in 4 groups including piano and clarinet soloists
• Leslie Bassett –
  • Duets, for 2 cellos
  • For City, Nation, World. cantata, for tenor, SATB choir, children’s choir ad lib, congregation, 4 trombones, and organ
  • Sonata, for violin and piano
• Jürg Baur –
  • Chorale Preludes (4), for organ
  • Concertino, for flute, oboe, clarinet, string orchestra, and timpani
  • Metamorphosen, for piano, violin, and cello
• Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt – String Quartet No. 5
• John J. Becker –
  • At Dieppe, for voice and piano
  • String Quartet no. 3 (unfinished)
• John Beckwith – Music for Dancing, for orchestra (second orchestration)
• Jack Beeson –
  • Against Idleness and Mischief and in Praise of Labor, for high voice and piano
  • "Fire, Fire, Quench Desire", for high voice and piano
  • Lullaby, for alto and piano (revised version)
  • Round and Round, for piano, four-hands
  • Symphony No. 1, in A major
  • Three Love Songs, for alto and piano (revised version)
  • Transformations, for large orchestra
• Paul Ben-Haim –
  • Hazono shel navi, for tenor, SATB choir, and orchestra
  • Poème, for harp
• Arthur Benjamin – String Quartet No. 2
• Richard Rodney Bennett – Music for an Occasion, for orchestra
• Niels Viggo Bentzon – Piano Sonata No. 7, op. 121
• Gunnar Berg –
  • Gaffkys I–X, for piano
  • Pour clarinette et violon, for clarinet and violin
  • Pour piano et orchestre, for piano and orchestra
  • 37 Aspects (Spoon River), for ensemble
• Arthur Berger – Chamber Concerto, for small orchestra
• Luciano Berio –
  • Allez Hop!, "racconto mimico"
  • Quaderni I, for orchestra
• Lennox Berkeley –
  • Overture, for light orchestra
  • "So sweet love seemed", for mezzo-sopran or baritone and piano
  • Sonatina, op. 52, no. 2, for 2 pianos
• Boris Blacher – Musica giocosa, op. 59, for orchestra
• Easley Blackwood, Jr. –
  • Concertino, op. 5, for 5 instruments
  • String Quartet No. 2, op. 6
• Arthur Bliss – Birthday Song for a Royal Child, SATB choir
• Augustyn Bloch –
  • Espressioni, for soprano and orchestra
  • Impressioni poetiche, for male choir and orchestra
• Konrad Boehmer – Variation, for orchestra
• William Bolcom – Romantic Pieces, for piano
• Margaret Bonds –
  • Dream Portraits (3), for voice and piano
  • "Ezekiel saw the wheel", for voice and piano
  • "I Got a Home in That Rock", for voice and orchestra or piano
  • Mass in D Minor, for choir and organ
• Narcís Bonet – Choral, for organ
• Pierre Boulez –
  • Improvisation sur Mallarmé III: A la nue accablante tu, for soprano and orchestra
  • Tombeau, for soprano and orchestra
• Paul Bowles – Sweet Bird of Youth, incidental music for the play by Tennessee Williams
• Henry Brant – The Crossing, for tenor, oboe or soprano saxophone, glockenspiel, violin, and cello
• Havergal Brian – Symphony No. 13 in C major
• Benjamin Britten –
  • Cantata academica, carmen basiliense, op. 62, for SATB chorus and orchestra
  • Fanfare for St Edmundsbury, for 3 trumpets
  • Missa brevis in D, op. 63, for boys’ voices and organ
  • Oliver Cromwell, for unison voices and piano
• Earle Brown – Hodograph I, for flute, piano + celesta, and percussion
• Alan Bush – Dorian Passacaglia and Fugue, op. 52, for orchestra
• Geoffrey Bush – Songs of Wonder, for soprano or tenor and string orchestra or piano
• Sylvano Bussotti – Piano Pieces for David Tudor
• Nigel Butterley – Joseph and Mary, for soprano and flute
• Cornelius Cardew – Piano Piece 1959
• Elliott Carter – String Quartet No. 2
