Editing 1944 in music (section)

==Classical music==

===Premieres===
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! Composer !! Composition !! Date !! Location !! Performers
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| [[George Antheil|Antheil, George]] || [[Symphony No. 4 (Antheil)|''1942'' (Symphony No. 4)]] || 1944-02-13 || New York City || [[NBC Symphony Orchestra|NBC Symphony]] – [[Leopold Stokowski|Stokowski]]<ref>[http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2000/dec00/cala_LF.htm Musicweb International]</ref>
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| [[Samuel Barber|Barber, Samuel]] || ''[[Capricorn Concerto]]'' || 1944-10-08 || New York City || [[Saidenberg Little Symphony]] – [[Daniel Saidenberg|Saidenberg]]<ref>[https://www.redlandssymphony.com/pieces/capricorn-concerto-op-21 Redlands Symphony]</ref>
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| [[Samuel Barber|Barber, Samuel]] || [[Symphony No. 2 (Barber)|Symphony No. 2]] || 1944-03-03 || [[Symphony Hall, Boston]] || [[Boston Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Serge Koussevitzky|Koussevitzky]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Heyman|first=Barbara B.|title=Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Music|pages=220–221|date=1994|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-509058-1|location=New York|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195090581.001.0001}}</ref>
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| [[Béla Bartók|Bartók, Béla]] || [[Concerto for Orchestra (Bartók)|Concerto for Orchestra]] || 1944-12-01 || Boston || [[Boston Symphony Orchestra|Boston Symphony]] – [[Sergei Koussevitzky|Koussevitzky]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YfWK2OMiDB4C&dq=koussevitzky+bartok+concerto+for+orchestra+1944&pg=PA24 Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra]</ref>
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| [[Béla Bartók|Bartók, Béla]] || [[Sonata for Solo Violin (Bartók)|Sonata for Solo Violin]] || 1944-11-26 || New York City || [[Yehudi Menuhin|Menuhin]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=sI4sRzCR-s8C&dq=bartok+sonata+violin+solo+menuhin+1944+november&pg=PA10 Bartók's Viola Concerto: The Remarkable Story of his Swansong]</ref>
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| [[Leonard Bernstein|Bernstein, Leonard]] || [[Symphony No. 1 (Bernstein)|''Jeremiah'' (Symphony No. 1)]] || 1944-01-28 || Pittsburgh || [[Jennie Tourel|Tourel]] / [[Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra|Pittsburgh Symphony]] – Bernstein<ref>{{IRCAM work|35868|Leonard Bernstein: Symphony No. 1}}</ref>
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| [[Elliott Carter|Carter, Elliott]] || [[Symphony No. 1 (Carter)|Symphony No. 1]] || 1944-04-27 || Rochester, New York || [[Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra|Eastman-Rochester Symphony]] – [[Howard Hanson|Hanson]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|7225|Elliott Carter: Symphony No. 1}}</ref>
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| [[Aaron Copland|Copland, Aaron]] || ''[[Letter from Home (Copland)|Letter from Home]]'' || 1944-10-17 || New York City || [[Philco Radio Hour Orchestra]] – [[Paul Whiteman|Whiteman]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|33947|Aaron Copland: ''Letter from Home''}}</ref><ref>[https://www.loc.gov/collections/aaron-copland/articles-and-essays/works-listing-by-title/l/ Library of Congress]</ref>
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| [[Aaron Copland|Copland, Aaron]] || [[Violin Sonata (Copland)|Violin Sonata]] || 1944-01-17 || New York City || [[Ruth Posselt|Posselt]], Copland<ref>{{IRCAM work|33978|Aaron Copland: Violin Sonata}}</ref>
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| [[Luigi Dallapiccola|Dallapiccola, Luigi]] || ''[[Liriche Greche (Dallapiccola)|Liriche Greche III – Sex Carmina Alcaei]]'' || 1944-11-10 || Rome || [[Suzanne Danco|Danco]] / [[RAI Symphony Orchestra in Rome|RAI Symphony in Rome]] – [[Fernando Previtali|Previtali]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|7577|Luigi Dallapiccola: ''Liriche Greche III – Sex Carmina Alcaei''}}</ref>
