Editing 1982 in music (section)

== [[Classical music]] ==
*[[Hans Abrahamsen]] – ''Nacht und Trompeten''
*[[George Crumb]]
**''Pastoral Drone'' for organ
**Trio for Strings
*[[Mario Davidovsky]] – String Trio for violin, viola, violoncello
*[[Ross Edwards (composer)|Ross Edwards]] – Piano Concerto in A
*[[Morton Feldman]]
**''Three Voices''
**''For John Cage'', for violin and piano
*[[Lorenzo Ferrero]]
**''Thema 44 (ad honorem J. Haydn)''
**''My Blues''
**''Respiri''
**''Soleils''
*[[Daron Hagen]] – ''Echo's Songs''
*[[Rudolf Komorous]] – Serenade for Strings
*[[György Ligeti]] – [[Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano (Ligeti)|Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano]]
*[[Mel Powell]] – String Quartet
*[[Poul Ruders]]
**''Manhattan Abstraction'' for orchestra
**''Greeting Concertino''
**Piano Sonata No. 2
*[[Robert Simpson (composer)|Robert Simpson]] – String Quartet no. 9, ''32 Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Haydn''
*[[Tōru Takemitsu]]
**''Rain Coming'' for chamber orchestra
**''Rain Spell'' for flute, clarinet, harp, piano and vibraphone
*[[Jay Ungar]] – ''[[Ashokan Farewell]]''<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael Allen|title=Teaching Music Through Performance in Orchestra: pt. 1. The teaching of music. A pedagogical model for beginning string class instruction : revisited|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I24JAQAAMAAJ|year=2001|publisher=GIA Publications|isbn=978-1-57999-277-4|page=222}}</ref>