Opera Walk, 1901-1955

1901

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Classical music

• Hakon Børresen – String Sextet opus 5 in G major
• Frank Bridge – Scherzo Phantastick, String Quintet in E minor (probably), Berceuse for viola or cello and piano ([1])
• André Caplet – Myrrha (cantata)
• Felix Draeseke – String Quintet opus 77 in F major for two violins, viola and two cellos
• George Enescu –
  • Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major, op. 11, no. 1
  • Romanian Rhapsody No. 2 in D major, op. 11, no. 2
  • Symphonie concertante for cello and orchestra in B minor, op. 8
• Alexander Glazunov – Piano Sonatas 1 and 2 opus 74 and 75 in B-flat minor and E minor
• Gustav Mahler – Der Tambourg'sell
• Ottorino Respighi – String Quintet for two violins, two violas and cello
• Sergei Taneyev – String Quintet opus 14 in G major for two violins, viola and two cellos
• Ludwig Thuille – Piano Quintet opus 20 in E-flat major

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Opera

• Frederick Delius – A Village Romeo and Juliet
• Antonín Dvořák – Rusalka
• Enrique Granados – Picarol
• Jules Massenet – Grisélidis
• Charles Villiers Stanford – Much Ado About Nothing
• Richard Strauss – Feuersnot

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1902

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Classical music

• Alexander Glazunov - From the Middle Ages; Symphony No. 7, op. 77 (Pastoral)
• Johannes Hanssen - Valdres March
• Alfred Hill - Hinemoa
• Vítězslav Novák - In the Tatra Mountains

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Opera

• Francesco Cilea - Adriana Lecouvreur
• Claude Debussy - Pelléas et Mélisande
• Manuel de Falla - Los amores de la Inés
• Alberto Franchetti - Germania
• Edward German - Merrie England
• Jules Massenet - Le Jongleur de Notre Dame
• Carl Nielsen - Saul og David
• Emile Pessard - L'armée des vierges premiered on October 15 at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, Paris
• George Stephanescu - Petra

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1903

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Classical music

• Hakon Borresen - Romance for Cello and Piano/Orchestra
• Frederick Delius - Sea Drift
• Edward Elgar - The Apostles (oratorio)
• Joseph Holbrooke - The Bells
• Joseph Jongen - Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1
• Carl Nielsen - Helios Overture
• Vítězslav Novák - Slovak Suite

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Opera

• Eugen d'Albert - Tiefland
• Juan Manen - Giovanna di Napoli
• Emile Pessard - L'épave premiered on February 17 at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choise

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1904

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Classical music

• Béla Bartók - Piano quintet
• Hakon Børresen - Concerto for violin and orchestra in G major
• Alexander Glazunov - Violin Concerto in A minor
• Hamilton Harty - An Irish Symphony
• Gustav Mahler - Kindertotenlieder (Songs of the Death of Children) (song-cycle)
• Alexander Scriabin - Symphony No. 3
• Petar Stojanović - Violin Concerto no 1
• Igor Stravinsky - Piano Sonata in F sharp minor
• Claude Debussy - "La Mer"

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Opera

• Franco Alfano - Risurrezione
• Leoš Janáček - Jenůfa
• Giacomo Puccini - Madama Butterfly
• Sergei Rachmaninoff - The Miserly Knight
• Amedeo Vives - Bohemios

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Operetta

• A rátartós királykisasszony (The Haughty Princess) by Victor Jacobi. First performed on December 17 at Budapest.

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1905

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Classical music

• Hugo Alfvén - Symphony No. 3 in E major
• Claude Debussy - La mer
• Edward Elgar - Introduction and Allegro for Strings
• Nikolai Medtner - Fairy Tales for Piano (Opp. 8, 9)
• Carl Nielsen - Søvnen (The Sleep)
• Vítězslav Novák - Quartet for Strings No. 2 in D Major
• Maurice Ravel - Introduction et Allegro, for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet
• Arnold Schoenberg - String Quartet No. 1, op. 7 in D minor.
• Anton Webern - Langsamer Satz, String Quartet in one movement
• Haydn Wood - Phantasy String Quartet

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Opera

• Frederick Converse - The Pipe of Desire
• Leo Fall - Irrlicht
• Manuel de Falla - La Vida breve (Libretto by Fernández Shaw)
• Franz Lehár - Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) (Libretto by Victor Léon and Leo Stein, after the play L'attaché d'ambassade (The Embassy Attaché) by Henri Meilhac)
• Jules Massenet - Chérubin (Libretto by Henri Cain and Francis de Croisset)
• Leopoldo Mugnone - Vita Bretone
• Richard Strauss - Salome (Libretto by Hedwig Lachmann, from the play by Oscar Wilde)

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1906

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Classical music

• Frank Bridge – Three Idylls for String Quartet, Quartet no. 1 in E minor Bologna
• Grigoraş Dinicu – Hora staccato
• Edward Elgar – The Kingdom (oratorio)
• George Enescu –
  • Concertstück, for viola and piano
  • Decet for winds in D major, op. 14
  • Légende, for trumpet and piano
• Charles Ives – Central Park in the Dark
• Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 6 (3rd version)
• Carl Nielsen – String Quartet No. 4 in F major, op. 44
• Sergei Rachmaninoff – Symphony No. 2 in E Minor
• Max Reger – Serenade in G for orchestra op. 95
• Arnold Schoenberg – Chamber Symphony No. 1
• Josef Suk – Symphony No. 2 Asrael finished
• Sergei Taneyev – Piano Quartet in E major op. 20
• Edgard Varèse – Un grand sommeil noir
• Anton Webern – Rondo for string quartet

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Opera

• Walter Braunfels – Falada
• Jules Massenet – Ariane
• Carl Nielsen – Maskarade
• Sergei Rachmaninoff – Francesca Da Rimini
• Dame Ethel Smyth – The Wreckers
• Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari – I quattro rusteghi