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| [[Alberto Ginastera|Ginastera, Alberto]] || ''[[Cinco canciones populares argentinas|Canciones populares argentinas]]'' || 1944-07-17 || Buenos Aires || [[Brígida Frías de López|Frías de López]], [[Arturo Luzzatti|Luzzatti]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|31599|Alberto Ginastera: ''Canciones populares argentinas''}}</ref>
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| [[Alberto Ginastera|Ginastera, Alberto]] || ''[[Obertura para el Fausto criollo]]'' || 1944-05-12 || Santiago de Chile || [[Chile Symphony Orchestra|Chile Symphony]] – [[Juan José Castro|Castro]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|31598|Alberto Ginastera: ''Obertura para el Fausto criollo''}}</ref>
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| [[Alberto Ginastera|Ginastera, Alberto]] || ''[[Preludios americanos (Ginastera)|Preludios americanos]]'' || 1944-08-07 || Buenos Aires || [[Raúl Spivak|Spivak]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|31601|Alberto Ginastera: ''Preludios americanos''}}</ref>
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| [[Paul Hindemith|Hindemith, Paul]] || ''[[Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber]]'' || 1944-01-20 || New York City || [[New York Philharmonic]] – [[Artur Rodzinski|Rodzinski]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Symphonic Metamorphosis |url=https://en.schott-music.com/shop/symphonic-metamorphosis-no152691.html |access-date=2022-05-09 |website=englisch |language=en}}</ref>
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| [[André Jolivet|Jolivet, André]] || ''[[Cinq danses rituelles|Danses rituelles]]'' || 1944-12-05 || Paris || [[Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire|Paris Conservatory Concert Society Orchestra]] – [[André Cluytens|Cluytens]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|35233|André Jolivet: ''Cinq danses rituelles''}}</ref>
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| [[André Jolivet|Jolivet, André]] || ''[[Poèmes intimes]]'' || 1944-04-04 || Paris || [[Pierre Bernac|Bernac]] / [[Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire|Paris Conservatory Concert Society Orchestra]] – [[André Cluytens|Cluytens]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|35239|André Jolivet: ''Poèmes intimes''}}</ref>
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| [[Joseph Jongen|Jongen, Joseph]] || [[Piano Concerto (Jongen)|Piano Concerto]] || 1944-01-06 || Brussels || [[Eduardo del Pueyo|Del Pueyo]] / [[Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra|Brussels Philharmonic]] – [[Franz André|André]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=KIFlQ5b6DK0C&dq=%22mireille+flour%22+jongen+harp+concerto+1944&pg=PA78 Joseph Jongen and his Organ Music]</ref>
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| [[Aram Khachaturian|Khachaturian, Aram]] || [[Masquerade (Khachaturian)|Suite from ''Masquerade'']] || 1944-08-06 || Moscow || [[Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra|USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra]] – [[Sergei Gorchakov|Gorchakov]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Guide to the Soviet All-Union Radio Committee Collection ARS.0085 |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1035dp/entire_text/ |access-date=2022-05-09 |website=oac.cdlib.org}}</ref>
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| [[Douglas Moore|Moore, Douglas]] || ''[[In memoriam (Moore)|In memoriam]]'' || 1944-04-27 || Rochester, New York || [[Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra|Eastman-Rochester Symphony]] – [[Howard Hanson|Hanson]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=wHuC8Lpx5dMC&dq=douglas+moore+in+memoriam+1944+howard+hanson&pg=PA224 Douglas Moore: A Bio-Bibliography]</ref>
