Editing 1949 in music (section)

==Classical music==

===Premieres===
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! Composer !! Composition !! Date !! Location !! Performers
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| [[Samuel Barber|Barber, Samuel]] || [[Piano Sonata (Barber)|Piano Sonata]] || 1949-12-09 || Havana, Cuba || [[Vladimir Horowitz|Horowitz]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x9jUHHwH24QC&q=barber+piano+sonata+horowitz+first+performance+1949&pg=PA81|title=Samuel Barber: A Guide to Research|first=Wayne Clifford|last=Wentzel|date=February 9, 2018|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=9780815334965|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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| [[Béla Bartók|Bartók, Béla]] || [[Viola Concerto (Bartók)|Viola Concerto]] (1945) || 1949-12-02 || Minneapolis || [[William Primrose|Primrose]] / [[Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra|Minneapolis Symphony]] – [[Antál Dorati|Dorati]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boosey.com/cr/music/B-la-Bart-k-Viola-Concerto-op-posth/7423|title=Béla Bartók – Viola Concerto op.posth|website=www.boosey.com}}</ref>
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| [[Leonard Bernstein|Bernstein, Leonard]] || [[Symphony No. 2 (Bernstein)|''The Age of Anxiety'' (Symphony No. 2)]] || 1949-04-08 || Boston || Bernstein / [[Boston Symphony Orchestra|Boston Symphony]] – [[Sergei Koussevitzky|Koussevitzky]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leonardbernstein.com/works_anxiety.htm|title=Works – Works – Leonard Bernstein|website=www.leonardbernstein.com}}</ref>
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| [[Benjamin Britten|Britten, Benjamin]] || ''[[Spring Symphony]]'' || 1949-07-09 || Amsterdam ([[Holland Festival]]) || [[Jo Vincent|Vincent]], [[Kathleen Ferrier|Ferrier]], [[Peter Pears|Pears]] / [[Radio Filharmonisch Orkest|Netherlands Radio Choir]], [[Concertgebouw Orchestra]] – [[Eduard van Beinum|Van Beinum]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=22791|title=Spring Symphony, Benjamin Britten}}</ref>
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| [[Alan Bush|Bush, Alan]] || [[Symphony No. 2 (Bush)|''Nottingham Symphony'' (Symphony No. 2)]]|| 1949-06-27 || Nottingham, UK || [[London Philharmonic Orchestra|London Philharmonic]] – [[David Ellenberg|Ellenberg]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alanbushtrust.org.uk/music/compositions/OR.asp?room=Music|title=Alan Bush Music Trust – Music – Orchestral Work|website=www.alanbushtrust.org.uk}}</ref>
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| [[Elliott Carter|Carter, Elliott]] || [[Woodwind Quintet (Carter)|Wind Quintet]]|| 1949-02-27 || New York City || [[Martin Orenstein|Orenstein]], [[David Abosch|Abosch]], [[Louis Paul (clarinetist)|Paul]], [[Pinson Bobo|Bobo]], [[Mark Popkin|Popkin]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=7216|title=Woodwind Quintet, Elliott Carter}}</ref>
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| [[Aaron Copland|Copland, Aaron]] || ''[[Preamble for a Solemn Occasion]]'' || 1949-12-19 || New York City || [[Laurence Olivier|Olivier]] / [[Boston Symphony Orchestra|Boston Symphony]] – [[Leonard Bernstein|Bernstein]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=33951|title=''Preamble for a Solemn Occasion'', Aaron Copland}}</ref>
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| [[Henry Cowell|Cowell, Henry]] || [[Symphony No. 5 (Cowell)|Symphony No. 5]] (1948) || 1949-01-05 ||Washington DC || [[National Symphony Orchestra|USA National Symphony]] – [[Hans Kindler|Kindler]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.henrycowell.org/hc/sf002/catalogNp226.cfm?CFID=154989355&CFTOKEN=58878681|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20170914215545/http://www.henrycowell.org/hc/sf002/catalogNp226.cfm?CFID=226664394&CFTOKEN=38167357&jsessionid=84301cb7818fdd815aea774a2b497f11265f|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 14, 2017|title=Henry Cowell Web Site|website=www.henrycowell.org}}</ref>
