Editing 1956 in music (section)

===Premieres===
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! Composer !! Composition !! Date !! Location !! Performers
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| [[Malcolm Arnold|Arnold, Malcolm]] || ''[[A Grand, Grand Overture]]'', Op. 57 || 1956-11-13 || London, [[Hoffnung Music Festival]] || [[Morley College Symphony Orchestra|Morley College Symphony]] – [[Malcolm Arnold|Arnold]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/work/7041|title=Malcolm Arnold – A Grand, Grand Overture (1956) – Music Sales Classical}}</ref>
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| [[Tadeusz Baird|Baird, Tadeusz]] || ''[[Cassazione (Baird)|Cassazione]]'' || 1956-10-21 || [[Warsaw Autumn]] || [[Warsaw Philharmonic]] – [[Witold Rowicki|Rowicki]]<ref>[http://warszawska-jesien.art.pl/files/2014/06/Ksiazka_WJ2014_PL_indeks.pdf Warsaw Autumn]</ref>
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| [[Samuel Barber|Barber, Samuel]] || ''[[Summer Music]]'' || 1956-03-20 || Detroit, [[Chamber Music Society of Detroit]] || Members of the [[Detroit Symphony Orchestra|Detroit Symphony]]<ref>[https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3052/m2/1/high_res_d/dissertation.pdf University of North Texas]</ref>
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| [[Jean Barraqué|Barraqué, Jean]] || ''[[Séquence (Barraqué)|Séquence]]'' || 1956-03-10 || Paris || [[Ethel Semser|Semser]] / [[Domaine musical]] – [[Rudofl Albert|Albert]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=6629|title=''Séquence'', Jean Barraqué}}</ref>
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| [[Luciano Berio|Berio, Luciano]] || ''[[Variazione sull'aria di Papageno]]''{{efn|1=''Variazione sull'aria di Papageno'' was part of ''Divertimento für Mozart'', an omnibus composition by 12 different composers.}}|| 1956-10-21 || [[Donaueschingen Festival]], Germany || [[Hans Lemser|Lemser]], [[Karl Meiser|Meiser]] / [[Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra|SWF Radio Symphony]] – [[Hans Rosbaud|Rosbaud]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lucianoberio.org/node/179|title=Variazione sull'aria di Papageno – Centro Studi Luciano Berio – Luciano Berio's Official Website}}</ref>
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| [[Arthur Bliss|Bliss, Arthur]] || ''[[Edinburgh Overture]]'' || 1956-08-20 || [[Edinburgh International Festival]] || [[Royal Philharmonic Orchestra|Royal Philharmonic]] – [[Arthur Bliss|Bliss]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yourclassical.org/programs/composers-datebook/episodes/2007/08/20|title=YourClassical from American Public Media}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/archives-with-attitude-1.386031|title=Archives with attitude|date=6 August 1997}}</ref>
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| [[John Cage|Cage, John]] || ''[[Radio Music]]'' || 1956-05-30 || New York City || [[Maro Ajemain|Ajemain]], [[John Cage|Cage]], [[Grete Sultan|Sultan]], [[David Tudor|Tudor]], [[Juilliard String Quartet|Juilliard Quartet]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://soundexplorations.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/soundscape-composition-john-cages-radio.html|title=Soundscape Composition: John Cage's ''Radio Music''|website=soundexplorations.blogspot.com.es|date=4 June 2012}}</ref>
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| [[Henry Cowell|Cowell, Henry]] || ''[[Lines from the Dead Sea Scrolls]]'' || 1956-07-07 || Lenox, Massachusetts || [[Yale Glee Club]], [[Boston Symphony Orchestra|Boston Symphony]] – [[Hugh Boss|Boss]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.henrycowell.org/hc/sf002/catalogNp268.cfm?CFID=151960247&CFTOKEN=70519153|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422044644/http://www.henrycowell.org/hc/sf002/catalogNp268.cfm|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 22, 2017|title=Henry Cowell Web Site}}</ref>