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| [[Walter Piston|Piston, Walter]] || [[Symphony No. 2 (Piston)|Symphony No. 2]] || 1944-03-05 || Washington DC || [[National Symphony Orchestra|USA National Symphony]] – [[Hans Kindler|Kindler]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://americansymphony.org/walter-piston-1894-1976/ |title=American Symphony Orchestra |access-date=2015-07-10 |archive-date=2016-08-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814140908/http://americansymphony.org/walter-piston-1894-1976/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| [[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev, Sergei]] || [[Piano Sonata No. 8 (Prokofiev)|Piano Sonata No. 8]] || 1944-12-30 || Moscow || [[Emil Gilels|Gilels]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.laphil.com/philpedia/music/piano-sonata-no-8-b-flat-op-84-sergei-prokofiev |title=Los Angeles Philharmonic |access-date=2015-07-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150714020608/http://www.laphil.com/philpedia/music/piano-sonata-no-8-b-flat-op-84-sergei-prokofiev |archive-date=2015-07-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| [[Priaulx Rainier|Rainier, Priaulx]] || [[String Quartet (Rainier)|String Quartet]] || 1944-07-03 || London || [[Zorian Quartet]]<ref>[http://www.sacomposers.co.za/sacomposers/Rainier,_Priaulx.html SA Composers]</ref>
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| [[Arnold Schoenberg|Schoenberg, Arnold]] || ''[[Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte]]'' || 1944-11-23 || New York City || [[Mack Harrel|Harrel]], [[Eduard Steuermann|Steuermann]] / [[New York Philharmonic]] – [[Artur Rodzinski|Rodzinski]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|11857|Arnold Schoenberg: ''Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte''}}</ref>
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| [[Arnold Schoenberg|Schoenberg, Arnold]] || [[Piano Concerto (Schoenberg)|Piano Concerto]] || 1944-02-06 || New York City || [[Eduard Steuermann|Steuermann]] / [[NBC Symphony Orchestra|NBC Symphony]] – [[Leopold Stokowski|Stokowski]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|23784|Arnold Schoenberg: Piano Concerto}}</ref>
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| [[Arnold Schoenberg|Schoenberg, Arnold]] || [[Theme and Variations for Orchestra (Schoenberg)|Theme and Variations for Orchestra]] || 1944-10-20 || Boston || [[Boston Symphony Orchestra|Boston Symphony]] – [[Sergei Koussevitzky|Koussevitzky]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|23789|Arnold Schoenberg: Theme and Variations for Orchestra}}</ref>
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| [[Arnold Schoenberg|Schoenberg, Arnold]] || ''[[Variations on a Recitative (Schoenberg)|Variations on a Recitative]]'' (1941) || 1944-04-10 || New York City || [[Carl Weinrich|Weinrich]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|11895|Arnold Schoenberg: ''Variations on a Recitative''}}</ref>
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| [[Dmitri Shostakovich|Shostakovich, Dmitri]] || [[Piano Trio No. 2 (Shostakovich)|Piano Trio No. 2]] || 1944-11-14 || Leningrad || [[Dmitri Tsiganov|Tsiganov]], [[Sergei Chirinsky|Chirinsky]], Shostakovich<ref>{{IRCAM work|7445|Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2}}</ref>
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| [[Dmitri Shostakovich|Shostakovich, Dmitri]] || [[String Quartet No. 2 (Shostakovich)|String Quartet No. 2]] || 1944-11-14 || Leningrad || [[Beethoven Quartet]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|7371|Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 2}}</ref>
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| [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky, Igor]] || ''[[Four Norwegian Moods|Norwegian Moods]]'' || 1944-01-13 || Cambridge, Massachusetts || [[Boston Symphony Orchestra|Boston Symphony]] – Stravinsky<ref>{{IRCAM work|24778|Igor Stravinsky: ''Norwegian Moods''}}</ref>
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| [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky, Igor]] || ''[[Scherzo à la russe (Stravinsky)|Scherzo à la russe]]'' (band version) || 1944-09-05 || New York City || [[Paul Whiteman|Whiteman Band]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|24785|Igor Stravinsky: ''Scherzo à la russe''}}</ref>
