Editing 1966 in music (section)

==[[Classical music]]==

===Premieres===
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! Composer !! Composition !! Date !! Location !! Performers
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| [[Karlheinz Stockhausen|Stockhausen, Karlheinz]] || ''[[Solo (Stockhausen)|Solo]]'', Nr. 19 (2 versions, for trombone and for flute) || 24 April || [[NHK]] Studios, Tokyo ||Yasusuke Hirata; Ryū Noguchi<ref>[[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], "''[[Solo (Stockhausen)|Solo]]'' für Melodie-Instrument mit Rückkopplung (1966)", in his ''Texte zur Musik'' 3, edited by [[Dieter Schnebel]], 85–91 (DuMont Dokumente. Cologne: Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1971), 85, + captions to plates 18 and 19, between pages 80 and 81. {{ISBN|3-7701-0493-5}}.</ref>
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| [[Karlheinz Stockhausen|Stockhausen, Karlheinz]] || ''[[Telemusik]]'', Nr. 20 || 24 April || [[NHK]] Studios, Tokyo ||[[Karlheinz Stockhausen|Stockhausen]]<ref>Michael Kurtz, ''Stockhausen: A Biography'', translated by [[Richard Toop]] (London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1992), 144. {{ISBN|0-571-14323-7}} (cloth) {{ISBN|0-571-17146-X}} (pbk).</ref>
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| [[Heitor Villa-Lobos|Villa-Lobos, Heitor]] || [[Symphony No. 9 (Villa-Lobos)|Symphony No. 9]] || 16 May || [[Caracas]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.newmusicbox.org/assets/5/premieres.pdf|title=World and U.A. Premieres by the Philadelphia Orchestra|website=[[NewMusicBox]]|access-date=May 31, 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> || [[Philadelphia Orchestra]] – [[Eugene Ormandy|Ormandy]]<ref>''Villa-Lobos, sua obra'', second edition ([Rio de Janeiro]: MEC/DAC/Museu Villa-Lobos, 1972): 171.</ref>
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| [[Jean Barraqué|Barraqué, Jean]] || ''[[Chant après chant]]'' || 23 June || [[Palais des Fêtes]], Strasbourg ||[[Berthe Kal]] / [[André Krust]] / [[Les Percussions de Strasbourg]] – [[Charles Bruck|Bruck]]<ref>Rose-Marie Janzen, "A Biographical Chronology of Jean Barraqué", translated by [[Adrian Jack]], ''[[Perspectives of New Music]]'' 27, no. 1 (Winter 1989): 234–245. Citation on 241. {{JSTOR|833269}} {{doi|10.2307/833269}}</ref>
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===Compositions===
* [[Gilbert Amy]]
** ''Cycle'', for percussion sextet
** ''Trajectoires'', for violin and orchestra
* [[Malcolm Arnold]] – Fantasy for solo flute
* [[Jean Barraqué]] – ''[[Chant après chant]]'' for soprano, piano, and six percussionists
* [[George Crumb]] – ''Eleven Echoes of Autumn (Echoes I)'' for violin, alto flute, clarinet, and piano
* [[Mario Davidovsky]]
** ''Junctures'' for flute, clarinet, and violin
** ''Synchronisms No. 4'' for chorus and tape
* [[Erhard Karkoschka]] – ''Quattrologe'', for string quartet
* [[John Serry Sr.]] – ''[[Concerto for Free Bass Accordion]]''
* [[Roger Sessions]] – [[Symphony No. 6 (Sessions)|Symphony No. 6]]
* [[Dmitri Shostakovich]] – String Quartet No.11 in F minor, Op. 122
* [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]] –
** ''[[Adieu (Stockhausen)|Adieu]]'' (''für Wolfgang Sebastian Meyer''), for wind quintet, Nr. 21
** ''[[Solo (Stockhausen)|Solo]]'', for a melody instrument with feedback, Nr. 19
** ''[[Telemusik]]'', electronic and concrete music, Nr. 20
* [[Robert Ward (composer)|Robert Ward]] – ''Fiesta Processional''