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| [[Frederick Delius|Delius, Frederick]] || ''Summer Evening''; ''Winter Night''; ''Spring Morning'' (1890) || 1949-01-02 || London || [unknown orchestra] – [[Thomas Beecham|Beecham]]<ref>{{Almanacco|dmy=02-01-1949|match=Delius|label=''Summer Evening'', ''Winter Night'' and ''Spring Morning''}}</ref>
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| [[Norman Dello Joio|Dello Joio, Norman]] || ''[[Concertante for Clarinet and Orchestra]]'' || 1949-05-22 || Chautauqua, New York || [[Artie Shaw|Shaw]] / [[Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra|Chautauqua Symphony]] – [[Franco Autori|Autori]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6dz0703|title=Dello Joio, Norman @ SNAC|website=socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu}}</ref>
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| [[Klaus Egge|Egge, Klaus]] || ''Sinfonia giocosa'' (Symphony No. 2) (1947) || 1949-07-09 || Oslo || [unknown orchestra] – [[Odd Grüner-Hegge|Grüner-Hegge]]<ref>{{Almanacco|dmy=09-12-1949|match=Giocosa}}</ref>
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| [[Gottfried von Einem|Einem, Gottfried von]] || [[Dantons Tod|Orchestral Suite from ''Dantons Tod'']] || 1949-02-09 || Baden-Baden, Germany || [[Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra|SWF Symphony]] – [[Hans Rosbaud|Rosbaud]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.einem.org/de/komp_wv.htm|title=Gottfried von Einem – Musik Privatstiftung – Offiziele Homepage|website=www.einem.org|access-date=June 30, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100414110956/http://www.einem.org/de/komp_wv.htm|archive-date=April 14, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| [[George Enescu|Enescu, George]] || ''[[Ouverture de concert sur des thèmes dans le caractère populaire roumain|Romanian Concert Overture]]'' (1948) || 1949-01-23 || Washington DC || [[National Symphony Orchestra|USA National Symphony]] – Enescu<ref>{{cite web|url=http://patachonf.free.fr/musique/enesco/discographie.php?p=32|title=Georges Enesco – Ouverture de concert, opus 32 (1948) – oeuvre & discographie – George Enescu Discography|website=patachonf.free.fr}}</ref>
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| [[Giorgio Federico Ghedini|Ghedini, Giorgio Federico]] || ''[[Concerto funebre in memoria di Duccio Galimberti]]'' (1948) || 1949-03-02 || Rome || [[Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia|Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra]] – [[Mario Rossi (conductor)|Rossi]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tJkYr9gdGNYC&q=ghedini+concerto+funebre+1949+prima+esecuzione&pg=PA135|title=Le muse del popolo: storia dell'Arci a Torino, 1957–1967|first=Vincenzo|last=Santangelo|date=February 9, 2018|publisher=FrancoAngeli|isbn=9788846484413|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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| [[Alberto Ginastera|Ginastera, Alberto]] || ''[[Ollantay (Ginastera)|Ollantay]]'' (1947) || 1949-10-29 || Buenos Aires || [[Orquesta Estable del Teatro Colón|Teatro Colón Regular Orchestra]] – [[Erich Kleiber|E. Kleiber]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OCXGBQAAQBAJ&q=ollantay+teatro+colon+ginastera+1949&pg=PA1950|title=Alberto Ginastera: A Research and Information Guide|first=Deborah|last=Schwartz-Kates|date=May 3, 2011|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781136981159|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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| [[Alberto Ginastera|Ginastera, Alberto]] || [[String Quartet No. 1 (Ginastera)|String Quartet No. 1]] (1948) || 1949-10-24 || Buenos Aires || [[Mozart String Quartet|Mozart Quartet]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=31613|title=Quatuor à cordes n° 1, Alberto Evaristo Ginastera}}</ref>
