Editing 1940 in music (section)

===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