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| [[Henry Cowell|Cowell, Henry]] || [[String Quartet No. 5 (Cowell)|String Quartet No. 5]] || 1956-10-05 || Cleveland || [[Juilliard Quartet]]<ref name="Henry Cowell memorial website">{{cite web|url=http://www.henrycowell.org/hc/sf002/catalogNp270.cfm?CFID=151960247&CFTOKEN=70519153|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190530065153/http://www.henrycowell.org/hc/sf002/catalogNp270.cfm?CFID=6815173&CFTOKEN=350b98e851b2c73c-4B27C972-A464-9D89-F092D5F9A9AD218C|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 30, 2019|title=Henry Cowell Web Site}}</ref>
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| [[Henry Cowell|Cowell, Henry]] || [[Variations for Orchestra (Cowell)|Variations for Orchestra]] || 1956-11-23 || Cincinnati || [[Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra|Cincinnati Symphony]] – [[Thor Johnson|Johnson]]<ref name="Henry Cowell memorial website"/>
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| [[Luigi Dallapiccola|Dallapiccola, Luigi]] || ''[[Cinque canti per baritono e alcuni strumenti]]'' || 1956-11-30 || Washington DC || [[Frederick Fuller (baritone)|Fuller]] / [unknown ensemble and conductor]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=24940|title=''Cinque canti'', Luigi Dallapiccola}}</ref>
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| [[Jesús Guridi|Guridi, Jesús]] || ''[[Homenaje a Walt Disney]]'' || 1956-10-03 || Alicante, Spain || [[Pilar Bayona|Bayona]] / [[Barcelona Symphony Orchestra|Barcelona Municipal Orchestra]] – [[Eduard Toldrà|Toldrà]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://digital.march.es/clamor/es/fedora/repository/atm:844|title=Composer: Jesús Guridi – CLAMOR • Fundación Juan March}}</ref>
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| [[Hans Werner Henze|Henze, Hans Werner]] || ''[[Concerto per il Marigny]]'' || 1956-03-10 || Paris || [[Yvonne Loriod|Loriod]] / [[Domaine Musical]] – [[Rudolf Albert|Albert, Rudolf]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l_98cTlSAGIC&q=henze+domaine+musical+concerto+per+il+marigny+premiere&pg=PA75|title=Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux Exotiques|first=Peter|last=Hill|date=1 January 2007|publisher=Ashgate Publishing|isbn=9780754656302|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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| [[Hans Werner Henze|Henze, Hans Werner]] || [[Symphonic Studies (Henze)|Symphonic Studies]] || 1956-02-14 || Hamburg || [[NDR Symphony Orchestra|NDR Symphony]] – [[Jean Martinon|Martinon]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=24117|title=Drei sinfonische Etüden, Hans Werner Henze}}</ref>
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| [[Alan Hovhaness|Hovhaness, Alan]] || [[Symphony No. 3 (Hovhaness)|Symphony No. 3]] || 1956-10-14 || New York City || [[Symphony of the Air]] – [[Leopold Stokowski|Stokowski]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.classical-music-review-blog.com/?page_id=2866|title=GHCD 2379/80 « Classical Music Review Blog}}</ref>
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| [[Charles Ives|Ives, Charles]] || ''[[Robert Browning Overture]]'' || 1956-10-14 || New York City || [[Symphony of the Air]] – [[Leopold Stokowski|Stokowski]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicweb-international.com/Ives/WK_Robert_Browning_Ovt.htm|title=Charles Ives Robert Browning Overture Notes}}</ref>
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| [[Gordon Jacob|Jacob, Gordon]] || [[Oboe Concerto No. 2]] || 1956-04-25 || Leningrad || [[Leon Goossens|Goossens]] / [unknown orchestra] – [[Clarence Raybould|Raybould]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gordonjacob.org/w_oboe_conc_2.html|title=Jacob – Oboe Concerto No.2|first=Ruth|last=Jacob|access-date=2015-06-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030555/http://www.gordonjacob.org/w_oboe_conc_2.html|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://jennifervyvyan.org/pages/view/id/41|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003001819/http://www.jennifervyvyan.org/pages/view/id/41|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 3, 2012|title=Jennyfer Vyvyan – Cold War Diplomacy}}</ref>
