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==Classical music== ===Premieres=== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Composer !! Composition !! Date !! Location !! Performers |- | [[Malcolm Arnold|Arnold, Malcolm]] || [[Horn Concerto No. 2 (Arnold)|Horn Concerto No. 2]]|| 1957-07-17 || [[Cheltenham Music Festival]], UK || [[Dennis Brain|Brain]] / [[Hallé Orchestra]] – Arnold<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iQxUHXq9-GcC&q=malcolm+arnold+horn+concerto+2+dennis+brain+hall%C3%A9&pg=PT114 |title=Dennis Brain: A Biography |author=Stephen Pettitt |date=2012-11-15 |publisher=Faber & Faber |access-date=2016-01-20|isbn=9780571287475 }}</ref> |- | [[Edgar Bainton|Bainton, Edgar]] || [[Symphony No. 3 (Bainton)|Symphony No. 3]]|| 1957-03-25{{efn|1=Posthumous premiere}} || Sydney, Australia || [[Sydney Symphony Orchestra|Sydney Symphony]] – [[Bernard Heinze|Heinze]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mnp6BAAAQBAJ&q=edgar+bainton+symphony+3+sydney+1957&pg=PA112 |title=The Australian Symphony from Federation to 1960 |author=Dr Rhoderick McNeill |page=112 |date= January 17, 2014|publisher=Ashgate Publishing |access-date=2016-01-20|isbn=9781409441243 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Symphony no. 3 in C minor (Musical LP, 1958) |date=1957-03-25 |oclc = 221541885}}</ref> |- | [[Jean Barraqué|Barraqué, Jean]] || [[Piano Sonata (Barraqué)|Piano Sonata]] || 1957-10-28 || Paris{{efn|1= Recording. The Sonata was performed publicly for the first time in concert in April 1967 by [[Elisabeth Klein]] in Copenhagen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://music21c.buffalo.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/06/SleeProgram_2006-10-17.pdf |title=Slee Sinfonietta |website=Music21c.buffalo.edu |access-date=2016-01-20}}</ref>}} || [[Yvonne Loriod|Loriod]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=6630|title=Sonate pour piano, Jean Barraqué}}</ref> |- | [[Luciano Berio|Berio, Luciano]] || ''[[Mutazioni]]'' || 1957-04-24 || Milan, Italy || Electronic music on tape<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lucianoberio.org/node/130 |title=Mutazioni | Centro Studi Luciano Berio – Luciano Berio's Official Website |language=it |website=Lucianoberio.org |access-date=2016-01-20}}</ref> |- | [[George Crumb|Crumb, George]] || [[Sonata for Solo Cello (Crumb)|Sonata for Solo Cello]] || 1957-03-15 || Ann Arbor, Michigan || [[Camilla Doppmann|Doppmann]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/gueorguiev_martin_g_200905_dma.pdf |title=Traditional Formal Structures and 20th Century Sonorities: A Successful Pairing in the Solo Cello Sonatas of Ligeti, Crumb, and Stevens by Martin Gueorguiev |website=Getd.libs.uga.edu |access-date=2016-01-20}}</ref> |- | [[Peter Maxwell Davies|Davies, Peter Maxwell]] || [[Clarinet Sonata (Maxwell Davies)|Clarinet Sonata]]|| 1957-07-20 || [[Darmstädter Ferienkurse]], Germany || [[Georgina Dobrée|Dobrée]], [[Peter Maxwell Davies|Davies]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.maxopus.com/work_detail.aspx?key=60 |title=Work Detail – Sir Peter Maxwell Davies |website=Maxopus.com |date=1957-07-20 |access-date=2016-01-20}}</ref> |- | [[Karl Amadeus Hartmann|Hartmann, Karl Amadeus]] || [[Symphony No. 1 (Hartmann)|''Versuch eines Requiem'']] (Symphony No. 1){{efn|1=Revision of a cantata composed in 1938 and premiered in 1948. Until then ''[[Miserae]]'' had been Hartmann's Symphony No. 1.}} || 1957-06-22 || Vienna, Austria || [[Hilde Rössl-Majdan|Rössl-Majdan]] / [[Vienna Symphony]] – [[Nino Sanzogno|Sanzogno]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.schott-music.com/shop/hire_material/show,152336.html?showOldPerformances=true |title=Shop – Karl Amadeus Hartmann – 1. Symphonie |publisher=Schott Music |access-date=2016-01-20}}</ref> |- | [[Hans Werner Henze|Henze, Hans Werner]] || ''[[Maratona]]'', ballet suite || 1957-02-08 || Cologne, Germany || [[Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra|SWF Symphony]] – [[Hans Rosbaud|Rosbaud]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=24118|title=''Maratona'', Hans