Editing 1940 in music (section)

==Classical music==

===Premieres===
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! Composer !! Composition !! Date !! Location !! Performers
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| [[Benjamin Britten|Britten, Benjamin]] || ''[[Les Illuminations (Britten)|Les Illuminations]]'' || 1940-01-30 || London || [[Sophie Wyss|Wyss]] / [[Boyd Neel String Orchestra|Neel String Orchestra]] – [[Boyd Neel|Neel]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=22695|title=''Les Illuminations'', Benjamin Britten}}</ref>
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| [[Benjamin Britten|Britten, Benjamin]] || [[Violin Concerto (Britten)|Violin Concerto]] || 1940-03-29 || New York City || [[Antonio Brosa|Brosa]] / [[New York Philharmonic]] – [[John Barbirolli|Barbirolli]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=22694|title=Violin Concerto, Benjamin Britten}}</ref>
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| [[John Alden Carpenter|Carpenter, John Alden]] || [[Symphony No. 1 (Carpenter)|Symphony No. 1]] (2nd version) || 1940-10-24 || Chicago || [[Chicago Symphony Orchestra|Chicago Symphony]] – [[Frederick Stock|Stock]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.559065&catNum=559065&filetype=About+this+Recording&language=English|title=Carpenter: Adventures in a Perambulator / Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2|website=www.naxos.com}}</ref>
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|[[Carlos Chávez|Chávez, Carlos]] || ''[[Xochipilli (Chávez)|Xochipilli-Macuilxóchitl]]'' || 1940-05-16 || [[Museum of Modern Art]], New York City || Ensemble – [[Carlos Chávez|Chávez]]
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| [[Paul Creston|Creston, Paul]] || [[Symphony No. 1 (Creston)|Symphony No. 1]] || 1940-02-22 || New York City || [[NYA Symphony Orchestra|NYA Symphony]] – [[Fritz Mahler|Mahler]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F5gdiyIQ6hgC&q=Paul+Creston+Symphony+1+New+York+1941&pg=PA42|title=Paul Creston: A Bio-bibliography|date=February 9, 1994|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313253362|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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| [[Alberto Ginastera|Ginastera, Alberto]] || [[Malambo for piano]] || 1940-09-11 || Montevideo, Uruguay || [[Hugo Balzo|Balzo]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=31593|title=Malambo, Alberto Evaristo Ginastera}}</ref>
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| [[Alberto Ginastera|Ginastera, Alberto]] || [[Three Pieces for Piano (Ginastera)|Three Pieces for Piano]] || 1940-10-16 || Montevideo, Uruguay || [[Hugo Balzo|Balzo]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=31592|title=Tres Piezas, Alberto Evaristo Ginastera}}</ref>
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| [[Karl Amadeus Hartmann|Hartmann, Karl Amadeus]] || ''[[Concerto funebre]]'' || 1940-02-29 || St. Gallen, Switzerland || [[Karl-Neracher|Neracher]] / [[St. Gallen Chamber Orchestra]] – [[Ernst Klug|Klug]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA67547|title=Hartmann: Concerto funebre|website=Hyperion Records}}</ref>
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|[[Paul Hindemith|Hindemith, Paul]]
|Violin Concerto (1939)
|1940-03-14
|Amsterdam
|[[Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra|Concertgebouw Orchestra]]
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| [[Aram Khachaturian|Khachaturian, Aram]] || [[Violin Concerto (Khachaturian)|Violin Concerto]] || 1940-11-16 || Moscow || [[David Oistrakh|Oistrakh]] / [[USSR State Symphony Orchestra|USSR State Symphony]] – [[Alexander Gauk|Gauk]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.laphil.com/philpedia/music/violin-concerto-d-minor-aram-khachaturian|title=Los Angeles Philharmonic|access-date=July 19, 2015|archive-date=July 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722213721/http://www.laphil.com/philpedia/music/violin-concerto-d-minor-aram-khachaturian|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| [[Ernst Krenek|Krenek, Ernst]] || [[Little Concerto for Piano, Organ and Chamber Orchestra]] || 1940-05-23 || Poughkeepsie, New York || [[Mary Williams (pianist)|Williams]], [[Harold Geer|Geer]] / [[Vassar Orchestra]] – Krenek <ref>{{IRCAM work|id=33713|title=Little Concerto, Ernst Krenek}}</ref>
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| [[Ernst Krenek|Krenek, Ernst]] || ''[[Symphonisches Stück]]'' || 1940-06-11 || Basel || [[Basel Chamber Orchestra]] – [[Paul Sacher|Sacher]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=33739|title=''Symphonisches Stück'', Ernst Krenek}}</ref>
