Editing 1950 in music (section)

==Classical music==

===Premieres===
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! Composer !! Composition !! Date !! Location !! Performers
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| [[Hendrik Andriessen|Andriessen, Hendrik]] || [[Organ Concerto (Andriessen)|Organ Concerto]] || 1950-11-01 || Amsterdam || [[Concertgebouw Orchestra]] – [[Pierre Monteux|Monteux]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.brunoklassiek.nl/nl/rco13006-anth-box152 |title=Bruno Klassiek |access-date=June 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150624100615/https://www.brunoklassiek.nl/nl/rco13006-anth-box152 |archive-date=June 24, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| [[Pierre Boulez|Boulez, Pierre]] || ''[[Le Soleil des eaux]]'' (2nd version, subsequently withdrawn) || 1950-07-18 || Paris || [[Irène Joachim|Joachim]], [[Pierre Mollet|Mollet]], [[Joseph Peyron|Peyron]] / [[Orchestre National de France|RTF National Orchestra]] – [[Roger Désormière|Désormière]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|6982|Pierre Boulez: ''Le Soleil des eaux''}}</ref>
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| [[Pierre Boulez|Boulez, Pierre]] || [[Piano sonatas (Boulez)|Piano Sonata No. 2]] (1948) || 1950-04-29 || Paris || [[Yvette Grimaud|Grimaud]]<ref>[http://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/boulez-reperes-chronologiques/ Encyclopedia Universalis]</ref>
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| [[Benjamin Britten]] || ''[[Five Flower Songs]]'' || 1950-07-23 || [[Darlington Hall]], England || [[Imogen Holst]] conducting a student choir<ref>{{IRCAM work|22805|Benjamin Britten: ''Five Flower Songs''}}</ref>
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| [[John Cage|Cage, John]] || ''[[String Quartet in Four Parts]]'' || 1950-08-12 || Black Mountain, North Carolina || [[Summer Session String Quartet|Summer Session Quartet]]<ref>[http://www.blackmountainstudiesjournal.org/wp/?page_id=1276 Black Mountain Studies Journal]</ref>
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| [[Lukas Foss|Foss, Lukas]] || ''[[Song of Anguish]]'' || 1950-03-10 || Boston || [[Boston Symphony Orchestra|Boston Symphony]] – [[Lukas Foss|Foss]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bso.org/brands/bso/about-us/historyarchives/archival-collection/world-premieres-at-the-bso/world-premieres-the-1900s.aspx |title=Boston Symphony Orchestra |access-date=May 25, 2017 |archive-date=January 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118212645/http://www.bso.org/brands/bso/about-us/historyarchives/archival-collection/world-premieres-at-the-bso/world-premieres-the-1900s.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| [[Jesús Guridi|Guridi, Jesús]] || [[String Quartet No. 2 (Guridi)|String Quartet No. 2]] || 1950-05-14 || Madrid || [[Agrupación Nacional de Música de Cámara|National Chamber Music Association]]<ref>[http://www.docenotas.com/115136/el-cuarteto-breton-con-jesus-guridi/ Doce Notas]</ref>
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| [[Karl Amadeus Hartmann|Hartmann, Karl Amadeus]] || [[Symphony No. 2 (Hartmann)|''Adagio'' (Symphony No. 2)]] || 1950-09-10 || [[Donaueschingen Festival]], Germany || [[Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra|SWF Symphony]] – [[Hans Rosbaud|Rosbaud]]<ref>[http://www.schott-music.com/shop/1/show,34605.html Schott Music]</ref>
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| [[Herbert Howells|Howells, Herbert]] || ''[[Hymnus Paradisi]]'' (1938) || 1950-09-07 || Gloucester, UK ([[Three Choirs Festival]]) || [[Isobel Baillie|Baillie]], [[William Herbert (tenor)|William Herbert]] / [[London Symphony Orchestra|London Symphony]] – Howells<ref>[http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.570352&catNum=570352&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English Naxos]</ref><ref>[http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/236/1/Ward06MPhil_A1a.pdf Thesis by Martin John Ward for the University of Birmingham, p.75]</ref>
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| [[André Jolivet|Jolivet, André]] || [[Flute Concerto (Jolivet)|Concerto for Flute and Strings]] || 1950-01-24 || Paris || [[Jean-Pierre Rampal|Rampla]] / [unknown orchestra and conductor]<ref>{{IRCAM work|34825|André Jolivet: Flute Concerto}}</ref>