Werner Henze}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.naxos.com/person/Harald_Banter/19128.htm |title=Harald Banter- Bio, Albums, Pictures – Naxos Classical Music |website=Naxos.com |access-date=2016-01-20}}</ref> |- | [[Charles Ives|Ives, Charles]] || [[String Quartet No. 1 (Ives)|''From the Salvation Army'' (String Quartet No. 1)]] (1900) || 1957-04-24 || New York City || [[Kohon Quartet]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=9427|title=String Quartet No. 1: From the Salvation Army, Charles Ives}}</ref> |- | [[Lars-Erik Larsson|Larsson, Lars-Erik]] || [[Concertini (Lars-Erik Larsson)|Concertini: No. 4, for Bassoon]]|| 1957-12-10 || Gothenburg, Sweden || [[Tore Rönnerbäck|Rönnerbäck]] / [[Gothenburg Radio Orchestra]] – [[Gunnar Staern|Staern]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gehrmans.se/en/shop/instruments-ensemble/concertino-for-fagott-och-strakorkester |title=Concertino för fagott och stråkorkester – Gehrmans Musikförlag |website=Gehrmans.se |date=1957-12-10 |access-date=2016-01-20}}</ref> |- | [[Bohuslav Martinů|Martinů, Bohuslav]] || [[Piano Sonata (Martinů)|Piano Sonata]] || 1957–?-? || Düsseldorf, Germany || [[Rudolf Serkin|Serkin]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k8O4se7G0p0C&q=martinu+piano+sonata+serkin+1957+dusseldorf&pg=PA118 |title=Martinů's Mysterious Accident: Essays in Honor of Michael Henderson |author=Michael Brim Beckerman |author2=Michael Henderson |page=118 |access-date=2016-01-20|isbn=9781576470039 |year=2007 |publisher=Pendragon Press }}</ref> |- | [[Yoritsune Matsudaira|Matsudaira, Yoritsune]] || ''[[Figures sonores]]'' || 1957-06-01 || Zürich, Switzerland ([[ISCM World Music Days|ISCM Festival]]) || [unknown orchestra] – [[Erich Schmid (conductor)|Schmid]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mvmusica.eu/schedaprodotto.asp?cod=*OMTSU2570&clmerc=*OORC%20%20V%20&codmadre=0&tit=Figures+Sonores++++Orchesra+Full+Score++Music+Musica+Musik |title=Figures Sonores Orchesra Full Score Music Musica Musik – Mv – Musica e Vita – Vendita spartiti online |website=Mvmusica.eu |date=1957-01-06 |access-date=2016-01-20}}</ref> |- | [[Luigi Nono|Nono, Luigi]] || ''[[Varianti]]'' || 1957-10-20 || Donaueschingen, Germany ([[Donaueschingen Festival|Musiktage]]) || [[Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra|SWF Symphony]] – [[Hans Rosbaud|Rosbaud]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.luiginono.it/it/luigi-nono/opere/varianti |title=Varianti | Fondazione Archivio Luigi Nono Onlus |website=Luiginono.it |date=2002-05-07 |access-date=2016-01-20}}</ref> |- | [[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev, Sergei]] || [[Symphony No. 4 (Prokofiev)|Symphony No. 4]] (2nd version) (1948) || 1957-01-05{{efn|1=Concert premiere. The Symphony had been previously recorded by the [[BBC Symphony Orchestra|BBC Symphony]] conducted by [[Adrian Boult]] in March 1950 for a radio broadcast.}} || Moscow || [[State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation|USSR State Symphony]] – [[Gennady Rozhdestvensky]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hdtracks.com/prokofiev-symphony-no-4-in-c-major-op-112 |title=Prokofiev: Symphony No. 4 in C Major, Op. 112 | HDtracks – The World's Greatest-Sounding Music Downloads |publisher=HDtracks |date=2014-12-22 |access-date=2016-01-20}}</ref> |- | [[Edmund Rubbra|Rubbra, Edmund]] || [[Symphony No. 7 (Rubbra)|Symphony No. 7]]|| 1957-10-01 || Birmingham, UK || [[City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra|City of Birmingham Symphony]] – [[Andrzej Panufnik|Panufnik]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.feeneytrust.org.uk/recent/feeney-commissions.html |title=John Feeney Charitable Trust – Feeney Commissions |website=Feeneytrust.org.uk |access-date=2016-01-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820005811/http://www.feeneytrust.org.uk/recent/feeney-commissions.html |archive-date=August 20, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://atuneadayblogdotcom.wordpress.com/british-symphonies-1950-1999/ |title=1950–1999 The British Symphony | atuneadayblogdotcom |website=Atuneadayblogdotcom.wordpress.com |date=April 19, 2013 |access-date=2016-01-20}}</ref> |- | [[Dmitri Shostakovich|Shostakovich, Dmitri]] || [[Piano Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)|Piano Concerto No. 2]] || 1957-05-10 || Moscow || [[Maxim Shostakovich|M. Shostakovich]] / [[State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation|USSR State Symphony]] – [[Nikolai Anosov|Anosov]]<ref name="online1">{{cite web |url=http://home.online.nl/ovar/shosopus/shosthaw.