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| [[Mikhail Glinka|Glinka, Mikhail]] || String Quartet (1824) || 1949-02-27 || Moscow || [[Beethoven Quartet]]<ref>{{Almanacco|dmy=27-02-1949|match=Glinka|label=String Quartet}}</ref>
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| [[Roy Harris|Harris, Roy]] || ''[[Kentucky Spring]]'' || 1949-04-05 || Louisville, US || [[Louisville Orchestra|Louisville Philharmonic]] – [[Robert Whitney (conductor)|Whitney]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w64q7t1b|title=Harris, Roy, 1898–1979 @ SNAC|website=socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu}}</ref>
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| [[Hans Werner Henze|Henze, Hans Werner]] || ''[[Apollo und Hyazintus]]'' || 1949-06-26 || Frankfurt || [[Hetty Plümacher|Plümacher]], [[Edith Picht-Axenfeld|Picht-Axenfeld]] / Members of the [[hr-Sinfonieorchester|HR Symphony]] – Henze<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=24264|title=''Apollo et Hyazinthus'', Hans Werner Henze}}</ref>
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| [[Hans Werner Henze|Henze, Hans Werner]] || ''[[Ballett-Variationen]]'' || 1949-09-26 || Düsseldorf || [[WDR Symphony Orchestra|NWDR Symphony]] – [[Ljubomir Romansky|Romansky]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=24091|title=''Ballett-Varationen'', Hans Werner Henze}}</ref>
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| [[Hans Werner Henze|Henze, Hans Werner]] || ''[[Chor gefangener Trojer]]'' (1948) || 1949-02-06 ||Bielefeld, Germany || [[Bieleld Musikverein Choir]], [[Bielefeld Philharmonic Orchestra|Stadtorchester Bielefeld]] – [[Hans Hoffmann (conductor)|Hoffmann]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hans-werner-henze-stiftung.de/hans-werner-henze/werkverzeichnis/detail/news/detail/News/chor-gefangener-trojer/|title=Hans-Werner-Henze-Stiftung – Werkverzeichnis|website=www.hans-werner-henze-stiftung.de}}</ref>
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| [[Hans Werner Henze|Henze, Hans Werner]] || [[Symphony No. 2 (Henze)|Symphony No. 2]] || 1949-12-01 || Stuttgart || [[Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra|SDR Radio Symphony]] – [[Hans Müller-Kray|Müller-Kray]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=24104|title=2. Sinfonie, Hans Werner Henze}}</ref>
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| [[Hans Werner Henze|Henze, Hans Werner]] || [[Variations for Piano (Henze)|Variations for Piano]]|| 1949-06-17 || Frankfurt || [[Alexander Kaul|Kaul]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=24248|title=Variationen für Klavier, Hans Werner Henze}}</ref>
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| [[Paul Hindemith|Hindemith, Paul]] || [[Concerto for Woodwinds, Harp and Orchestra (Hindemith)|Concerto for Woodwinds, Harp and Orchestra]]|| 1949-05-15 || New York City || [[CBS Symphony Orchestra|CBS Symphony]] – [[Thor Johnson|Johnson]]<ref>[http://www.schott-music.com/shop/products/show,152726,,f.html?showOldPerformances=true#show_performances Schott Music]</ref>
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| [[Arthur Honegger|Honegger, Arthur]] || ''[[Concerto da camera (Honegger)|Concerto da camera]]'' || 1949-05-06 || Zürich || [[André Jaunet|Jaunet]], [[Marcel Saillet|Saillet]] / [[Collegium Musicum Zürich]] – [[Paul Sacher|Sacher]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tmt3F29LYzEC&q=jaunet+sacher+honegger+1949&pg=PA576|title=The Music of Arthur Honegger|first=Geoffrey K.|last=Spratt|date=February 9, 1987|publisher=Cork University Press|isbn=9780902561342|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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| [[Herbert Howells|Howells, Herbert]] || ''[[Music for a Prince]]'' (1948) || 1949-01-23 || London || [[BBC Symphony Orchestra|BBC Symphony]] – [[Malcolm Sargent|Sargent]]<ref>[http://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/6116358.pdf The Career and Reputation of Herbert Howells (page 116)]</ref>