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1907

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Classical music

• York Bowen – Piano Concerto No. 3 'Fantasia' Op. 23, Viola Concerto in C minor Op. 25 ([1])
• Havergal Brian – English Suite
• Frederick Delius – Songs of Sunset; Brigg Fair
• Ernő Dohnányi – String Quartet no. 2 in D-flat, Op. 15
• Edward Elgar – The Wand of Youth
• Reinhold Glière – Symphony No. 2 in C minor
• Gustav Holst – A Somerset Rhapsody
• Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński – Violin Sonata in G ([2])
• Sergei Rachmaninoff – Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor
• Max Reger – Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 102
• Ottorino Respighi – Quartet for Strings in D major
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Le Coq d'Or
• Charles Villiers Stanford – Stabat Mater
• Josef Suk – Symphony No. 2 in C minor, op. 27 (Asrael)
• Alexandr Scriabin – Piano Sonata No. 5 Op.53

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Opera

• Francesco Cilea – Gloria
• Luigi Mancinelli – Paolo e Francesca
• Jules Massenet – Thérèse

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1908

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Classical music

• Kurt Atterberg - Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra
• Béla Bartók - finishes his First Violin Concerto
• Alban Berg - Piano Sonata, Op.1
• York Bowen - Viola concerto in C minor
• Henry Walford Davies - Solemn Melody for organ
• Reinhold Glière - Second symphony, op. 25
• Hamilton Harty - Violin Concerto
• Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov - Symphony No. 1
• John Ireland - Phantasy Piano Trio
• Toivo Kuula - Piano Trio
• Erkki Melartin - Third String Quartet (by 1908)
• Carl Nielsen - Saga-Drøm (tone poem)
• Max Reger - Symphonischer Prolog zu einer Tragödie in A minor, opus 108
• Xaver Scharwenka - Piano Concerto No. 4 in F minor
• Arnold Schoenberg - String Quartet No. 2 - premiered in Vienna
• Alexander Scriabin - The Poem of Ecstasy
• Igor Stravinsky - Fireworks
• Anton Webern - Passacaglia for orchestra

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Opera

• Paul Le Flem - Aucassin et Nicolette

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Classical music

• Arnold Bax - In the Faery Hills
• Ferruccio Busoni - An die Jugend
• Gustav Helsted - Concerto for violin and orchestra in B minor
• Anatoly Lyadov - Kikimora, Op. 63
• John Blackwood McEwen - A Solway Symphony
• Gustav Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde completed
• Adolf Mišek - Sonata for Double Bass and Piano no 1 in A major
• Max Reger - Psalm 100 op. 106, Clarinet Sonata No. 3 op. 107, String Quartet No. 4 op. 109
• Sergei Taneyev - Suite de concert for Violin and Orchestra
• Charles Tournemire - Symphony No. 2 (Ouessant)
• Anton Webern - 5 movements
• Anton Webern - 6 Pieces for Orchestra

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Opera

• Jules Massenet - Bacchus (opera)
• Ruperto Chapí - Margarita la tornera (Margarita the Gatekeeper)
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - The Golden Cockerel
• Richard Strauss - Elektra
• Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari - Il segreto di Susanna

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1910

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Classical music

• Victor Ewald - Symphony for Brass
• Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 9 finished
• Erkki Melartin - String Quartet No. 4
• Nikolai Myaskovsky - Symphonic poem Silence; original versions of String Quartet No. 3, String Quartet No. 4
• Carl Nielsen - At the Bier of a Young Artist (orchestral for funeral)
• Arnold Schoenberg - Five Pieces for Orchestra
• Alexander Scriabin - Prometheus, "The Poem of Fire"
• Igor Stravinsky - The Firebird
• Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, Symphony No. 1 ('A Sea Symphony')

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Opera

• Giacomo Puccini - La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West), libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, first performed in New York City
• Jules Massenet - Don Quichotte premiered in Monte Carlo, starring Feodor Chaliapin
• Gialdino Gialdini - La Bufera premiered November 26 at the Politeama Ciscutti, Pola
• Scott Joplin - Treemonisha completed but not staged

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1911

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Classical music

• Joseph Achron - Hebrew Melody
• Frank Bridge - The Sea
• George Butterworth - Two English Idylls
• Frederick Delius - Summer Night on the River
• Reinhold Glière - Symphony No. 3 Ilya Murometz (completed)
• Enrique Granados - Goyescas
• Gustav Holst - Second Suite in F, for military band
• Charles Ives - Requiem S. 333
• Nikolai Medtner - Sonata for Piano in E minor, Op. 25 no 2 "Night Wind"
• Nikolai Myaskovsky - Sinfonietta in A and Symphony No. 2 completed, Cello Sonata No. 1 (later revised in 1945) written.
• Carl Nielsen - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
• Arnold Schoenberg - Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke
• Alexander Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 6, Piano Sonata No. 7 written
• Igor Stravinsky - Petrushka
• Ethel Smyth - The March of the Women

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Opera

• Béla Bartók - Bluebeard's Castle
• Frederick Delius - Fenimore and Gerda
• Scott Joplin - Treemonisha
• Maurice Ravel - L'Heure Espagnole
• Richard Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier

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• Leányvásár (The Marriage Market) - Vic

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1912
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Nineteen Hundred Twelve was the year the Titanic sank, an operatic event that occurred in real life and that would become, eventually, the subject of many novels and films, including an opera which premiered in 2005. Caruso was singing the lead role in Samson et Dalila at the Met, and I imagine there were, tragically, a few empty seats that week the Titanic was scheduled to arrive in New York. The crown jewel of this year is, without doubt, Ravel's Daphnis et Chloë. In opera, Richard Strauss gives us the mythical Ariadne auf Naxos.