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| [[Aram Khachaturian|Khachaturian, Aram]] || ''[[Triumphal Poem (Khachaturian)|Triumphal Poem]]'' || 1950-12-09 || Moscow || [[Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra|USSR Radio Symphony]] – [[Alexander Gauk|Gauk]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chantdumonde.com/Publisheditions/catalog/5/CATAKHATCHAV.ANGL1.pdf |title=Le Chant du Monde |access-date=June 30, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923202246/http://www.chantdumonde.com/Publisheditions/catalog/5/CATAKHATCHAV.ANGL1.pdf |archive-date=September 23, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| [[Bohuslav Martinu|Martinu, Bohuslav]] || [[Intermezzo for Large Orchestra (Martinu)|Intermezzo for Large Orchestra]] || 1950-12-29 || New York City || [[Louisville Orchestra]] – [[Robert Whitney (conductor)|Whitney]]<ref>[http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=FECD-0018&catNum=FECD-0018&filetype=About+this+Recording&language=English Naxos Records]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.louisvilleorchestra.org/documentary-film-to-premiere-may-20/ |title=Louisville Orchestra |access-date=June 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626114455/https://www.louisvilleorchestra.org/documentary-film-to-premiere-may-20/ |archive-date=June 26, 2015 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
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| [[Bohuslav Martinu|Martinu, Bohuslav]] || [[Piano Trio No. 2 (Martinu)|Piano Trio No. 2]] || 1950-05-19 || Cambridge, Massachusetts || [[Klaus Liepmann|Liepmann]], [[George Finckel|Finckel]], [[Gregory Tucker (pianist)|Tucker]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/product.aspx?pid=1703312 |title=Classics Online |access-date=June 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626131742/http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/product.aspx?pid=1703312 |archive-date=June 26, 2015 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
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| [[Bohuslav Martinu|Martinu, Bohuslav]] || ''[[Sinfonietta La Jolla]]'' || 1950-08-13 || San Diego, California || [[Orchestra of the Musical Arts Society of La Jolla]] – [[Nikolai Sokoloff|Sokoloff]]<ref>[http://www.boosey.com/pages/cr/catalogue/cat_detail.asp?site-lang=es&musicid=6065 Boosey & Hawkes]</ref>
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| [[Luigi Nono|Nono, Luigi]] || ''[[Variazioni canoniche]] sulla serie dell'op. 41 di Schoenberg'' || 1950-08-27 || [[Darmstädter Ferienkurse]], Germany || [[Staatstheater Darmstadt|Darmstadt Landestheater Orchestra]] – [[Hermann Scherchen|Scherchen]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.luiginono.it/it/luigi-nono/opere/variazioni-canoniche-sulla-serie-dell-op-41-di-arnold-schoenberg |title=Fondazione Onlus |access-date=June 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305122516/http://www.luiginono.it/it/luigi-nono/opere/variazioni-canoniche-sulla-serie-dell-op-41-di-arnold-schoenberg |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
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| [[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev, Sergei]] || [[Cello Sonata (Prokofiev)|Cello Sonata]] (1949) || 1950-03-01 || Moscow || [[Mstislav Rostropovich|Rostropovich]], [[Sviatoslav Richter|Richter]]<ref>[http://www.classicalconnect.com/Cello_Music/Prokofiev/Sonata/9726 Classical Connect]</ref>
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| [[Humphrey Searle|Searle, Humphrey]] || ''[[Poem for 22 Strings]]'' || 1950-08-27 || [[Darmstädter Ferienkurse]], Germany || [[Staatstheater Darmstadt|Darmstadt Landestheater Orchestra]] – [[Hermann Scherchen|Scherchen]]<ref>[http://issuu.com/internationales-musikinstitut/docs/darmstaedter_ferienkurse_1946-1966 Darmstädter Ferienkurse, 1946–1966]</ref>
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| [[Richard Strauss|Strauss, Richard]] (d. 1949) || ''[[Four Last Songs]]'' (1948) || 1950-05-22 || [[Royal Albert Hall]], London || [[Kirsten Flagstad|Flagstad]] / [[Philharmonia Orchestra]] – [[Wilhelm Furtwängler|Furtwängler]]<ref>[http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2007/Apr07/Strauss_Harbin_SBT1410.htm Musicweb International]</ref>
