Editing 1973 in music (section)

==Classical music==
* [[Jean Absil]] – Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3
* [[William Alwyn]] – ''Fantasy Sonata'' for flute and harp
* [[Malcolm Arnold]] – [[Symphony No. 7 (Arnold)|Symphony No. 7]]
* [[Günter Bialas]] – ''Trois Moments Musicaux'', for piano
* [[Luciano Berio]]
** Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra
** ''Still'', for orchestra
** ''Linea'' for Two Pianos, Marimba and Vibraphone
* [[John Cage]]
**''Etcetera'', for small orchestra, tape and, optionally, three conductors
**''Exercise'', for an orchestra of soloists (based on ''Etcetera'')
* [[Carlos Chávez]]
**''Estudio a Rubinstein'', for piano
**''Paisajes mexicanos'', for orchestra
**Partita, for timpani
**''Sonante'', for orchestra
* [[Gloria Coates]] – ''Music on Open Strings'' (Symphony No. 1)
* [[George Crumb]] – ''[[Makrokosmos#Volume II|Makrokosmos, Volume II]]'' for amplified piano
* [[Morton Feldman]]
** ''String Quartet and Orchestra''
** ''For Frank O'Hara'', for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, and cello
** ''Voices and Cello'', for 2 female voices and cello
* [[Alberto Ginastera]] – String Quartet No. 3
* [[Lou Harrison]] – ''Organ Concerto with Percussion''
* [[Anthony Iannaccone]] – ''Rituals''
* [[Ben Johnston (composer)|Ben Johnston]]
**"I'm Goin' Away", for SATB choir
**String Quartet No. 3, "Vergings"
**String Quartet No. 4, "Ascent" ("Amazing Grace")
* [[Paul Lansky]] – ''Mild und leise'' (computer music)
* [[Bruno Maderna]] – Oboe Concerto No. 3<ref>Daniel Stolper, [https://www.idrs.org/publications/DR/DR17.2/DR17.2.Stolper.Stacy.html Tom Stacy, Ned Rorem and a New Concerto]{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, The Double Reed, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1992</ref>
* [[Frank Martin (composer)|Frank Martin]] – Requiem
* [[Donald Martino]] – Notturno, for piccolo/flute/alto flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, viola, 'cello, piano, and percussion (awarded the 1974 [[Pulitzer Prize]] in Music)
* [[Akira Miyoshi]] – Nocturne
* [[Luigi Nono (composer)|Luigi Nono]] – ''Canto per il Vietnam''
* [[Carl Orff]] – ''[[De temporum fine comoedia]]''
* [[Arvo Pärt]] – ''Ukuaru valss''
* [[Walter Piston]] – ''Three Counterpoints'', for violin, viola, and cello
* [[Henri Pousseur]] – ''Vue sur les Jardins interdits'', for saxophone quartet
* [[Dmitri Shostakovich]] – ''Six Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva'', Op. 143
* [[Eduard Tubin]] – Symphony No. 10

[[File:CallasAmsterdam1973a.jpg|right|thumb|[[Maria Callas]] farewell tour, 1973]]