• Niccolo Castiglioni – Cangiati, for piano
• Chen Gang & He Zhanhao - Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto
• Aldo Clementi –
  • Ideogrammi No. 1, for 16 instruments
  • Ideogrammi No. 2, for flute and 17 instruments
• Aaron Copland –
  • Dance Panels, for orchestra
  • Paisaje mexicana and Danza de Jalisco, as Two Mexican Pieces, for orchestra; later became part of Three Latin American Sketches (1971)
• John Corigliano –
  • Kaleidoscope, for 2 pianos
  • Petits Fours, for violin and piano
• Paul Creston –
  • Janus, op. 77, for orchestra
  • Prelude and Dance, op. 76, for band
• George Crumb – Variazioni for large orchestra
  • Halim El-Dabh –
  • Elements, Beings and Primevals, for tape
  • Juxtaposition No. 1, for percussion ensemble
  • Juxtaposition No. 2, for percussion and harp
  • Juxtaposition No. 3, for mezzo-soprano, 2 harps, and percussion
  • Leiyla and the Poet, for tape
  • Meditation on White Noise, for tape
  • The Word, for tape,
• Mario Davidovsky – Serie sinfonica 1959 for orchestra
• Paul Dessau –
  • Flug zur Sonne, dance scenes
  • Hymne auf den Beginn einer neuen Geschichte der Menschheit, for speakr, soprano, chorus, 3 pianos, 2 harps, double bass, timpani, and percussion
• David Diamond –
  • A Private World, for piano
  • Sonata, for solo cello
  • Sonata, for solo violin
  • Symphony No. 7
• Henri Dutilleux – Symphony No. 2 (Le Double)
• Werner Egk –
  • Furchtlosigkeit und Wohlwollen, oratorio for tenor, mixed chorus, and orchestra (revised version)
  • Variationen über ein karibisches Thema, for orchestra
• Gottfried von Einem – Tanz-Rondo, op. 27, for orchestra
• Hanns Eisler –
  • Brandverse, for voice and piano
  • Motto (Auf einer chinesischen Theewurzellöwen), for voice and piano
  • Musik zu ‘Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg’, for voice and small orchestra
  • Trommellied, for voice and piano
  • Rezitativ und Fuge auf 60. Geburtstag von J. R. Becher, for voice and piano
  • Um meine Weisheit unbekümmert, for voice and piano
• Kenneth Gaburo – Stray Birds, for soprano and piano
• Roberto Gerhard –
  • Asylum Diary, incidental music for the play by Lavant
  • Chaconne, for solo violin
  • Coriolanus, incidental music for the play by Shakespeare
  • Don Carlos, incidental music for the play by Schiller
  • Lament on the Death of a Bullfighter, for speaker and tape
• Ottmar Gerster –
  • Concerto, for horn and orchestra
  • Vorwärts!, for baritone, speaker, SATB choir, and chamber orchestra
• Peggy Glanville-Hicks –
  • Drama for Orchestra, for clarinet, trumpet, piano, 3 percussionists, strings
  • Saul and the Witch of Endor, ballet for television
• Roger Goeb –
  • Concertino no. 2, for orchestra
  • Iowa Concerto, for chamber orchestra
• Alexander Goehr –
  • Fantasia, op. 4 (revised version), for orchestra
  • Songs from the Japanese, op. 9, for mezzo-soprano and piano or orchestra
  • Variations, op. 8, for flute and piano
• Henryk Górecki – Symphony No. 1 1959
• Fernando Lopes Graça –
  • Canções populares portuguesas (24), book 4, for voice and piano
  • História trágico-marítima, second version, for baritone, alto chorus, and orchestra
  • A menina do mar, for chamber orchestra
  • Nocturnos (5), for piano
  • As predicações de Adamastor contra os portugueses, for voice and piano
  • Prelúdio e dança burlesca, for 2 pianos
  • Rondes et complaintes des provinces de France, for choir
  • Tres peças, for violin and piano
  • Tres velhos fandangos portugueses, version for piano
• Camargo Guarnieri –
