Editing 1946 in music (section)

===Compositions===
*[[Malcolm Arnold]] – Symphony for Strings, Op. 13
*[[Arno Babajanian]] – ''Polyphonic Piano Sonata''
*[[Benjamin Britten]] – ''[[Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra]]''
*[[Aaron Copland]] – [[Symphony No. 3 (Copland)|Symphony No. 3]]
*[[George Crumb]] – ''Poem''; ''Seven Songs'' for voice and piano
*[[Gottfried von Einem]] – ''Dantons Tod''
*[[Don Gillis (composer)|Don Gillis]] – ''[[Symphony No. 5½ (Gillis)|Symphony No. 5½, A Symphony for Fun]]''
*[[Ruth Gipps]] – Symphony No. 2
*[[Jesús Guridi]] – ''Sinfonía Pirenaica''
*[[Karl Amadeus Hartmann]] – Symphony No. 2 "Adagio"
*[[Herbert Howells]] – ''Gloucester Service''
*[[Wojciech Kilar]] – ''Mazurka in E minor''
*[[Erich Wolfgang Korngold]] – Cello Concerto
*[[Bohuslav Martinů]] – Symphony No. 5, H.310; Toccata e Due Canzoni; String Quartet No. 6, H.312
*[[Peter Mennin]] – Symphony No. 3
*[[Vincent Persichetti]] – Symphony No. 3
*[[Edmund Rubbra]] – Cello Sonata, Op. 60
*[[John Serry Sr.]] –
** Fantasy in F for accordion.
** Valse – music by [[Tchaikovsky]] arranged for accordion by Serry
*[[Roger Sessions]] – [[Symphony No. 2 (Sessions)|Symphony No. 2]], Piano Sonata No. 2
*[[Igor Stravinsky]] – [[Concerto in D (Stravinsky)|Concerto in D for Strings]]
*[[Michael Tippett]] – ''Little Music'' for string orchestra
*[[Heitor Villa-Lobos]] – [[String Quartet No. 10 (Villa-Lobos)|String Quartet No. 10]]
*[[William Walton]] – [[String Quartet in A minor (Walton)|String Quartet in A minor]]