Editing 1998 in music (section)

==Classical music==
*[[Leonardo Balada]] – Folk Dreams (Three Pieces for Orchestra)
*[[Osvaldas Balakauskas]] – Symphony No. 4
*[[Louis Andriessen]] – ''Writing to Vermeer''
*[[John Barry (composer)|John Barry]] – ''The Beyondness of Things''
*[[George Crumb]] – ''Mundus Canis (A Dog's World)'' for guitar and percussion
*[[Mario Davidovsky]] – String Quartet No. 5
*[[Ludovico Einaudi]] – ''Arie''
*[[Lorenzo Ferrero]] – ''A Red Wedding Dress'', for organ
*[[Beat Furrer]]
**''Still'' for ensemble
**''Spur'' for piano and string quartet 
*[[Philip Glass]] – ''Days and Nights in Rocinha'', for orchestra
*[[Georg Friedrich Haas]]
**Concerto for violin and orchestra
**String Quartet No. 2
*[[Jake Heggie]] – ''Sophie's Song''
*[[Wojciech Kilar]] – ''What a piece of work is a man'', movie theme from “A Week in the Life of a Man”
*[[Frederik Magle]] – ''Cantata to Saint Cecilia''
*[[Gordon McPherson]] – ''Miami''
*[[Hans Otte]] – ''Stundenbuch'' for piano
*[[Zbigniew Preisner]] – ''[[Requiem for My Friend (Preisner)|Requiem for My Friend]]''
*[[Einojuhani Rautavaara]] – Piano Concerto No. 3 ''Gift of Dreams''
*[[Vache Sharafyan]] – ''The Sun, the Wine and the Wind of Time,'' for [[duduk]], violin, cello and piano
*[[Juan Maria Solare]] – ''[[Spaghettisssimo]]''
*[[Morton Subotnick]] – ''Echoes from the Silent Call of Girona''