Editing 1975 in music (section)

==Classical music==
*[[Samuel Adler (composer)|Samuel Adler]] – Symphony No. 5, ''We are the Echoes''
*[[Osvaldas Balakauskas]] – ''Sonata of the Mountains''
*[[Claude Bolling]] and [[Jean-Pierre Rampal]] – Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano
*[[Mario Davidovsky]] – ''Scenes from Shir ha-Shirim'' for soprano, two tenors, bass soli and chamber ensemble
*[[Klaus Huber]] – ''Blätterlos'' for piano
*[[Wojciech Kilar]] – ''Bogurodzica'' for mixed choir and orchestra
*[[Theo Loevendie]] – Concerto for Bass Clarinet and Orchestra, ''Incantations''
*[[Witold Lutosławski]] – ''[[Les Espaces du sommeil]]''
*[[Krzysztof Meyer]]
**Sonata for piano, No. 5
**Sonata for solo violin
*[[Frederic Rzewski]] – ''[[The People United Will Never Be Defeated!]]''
*[[Karlheinz Stockhausen]] 
**''[[Harlekin]]'', for clarinet, Nr. 42
**''[[Der kleine Harlekin]]'', for clarinet, Nr. 42½
**''[[Musik im Bauch]]'', for six percussionists and music boxes, Nr. 41 
**''[[Tierkreis (Stockhausen)|Tierkreis]]'',  for a melody and/or chording instrument, Nr. 41½ 
*[[Alexander Vustin]] – ''The Word''
*[[Dmitri Shostakovich]] – [[Viola Sonata (Shostakovich)|Sonata for Viola and Piano]], Op. 147 (his final work)