Editing 1961 in music (section)

==Classical music==

===Premieres===
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|[[Richard Rodney Bennett|Bennett, Richard Rodney]] ||''Winter Music'', for flute and piano || 1961-01-08 || London [[Arts Council of Great Britain|Drawing Room of the Arts Council]] (Park Lane Group) || [[William Bennett (flautist)|W. Bennett]], [[Susan Bradshaw|Bradshaw]]<ref name=Times54974>Anon., "Serial Technique of Young Composers", ''[[The Times]]'', no. 54974 (9 January 1961): 3.</ref>
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| [[Benjamin Britten|Britten, Benjamin]] || [[Cello Sonata (Britten)|Cello Sonata]] || 1961-07-07 || Aldeburgh, UK ([[Aldeburgh Festival|Festival]]) || [[Mstislav Rostropovich|Rostropovich]], Britten <ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WUPPVlD7UnwC&q=britten+cello+sonata+aldeburgh+7+july+1961&pg=PA95|title=Benjamin Britten, His Life and Operas|first=Eric Walter|last=White|date=January 1, 1983|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520048942|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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| [[Carlos Chávez|Chávez, Carlos]] ||''[[Soli II]]'' || 1961-04-23 || Washington, D.C., [[Thomas Jefferson Building#Coolidge Auditorium|Coolidge Auditorium]] of the [[Library of Congress]] ([[Inter-American Festival of Contemporary Music|IA Festival]]) || Philadelphia Wind Quintet<ref>Carlos Chávez, untitled liner notes to ''Chávez Conducted by Carlos Chávez: Soli I, Soli II, Soli IV'', LP recording. Odyssey Y31534 (New York: Columbia Records, 1972).</ref>
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| [[Mario Davidovsky|Davidovsky, Mario]] || Choreographic Suite for ''El payaso'' || 1961-04-29 || Washington, D.C., <small>[[Howard University]]</small> ([[Inter-American Festival of Contemporary Music|IA Festival]]) || [[National Symphony Orchestra (Mexico)|Mexico National Symphony]] – [[Luis Herrera de la Fuente|Herrera de la Fuente]]<ref>[http://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780199919994/pdf/Hess_Figures_Chapter_6.pdf Oxford University Press]</ref>
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|[[Thea Musgrave|Musgrave, Thea]] || Trio for flute, oboe, and piano || 1961-01-08 || London [[Arts Council of Great Britain|Drawing Room of the Arts Council]] (Park Lane Group) || Mabillon Trio<ref name=Times54974 />
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| [[Krzysztof Penderecki|Penderecki, Krzysztof]] || ''[[Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima]]'' || 1961-09-22 ||Warsaw, Poland ([[Warsaw Autumn|Autumn]]) || [[Kraków Philharmonic]] – [[Andrzej Markowski|Markowski]]{{efn|The Threnody was first performed in May 1961 by the [[Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra|Polish Radio Symphony]] conducted by [[Jan Krenz]] for a radio recording.}}<ref>[http://sarahwallinhuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2005/09/penderecki.pdf Sarahwallinhuff.com]</ref>
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| [[Walter Piston|Piston, Walter]] || [[Symphony No. 7 (Piston)|Symphony No. 7]] || 1961-02-10 || Philadelphia || [[Philadelphia Orchestra]] – [[Eugene Ormandy|Ormandy]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.newmusicbox.org/assets/5/premieres.pdf |title=New Music Box |access-date=June 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150531023456/http://www.newmusicbox.org/assets/5/premieres.pdf |archive-date=May 31, 2015 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
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| [[Francis Poulenc|Poulenc, Francis]] || [[Gloria (Poulenc)|Gloria]] || 1961-01-20 || Boston || [[Adele Addison|Addison]] / [[Chorus pro Musica]], [[Boston Symphony Orchestra|Boston Symphony]] – [[Charles Munch (conductor)|Munch]]<ref>[http://www.proclassica.ch/archives/programme-2007/les-oeuvres/32-gloria-francis-poulenc-1899-1963 Choeur Proclassica] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801065636/http://www.proclassica.ch/archives/programme-2007/les-oeuvres/32-gloria-francis-poulenc-1899-1963 |date=August 1, 2013 }}</ref>