  • "O amor de agora", for voice and piano
  • "Onde andará", for voice and piano
  • Ponteios, volume 5, for piano
  • Sonata No. 5, for violin and piano
  • Valsa No. 10, for piano
• Cristóbal Halffter –
  • Sonata, for violin solo
  • Three Pieces, for flute solo
• Rodolfo Halffter – Tripartita, op. 25, for orchestra
• Iain Hamilton – Sinfonia, for two orchestras
• Roman Haubenstock-Ramati – Interpolation: Mobile pour flûte
• Bernhard Heiden – Viola Sonata
• Hans Werner Henze –
  • Sonata for piano
  • L’usignolo dell’imperatore, balletto-pantomima, after Hans Christian Andersen
• Paul Hindemith –
  • Festmarsch, for 3 male voices and tuba
  • Joseph, lieber Joseph mein, canon for 4 voices
  • Six songs from Das Marienleben, op. 27, arranged for soprano and orchestra
• Karel Horký –
  • Jan Hus, tastura, ballet (revised version)
  • Symphony No. 1
• Alan Hovhaness –
  • Bardo Sonata, op. 192, for piano
  • Concerto for Accordion and Orchestra, op. 174
  • Lake of Van Sonata, op. 175, for piano (revised version)
  • Symphony No. 6 "Celestial Gate", op. 173, for chamber orchestra
  • Symphony No. 7 "Nanga Parvat", op. 175, for wind ensemble
• Andrew Imbrie – Legend, for orchestra
• Maki Ishii – Prelude and Variations, for flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello, piano, and percussion
• Jānis Ivanovs – Piano Concerto in G minor
• Francis Jackson – Diversion for Mixtures
• Miloslav Kabeláč –
  • Cizokrajné motivy, op. 38, for piano
  • Suite from Master of Nine Songs’, op. 34a, for baritone and orchestra
  • Suite, op. 39, for saxophone and piano*Dmitri Kabalevsky –
  • Preludes and Fugues, op. 61
  • The Leninists, cantata after Y. Dolmatovski for three choruses and large symphony orchestra, op. 63
• Mauricio Kagel – Transición II, for piano, percussion, and two tape recorders
• Aram Khachaturian –
  • Lermontov: Suite, for orchestra
  • Sonatina, for piano
• Tikhon Khrennikov – Violin Concerto No. 1, op. 14
• Gottfried Michael Koenig –
  • Quintet for Winds, for flute, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, and bassoon
  • String Quartet 1959
• Ernst Krenek –
  • Flötenstück neunphasig, op. 171, for flute and 6 pianos
  • Hausmusik, op. 172, for various instruments
  • Quaestio temporis, op. 170, for small orchestra
  • Six Motets, op. 169, for 4 voices
• György Kurtág –
  • String Quartet, op. 1
  • Wind Quintet, op. 2
• John La Montaine – Fragments from the Song of Songs, op. 29, for soprano and orchestra
• Ingvar Lidholm – Mutanza, for orchestra
• György Ligeti – Apparitions, for orchestra (1958–59)
• Otto Luening – Fantasia, for string quartet and orchestra
• Witold Lutosławski –
  • Dance Preludes, version for 9 instruments
  • Piosenki dziecinne (3), for voice and piano
• Elizabeth Maconchy – A Hymn to God the Father, for tenor and piano
• Bruno Maderna –
  • L’altro mondo, ovvero Gli stati e imperi della luna, music for a radio play by A. Brissoni, after Jonathan Swift's Gulliver’s Travels
  • Piano Concerto
• Donald Martino – Trio, for violin, clarinet, and piano
• Bohuslav Martinů –
  • The Burden of Moab, cantata, for male voices and piano
  • Impromptus (2), for harpsichord
  • Madrigaly, for mixed voices
  • Mikeš z hor, chamber cantata, for solo voices, chorus, 2 violins, viola, and piano
  • Musique de chambre no. 1, for clarinet, violin, viola, cello, harp, and piano
  • Nonet, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello, and double bass
  • Pièce, for 2 cellos
  • Písničky pro dětský sbor, for children’s choir