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| [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky, Igor]] || [[Sonata for Two Pianos (Stravinsky)|Sonata for Two Pianos]] || 1944-08-02 || Madison, Wisconsin || [[Nadia Boulanger|Boulanger]], [[Richard Johnston (composer)|Johnston]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|24830|Igor Stravinsky: Sonata for Two Pianos}}</ref>
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| [[Michael Tippett|Tippett, Michael]] || ''[[A Child of Our Time]]'', oratorio || 1944-03-19 || London || [[Joan Cross|Cross]], [[Margaret MacArthur|MacArthur]], [[Peter Pears|Pears]], [[Roderick Lloyd|Lloyd]] / [[Morley College Choir]] / [[London Philharmonic Orchestra|London Philharmonic]] – [[Walter Goehr|Goehr]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|12378|Michael Tippett: ''A Child of Our Time''}}</ref>
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===Compositions===
*[[George Antheil]] – Symphony No. 4
*[[Samuel Barber]] –
**''[[Capricorn Concerto]]'', Op. 21, for flute, oboe, trumpet, and string orchestra
**''[[Excursions (Barber)|Excursions]]'', Op. 20, for piano
**[[Symphony No. 2 (Barber)|Symphony No. 2]], Op. 19
*[[Béla Bartók]] – [[Sonata for Solo Violin (Bartók)|Sonata for solo violin]]
*[[Arnold Bax]] –
**''A Legend'', tone poem, for orchestra
**''To Russia'', for choir with baritone solo
*[[Leonard Bernstein]] – ''[[Fancy Free (ballet)|Fancy Free]]'' (ballet)
*[[John Cage]] –
**''A Book of Music'', for two prepared pianos
**''Four Walls'', for piano and voice
**''The Perilous Night'', suite for prepared piano
**''Prelude for Meditation'', for prepared piano
**''Root of an Unfocus'', for prepared piano
**''Spontaneous Earth'', for prepared piano
**''Triple-Paced No. 2'', for prepared piano
**''The Unavailable Memory Of'', for prepared piano
**''A Valentine Out of Season'', for prepared piano
*[[Julián Carrillo]] –
**''Himno a la paz'', for two choirs and piano
**Suite No. 4, for piano
*[[Elliott Carter]] –
**''The Difference'', for soprano, baritone, and piano
**''The Harmony of Morning'', for SSAA choir and small orchestra
**''Holiday Overture''
*[[Carlos Chávez]] – ''[[La hija de Cólquide]]'' (ballet)
*[[Aaron Copland]] – ''[[Appalachian Spring]]'' (ballet)
*[[Henry Cowell]] –
**''Animal Magic of the Alaskan Esquimo'', for band
**''Derwent and the Shining Sword'', incidental music
**''Elegie for Hanya Holm'', for piano
**''Manaunaun's Birthing'', for orchestra
**''Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 1'', for band
**''Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 2'', for string orchestra
**''Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 3'', for orchestra
**''Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 4'', for soprano, alto, and bass recorders, woodwinds, and strings
**''Kansas Fiddler'', for piano
**''Mountain Music'', for piano
**''The Pasture'', for voice and piano
**Sonatina, for baritone, violin, and piano
*[[George Crumb]] – Two Duos for flute and clarinet
*[[David Diamond (composer)|David Diamond]] – ''Rounds''
*[[Ernő Dohnányi]] – [[Symphony No. 2 (Dohnányi)|Symphony No. 2]]
*[[George Enescu]] – [[Piano Quartet No. 2 (Enescu)|Piano Quartet No. 2]] in D minor, Op. 30
*[[John Fernström]] – Symphony No. 10
*[[Vivian Fine]] – ''Concertante for Piano and Orchestra''
*[[Gerald Finzi]] – ''Farewell to Arms''
*[[Cecil Armstrong Gibbs]] – ''Westmoreland Symphony''
*[[Camargo Guarnieri]] – String Quartet No. 2
*[[Alois Hába]] –
**''Milenci'' (The Lovers), song cycle for soprano and piano, Op. 57
**''Moravian Love-Songs'' (5), for mezzo-soprano with guitar or piano accompaniment, Op. 58
**Sonata for chromatic harp, Op. 59
**Sonata for diatonic harp, Op. 60
**Suite, for quarter-tone trumpet and trombone, Op. 56
*[[Paul Hindemith]] – ''Hérodiade'', ballet, for orchestra
*[[Vagn Holmboe]] – Symphony No. 5
*[[Alan Hovhaness]] –