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| [[Aram Khachaturian|Khachaturian, Aram]] || ''[[Spartacus (ballet)|Spartacus]]'' || 1956-12-27 ||Leningrad<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/playbill/playbill/2014/4/19/2_2000/|title=Spartacus}}</ref> ||
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| [[Kurt Leimer|Leimer, Kurt]] || [[Piano Concerto No. 4 (Leimer)|Piano Concerto No. 4]] || 1956-10-14 || New York City || [[Symphony of the Air]] – [[Leopold Stokowski|Stokowski]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stokowski.org/Leopold_Stokowski_Concerts.htm|title=Leopold Stokowski Concerts}}</ref>
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| [[Frank Martin (composer)|Martin, Frank]] || [[Etudes for Strings]] || 1956-11-23 || Basel || [[Basel Chamber Orchestra]] – [[Paul Sacher|Sacher]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://content.thespco.org/music/compositions/etudes-for-string-orchestra-frank-martin/|title=Listen to Etudes for String Orchestra by Frank Martin}}</ref>
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| [[Bohuslav Martinů|Martinů, Bohuslav]] || [[Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra (Martinu)|Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra]] || 1956-08-08 || Melbourne, [[Cultural Olympiad]]<ref>[http://cso.org/uploadedfiles/1_tickets_and_events/program_notes/programnotes_muti_conducts_scriabin.pdf Chicago Symphony Orchestra]</ref> || [[Jiri Tancibudek|Tancibudek]] / [[Sydney Symphony Orchestra|Sydney Symphony]] – [[Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt|Schmidt-Isserstedt]]<ref>[http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/programmheft-17-06.media.81f032ba70f26d1ffb16685cd4ce5098.pdf Deutschlandradio Kultur]</ref>
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| [[Bohuslav Martinů|Martinů, Bohuslav]] || [[Piano Concerto No. 4 (Martinu)|Piano Concerto No. 4, ''Incantation'']] || 1956-10-04 || New York City || [[Rudolf Firkusny|Firkusny]] / [[Symphony of the Air]] – [[Leopold Stokowski|Stokowski]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.572373&catNum=572373&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English|title=Martinu, B.: Piano Concertos, Vol. 2 – Nos. 1, 2, 4 (Koukl, Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, Fagen)}}</ref>
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| [[Bohuslav Martinů|Martinů, Bohuslav]] || ''[[The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca]]'' || 1956-08-26 || [[Salzburg Festival]] || [[Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra|Vienna Philharmonic]] – [[Rafael Kubelik|Kubelik]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.universaledition.com/Bohuslav-Martinu/composers-and-works/composer/459/work/2559|title=Universal Edition: Bohuslav Martinu – The Frescoes of Piero della Francesca|first=Universal Edition|last=AG}}</ref>
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| [[Olivier Messiaen|Messiaen, Olivier]] || ''[[Oiseaux exotiques]]'' || 1956-03-10 || Paris || [[Yvonne Loriod|Loriod]] / [[Domaine Musical]] – [[Rudolf Albert|Albert]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.universaledition.com/Olivier-Messiaen/composers-and-works/composer/474/work/3952|title=Universal Edition: Olivier Messiaen – Oiseaux exotiques|first=Universal Edition|last=AG}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ag3ymWqvfgC&q=oiseaux+exotiques+premiere+domaine+musical&pg=PT340|title=The Messiaen Companion|first=Russell|last=Hoban|date=17 November 2011|publisher=Faber and Faber|isbn=9780571281046|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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| [[Luigi Nono|Nono, Luigi]] || ''[[Il canto sospeso]]'' || 1956-10-24 || Cologne, [[WDR Musik der Zeit]] || [[WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne|Cologne Radio Symphony]] – [[Hermann Scherchen|Scherchen]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.luiginono.it/it/luigi-nono/opere/il-canto-sospeso|title=Il canto sospeso – Fondazione Archivio Luigi Nono Onlus|first=davidia|last=psegno}}</ref>