  • The Prophecy of Isaiah, cantata, for solo voices, male chorus, trumpet, viola, piano, and timpani
  • Ptačí hody, for children’s voices and trumpet
  • Variations on a Slovak Folksong, for cello and piano
  • Vigilie, for organ
  • Znělka, for children’s voices
• Yoritsune Matsudaira –
  • Danse sacrée et Danse finale, for orchestra
  • Katsura, for soprano, flute, guitar, harp, harpsichord, and percussion
• Toshirō Mayuzumi –
  • Campanology, electronic music
  • Sange, for male choir
  • Shukukon-ka, for chorus and orchestra
  • U so ri, oratorio
• Peter Mennin – Sonata concertante, for violin and piano
• Darius Milhaud –
  • Burma Road, op. 375, incidental music for television
  • Mother Courage, op. 379, incidental music for the play by Bertolt Brecht
  • Sonatina, op. 378, for viola and piano
  • Symphonie concertante, op. 376, for bassoon, horn, trumpet, double bass, and orchestra
  • Symphony No. 9, op. 380
• Federico Mompou – Impresiones intimas, for piano (revised version)
• Makoto Moroi –
  • Chamber Cantata No. 2
  • Pitagoras no hoshi, music drama, for solo voice, instruments, and tape
• Thea Musgrave –
  • Scottish Dance Suite, for orchestra
  • Triptych, for tenor and orchestra
• Bo Nilsson –
  • Ett blocks timme, cantata for soprano and chamber orchestra
  • Stenogram, for organ
  • Brief an Gösta Oswald, cantata trilogy
    • Ein irrender Sohn, for alto, alto flute, and chamber ensemble
    • Mädchentotenlieder, for soprano, alto flute, and chamber ensemble
    • Und die Zeiger seiner Augen wurden langsam zurückgedreht, for alto or soprano and orchestra
• Luigi Nono – Composizione no. 2 (Diario polacco ‘58), for orchestra
• Andrzej Panufnik –
  • Pieśni ludowych (5) unison choir, 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, and bass clarinet (revised version)
  • Polonia, suite for orchestra
• Arvo Pärt –
  • Meie aed, op. 3, for children’s chorus and orchestra
  • Sonatine, op. 1, no. 2, for piano
• Vincent Persichetti –
  • Song of Peace, op. 82, for TTBB/SATB choir and piano
  • String Quartet No. 3, op. 81
• Michel Philippot – Composition No. 1, for string orchestra
• Walter Piston –
  • Concerto, for 2 pianos and orchestra
  • Three New England Sketches, for orchestra
• Quincy Porter –
  • Concerto for harpsichord and orchestra
  • Concerto (Concertino), for wind orchestra
• Henri Pousseur –
  • Préhistoire du cinéma, 1–track tape
  • Rimes pour différentes sources sonores, for 3 orchestral groups and 2-track tape
• Juan Orrego-Salas –
  • Alabanzas a la Virgen, op. 49, for soprano or tenor and piano
  • Garden Songs, op. 47, for soprano, flute, viola, and harp
• Angelo Paccagnini – Canti brevi: secondo libro, for voice and soprano
• George Perle – Wind Quintet No. 1
• Allan Pettersson – Symphony No. 4 (1958–59)
• H. Owen Reed –
  • Che-Ba-Kun-Ah (Road of Souls), for band, or for winds and string quartet
  • Renascence, for band
• George Rochberg – Bartókiana, for piano
• Ned Rorem –
  • "Memory", for voice and piano
  • Miracles of Christmas, for SATB choir and organ
  • "My Papa's Waltz", for voice and piano
  • "Night Crow", for voice and piano
  • "Root Cellar", for voice and piano
  • Two Poems of Theodore Roethke, for voice and piano
  • "The Waking", for voice and piano
• Hilding Rosenberg –
  • Glaukes sånger (revised version), for voice and piano
  • Quintet for winds
  • Riflessioni No. 1, for string orchestra
  • Sonata, for solo flute
  • Songs (4), for voice and piano
• Frederic Rzewski – Poem, for piano