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| [[Dmitri Shostakovich|Shostakovich, Dmitri]] || [[Symphony No. 4 (Shostakovich)|Symphony No. 4]] || 1961-12-30 || Moscow || [[Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra|Moscow Philharmonic]] – [[Kirill Kondrashin|Kondrashin]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/shostakovichlife00fayl|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/shostakovichlife00fayl/page/225 225]|quote=symphony 4 shostakovich kondrashin 30 december 1961.|title=Shostakovich: A Life|first=Laurel E.|last=Fay|date=January 1, 2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-513438-4 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
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| [[Karlheinz Stockhausen|Stockhausen, Karlheinz]] || ''[[Originale]]'', music theatre with ''[[Kontakte (Stockhausen)|Kontakte]]'' || 1961-10-26 || Cologne, Germany ([[Theater am Dom]]) || [[Arthur Caspari|Caspari]], [[David Tudor|Tudor]], [[Christoph Caskel|Caskel]], [[Kenji Kobayashi|Kobayashi]], [[Nam June Paik|Paik]], [[Hans G. Helms|Helms]], [[Mary Bauermeister|Bauermeister]], [[Edith Sommer|Sommer]], [[Wolfgang Ramsbott|Ramsbott]], [[Walter Koch (lighting technician)|Koch]], [[Leopold von Knobelsdorff|Knobelsdorff]], et al.<ref>Michael Kurtz, ''Stockhausen: A Biography'', translated by [[Richard Toop]] (London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1992): 116, 252. {{ISBN|0-571-14323-7}} (cloth); {{ISBN|978-0-571-17146-0}} (pbk).</ref>
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===Compositions===
*[[Samuel Adler (composer)|Samuel Adler]] – Symphony No. 3
*[[Malcolm Arnold]] – [[Symphony No. 5 (Arnold)|Symphony No. 5]]
*[[Milton Babbitt]] – ''Vision and Prayer''
*[[Henk Badings]]
**Symphony No. 10
**''Te Deum'' for men choir and orchestra
**''Toccata I & II,'' electronic music
*[[Niels Viggo Bentzon]] – Concerto No. 2 for violin and orchestra
*[[Harrison Birtwistle]] – ''The World Is Discovered: Six Instrumental Movements after Heinrich Isaac'', for chamber ensemble
*[[Havergal Brian]] – Symphony No. 19
*[[Benjamin Britten]] – Cello Sonata
*[[Earle Brown]] – ''Available Forms I''
*[[Elliott Carter]] –
**Double Concerto (1959–61)
**''[[Holiday Overture]]'' (revision)
*[[Carlos Chávez]] – ''[[Soli II]]'', for wind quintet
*[[Mario Davidovsky]] –
**''Electronic Study No. 1''
**''Piano 1961'' for orchestra
*[[Edison Denisov]] – String Quartet No. 2
*[[Petr Eben]] – Piano Concerto
*[[Morton Feldman]]
**''Durations 3'', for violin, tuba, and piano
**''Durations 4'', for vibraphone, violin, and cello
**''Durations 5'', for horn, vibraphone, harp, piano or celesta, violin, and cello
**''Two Pieces for Clarinet and String Quartet''
**''The Straits of Magellan'', flute, horn, trumpet, harp, electric guitar, piano, and double bass
*[[Alun Hoddinott]] – Concerto for Piano, Winds and Percussion
*[[Vagn Holmboe]] – String Quartet No. 6, Op. 78
*[[Jānis Ivanovs]] – String Quartet No. 3
*[[Wojciech Kilar]] – balet ''The Masque of the Red Death''
*[[Yuri Levitin]] – Concertino for Cello and Orchestra, opus 54<ref>Onno van Rijen's Levitin Page.</ref>
*[[György Ligeti]] – ''[[Atmosphères]]'' for Orchestra
*[[Witold Lutosławski]] – ''Jéux vénitiéns'' for Orchestra
*[[William Mathias]] – Second Piano Concerto<ref>{{cite web|title=Classical Composers Database: William James Mathias|url=http://www.classical-composers.org/comp/mathias|access-date=May 15, 2009}}</ref>
*[[Einojuhani Rautavaara]] – [[Symphony No. 3 (Rautavaara)|Symphony No. 3]]
*[[Alan Rawsthorne]] – Concerto for Ten Instruments<ref>{{cite web|title=Classical Composers Database:Alan Rawsthorne|date=October 17, 2005 |url=http://www.classical-composers.org/comp/rawsthorne|access-date=May 15, 2009}}</ref>
*[[Dmitri Shostakovich]] – [[Symphony No. 12 (Shostakovich)|Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112 "The Year 1917"]]
*[[Karlheinz Stockhausen]] – ''[[Originale]]'', musical theatre,<!--NB: not "musical theatre" in the same sense as broadway musicals.--> Nr. {{frac|12|2|3}}
*[[Toru Takemitsu]]
**''Music of Trees'', for orchestra
**''Ring'', for flute, [[terz guitar]] and lute
**''Bad Boy'', for 3 guitars
**''Piano Distance'', for piano
*[[Edgard Varèse]] – ''Nocturnal''
*[[Mieczysław Weinberg]] – Concerto for flute and orchestra in D minor, op. 75
*[[Isang Yun]] – Third String Quartet (1959–61)<ref>Notes to Recording of Third String Quartet on cpo.</ref>