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First of all, feast your ears on Seji Ozawa's interpretation of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloë. Lovely presentation on the video; hats off to the artist who put this together:

Classical music

• Picture-Postcard Texts by Peter Altenberg
• Frank Bridge – Piano Quintet
• Ferruccio Busoni – Sonatina No. 2
• George Butterworth – A Shropshire Lad
• Claude Debussy – Gigues; Khamma (ballet); Preludes, Book 2
• Frederick Delius – The Song of the High Hills; On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
• Paul Dukas – La Peri (ballet)
• Edward Elgar – The Music Makers
• Victor Ewald – Brass Quintet No. 1
• Alexander Glazunov – Finnish Sketches
• Percy Grainger – Handel in the Strand
• Charles Ives – Robert Browning Overture
• Leoš Janáček – The Fiddler's Child
• Sergei Prokofiev
  • Piano Concerto No. 1 in D♭ Major
  • Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor
• Maurice Ravel – Daphnis et Chloé
• Arnold Schoenberg – Pierrot Lunaire
• Cyril Scott – Two Passacaglias
• Marcel Tournier – Promenade a l'automne
• Louis Vierne – Symphony for Organ No. 3 in F♯ minor

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Opera

• Walter Damrosch – The Dove of Peace
• Guy Ropartz – Le Pays
• Richard Strauss – Ariadne auf Naxos
• Franz Schreker – Der ferne Klang, libretto by the composer
• Ferruccio Busoni - Die Brautwahl

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1913
MCMXIII

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Classical music

• George Butterworth – Banks of Green Willow
• John Alden Carpenter – Violin Sonata
• Claude Debussy – La boîte à joujoux (ballet); Trois poèmes de Mallarmé
• Gustav Holst – St Paul's Suite
• Igor Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring
• Louis Vierne – Messe basse, Op. 30

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Opera

• Manuel de Falla – La vida breve
• Gabriel Fauré – Pénélope
• Jules Massenet – Panurge
• Italo Montemezzi – L'amore dei tre re (The Love of the Three Kings)
• Modest Mussorgsky – The Fair at Sorochyntsi (Sorochinskaya yarmarka) (incomplete)
• Uzeyir Hajibeyov – Arshin Mal Alan (operetta)

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1914
MCMIV

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Classical music

• John Alden Carpenter - Adventures in a Perambulator (ballet)
• Arthur De Greef - Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor
• Frederick Delius - Violin Sonata No. 1
• Ernő Dohnányi - Variations on a Nursery Song
• Marcel Dupré - Psyche (cantata)
• George Enescu – Symphony No. 2 in A, op. 17
• Herbert Howells - Piano Concerto No. 1
• Charles Ives - Violin Sonata No. 3
• Nikolai Medtner - Sonate-Ballade op. 27
• Carl Nielsen - Serenata in vano
• Sergei Prokofiev
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major
  • Sarcasms, for piano
  • The Ugly Duckling, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
• Roger Quilter - A Children's Overture
• Maurice Ravel - Piano Trio in A Minor
• Max Reger - Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart (orchestral version)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 2 A London Symphony
• Anton Webern - Cello Sonata

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Opera

• Rutland Boughton - The Immortal Hour
• Jules Massenet - Cléopâtre
• Henri Rabaud - Mârouf, savetier du Caire
• Joaquín Turina - Margot
• Gabriel von Wayditch - Opium Dreams
• Riccardo Zandonai - Francesca da Rimini

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1915
MCMXV

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Classical music

• Claude Debussy - En blanc et noir
• Jesús Guridi - Así cantan los chicos
• Federico Mompou - L'Hora Gris (Grey Hour)
• Max Reger - String Trio No. 2 in D minor Op. 141b
• Heitor Villa-Lobos - String Quartets 1 & 2
• Manuel M. Ponce-Balada Mexicana

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Opera

• Umberto Giordano - Madame Sans-Gene
• Scott Joplin - Treemonisha (the only performance during his lifetime)

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1916
MCMXVI

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Classical music

• John Alden Carpenter
  • The Birthday of the Infanta, ballet
  • The Home Road for SATB mixed chorus or unison voices and piano
  • Symphony No. 1 ("Sermons in Stones")
• Carlos Chávez – Sonata fantasia (Sonata No. 1), for piano
• Claude Debussy – Sonata for violin and piano
• Alexander Glazunov – Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Op. 100
• Launy Grøndahl – Violin Concerto in D Major
• Charles Ives
  • Orchestral Set no.1: Three Places in New England
  • Set No. 2, for chamber orchestra
  • Washington's Birthday, for small orchestra
• Charles Koechlin
  • La divine vesprée, ballettr
  • Paysages et marines, op. 63bis, version for flute, clarinet, string quartet, and piano
  • Sonata for cello and piano, op. 66
• Carl Nielsen – Chaconne (for piano)
• Sergei Prokofiev –
  • Concerto no. 1, for violin and orchestra, op. 19
  • Igrok [The Gambler] (opera), op. 24
  • Mimoletnosti (Visions fugitives), 20 pieces for piano, op. 22
  • Sonata No. 3 ("From Old Notebooks"), for piano, op. 28
  • Sonata No. 4 ("From Old Notebooks"), for piano, op. 29
  • Symphony No. 1 Classical, op. 25
• Maurice Ravel – Le tombeau de Couperin, for piano
• Ottorino Respighi – Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 1
• Arnold Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht (string orchestra version)
• Jean Sibelius – Humoresques for Violin and Orchestra opp. 87 and 89
• Charles Villiers Stanford
  • Aviator's Hymn, for tenor, bass, choir, and organ
  • Irish Rhapsody no. 5, in G Minor, for orchestra
  • Night Thoughts, op. 148, for piano
  • "On Windy Way When Morning Breaks", partsong
  • Sailing Song, partsong, two soprano voices
  • "St George of England", song
  • Scènes de ballet, op. 150, for piano
  • Sonata no. 1, in F major, op. 149, for organ
  • Sonata no. 2 ("Eroica"), in Gminor, op. 151, for organ
  • Sonata no. 3 ("Britannica"), in D minor, op. 152, for organ
• Igor Stravinsky –
  • Berceuse, for voice and piano
  • Chant du Rossignol (opera)
  • Cinq pièces faciles, for piano 4 hands
  • "Ovsen'", no. 2 from Podblyudnïye (Saucers) (Four Russian Peasant Songs), for women's choir
  • Song of the Volga Boatmen, arrangement for winds and percussion
  • Study, for pianola
  • Valse pour les enfants, for piano (possibly 1916)
• Karol Szymanowski – Demeter (cantata)
• Heitor Villa-Lobos – Symphony No. 2 Ascenção, The Ascension
• Anton Webern – Vier Lieder (Four Songs) for voice and piano, op. 12