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| [[André Jolivet|Jolivet, André]] || ''[[Étude sur les modes antiques]]'' (1944) || 1949-06-09 || Paris || [[Janine Haloua|Haloua]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=34901|title=''Étude sur les modes antiques'', André Jolivet}}</ref>
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| [[André Jolivet|Jolivet, André]] || Symphonic Suite from ''Guignol et Pandore'' (1943) || 1949-12-11 || Paris || [[Concerts Colonne|Colonne Orchestra]] – [[Louis Fourestier|Fourestier]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=35238|title=''Guignol et Pandore''. Suite symphonique, André Jolivet}}</ref>
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| [[Marcel Landowski|Landowski, Marcel]] || [[Symphony No. 1 (Landowski)|''Jean de la Peur'' (Symphony No. 1)]]|| 1949-04-03 || Paris || [[Pasdeloup Orchestra]] – [[Albert Wolff (conductor)|Wolff]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0jDNyD2JiksC&q=landowski+jean+de+la+peur+1949+wolff&pg=PT574|title=Guide de la musique symphonique|first=François-René|last=Tranchefort|date=November 26, 1986|publisher=Fayard|isbn=9782213640754|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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| [[Witold Lutosławski|Lutosławski, Witold]] || [[Overture for Strings (Lutoslawski)|Overture for Strings]]|| 1949-11-09 || Prague || [[Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra|Prague Radio Symphony]] – [[Grzegorz Fitelberg|Fitelberg]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=10299|title=Overture for Strings, Witold Lutosławsk}}</ref>
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| [[Gian Francesco Malipiero|Malipiero, Gian Francesco]] || ''Mondi celesti'' (1947) || 1949-02-03 || Capri, Italy || [unknown ensemble] – [[Carlo Maria Giulini|Giulini]]<ref>{{Almanacco|dmy=03-02-1949|match=Mondi celesti}}</ref>
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| [[Gian Francesco Malipiero|Malipiero, Gian Francesco]] || [[Symphony No. 6 (Malipiero)|''Sinfonia degli archi'' (Symphony No. 6)]]|| 1949-02-11 || Basel || [[Basel Chamber Orchestra]] – [[Paul Sacher|Sacher]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://conductingmasterclass.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/list-of-sacher-commissions/|title=List of Sacher commissions|date=June 23, 2011}}</ref>
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| [[Bohuslav Martinů|Martinů, Bohuslav]] || [[Piano Concerto No. 3 (Martinu)|Piano Concerto No. 3]]|| 1949-11-20 || Dallas || [[Rudolf Firkusny|Firkusny]] / [[Dallas Symphony Orchestra|Dallas Symphony]] – [[Walter Hendl|Hendl]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.572206&catNum=572206&filetype=About+this+Recording&language=English|title=Martinů, B.: Piano Concertos, Vol. 1 – Nos. 3, 5 / Concertino (Koukl, Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic, Fagen)|website=www.naxos.com}}</ref>
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| [[Peter Mennin|Mennin, Peter]] || [[Symphony No. 4 (Mennin)|''The Cycle'' (Symphony No. 4)]]|| 1949-03-18 || New York City || [[Collegiate Chorale]], [[New York Philharmonic]] – [[Robert Shaw (conductor)|Shaw]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eroica.com/phoenix/jdt107.html|title=Peter Mennin, Symphony No. 4, Alberto Ginastera Milena|website=www.eroica.com}}</ref>
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| [[Olivier Messiaen|Messiaen, Olivier]] || ''[[Turangalîla-Symphonie]]'' (1948) || 1949-12-02 || Boston || [[Yvonne Loriod|Loriod]], [[Ginette Martenot|Martenot]] / [[Boston Symphony Orchestra|Boston Symphony]] – [[Leonard Bernstein|Bernstein]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=10621|title=''Turangalîla-Symphonie'', Olivier Messiaen}}</ref>