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| [[Lars-Erik Larsson|Larsson, Lars-Erik]] || ''[[God in Disguise]]'' || 1940-04-01 || Stockholm || [[Kerstin Torlind|Torlind]], [[Hugo Hasslo|Hasslo]], [[Olof Molander|Molander]] / [[Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra|Swedish Radio Symphony]] – Larsson <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.norrlandsoperan.se/eng/events/0528-foerklaedd-gud/7446|title=Norlands Operan|access-date=July 24, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150724212035/http://www.norrlandsoperan.se/eng/events/0528-foerklaedd-gud/7446|archive-date=July 24, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
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| [[Douglas Lilburn|Lilburn, Douglas]] || ''[[Aotearoa (overture)|Aotearoa]]'', overture || 1940-04-15 || London || [[Sadler's Wells Theatre|Sadler's Welles Orchestra]] – [[Warwick Braithwaite|Braithwaite]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sounz.org.nz/works/12102|title=Overture: Aotearoa – SOUNZ|website=sounz.org.nz|accessdate=August 20, 2024}}</ref>
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| [[Darius Milhaud|Milhaud, Darius]] || [[Symphony No. 1 (Milhaud)|Symphony No. 1]] || 1940-10-17 || Chicago || [[Chicago Symphony Orchestra|Chicago Symphony]] – Milhaud <ref>{{cite web|url=https://cso.org/uploadedFiles/8_about/History_-_Rosenthal_archives/world_premieres.pdf|title=Chicago Symphony Orchestra|access-date=July 24, 2015|archive-date=July 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717065206/http://cso.org/uploadedFiles/8_about/History_-_Rosenthal_archives/world_premieres.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| [[Nikolai Myaskovsky|Myaskovsky, Nikolai]] || [[Symphony No. 20 (Myaskovsky)|Symphony No. 20]] || 1940-11-28 || Moscow || [[Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra|USSR Radio Symphony]] – [[Nikolai Golovanov|Golovanov]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.myaskovsky.ru/?id=4&id1=0&id2=58&sf=0&so=0|title=N. Myaskovsky » Works|website=www.myaskovsky.ru}}</ref>
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| [[Walter Piston|Piston, Walter]] || [[Violin Concerto No. 1 (Piston)|Violin Concerto No. 1]] || 1940-03-18 || New York City || [[Ruth Posselt|Posselt]] / [[National Orchestral Association]] – [[Léon Barzin|Barzin]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.559003&catNum=559003&filetype=About+this+Recording&language=English|title=PISTON, W.: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Fantasia for Violin and Orchestra (Buswell, Ukraine National Symphony, T. Kuchar)|website=www.naxos.com}}</ref>
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| [[Florence Price|Price, Florence]] || [[Symphony No. 3 (Price)]] || 1940-11-06 || Little Rock, US || Detroit Civic Orchestra – Valter Poole<ref name="Symphony nos. 1 and 3">{{cite book |last=Price |first=Florence |author-link=Florence Price |date=January 1, 2008 |orig-year=1932 |editor1-last=Brown |editor1-first=Rae Linda |editor2-last=Shirley |editor2-first=Wayne D. |title=Symphonies nos. 1 and 3 |publisher=A-R Editions |pages=xlvi–lii |isbn=978-0895796387}}</ref>
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| [[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev, Sergei]] || [[Piano Sonata No. 6 (Prokofiev)|Piano Sonata No. 6]] || 1940-04-08 || Moscow || Prokofiev<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ljms.org/ai1ec_event/an-evening-with-yefim-bronfman/?instance_id=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150725130641/http://ljms.org/ai1ec_event/an-evening-with-yefim-bronfman/?instance_id=|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 25, 2015|title=An Evening with Yefim Bronfman – La Jolla Music Society|first=Olivia|last=Espinosa}}</ref>
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| [[Joaquín Rodrigo|Rodrigo, Joaquín]] || ''[[Concierto de Aranjuez]]'' || 1940-11-09 || Barcelona || [[Regino Saenz de la Maza|Saenz de la Maza]] / [[Barcelona Philharmonic Orchestra|Barcelona Philharmonic]] – [[César Mendoza Lasalle|Mendoza-Lasalle]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.joaquin-rodrigo.com/index.php/en/concierto-de-aranjuez-2/estrenos|title=Joaquín Rodrigo official website|accessdate=August 20, 2024}}</ref>
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| [[Arnold Schoenberg|Schoenberg, Arnold]] || [[Chamber Symphony No. 2 (Schoenberg)|Chamber Symphony No. 2]] || 1940-12-15 || New York City || [[Orchestra of the Friends of New Music|Friends of New Music Orchestra]] – [[Fritz Stiedry|Stiedry]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=11854|title=Zweite Kammersymphonie op. 38, Arnold Schoenberg}}</ref>
