1961 in Music - Classical Music

Classical Music

• Samuel Adler – Symphony No. 3
• Malcolm Arnold – Symphony No. 5
• Milton Babbitt – Vision and Prayer
• Niels Viggo Bentzon – Concerto No. 2 for violin and orchestra
• Havergal Brian – Symphony No. 19
• Benjamin Britten – Cello Sonata
• Earle Brown – Available Forms I
• Elliott Carter – Double Concerto (1959–61); revision of Holiday Overture
• Mario Davidovsky – Electronic Study No. 1; Piano 1961 for orchestra
• Edison Denisov – String Quartet No. 2
• Alun Hoddinott – Concerto for Piano, Winds and Percussion
• Jānis Ivanovs – String Quartet No. 3
• Yuri Levitin – Concertino for Cello and Orchestra, opus 54
• György Ligeti – Atmosphères for Orchestra
• William Mathias – Second Piano Concerto
• Einojuhani Rautavaara – Symphony No. 3
• Alan Rawsthorne – Concerto for Ten Instruments
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 12 D minor, Op. 112 "The Year 1917"
• Karlheinz Stockhausen – Originale, musical theatre, Nr. 12⅔
• Edgard Varèse – Nocturnal
• Mieczysław Weinberg – Concerto for flute and orchestra in D minor, op. 75
• Isang Yun – Third String Quartet (1959–61)