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| [[Allan Pettersson|Pettersson, Allan]] || [[Symphony No. 3 (Pettersson)|Symphony No. 3]] || 1956-11-19 || Gothenburg, Sweden || [[Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra|Gothenburg Symphony]] – [[Tor Mann|Mann]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allanpettersson.org/Allan%20Pettersson/AllanPetterssonhemsidan/Allan%20Petterssons%20hemsida/huvud/verkfrteckning/verkf.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908075423/http://www.allanpettersson.org/Allan%20Pettersson/AllanPetterssonhemsidan/Allan%20Petterssons%20hemsida/huvud/verkfrteckning/verkf.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=September 8, 2008|title=Styrelsen}}</ref>
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| [[Walter Piston|Piston, Walter]] || [[Symphony No. 5 (Piston)|Symphony No. 5]] || 1956-02-24 || New York City || [[Juilliard Orchestra]] – [[Jean Paul Morel|Morel]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/bostonsymphonytr5657bost/bostonsymphonytr5657bost_djvu.txt|title=Full text of "Boston Symphony Orchestra concert programs, Season 76, 1956–1957, Trip"}}</ref>
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| [[Priaulx Rainier|Rainier, Priaulx]] || [[Requiem (Rainier)|Requiem]] || 1956-04-15 || London || [[Peter Pears|Pears]] / [[Purcell Singers]] – [[Imogen Holst|Holst]]<ref>{{cite journal|jstor=937895|title=London Concerts|date=1 January 1956|journal=[[The Musical Times]]|volume=97|issue=1360|pages=316–318|doi=10.2307/937895}}</ref>
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| [[Joaquín Rodrigo|Rodrigo, Joaquín]] || ''[[Concierto serenata]]'' for harp and orchestra || 1956-09-11 || Madrid || [[Nicanor Zabaleta|Zabaleta]] / [[Orquesta Nacional de España|Spanish National Orchestra]] – [[Paul Kletzki|Kletzki]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php/es/instrumentos-solistas-con-orquesta/arpa-y-orquesta/item/632-concierto-serenata|title=Joaquín Rodrigo – Concierto serenata (1952)}}</ref>
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| [[Edmund Rubbra|Rubbra, Edmund]] || [[Piano Concerto (Rubbra)|Piano Concerto]] || 1956-03-21 || London || [[Denis Matthews|Matthews]] / [[BBC Symphony Orchestra|BBC Symphony]] – [[Malcolm Sargent|Sargent]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GjM3BAAAQBAJ&q=rubbra+piano+concerto+1955&pg=PA108|title=Edmund Rubbra: Symphonist|first=Leo|last=Black|date=1 July 2014|publisher=Boydell & Brewer Ltd|isbn=9781843839330|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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| [[Arnold Schoenberg|Schoenberg, Arnold]] || ''[[O Du mein Gott, alle Völker preisen Dich]]'' (Modern Psalm, Op. 50c) || 1956-05-30 || Cologne, [[Westdeutscher Rundfunk]], Musik der Zeit || [[WDR Choir]] – [conductor not known]<ref name="Kurtz8384">Michael Kurtz, ''Stockhausen: A Biography'', translated by [[Richard Toop]] (London: Faber and Faber, 1992): 83–84. {{ISBN| 978-0571171460}}</ref>
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| [[Roger Sessions|Sessions, Roger]] || ''[[Idyll of Theocritus]]'' || 1956-01-14 || Louisville, Kentucky || [[Audrey Nossaman|Nossaman]] / [[Louisville Orchestra]] – [[Robert Whitney (conductor)|Whitney]]<ref>[http://www.amrhome.net/contents/sescmp.txt American Music Resource]</ref>