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530205040/http://home.online.nl/ovar/shosopus/shosthaw.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 30, 2015 |title=Opus by Shostakovich |website=Home.online.nl |access-date=2016-01-20 }}</ref> |- | [[Dmitri Shostakovich|Shostakovich, Dmitri]] || [[Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich)|Symphony No. 11 ("The Year 1905")]] || 1957-10-30 || Moscow || [[State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation|USSR State Symphony]] – [[Nathan Rakhlin|Rakhlin]]<ref name="online1"/> |- | [[Robert Simpson (composer)|Simpson, Robert]] || [[Symphony No. 2 (Simpson)|Symphony No. 2]] || 1957-07-16 || [[Cheltenham Music Festival]], UK || [[Hallé Orchestra]] – [[John Barbirolli|Barbirolli]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W2mRAwAAQBAJ&q=robert+simpson+symphony+2+1957+barbirolli&pg=PA75 |title=The Power of Robert Simpson |author=Donald Macauley |page=75 |date=2013-06-07 |publisher=Xlibris Corporation |access-date=2016-01-20|isbn=9781479794379 }}</ref> |- | [[Karlheinz Stockhausen|Stockhausen, Karlheinz]] || ''[[Klavierstücke (Stockhausen)#Klavierstück XI: polyvalent structure|Klavierstück XI]]'' || 1957-04-22{{efn|1=In two versions. Unofficial premiere, given at the time without permission, but now acknowledged by the publisher.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.universaledition.com/Klavierstueck-11-Karlheinz-Stockhausen/composers-and-works/composer/698/work/3084 |title=Karlheinz Stockhausen – Klavierstück 11 |publisher=Universal Edition |date=1957-04-22 |access-date=2016-01-20}}</ref> Originally, the official premiere was given as 28 July 1957, the last day of the [[Darmstädter Ferienkurse]], in the [[Orangerie (Darmstadt)|Darmstadt orangerie]], in two versions played by [[Paul Jacobs (pianist)|Paul Jacobs]]. This is now regarded as the European premiere.}} || New York ([[Carl Fischer Hall]])<ref>Michael Kurtz, ''Stockhausen: A Biography'', translated by [[Richard Toop]] (London: Faber and Faber, 1992): 87–88. {{ISBN|0-571-14323-7}} (cloth); {{ISBN|978-0-571-17146-0}} (pbk).</ref> || [[David Tudor|Tudor]]<ref>Imke Misch and Markus Bandur (eds.), ''Karlheinz Stockhausen bei den Internationalen Ferienkursen für Neue Musik in Darmstadt 1951–1996: Dokumente und Briefe'' (Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag, 2001): 147, 166, 169–172. {{ISBN|3-00-007290-X}}.</ref> |- |[[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky, Igor]] |''[[Agon (ballet)|Agon]]'' |1957-12-01 |Los Angeles |[[Robert Craft]] |- | [[Tōru Takemitsu|Takemitsu, Tōru]] || ''[[Requiem for Strings]]'' || 1957-06-20 || Tokyo || [[Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra|Tokyo Philharmonic]] – [[Masashi Ueda (musician)|Ueda]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=28832|title=Requiem for strings, Tōru Takemitsu}}</ref> |- | [[Eduard Tubin|Tubin, Eduard]] || [[Double Bass Concerto (Tubin)|Double Bass Concerto]]|| 1957-03-08 || Bogotá, Colombia || [[Manuel Verdaguer|Verdaguer]] / [[National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia|Colombia National Symphony]] – [[Olav Roots|Roots]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vitoliuzzi.com/history-7/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706001718/http://www.vitoliuzzi.com/history-7/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=July 6, 2015 |title=History (7) – Vito D.Liuzzi – The Classical Double Bass "Il Contrabbasso classico" |website=Vitoliuzzi.com |access-date=2016-01-20}}</ref> |- | [[Heitor Villa-Lobos|Villa-Lobos, Heitor]] || [[Piano Concerto No. 3 (Villa-Lobos)|Piano Concerto No. 3]] || 1957-08-24 || [[Theatro Municipal (Rio de Janeiro)|Theatro Municipal]], Rio de Janeiro || {{ill|Arnaldo Estrella|pt||ru| Эстрела, Арналду}} / Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira – [[Eleazar de Carvalho|Carvalho]]<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): 57–58.