**''Armenian Rhapsody No. 1'', Op. 45, for percussion and strings
**''Armenian Rhapsody No. 2'', Op. 51, for string orchestra
**''Elibris'', Op. 50, concerto for flute and strings
**''Khrimian Hairig'', Op. 49, for trumpet and strings
**''[[Lousadzak]]'', Op. 48, concerto for piano and strings
**''Mazert Nman Rehan'' ("Thy Hair is Like Basil Leaf"), Op. 38, for piano
**''Varak'', Op. 47a, for violin and piano
*[[Jacques Ibert]]
**Trio, for violin, cello and harp
**''Petite suite en 15 images'', for piano
**''[[Les Petites du quai aux fleurs]]'', film score
*[[Joseph Jongen]] – Concerto for Harp No. 1
*[[Dmitry Kabalevsky]] –
**''Easy Pieces'' (24), Op. 39, for piano
**''Easy Variations'', in D major (Toccata) and A minor, Op. 40, for piano
**[[Preludes (Kabalevsky)|Preludes (24)]], Op. 38, for piano
*[[Aram Khachaturian]] –
**''[[Anthem of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic|Anthem of the Armenian SSR]]'', for orchestra
**''Choreographic Waltz'', for piano
**''Russian Fantasy'', for orchestra
**Suite from ''[[Masquerade (Khachaturian)|Masquerade]]'', for orchestra
**Symphony No. 2, "The Bell" (second version)
*[[Zoltán Kodály]] – ''Missa Brevis''
*[[Frank Martin (composer)|Frank Martin]] – ''[[Petite symphonie concertante]]''
*[[Bohuslav Martinů]] –
**Piano Quintet No. 2
**''Písničky na dvě stránky'' [Songs on Two Pages], for voice and piano
**Sonata No. 3, for violin and piano
**[[Symphony No. 3 (Martinů)|Symphony No. 3]]
**Trio, for flute, cello, and piano
*[[Olivier Messiaen]] – ''[[Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus|Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus]]'', for piano
*[[Darius Milhaud]] –
**''Air'', Op. 242, for viola and orchestra
**''Le bal martiniquais'', Op. 249, versions for orchestra and for two pianos
**''Borechou – Schema Israël'' (Bless Ye the Lord – O Hear, Israel), Op. 239, for cantor, chorus, and organ
**''[[Genesis Suite|Caïn et Abel]]'', Op. 241, for reciter and orchestra
**''Jeux de printemps'', Op. 243, ballet
**''La libération des Antilles'', Op. 246, for voice and piano
**''La muse ménagère'', Op. 245, for piano (also orchestrated)
**''Printemps lointain'', Op. 253, for voice and piano
**Sonata No. 1 "sur des thèmes inédits et anonymes de XVIIIe siècle", Op. 240, for viola and piano
**Sonata No. 2, Op. 244, for viola and piano
**''Suite française'', Op. 248, for band or for orchestra
**[[Symphony No. 2 (Milhaud)|Symphony No. 2]], Op. 247
*[[Harry Partch]] –
**''Yankee Doodle Fantasy''
**''Two Settings from Joyce's Finnegans Wake''
*[[Francis Poulenc]] – ''Un soir de neige'', for six-part choir
*[[Sergei Prokofiev]] –
**Adagio, for cello and piano, Op. 97bis
**''[[Cinderella (Prokofiev)|Cinderella]]'', Op. 87, ballet, for orchestra
**March in B-flat, Op. 99, for band
**[[Piano Sonata No. 8 (Prokofiev)|Piano Sonata No. 8]] in B-flat major, Op. 84
**Pieces (6) from ''Cinderella'', Op. 102, for piano
**''Russian Folksongs'' (12), Op. 104, for voice and piano
**[[Symphony No. 5 (Prokofiev)|Symphony No. 5]], in B-flat major, Op. 100
*[[Dmitri Shostakovich]] –
**[[Piano Trio No. 2 (Shostakovich)|Trio for violin, cello and piano No. 2 E minor, Op. 67]]
**[[String Quartet No. 2 (Shostakovich)|String Quartet No.&nbsp;2]] in A major, Op.&nbsp;68
*[[Igor Stravinsky]] –
**''[[Genesis Suite|Babel]]'', for choir
**''Elegy'', for solo viola
**''[[Scherzo à la russe (Stravinsky)|Scherzo à la russe]]'', for orchestra
**''[[Scènes de ballet (Stravinsky)|Scènes de ballet]]'', for orchestra
*[[Stjepan Šulek]] – First Symphony
*[[Michael Tippett]] –
**''Plebs Angelica'', motet for double choir
**''The Weeping Babe'', motet for soprano and SATB choir
*[[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] – [[Oboe Concerto (Vaughan Williams)|Oboe Concerto]]
*[[Heitor Villa-Lobos]] –
**''[[Bachianas Brasileiras#Bachianas Brasileiras No. 8|Bachianas Brasileiras No. 8]]'', for orchestra
**[[String Quartet No. 8 (Villa-Lobos)|String Quartet No. 8]]
**[[Symphony No. 2 (Villa-Lobos)|Symphony No. 2]] ''Asenção'' (Ascension), revised or completed
**[[Symphony No. 6 (Villa-Lobos)|Symphony No. 6]] – ''Sobre a linha das montanhas do Brasil'' (On the Outline of the Mountains of Brazil)
*[[William Walton]] – ''Lai and Rondet de carol'', for piano
*[[Grace Williams]] – ''[[Sea Sketches]]''