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| [[Roger Sessions|Sessions, Roger]] || [[Piano Concerto (Sessions)|Piano Concerto]] || 1956-02-10 || New York City || [[Beveridge Webster|Webster]] / [[Juilliard Orchestra]] – [[Jean Paul Morel|Morel]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://americansymphony.org/concerto-for-piano-and-orchestra/|title=American Symphony Orchestra — Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1956)|access-date=2015-06-02|archive-date=2015-06-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150602231350/http://americansymphony.org/concerto-for-piano-and-orchestra/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| [[Vissarion Shebalin|Shebalin, Vissarion]] || [[Viola Sonata (Shebalin)|Viola Sonata]] || 1956-10-26 || Moscow || [[Dmitri Shebalin|D. Shebalin]], [[Luba Edlina|Edlina]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chantdumonde.com/Publisheditions/catalog/2/Chebalinebrochure36p2.pdf |title=Le Chant du Monde |access-date=2015-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117035406/http://www.chantdumonde.com/Publisheditions/catalog/2/Chebalinebrochure36p2.pdf |archive-date=2015-11-17 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| [[Dmitri Shostakovich|Shostakovich, Dmitri]] || [[String Quartet No. 6 (Shostakovich)|String Quartet No. 6]] || 1956-10-07 || Leningrad || [[Beethoven Quartet]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shostakovichquartets.com/quartets/page/quartet-no-6|title=Quartets – Shostakovich Quartets|access-date=2015-06-02|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150101131449/http://www.shostakovichquartets.com/quartets/page/quartet-no-6|archive-date=2015-01-01|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| [[Karlheinz Stockhausen|Stockhausen, Karlheinz]] || ''[[Gesang der Jünglinge]]'' || 1956-05-30 || Cologne, [[Westdeutscher Rundfunk]], Musik der Zeit || electronic music<ref name="Kurtz8384" />
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| [[Karlheinz Stockhausen|Stockhausen, Karlheinz]] || ''[[Zeitmaße]]'' for 5 woodwinds (revised version) || 1956-12-15 || Paris || [[Domaine musical]] – [[Pierre Boulez|Boulez]]<ref>Karlheinz Stockhausen, "Nr. 5: ''Zeitmaße'' (1955/56) für Oboe, Flöte, Englisch-Horn, Klarinette, Fagott", in his ''Texte zur Musik'' 2, edited by [[Dieter Schnebel]], 46–48. DuMont Dokumente (Cologne: Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1964 ): 46.</ref>
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| [[Michael Tippett|Tippett, Michael]] || [[Piano Concerto (Tippett)|Piano Concerto]] || 1956-10-30 || Birmingham, UK || [[Louis Kentner|Kentner]] / [[City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra|City of Birmingham Symphony]] – [[Rudolf Schwarz (conductor)|Schwarz]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.553591&catNum=553591&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English|title=Tippet: Piano Concerto / Ritual Dances from The Midsummer Marriage}}</ref>
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| [[Ralph Vaughan Williams|Vaughan Williams, Ralph]] || [[Symphony No. 8 (Vaughan Williams)|Symphony No. 8]] || 1956-05-02 || Manchester, UK || [[Hallé Orchestra]] – [[John Barbirolli|Barbirolli]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.halle.co.uk/news/|title=News|access-date=2016-12-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611153224/http://www.halle.co.uk/news/|archive-date=2016-06-11|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| [[Heitor Villa-Lobos|Villa-Lobos, Heitor]] || [[Guitar Concerto (Villa-Lobos)|Guitar Concerto]] || 1956-02-06 || Houston || [[Andrés Segovia|Segovia]] / [[Houston Symphony Orchestra|Houston Symphony]] – [[Heitor Villa-Lobos|Villa-Lobos]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.573115&catNum=573115&filetype=About%20this%20Recording&language=English|title=Villa-Lobos, H.: Guitar Manuscripts (The) – Masterpieces and Lost Works, Vol. 1 (Bissoli)}}</ref>
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| [[William Walton|Walton, William]] || ''[[Johannesburg Festival Overture]]'' || 1956-09-25 || Johannesburg || [[SABC Symphony Orchestra|SABC Symphony]] – [[Malcolm Sargent|Sargent]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.waltontrust.org/williamwalton/?p=625&lang=it |title=William Walton Trust |access-date=2015-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304033007/http://www.waltontrust.org/williamwalton/?p=625&lang=it |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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