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Opera

• Armas Launis – Kullervo
• Sergei Prokofiev – The Gambler
• Richard Strauss – Die Frau ohne Schatten
• Gabriel von Wayditch – The Caliph's Magician

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1917
MCMXVII

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Classical music

• John Alden Carpenter
  • The Birthday of the Infanta, ballet
  • The Home Road for SATB mixed chorus or unison voices and piano
  • Symphony No. 1 ("Sermons in Stones")
• Carlos Chávez – Sonata fantasia (Sonata No. 1), for piano
• Claude Debussy – Sonata for violin and piano
• Alexander Glazunov – Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Op. 100
• Launy Grøndahl – Violin Concerto in D Major
• Charles Ives
  • Orchestral Set no.1: Three Places in New England
  • Set No. 2, for chamber orchestra
  • Washington's Birthday, for small orchestra
• Charles Koechlin
  • La divine vesprée, ballettr
  • Paysages et marines, op. 63bis, version for flute, clarinet, string quartet, and piano
  • Sonata for cello and piano, op. 66
• Carl Nielsen – Chaconne (for piano)
• Sergei Prokofiev –
  • Concerto no. 1, for violin and orchestra, op. 19
  • Igrok [The Gambler] (opera), op. 24
  • Mimoletnosti (Visions fugitives), 20 pieces for piano, op. 22
  • Sonata No. 3 ("From Old Notebooks"), for piano, op. 28
  • Sonata No. 4 ("From Old Notebooks"), for piano, op. 29
  • Symphony No. 1 Classical, op. 25
• Maurice Ravel – Le tombeau de Couperin, for piano
• Ottorino Respighi – Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 1
• Arnold Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht (string orchestra version)
• Jean Sibelius – Humoresques for Violin and Orchestra opp. 87 and 89
• Charles Villiers Stanford
  • Aviator's Hymn, for tenor, bass, choir, and organ
  • Irish Rhapsody no. 5, in G Minor, for orchestra
  • Night Thoughts, op. 148, for piano
  • "On Windy Way When Morning Breaks", partsong
  • Sailing Song, partsong, two soprano voices
  • "St George of England", song
  • Scènes de ballet, op. 150, for piano
  • Sonata no. 1, in F major, op. 149, for organ
  • Sonata no. 2 ("Eroica"), in Gminor, op. 151, for organ
  • Sonata no. 3 ("Britannica"), in D minor, op. 152, for organ
• Igor Stravinsky –
  • Berceuse, for voice and piano
  • Chant du Rossignol (opera)
  • Cinq pièces faciles, for piano 4 hands
  • "Ovsen'", no. 2 from Podblyudnïye (Saucers) (Four Russian Peasant Songs), for women's choir
  • Song of the Volga Boatmen, arrangement for winds and percussion
  • Study, for pianola
  • Valse pour les enfants, for piano (possibly 1916)
• Karol Szymanowski – Demeter (cantata)
• Heitor Villa-Lobos – Symphony No. 2 Ascenção, The Ascension
• Anton Webern – Vier Lieder (Four Songs) for voice and piano, op. 12

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Opera

• Armas Launis – Kullervo
• Sergei Prokofiev – The Gambler
• Richard Strauss – Die Frau ohne Schatten
• Gabriel von Wayditch – The Caliph's Magician

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1918
MCMXVIII

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• Arnold Bax - Symphonic Variations
• Frederick Delius - A Song Before Sunrise
• Alexander Glazunov - Romance of Nina
• Agustín Barrios - Un sueño en la foresta
• Carl Nielsen - Pan and Syrinx (tone poem)
• Karol Szymanowski - Songs of an infatuated Muezzin

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Opera

• Charles Wakefield Cadman - Shanewis
• Giacomo Puccini - Il Trittico (consisting of Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi)
• Gabriel von Wayditch - Jesus Before Herod

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1919
MCMXIX

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Classical music

• Ernest Bloch - Suite for Viola and Orchestra
• Rebecca Clarke - Sonata for Viola and Piano
• Peder Gram - Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major
• Charles Tomlinson Griffes - The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan
• Johan Halvorsen - Norwegian Rhapsody No. 1
• Paul Hindemith - Sonata for viola & piano in F major, Op. 11/4
• Darius Milhaud - Le bœuf sur le toit (ballet)
• Carl Nielsen - Aladdin (for theatre)
• Gabriel Pierné - Sonata for Cello and Piano
• Dane Rudhyar - Syntony
• Leo Sowerby - Concerto for Harp
• Igor Stravinsky - Firebird Suite No. 1

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Opera

• Die Frau ohne Schatten, opera by Richard Strauss (staged)
• Ihre Hoheit, die Tänzerin (Her Highness, the Dancer), operetta by Walter Goetze
• The Love for Three Oranges, opera by Sergei Prokofiev
• The Moon Maiden by Rutland Boughton