• Vadim Salmanov – Symphony No. 2 in G
• Domingo Santa Cruz – String Quartet No. 3, op. 31
• Giacinto Scelsi – Quattro pezzi su una nota sola
• Bogusław Schaeffer – Concerto breve for cello
• Pierre Schaeffer – Etudes aux objets
• R. Murray Schafer – In memoriam: Alberto Guerrero, for string orchestra
• Hermann Schroeder –
  • Missa figuralis, for choir, instruments, and organ
  • Partita Veni Creator Spiritus', for organ
  • Quartet No. 3, for oboe, violin, viola, and cello
• Heino Schubert –
  • Missa "unanimi voce", for chorus and organ
  • Stücke (4), for piano 4-hands
• Gunther Schuller –
  • Abstraction, for nine instruments
  • Concertino, for jazz quartet and orchestra
  • Conversations, for jazz qartet and string quartet
• William Schuman – Violin Concerto (revised version)
• Makoto Shinohara –
  • Kassouga, for flute and piano
  • Pièces concertantes (3), for trumpet and piano
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Cello Concerto No. 1
• Karlheinz Stockhausen –
  • Refrain, for three players
  • Zyklus, for a percussionist
• Igor Stravinsky –
  • Double Canon: Raoul Dufy in memoriam, for four instruments
  • Epitaphium für das Grabmal des Prinzen Max Egon zu Fürstenberg, for flute, clarinet, and harp
• Carlos Surinach – Concerto for Orchestra
• Tōru Takemitsu –
  • Ikari wo komete furikaereba, incidental music
  • Kaizoku, incidental music
  • Saegirarenai kyūsoku I–III, for piano
  • Scene, for cello and string orchestra
  • Shiseru ōjo, incidental music
• Randall Thompson –
  • Frostiana, for 3–7 voices and piano or orchestra
  • The Gate of Heaven, 4-part choir
• Virgil Thomson –
  • Bertha (incidental music for the play by K. Koch)
  • Collected Poems (K. Koch), for soprano, baritone, and orchestra
  • Fugues and Cantilenas for orchestra
  • Lamentations, for accordion
  • Mostly about Love (Four Songs for Alice Estey), for voice and piano
• Michael Tippett – Lullaby, for 6 solo voices: alto, two sopranos, two tenors, and bass
• Erich Urbanner – Concertino, for flute and orchestra
• Vladimir Ussachevsky –
  • The Boy Who Saw Through, film score
  • Studies in Sound, Plus, for tape
• David Van Vactor – Symphony No. 3
• Santiago Velasco Llanos – "O salutaris hostia", motet for chorus
• Heitor Villa-Lobos –
  • Concerto Grosso, for wind quartet and wind ensemble
  • Suite No. 1, for chamber orchestra
  • Suite No. 2, for chamber orchestra
• William Walton –
  • Anon in Love, 6 songs for tenor and guitar or orchestra
  • March: A History of the English-speaking Peoples, incidental music for ABC TV
  • A Queen’s Fanfare, for brass
• Egon Wellesz –
  • Lieder aus Wien, op. 82, for voice and piano
  • Quintet, op.81 for clarinet and string quartet
  • Rhapsodie, op. 87, for viola
• Healey Willan –
  • Passacaglia and Fugue no. 2 in E minor, op. 178, for organ
  • Poem for Strings, op. 82, version for string orchestra
• Grace Williams – All Seasons Shall Be Sweet
• Charles Wuorinen –
  • Musica duarum partium ecclesiastica, for brass quintet, timpani, piano, and organ
  • Symphony No. 3
  • Trio concertante, for oboe, violin, and piano
• La Monte Young –
  • Sarabande, for any instruments
  • Studies I, II, and III, for piano
  • Vision, for piano, 2 brass, recorder, 4 bassoons, violin, viola, cello, and double bass
• Jōji Yuasa – Projection Topologic, for piano
• Iannis Xenakis –
  • Analogique B, for 2-track tape
  • Duel for Two Small Orchestras
  • Syrmos, for 12 violins, 3 cellos, and 3 double basses
• Çesk Zadeja – Atdheu im, cantata for tenor and mixed chorus