1979 in Music - Classical Music

Classical Music

  • Arno Babadjanian – Third String Quartet
  • Osvaldas Balakauskas – Symphony no 2
  • George Crumb
    • Apparition for soprano and amplified piano
    • Celestial Mechanics (Makrokosmos IV) for amplified piano (four hands)
    • Star-Child (1977, revised 1979) for soprano, antiphonal children's voices, male speaking choir, bell ringers, and large orchestra
  • Mario Davidovsky – Pennplay for sixteen players
  • Hugh Flynn – Birds
  • Jacques Hétu – Bassoon Concerto
  • Miloslav Kabelac – Metamorphoses II, for piano and orchestra, op. 58
  • William Lloyd Webber – Missa Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae
  • Allan Pettersson – Viola Concerto

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