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1920
MCMXX

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Classical music

• Granville Bantock - Arabian Nights
• Béla Bartók - Eight Improvisations on Peasant Songs
• Arnold Bax - Phantasy for viola and orchestra
• Arthur Bliss
  • The Tempest, overture and interludes;
  • Concerto for Piano, tenor voice, strings and percussion;
  • Rout (for soprano and chamber orchestra)
• Ernest Bloch - Violin Sonata No. 1
• Ferruccio Busoni - Piano Sonatina No. 6 (Fantasia da camera super Carmen), Divertimento for flute and orchestra
• Carlos Chávez - Symphony, Piano Sonata No. 1
• Frederick Delius - Hassan
• Gabriel Fauré - Masques et Bergamasques
• Johan Halvorsen - Norwegian Rhapsody No. 2
• Gustav Holst - The Planets
• Arthur Honegger
  • Pastorale d'été
  • Viola Sonata
  • Cello Sonata
• Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov - An Episode from the Life of Schubert, op. 61
• Leoš Janáček - symphonic poem Ballad of Blanik
• Darius Milhaud - Le Boeuf sur le toit (ballet), Ballade (for piano and orchestra)
• Francis Poulenc - Five Impromptus for Piano, Suite in C Major for Piano
• Sergei Prokofiev - Five Songs without Words (for voice and piano)
• Maurice Ravel
  • La Valse
  • Sonata for violin and cello
• Erik Satie - La Belle excentrique
• Dmitri Shostakovich - Five Preludes for Piano
• Igor Stravinsky - Pulcinella, Concertino for string quartet, Symphonies of Wind Instruments
• Ralph Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending, Mass in G minor, London Symphony

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Opera

• Vincent D'Indy - The Legend of St. Christoper
• Clemens Freiherr von Franckenstein - Li-Tai-Pe
• Henry Hadley - Cleopatra's Night
• Leoš Janáček - The Excursions of Mr. Broucek on the Moon and in the 15th Century
• Erich Korngold - Die tote Stadt
• Ruggiero Leoncavallo - Edipo Re
• Michael Tippett - The Knot Garde

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1921
MCMXXI

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• Agustín Barrios – La Catedral
• John Foulds – World Requiem (1919–21) (premiered 1923)
• Howard Hanson – Before the night
• Carl Nielsen – Moderen (stage music)
• Sergei Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major
• Edgard Varèse – Offrandes; Amériques (1918–21)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – A Pastoral Symphony (1921)
• Heitor Villa-Lobos – Fantasia de Movimentos Mistos, for violin & orchestra
• Arnold Schoenberg – Suite for Piano Op. 25
• John Ireland - Amberley Wild Brooks

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Opera

• Franco Alfano – La leggenda di Sakùntala
• Nicolae Bretan – Luceafarul
• Leoš Janáček – Katya Kabanova
• Hans Jelmoli – Die Badener Fahrt
• Emmerich Kalman – Die Bajadere
• Pietro Mascagni – Il Piccolo Marat
• Sergei Prokofiev – The Love for Three Oranges

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1922
MCMXXII

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Classical music

• Kurt Atterberg - Cello Concerto
• Vittorio Giannini - Stabat Mater
• Hamilton Harty - Piano Concerto
• Paul Hindemith - String Quartet No. 3 in C, Op. 22
• Manuel Infante - Sevillana "Impresiones de fiesta en Sevilla"
• Carl Nielsen - Fynsk Foraar
• Carl Nielsen - Wind Quintet
• William Walton - Façade (subsequently revised)

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Opera

• Jean Cras - Polyphème
• Jules Massenet - Amadis
• The Fakir of Benares
• Igor Stravinsky - Mavra

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MCMXXIII

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• Henry Cowell - Aeolian Harp
• Gerald Finzi - A Severn Rhapsody
• Sigfrid Karg-Elert - Cathedral Windows
• Darius Milhaud - La création du monde (ballet)
• Hans Pfitzner - Concerto for Violin in B minor
• Sergei Prokofiev - "Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, op. 19" (premiere)
• Igor Stravinsky - Octet for wind Instruments
• Germaine Tailleferre - Ballade for Piano and Orchestra; Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra
• Joaquín Turina - Jardin de Oriente
• Edgard Varèse
  • Hyperprism (1922-23)
  • Octandre
• William Walton - Toccata for Violin and Piano
• Leó Weiner - Concertino for Piano and Orchestra
• Alexander von Zemlinsky - Lyric Symphony

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Opera

• Alfred Bruneau - Le Jardin du paradis
• Joaquín Turina - Jardin de Oriente

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1924
MCMXXIV

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Classical music

• George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue
• Jacques Ibert – Escales
• Joseph Jongen – Sonata for Flute and Piano
• Ottorino Respighi – I Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome)
• Carl Ruggles – Men and Mountains
• Erik Satie – Relâche (ballet)
• Jean Sibelius – Symphony no. 7 in C major, opus 105
• Edgard Varèse – Octandre

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Opera

• Leoš Janáček – The Cunning Little Vixen
• Henri Sauguet – Le plumet du colonel (The Colonel's Helmet)
• Arnold Schoenberg – Die Gluckliche Hand
• Giacomo Puccini – Turandot

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1925
MCMXXV

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Classical music

• Isidor Achron - Violin Concerto No. 1
• Béla Bartók - Dance Suite
• Ernest Bloch - Concerto Grosso No. 1, for piano and strings
• John Fernström - Violin Concerto No. 1
• Jacob Gade - Jalousie, for cello and piano
• George Gershwin - Piano Concerto in F
• Leopold Godowsky - Java Suite
• Sir William Henry Harris - Faire is the Heaven
• Herbert Howells - Piano Concerto No. 2
• Bohuslav Martinů - String Quartet No. 2
• Carl Nielsen - Symphony No. 6 Sinfonia Semplice
• Sergei Prokofiev - Symphony No. 2, Iron and Steel
• Erwin Schulhoff - Symphony No. 1, String Quartet No. 2 ([1])
• Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 1
• Marcel Tournier - Images No. 1, Op. 29; Etude de Concert "Au Matin"
• Edgard Varèse - Intégrales
• Ralph Vaughan Williams - Concerto Accademico for Violin and Strings, Flos Campi
• William Walton - Portsmouth Point, concert overture
• Kurt Weill - Violin Concerto
• Stefan Wolpe - Three Songs by Heinrich von Kleist

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Opera

• Alban Berg - Wozzeck
• Armstrong Gibbs - Blue Peter
• Maurice Ravel - L'enfant et les sortilèges