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| [[Arnold Schoenberg|Schoenberg, Arnold]] || [[Violin Concerto (Schoenberg)|Violin Concerto]] (finished 1936) || 1940-12-06 || Philadelphia || [[Louis Krasner|Krasner]] / [[Philadelphia Orchestra]] – [[Leopold Stokowski|Stokowski]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=23759|title=Concerto pour violon et orchestre op. 36, Arnold Schoenberg}}</ref>
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| [[Dmitri Shostakovich|Shostakovich, Dmitri]] || [[Piano Quintet (Shostakovich)|Piano Quintet]] || 1940-11-23 || Moscow || Shostakovich, [[Beethoven Quartet]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=7379|title=Quintette avec piano, Dimitri Chostakovitch}}</ref>
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| [[Dmitri Shostakovich|Shostakovich, Dmitri]] || [[Four Romances on Verses by Pushkin]] || 1940-12-08 || Moscow || [[Alexander Baturin|Baturin]], Shostakovich <ref>{{IRCAM work|id=7362|title=Quatre romances sur des vers de Pouchkine, Dimitri Chostakovitch}}</ref>
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| [[Richard Strauss|Strauss, Richard]] || ''[[Japanese Festival Music]]'' || 1940-12-14 || Tokyo || [[NHK Symphony Orchestra|Tokyo Broadcast Orchestra]] – [[Helmut Fellmer|Fellmer]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zoa3AwAAQBAJ&q=strauss+%22japanische+festmusik%22+december+1940&pg=PA321|title=The Hutchinson Concise Dictionary of Music|first=Barrie|last=Jones|date=June 3, 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135950187|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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| [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky, Igor]] || [[Symphony in C (Stravinsky)|Symphony in C]] || 1940-11-07 || Chicago || [[Chicago Symphony Orchestra|Chicago Symphony]] – Stravinsky <ref>{{cite web|url=http://cso.org/uploadedfiles/1_tickets_and_events/program_notes/programnotes_stravinsky_symphony_in_c.pdf|title=Chicago Symphony Orchestra|access-date=July 24, 2015|archive-date=December 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141212030048/http://cso.org/uploadedfiles/1_tickets_and_events/program_notes/programnotes_stravinsky_symphony_in_c.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| [[Michael Tippett|Tippett, Michael]] || [[Concerto for Double String Orchestra (Tippett)|Concerto for Double String Orchestra]] || 1940-04-21 || London || [[South London Orchestra]] – Tippett <ref>{{IRCAM work|id=12384|title=Concerto pour double orchestre à cordes, Sir Michael Tippett}}</ref>
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| [[Anton Webern|Webern, Anton]] || ''[[Fünf Lieder, Op. 4 (Webern)|Fünf Lieder]]'', Op. 4 (1909) || 1940-02-10 || Basel, Switzerland || [[Marguerite Gradmann-Lüscher|Gradmann-Lüscher]], [[Erich Schmid (conductor)|Schmid]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=12633|title=''Fünf Lieder'', Op. 4, Anton Webern}}</ref>
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===Compositions===
*[[Granville Bantock]] – ''Celtic Symphony''
*[[Samuel Barber]] – [[Violin Concerto (Barber)|Violin Concerto]]
*[[Lennox Berkeley]] – Symphony No. 1
*[[Benjamin Britten]] – ''Sinfonia da Requiem''
*[[Carlos Chávez]] –
**[[Piano Concerto (Chávez)|Concerto for piano and orchestra]]
**''[[Xochipilli (Chávez)|Xochipilli-Macuilxóchitl]]''
*[[Aaron Copland]] – ''Episode'', ''Music for '''Our Town'''''
*[[Paul Creston]] – Symphony No. 1
*[[David Diamond (composer)|David Diamond]] – ''Concerto for Small Orchestra'', String Quartet No. 1
*[[Hanns Eisler]] – Chamber Symphony
*[[George Enescu]] – [[Piano Quintet (Enescu)|Piano Quintet]] in A minor, Op. 29
*[[Evaristo Fernández Blanco]] – ''[[Dramatic Overture (Fernández Blanco)|Dramatic Overture]]''
*[[John Fernström]] – Symphony No. 6, Op. 51
*[[Vivian Fine]] – Suite in E Flat
*[[Jakov Gotovac]] – ''Guslar'', Op. 22
*[[Roy Harris]] – ''Folksong Symphony''
*[[Paul Hindemith]] – Cello Concerto, Symphony in E-flat
*[[Aram Khachaturian]] – Violin Concerto
*[[Gideon Klein]] – String Quartet, Op. 2
*[[László Lajtha]] – Cello Concerto
*[[Igor Markevitch]] – ''Lorenzo il Magnifico''
*[[Frank Martin (composer)|Frank Martin]] – ''Ballade'' for Trombone and Piano
*[[Olivier Messiaen]] – ''[[Quatuor pour la fin du temps]]'' (Quartet for the End of Time)
*[[Darius Milhaud]] – String Quartet No. 10
*[[Gösta Nystroem]] – Viola Concerto
*[[Willem Pijper]] – Six Adagios, for orchestra
*[[Walter Piston]] – Suite from ''The Incredible Flutist''
*[[Sergei Rachmaninoff]] – ''Symphonic Dances''
*[[Roger Sessions]] – ''From My Diary'', for piano
*[[Igor Stravinsky]] – Symphony in C
*[[Eduard Tubin]] – ''Prelude Solennel''
*[[William Walton]] – ''[[The Wise Virgins]]'' (ballet)
*[[Heitor Villa-Lobos]] – [[Prelude No. 5 (Villa-Lobos)|Five Preludes]] for guitar