</ref> |- | [[Iannis Xenakis|Xenakis, Iannis]] || ''[[Pithoprakta]]'' || 1957-03-08 || {{ill|Musica Viva (Munich)|de|Musica Viva (München)}} || [[Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra|Bavarian Radio Symphony]] – [[Hermann Scherchen|Scherchen]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iannis-xenakis.org/xen/bio/chrono_55-61.html |title=Biography |publisher=Iannis Xenakis |access-date=2016-01-20}}</ref> |} {{notelist|45em}} ===Compositions=== [[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F004566-0002, Darmstadt, Internationaler Kurs für neue Musik.jpg|thumb|{{center|[[Karlheinz Stockhausen]] lecturing on his ''[[Klavierstücke (Stockhausen)#Klavierstück XI: polyvalent structure|Klavierstück XI]]'' at [[Darmstädter Ferienkurse]] in July 1957}}]] * [[Hugo Alfvén]] – ''Den förlorade sonen (The Prodigal Son)'', R214 * [[Malcolm Arnold]] – [[Symphony No. 3 (Arnold)|Symphony No. 3]] * [[Luciano Berio]] – ''Serenata I'' * [[Ernest Bloch]] **Suite No. 3 for Solo Cello **Piano Quintet No. 2 * [[Pierre Boulez]] – ''[[Le Marteau sans maître]]'' (1953–55/1957) * [[John Cage]] – ''Winter Music'' * [[Aaron Copland]] – ''Orchestral Variations'' * [[Pierre Gabaye]] – ''Boutade'' * [[Henryk Górecki]] – **Sonata for two violins, Op. 10 **Concerto for Five Instruments and String Quartet, Op. 11 * [[Jørgen Jersild]] – ''3 Madrigali'' * [[Wojciech Kilar]] – ''Lullabies'', solo cantatas for soprano and seven instruments * [[Giselher Klebe]] – Concerto for cello and orchestra * [[Jan Klusák]] – Concerto grosso * [[László Lajtha]] – Symphony No. 7, ''Revolution'' (A tribute to the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956|Hungarian Revolution]] in 1956 against the Soviet suppression) * [[Bohuslav Martinů]] – ''Romance z pampelišek'', H. 364 * [[Toshiro Mayuzumi]] – Phonologie Symphonique * [[Ennio Morricone]] – Concerto, for orchestra * [[Per Nørgård]] – Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 20 * [[Walter Piston]] – Viola Concerto * [[Allan Pettersson]] – Concerto for String Orchestra No. 3 * [[Francis Poulenc]] – [[Flute Sonata (Poulenc)|Flute Sonata]], FP 164 * [[Hilding Rosenberg]] – String Quartets nos. 8 – 12 * [[Edmund Rubbra]] – Seventh Symphony * [[John Serry Sr.]] – ''Reeds in a Rush'' * [[Roger Sessions]] – [[Symphony No. 3 (Sessions)|Symphony No. 3]] * [[Alfred Schnittke]] – Symphony No. 0 * [[Dmitri Shostakovich]] **[[Piano Concerto No. 2 (Shostakovich)|Piano Concerto No. 2]] in F major **[[Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich)|Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 "The Year 1905"]] * [[Elie Siegmeister]] – Symphony No. 3 * [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]] – ''[[Gruppen]]'' for three orchestras (1955–57) * [[Tōru Takemitsu]] – ''Requiem for Strings'' * [[Vladimir Ussachevsky]] – ''Metamorphosis'' * [[Galina Ustvolskaya]] – [[Piano Sonatas (Ustvolskaya)|Piano Sonata No. 4]] * [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] **''Blake Songs (10)'' **[[Symphony No. 9 (Vaughan Williams)|Symphony No. 9]] * [[Heitor Villa-Lobos]] **[[Piano Concerto No. 3 (Villa-Lobos)|Piano Concerto No. 3]] **[[String Quartet No. 17 (Villa-Lobos)|String Quartet No. 17]] **[[Symphony No. 12 (Villa-Lobos)|Symphony No. 12]] * [[William Walton]] – Partita for Orchestra * [[Mieczysław Weinberg]] – Symphony No. 4 * [[Malcolm Williamson]] ** ''A Vision of Beasts and Gods'', [[song cycle]] for high voice and piano ** ''[[Santiago de Espada]]'', [[overture]] for orchestra ** [[Symphony No. 1 (Williamson)|Symphony No. 1]] – ''Elevamini'', for orchestra * [[Iannis Xenakis]] – ''Achorripsis'' * [[Bernd Alois Zimmermann]] ** ''Canto di speranza'' ** ''Die fromme Helene'' ** ''Omnia tempus habent''
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