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1926
MCMXXVI

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Classical music

• George Antheil - Ballet mécanique
• Jens Laursen Emborg - Concerto for violin and orchestra
• Manuel de Falla - Concerto for harpsichord
• Jakov Gotovac - Simfonijsko kolo, op. 12
• Ferde Grofé - Theme and Variations on Music from a Garage
• Harald Sæverud - Symphony in B flat minor
• Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 1
• Igor Stravinsky - Pater Noster
• Gerald Tyrwhitt - The Triumph of Neptune (ballet)
• Peter Warlock - Capriol Suite
• Piano Concerto No. 1-Béla Bartók

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Opera

• Leoš Janáček - The Makropulos Affair
• Zoltán Kodály - Háry János
• Ernst Krenek - Johnny spielt auf

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MCMXXVII

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• Frank Bridge - Rhapsody: Enter Spring
• John Alden Carpenter - String Quartet
• Gerald Finzi - Violin Concerto
• André Fleury - Allegro symphonique
• Reinhold Glière - The Red Poppy (ballet)
• Karl Amadeus Hartmann - Two Sonatas for Unaccompanied Violin
• Dmitri Kabalevsky - Piano Sonata No. 1
• Zoltán Kodály - Suite from the opera Háry János
• Józef Koffler - Musique. Quasi una sonata; 15 variations on a 12 tone series (15 variations d'après une suite de douze tons) (opp. 8 & 9)
• Bohuslav Martinů - La Revue de Cuisine
• Carl Nielsen - An Imaginary Trip to the Faroe Islands (orchestral)
• Dane Rudhyar - Paeans
• Henri Sauguet - La Chatte (ballet)
• Arnold Schoenberg - String Quartet No. 3
• Roger Sessions - Symphony No. 1
• Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 2 in B major, Op. 14
• Igor Stravinsky - Oedipus Rex
• Karol Szymanowski - String Quartet No. 2
• Edgard Varèse - Arcana (1925–27)
• Anton Webern - String Trio, Op. 20

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Opera

• Franz Lehár - Der Zarewitsch
• Sergei Prokofiev - The Fiery Angel
• Jaromír Weinberger - Švanda the Bagpiper

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MCMXXVIII

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• Aaron Avshalomov - Four Biblical Tableaux
• Granville Bantock - Pagan Symphony
• Béla Bartók - String Quartet No. 4
• Werner Egk - Concerto for Violin and Chamber Orchestra
• Gerald Finzi - Grand Fantasia and Toccata
• Roberto Gerhard - Wind Quintet
• Karl Amadeus Hartmann - Jazz Toccata and Fugue
• Gordon Jacob – String Quartet
• Dmitri Kabalevsky
  • Piano Concerto No. 1
  • String Quartet No. 1
• Wilhelm Kienzl - String Quartet No. 3 in E major
• Uuno Klami - Karelian Rhapsody
• Ernst Krenek
  • Little Symphony
  • Piano Sonata No. 2
• Maurice Ravel - Bolero
• Sergei Prokofiev
  • Symphony No. 3
  • The Prodigal Son (ballet)
• Albert Roussel - Psalm 80
• Roger Sessions - The Black Maskers Suite for Orchestra
• Leo Sowerby - Symphony No. 2
• Heitor Villa-Lobos
  • Chôros bis
  • Chôros No. 11
  • Chôros No. 14
  • Quinteto em forma de chôros
• Pancho Vladigerov - Bulgarische Rhapsodie "Vardar"

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Opera

• Erwin Dressel - Der arme Columbus
• Cyril Scott - The Alchemist
• Dmitri Shostakovich - The Nose (1927–28)
• Richard Strauss - Die ägyptische Helena premiered at the Dresden Semperoper on 6 June 1928.
• Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht - Die Dreigroschenoper premiered on 31 August 1928, at Berlin's Theater am Schiffbauerdamm.

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Here is the best version of the song on the web. Ute Kemper's English and German version. High quality and utterly "unembeddable", I am not worthy to copy it onto my blog. You can watch it on YouTube by following this link: Surabaya Johnny.

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German Rock star Nina Hagen gives us a convincing version of the song and shows how multi-talented she is. Nina Hagen was in many ways, the German "Lady Gaga" of the Eighties. She was originally trained in opera. 

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1929
MCMXXIX

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Classical music

• Kurt Atterberg – Symphonic Poem Älven, Op. 33
• Samuel Barber – Serenade [for quartet or string orchestra]
• Béla Bartók –
  • Rhapsody No. 1, for violin and orchestra
  • Twenty Hungarian Folksongs, for voice and piano
• Arnold Bax – Symphony No. 3; Sonata for Two Pianos; Legend, for Viola and Piano^[2]
• Amy Beach – String Quartet, Op. 89
• Conrad Beck – Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra
• Boris Blacher – Jazz Koloraturen^[3]
• Ernest Bloch – Helvetia (Symphonic Poem); Abodah for Violin
• Benjamin Britten – Rhapsody for String Quartet^[4]
• Alan Bush – Dialectic Op. 15 for String Quartet^[5]
• Carlos Chávez – Sonata for four horns
• Aaron Copland – Symphonic Ode
• Henry Cowell – Piano Concerto
• Cornelis Dopper – Incidental Music to Vondel's Lucifer^[6]
• Pierre-Octave Ferroud – Violin Sonata
• Alexander Gretchaninov – String Quartet No. 4 in F Op. 124
• Paul Juon – Litaniae for Piano, Violin and Cello in C sharp minor
• Wilhelm Kempff – Symphony No. 2
• Ernst Krenek –
  • Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen, op. 62
  • Triophantasie, op. 63
• Igor Markevitch – Sinfonietta in F; Piano Concerto
• Bohuslav Martinů – String Quartet No. 3 H.183, Violin Sonata No. 1 H.355^[7]
• Olivier Messiaen – Diptyque pour orgue^[8]
• Darius Milhaud – Concerto No. 1 for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 108
• Ildebrando Pizzetti – Rondo Veneziano
• Francis Poulenc – Aubade
• Sergei Prokofiev – Prodigal Son, op. 46 (1928–29, ballet)
• Silvestre Revueltas – Pieza para Orquesta
• Julius Röntgen – Piano Concerto in E major
• Albert Roussel –
  • Petite Suite, op. 39, for orchestra
  • Prelude and Fughetta, op. 41, for organ
  • Trio, for flute, viola and cello, op. 40^[9]
• Arnold Schoenberg – Piano Piece Op. 33a^[10]
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 3 E flat major, Op. 20
• Igor Stravinsky –
  • Capriccio, for piano and orchestra
  • Berceuse, for violin and piano (arr. from ballet The Firebird)
• Ernst Toch – Bunte Suite, Op. 48; Cello Sonata, Op. 50; Kleine Ouvertüre zu der Fächer (Little Overture to the (opera the) Fan), Op. 51
• Heitor Villa-Lobos –
  • Chôros No. 9 for orchestra
  • Chôros No. 12 for orchestra
  • Chôros No. 13 for 2 orchestras & band
  • Introduction aux chôros (Introdução aos chôros): Ouverture, for guitar and orchestra
  • Mômo Precoce, fantasy for piano and orchestra
  • 12 Etudes for guitar
• William Walton – Viola Concerto
• Egon Wellesz – String Quartet No. 4 Op. 28