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| [[Darius Milhaud|Milhaud, Darius]] || [[Concerto for Marimba and Vibraphone (Milhaud)|Concerto for Marimba and Vibraphone]]|| 1949-02-12 ||  St. Louis, US || [[Jack Connor (percussionist)|Connor]] / [[St. Louis Symphony]] – [[Vladimir Golschmann|Golschmann]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pas.org/docs/default-source/thesisdissertations/Kastner.pdf?sfvrsn=2|title=The Emergence and Evolution of a Generalized Marimba Technique}}</ref>
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| [[Darius Milhaud|Milhaud, Darius]] || ''[[Kentuckiana (Milhaud)|Kentuckiana]]'' (1948) || 1949-01-04 || Louisville, US || [[Louisville Orchestra]] – [[Robert Whitney (conductor)|Whitney]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://numulu.org/blog/1949/01/|title=NuMuLu|access-date=June 30, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922224338/http://numulu.org/blog/1949/01/|archive-date=September 22, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
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| [[Nikolai Myaskovsky|Myaskovsky, Nikolai]] || [[Cello Sonata No. 2 (Myaskovsky)|Cello Sonata No. 2]]|| 1949-03-05 || Moscow || [[Mstislav Rostropovich|Rostropovich]], [[Alexander Dedyukhin|Dedyukhin]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mQmLAwAAQBAJ&q=myaskovsky+cello+sonata+2+rostropovich&pg=PA295|title=Nikolay Myaskovsky: The Conscience of Russian Music|first=Gregor|last=Tassie|date=May 5, 2014|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781442231337|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chantdumonde.com/Publisheditions/catalog/6/BATMiaskoDef1.pdf|title=Le Chant du Monde|access-date=June 30, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150913034724/http://www.chantdumonde.com/Publisheditions/catalog/6/BATMiaskoDef1.pdf|archive-date=September 13, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| [[Gösta Nystroem|Nystroem, Gösta]] || [[Symphony No. 3 (Nystroem)|''Sinfonia del mare'' (Symphony No. 3)]] (1948) || 1949-03-24 || Gothenburg, Sweden || [[Ingrid Eksell|Eksell]] / [[Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra|Gothenburg Symphony]] – [[Sixten Eckerberg|Eckerberg]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gehrmans.se/en/shop/hire/orkester-scen/sinfonia-del-mare|title=Sinfonia del mare|website=Open graph site name &}}</ref>
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| [[Maurice Ohana|Ohana, Maurice]] || ''[[La venta encantada]]'' (1940) || 1949-04-29 || Paris || [[Orchestra André Girard|Girard Orchestra]] – [[André Girard (conductor)|Girard]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=35735|title=''La Venta encantada'', Maurice Ohana}}</ref>
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| [[Andrzej Panufnik|Panufnik, Andrzej]] || [[Symphony No. 1 (Panufnik)|''Sinfonia rustica'' (Symphony No. 1)]] (1948) || 1949-05-13 || Warsaw || [[Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra|Warsaw Philharmonic]] – Panufnik<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.panufnik.polmic.pl/index.php/en/tworczosc/omowienia-utworow/32-sinfonia-rustica|title=Sinfonia Rustica|last=Grazynka|website=www.panufnik.polmic.pl}}</ref>
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| [[Francis Poulenc|Poulenc, Francis]] || [[Cello Sonata (Poulenc)|Cello Sonata]] (1948) || 1949-05-18 || Paris || [[Pierre Fournier|Fournier]], Poulenc<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W5408_67255|title=Sonata for cello and piano (Poulenc) – from CDA67255/6 – Hyperion Records – MP3 and Lossless downloads|website=www.hyperion-records.co.uk}}</ref>
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| [[Edmund Rubbra|Rubbra, Edmund]] || [[Symphony No. 5 (Rubbra)|Symphony No. 5]] (1947) || 1949-01-26 || London || [[BBC Symphony Orchestra|BBC Symphony]] – [[Adrian Boult|Boult]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barbirollisociety.co.uk/latest|title=Barbirolli Society|website=www.barbirollisociety.co.uk}}</ref>