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| [[Heitor Villa-Lobos|Villa-Lobos, Heitor]] || [[Symphony No. 6 (Villa-Lobos)|''Montanhas de Brasil'' (Symphony No. 6)]] (1944) || 1950-04-29 || Rio de Janeiro || [[Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theatre Symphony Orchestra|Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theatre Symphony]] – Villa-Lobos <ref>[http://www.historiadelasinfonia.es/historia-2/siglo-xx/villa-lobos/ Historia de la sinfonía]</ref>
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| [[Heitor Villa-Lobos|Villa-Lobos, Heitor]] || [[Piano Concerto No. 2 (Villa-Lobos)|Piano Concerto No. 2]] (1948) || 1950-04-21 || Rio de Janeiro || {{ill|João de Souza Lima|pt| João de Sousa Lima |de| João de Souza Lima (Komponist) |ru| Соуза Лима, Жуан де}} / [[Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theatre Symphony Orchestra|Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theatre Symphony]] – Villa-Lobos<ref>''[http://museuvillalobos.org.br/ingles/bancodad/VLSO_1.0.pdf Villa-Lobos, sua obra] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161016170347/http://museuvillalobos.org.br/ingles/bancodad/VLSO_1.0.pdf |date=October 16, 2016 }}'', Version 1.0. (MinC / IBRAM, and the Museu Villa-Lobos, 2009; based on the third edition, 1989): 56–57.</ref>
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===Compositions===
*[[Hendrik Andriessen]] – Concerto for Organ and Orchestra
*[[Malcolm Arnold]] – ''[[English Dances (Arnold)|English Dances]]'' for orchestra, Op. 27
*[[Alexander Arutiunian]] – [[Trumpet Concerto (Arutiunian)|Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra]]
*[[Arno Babajanian]] – ''Heroic Ballade''
*[[Ernest Bloch]] – ''Suite hébraïque'' <!--possibly 1951, remove from this list?-->
*[[Karl-Birger Blomdahl]] – Symphony No. 3 ''Facetter''
*[[Pierre Boulez]] –
**''[[Polyphonie X]]''
**''Le soleil des eaux'', for soprano, chorus and orchestra (second version)
*[[John Cage]] – ''[[String Quartet in Four Parts]]''
*[[Carlos Chávez]] – [[Violin Concerto (Chávez)|Concerto for Violin and Orchestra]]
*[[Jani Christou]] – First Symphony
*[[Arnold Cooke]] – Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello
*[[George Crumb]] – ''A Cycle of Greek Lyrics'' for voice and piano
*[[Henri Dutilleux]] – ''Blackbird'' for piano
*[[Jesús Guridi]] – String Quartet in A minor
*[[Eivind Groven]]
**''Hjalarljod Overture'', Op. 38
**Piano Concerto, Op. 39a
*[[Karl Amadeus Hartmann]] – Symphony No. 5 ''Symphonie Concertante''
*[[Hans Henkemans]] – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
*[[Vagn Holmboe]] – Symphony No. 7
*[[Wojciech Kilar]] – ''Toccata'' for piano
*[[Ernst Krenek]] – Suite for String Trio ''Parvula Corona Musicalis''
*[[Bohuslav Martinů]] –
**Concerto No. 2 for two violins and orchestra
**Duo No. 2, for Violin and Viola
**Intermezzo for Large Orchestra
**Sinfonietta ''La Jolla'', in A major, for piano and chamber orchestra
**Trio No. 2, for violin, cello, and piano, in D minor
*[[Luigi Nono]] – ''Variazioni canoniche sulla serie dell’op.41 di A. Schönberg'', for chamber orchestra
*[[Vincent Persichetti]] – Divertimento for Band
*[[Allan Pettersson]] – First Concerto for Strings
*[[Walter Piston]] – [[Symphony No. 4 (Piston)|Symphony No.4]]
*Theodor Rogalski – ''Three Romanian Dances'' for orchestra
*[[Arnold Schoenberg]] –
**Psalm 130 "De profundis", Op. 50b
**Modern Psalm, Op. 50c (unfinished)
**''[[Style and Idea]]'' (collection of essays and other works, translated by [[Dika Newlin]])
*[[Humphrey Searle]] – ''Poem for 22 Strings''
*[[John Serry Sr.]] –
** ''Eight Accordion Quartet Arrangements''
**''La Culebra'', for flute & accordion
**''African Bolero'', for flute & accordion
*[[Karlheinz Stockhausen]] –
**''[[Choral (Stockhausen)|Choral]]'' ("Wer uns trug mit Schmerzen in dies Leben"), for a cappella choir, Nr. 1/9 (1950)
**''[[Chöre für Doris]]'', for a cappella choir, Nr. <sup>1</sup>/<sub>11</sub> (1950)
**''[[Drei Lieder (Stockhausen)|Drei Lieder]]'', for alto voice and chamber orchestra, Nr. 1/10 (1950)
*[[Heitor Villa-Lobos]] –
** [[String Quartet No. 12 (Villa-Lobos)|String Quartet No. 12]]
** [[Symphony No. 8 (Villa-Lobos)|Symphony No. 8]]