Classical Music
- Milton Babbitt – Don for four-hand piano, Ars Combinatoria for small orchestra
- George Crumb – Gnomic Variations for piano
- Peter Maxwell Davies – Piano Sonata
- Joël-François Durand – String Trio
- Lorenzo Ferrero
- Balletto
- Arioso II
- Bengt Hambraeus – Voluntary on a Swedish Hymn Tune from Dalecarlia
- George Lloyd – Tenth Symphony (for brass)
- Steve Reich – Tehillim
- Roger Sessions – Concerto for Orchestra (recorded by Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and for which the composer receives the Pulitzer Prize for Music)
- Robert Simpson – Quintet for clarinet and Strings; Symphony No. 8
- Stanislaw Skrowaczewski – Clarinet Concerto
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