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| [[Giacinto Scelsi|Scelsi, Giacinto]] || ''[[La nascita del Verbo]]'' || 1949-10-28 || Paris || [[Orchestre National de France|RTF National Orchestra and Chorus]] – [[Roger Desormière|Desormière]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://1.static.e-corpus.org/download/notice_file/2125915/DI%20GIACOMO.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180210003034/http://1.static.e-corpus.org/download/notice_file/2125915/DI%20GIACOMO.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 10, 2018|title=Hors de l'avant garde: Son, musique et composition chez Giacinto Scelsi dans la production de sa maturité (page 23)}}</ref>
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| [[Arnold Schoenberg|Schoenberg, Arnold]] || [[Phantasy for Violin and Piano]]|| 1949-09-13 || Los Angeles || [[Adolf Koldofsky|Koldofsky]], [[Leonard Steinb|Stein]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=11845|title=Fantaisie op. 47, Arnold Schoenberg}}</ref>
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| [[William Schuman|Schuman, William]] || [[Symphony No. 6 (Schuman)|Symphony No. 6]] (1948) || 1949-02-26 || Dallas || [[Dallas Symphony Orchestra|Dallas Symphony]] – [[Antál Dorati|Dorati]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.559625&catNum=559625&filetype=About+this+Recording&language=English|title=Schuman, W.: Symphony No. 6 / Prayer in a Time of War / New England Triptych (Seattle Symphony, Schwarz)|website=www.naxos.com}}</ref>
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| [[Mátyás Seiber|Seiber, Mátyás]] || ''[[Ulysses (Seiber)|Ulysses]]'' || 1949-05-27 || London || [[Richard Lewis (tenor)|Lewis]] / [[Morley College Choir]], [[Kalmar Orchestra]] – [[Walter Goehr|Goehr]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2010/June10/Seiber_Joyce.htm|title=Matyas Seiber Joyce Cantatas by Alan Gibbs – June 2010 MusicWeb-International|first=MusicWeb|last=International|website=www.musicweb-international.com}}</ref>
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| [[Dmitri Shostakovich|Shostakovich, Dmitri]] || ''[[Song of the Forests]]'' || 1949-12-11 || Leningrad || [unknown chorus], [[Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra|Leningrad Philharmonic]] – [[Evgeni Mravinsky|Mravinsky]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ub6Q2PtZEBAC&q=song+of+the+forests+shostakovich+leningrad+1949+mravinsky&pg=PT188|title=Shostakovich: A Life Remembered|first=Elizabeth|last=Wilson|date=March 3, 2011|publisher=Faber & Faber|isbn=9780571261154|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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| [[Alexandre Tansman|Tansman, Alexandre]] || ''[[Music for Strings (Tansman)|Music for Strings]]'' (1947) || 1949-01-24 || Barcelona || [[Barcelona Chamber Orchestra]] – Tansman<ref>[http://www.musimem.com/Tansman_Catalogue_pratique.pdf L'oeuvre de Alexandra Tansman: Catalogue practique]</ref>
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| [[Randall Thompson|Thompson, Randall]] || [[Symphony No. 3 (Thompson)|Symphony No. 3]]|| 1949-05-15 || New York City || [[CBS Symphony Orchestra|CBS Symphony]] – [[Thor Johnson|Johnson]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yourclassical.org/programs/composers-datebook/episodes/2015/05/15|title=YourClassical from American Public Media|website=www.yourclassical.org}}</ref>
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| [[Galina Ustvolskaya|Ustvolskaya, Galina]] || ''[[The Dream of Stepan Razin]]'' || 1949-10-08 || Leningrad || [unknown baritone] / [[Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra|Leningrad Philharmonic]] – [[Evgeni Mravinsky|Mravinsky]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=34480|title=''Le Rêve de Stepan Razine'', Galina Ustvolskaïa}}</ref>