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Opera

• Hans Chemin-Petit
  • Der gefangene Vogel
  • Lady Monika
• Umberto Giordano – Il Re (La Scala, January 12)
• Paul Hindemith – Neues vom Tage (June 8, 1929, Kroll Opera House, Berlin)
• Sergei Prokofiev – The Gambler
• Arnold Schoenberg – Von Heute auf Morgen (February 1, 1930, Frankfurt) (composition completed January 1, 1929)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – Sir John in Love

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1930
MCMXXX

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Classical music

• William Alwyn - Piano Concerto No. 1
• Arthur Bliss - Morning Heroes (oratorio)
• Aaron Copland - Piano Variations
• Arthur De Greef - Piano Concerto no. 2
• Alexander Glazunov - String Quartet No. 7
• Reynaldo Hahn - Piano Concerto in E
• Howard Hanson - Symphony No. 2, Romantic
• Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov - Turkish Fragments
• John Ireland -
  • Legend for piano and orchestra
  • Piano Concerto in E flat
• Paul Juon - Quintet for Winds in B-flat major
• Zoltán Kodály - Dances of Marosszék
• Igor Markevitch - Concerto Grosso
• Arnold Schoenberg –
  • Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielszene, for orchestra, op. 34
  • Sechs Stücke, for male choir, op. 35
• Igor Stravinsky – Symphony of Psalms
• Heitor Villa-Lobos -
  • Bachiana brasileira No. 1, for orchestra of cellos
  • Bachiana brasileira No. 2, for small orchestra
• Anton Webern - Quartet, for tenor saxophone, violin, cello, and piano, op. 22

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Opera

• Ralph Benatzky - Im weissen Rössl
• Leoš Janáček - From the House of the Dead
• Arnold Schoenberg - Von Heute auf Morgen (1 February 1930, Frankfurt)
• Kurt Weill - The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

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1931
MCMXXXI

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Classical music

• Joseph Achron - Quartet for Cello, Trumpet, Horn, and Piano, Golem
• Marc Blitzstein - Piano Concerto
• Benjamin Britten - String Quartet in D
• Ruth Crawford Seeger - String Quartet
• Samuel Feinberg - Piano Concerto no. 1
• Reinhold Glière - Comedians (ballet)
• Camargo Guarnieri - Cello Sonata No. 1
• Constant Lambert - Concerto for Piano & 9 Instruments
• Igor Markevitch - Serenade for Three Instruments
• Paul Paray - Mass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Joan of Arc
• Carl Nielsen - Commotio (for organ)
• Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 4, for left hand, written for Paul Wittgenstein.
• Maurice Ravel - Piano Concerto for Left Hand, written for Paul Wittgenstein.
• Cyril Scott - Cello Concerto
• Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, "First of May"
• Igor Stravinsky - Violin Concerto in D
• Edgard Varèse - Ionisation (1929–31)
• William Walton - Belshazzar's Feast (oratorio)

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Opera

• George Antheil - Helen Retires (not performed until 1934)
• Arthur Benjamin - The Devil Take Her
• Gustave Charpentier - Orphée
• Paul Dessau - Das Eisenbahnspiel
• Walter Goehr - Malpopita
• Gabriel von Wayditch - Horus
• Eugène Ysaÿe - Peter the Miner

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1932
MCMXXXII

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• Arthur Benjamin – Violin Concerto
• Arthur Bliss – A Colour Symphony
• Jean Françaix – Piano Concerto
• Gunnar de Frumerie – Variations and Fugue
• Percy Grainger – Handel in the Strand
• Camargo Guarnieri – String Quartet No. 1
• Jascha Heifetz – arrangement of Grigoraş Dinicu's Hora staccato
• Dmitri Kabalevsky – Symphony No. 1
• László Lajtha – Cello Sonata
• Nikolai Myaskovsky – Symphony No. 11
• Sergei Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 55
• Miklós Rózsa – Bagatelles for Piano, Op. 12
• John Ireland - A Downland Suite

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Opera

• Amy Beach – Cabildo
• Ottorino Respighi – Maria Egiziaca

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1933
MCMXXXIII

Nineteen Hundred Thirty Three was the year of the delightful Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev. So delightful, that "Peter's theme" has been designated as the official ringtone for my other half on my mobile phone! In opera, Richard Strauss gives us the beautiful Arabella.