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| [[Mieczysław Weinberg|Weinberg, Mieczysław]] || ''[[Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes|Moldavian Rhapsody]]'' || 1949-11-30 || Moscow ([[Union of Soviet Composers|USC]] Plenum) || [[Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra|USSR Radio Symphony]] – [[Alexander Gauk|Gauk]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://issuu.com/encoreatlanta/docs/april12_aso3|title=April 2012: Mendelssohn & Schubert at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra|date=April 26, 2012 }}</ref>
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| [[Bernd Alois Zimmermann|Zimmermann, Bernd Alois]] || [[Concerto for Strings (Zimmermann)|Concerto for Strings]]|| 1949-07-25 || Cologne || [[WDR Symphony Orchestra|NWDR Symphony]] – [[Jean Meylan|Meylan]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=23258|title=Konzert für Streichorchester, Bernd Alois Zimmermann}}</ref>
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| [[Bernd Alois Zimmermann|Zimmermann, Bernd Alois]] || [[Symphonic Variations and Fugue on In dulci jubilo|Symphonic Variations and Fugue on ''In dulci jubilo'']]|| 1949-12-10 || Koblenz, Germany || [[Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra|Southwest German Radio Symphony]] – [[Otto Gerdes|Gerdes]]<ref>{{IRCAM work|id=23259|title=Symphonische Variationen und Fuge über "In dulci jubilo", Bernd Alois Zimmermann}}</ref>
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===Compositions===
*[[Malcolm Arnold]] – [[Symphony No. 1 (Arnold)|Symphony No. 1]]
*[[Aaron Avshalomov]] – Second Symphony
*[[Henk Badings]] – Symphony No. 5
*[[Samuel Barber]] – Piano Sonata, Op. 26
*[[Marcel Bitsch]] – ''Six Esquisses symphoniques''
*[[Pierre Boulez]] – Piano Sonata No. 1 
*[[Havergal Brian]] – Symphony No. 8 in B-flat Minor
*[[Benjamin Britten]] – ''[[Spring Symphony]]''
*[[Jani Christou]] – ''Phoenix Music'', for orchestra
*[[George Crumb]] – Sonata for violin and piano
*[[Ferenc Farkas]] – ''Finnish Popular Dances''
*[[Hans Werner Henze]] – Symphony No. 2
*[[Paul Hindemith]]
**Sonata for Double Bass and Piano
**Sinfonietta in E major
*[[Vagn Holmboe]]
**String Quartet No. 2
**Cantata No. 7
*[[André Jolivet]] – Flute Concerto
*[[Dmitry Kabalevsky]] – Cello Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 49 (1948–9)
*[[Wojciech Kilar]] – ''Suite'' for piano
*[[Ernst Krenek]] – Symphony No. 5
*[[Rued Langgaard]] – Symphony No. 15 ''Søstormen'', BVN 375
*[[Olivier Messiaen]] – "[[Quatre études de rythme#"Neumes rythmiques"|Neumes rythmiques]]" and "[[Quatre études de rythme#"Mode de valeurs et d'intensités"|Mode de valeurs et d'intensités]]", for piano (later incorporated as two of the ''[[Quatre études de rythme]]'')
*[[Bruno Maderna]] – Composition No. 1
*[[Nikolai Myaskovsky]]
**Cello Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 81 (1948–9)
**Piano Sonatas 7–9, Opp. 82–4
**Symphony No. 27 in C Minor, Op. 85
**String Quartet No. 13 in A Minor, Op. 86
*[[Allan Pettersson]] – Violin Concerto No. 1
*[[Gavriil Popov (composer)|Gavriil Popov]] – [[Symphony No. 4 (Popov)|Symphony No. 4]] (completed; premiere 2023)
*[[Sergei Prokofiev]] – Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 119
*[[Othmar Schoeck]] – Vision, Op. 63 for Men's Chorus and Orchestra
*[[Arnold Schoenberg]]
**5 Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16 (second version)
**Fantasy for Violin and Piano, Op. 47
*[[Dmitri Shostakovich]]
**''[[Song of the Forests]]'' (oratorio)
**String Quartet No. 4 in D major, Op. 83
*[[Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji]] – [[Sequentia cyclica|''Sequentia cyclica super "Dies irae" ex Missa pro defunctis'']]
*[[Galina Ustvolskaya]]
**Piano Sonata No. 2
**Trio for clarinet, violin and piano
*[[Fartein Valen]] – Symphony No.4, Op. 43
*[[Edgard Varèse]] – ''Dance for Burgess''
*[[Heitor Villa-Lobos]]
**''Guia prático'', for piano
**''Homenagem a Chopin'', for piano
*[[William Walton]] – Violin Sonata
*[[Mieczysław Weinberg]] – ''Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes'', Op. 47 No. 1
*[[Stefan Wolpe]] – Sonata for Violin and Piano