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Classical music

• Kurt Atterberg – A Varmland Rhapsody
• Paul Creston – Seven Theses for piano
• Luigi Dallapiccola – Partita
• Robert M. Helmschrott – Concerto for Organ and Percussion "Lamento"
• Gustav Holst – Lyric Movement
• Igor Markevitch – Psaume for soprano, female chorus and orchestra
• Xavier Montsalvatge – Tres Impromptus
• Sergei Prokofiev – Peter and the Wolf
• Arnold Schoenberg –
  • Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (after Monn)
  • Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (after Handel, Concerto Grosso, op. 6 no. 7)
  • Drei Lieder, op. 48
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Piano Concerto No. 1
• Igor Stravinsky – Perséphone

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Opera

• Aaron Avshalomov – The Twilight Hour of Yan Kuei Fei
• Joseph Canteloube – Vercingétorix
• Louis Gruenberg – The Emperor Jones
• Richard Strauss – Arabella

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1934

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Classical music

• Béla Bartók - String Quartet No. 5
• Benjamin Britten - Simple Symphony
• Karl Amadeus Hartmann - Miserae
• Qunihico Hashimoto - Cantata Celebrating the Birth of the Prince
• Jacques Ibert - Flute Concerto
• Darius Milhaud - Concertino de Printemps for violin and orchestra
• Sergei Prokofiev - Egyptian Nights suite
• Harald Sæverud - Canto Ostinato
• Leopold Spinner - Passacaglia
• Germaine Tailleferre - Concerto for 2 Pianos, Eight Solo Voices, Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra
• Eduard Tubin - Symphony no 1 in C minor (1931-34)
• Edgard Varèse - Ecuatorial (1932-34)
• Kosaku Yamada - Nagauta Symphony

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Opera

• Vittorio Giannini - Lucedia
• Gustav Holst - The Wandering Scholar
• Leoš Janáček - Destiny
• Dmitri Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
• Virgil Thomson - Four Saints in Three Acts (libretto by Gertrude Stein
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• Alban Berg - Violin Concerto
• Hanns Eisler - Lenin Requiem
• Rudolf Escher - Piano Sonata No. 1
• Pierre-Octave Ferroud - Sonnerie pour le Hérault
• Vittorio Giannini - Piano Concerto
• Paul Hindemith - Der Schwanendreher for Viola and Orchestra
• André Hossein - Towards the Light (ballet)
• Akira Ifukube - Japanese Rhapsody
• Uuno Klami - Psalmus (oratorio)
• Hans Pfitzner - Cello Concerto No. 1 in G Major
• Sergei Prokofiev - Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63
• Roger Sessions - Violin Concerto in B minor
• Petar Stojanović - Sava (symphonic poem)
• William Walton - Symphony No. 1

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Opera

• Brian Easdale - The Corn King
• Reynaldo Hahn - Le marchand de Venise
• Karl Amadeus Hartmann - Simplicius Simplicissimus
• Arthur Honegger - Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
• Pietro Mascagni - Nerone

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• Grażyna Bacewicz – Trio for Oboe, Violin and Piano
• Samuel Barber –
  • Symphony No. 1, Op. 9
  • String Quartet, Op. 11
• Béla Bartók – Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
• Arnold Bax –
  • Threnody and Scherzo
  • String Quartet No. 3 in F major
• Ernest Bloch – Voice in the Wilderness
• Benjamin Britten – Three Divertimenti for String Quartet
• Henry Cowell – String Quartet #4, "United"
• David Diamond –
  • Violin Concerto No. 1
  • Concerto for String Quartet
• John Fernström – Clarinet Concerto
• Berthold Goldschmidt – String Quartet No. 2
• Paul Hindemith – Trauermusik (Funeral Music)
• Alan Hovhaness – Cello Concerto
• Aram Khachaturian – Piano Concerto
• Bohuslav Martinů – Concerto for Flute, Violin and Chamber Orchestra
• Olivier Messiaen - Poèmes Pour Mi, song cycle for piano and soprano
• Sergei Prokofiev –
  • Peter and the Wolf, for narrator and orchestra
  • Romeo and Juliet (ballet)
  • Russian Overture for orchestra
• Sergei Rachmaninoff – Symphony No. 3
• Albert Roussel – Concertino for Cello and Orchestra
• Edmund Rubbra –
  • Sinfonia Concertante
  • Symphony No. 1, Op. 44
• Arnold Schoenberg –
  • Violin Concerto, Op. 36 (1935–36)
  • String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37
• Roger Sessions – String Quartet No. 1
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43 (1935–1936)
• Edgard Varèse – Density 21.5
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – Dona Nobis Pacem
• Anton Webern – Variations for Piano (1935–1936)
• Percy Whitlock – Sonata for Organ in C minor

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Opera

• Franco Alfano – Cyrano de Bergerac
• George Enescu – Oedipe
• Emmerich Kalman – Kaiserin Josephine
• Bohuslav Martinů – Divadlo za branou (The Suburban Theater)
• Gian Carlo Menotti – Amelia al Ballo

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Classical music

• Luciano Berio – Pastorale for piano
• Arthur Bliss – Checkmate (ballet)
• Rutland Boughton – Symphony No. 3 in B minor
• John Alden Carpenter – Piano Quintet
• Aaron Copland – El Salon Mexico
• David Diamond – Psalm
• George Dyson – Symphony in G major
• Hanns Eisler – String Quartet
• Ferenc Farkas – Concertino for Harp and Orchestra
• John Fernström – Viola Concerto
• Alan Hovhaness – Cello Concerto
• John Ireland – These Things Shall Be
• Frank Martin – Symphony
• Nikolai Medtner – sonate-idylle for piano, opus 56 in G major
• Nikolai Myaskovsky – revision of String Quartet No. 4, composition of Symphony No. 17 in G♯ minor and Symphony No. 18 in C major
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – Job: A Masque for Dancing (ballet)
• Heitor Villa-Lobos – Distribuição de Flores for flute and guitar
• Percy Whitlock – Wessex Suite

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Opera

• Alban Berg – Lulu
• Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert – L'Aiglon
• Kurt Weill – The Eternal Road (Der Weg der Verheißung)

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Classical music

• Jean Absil – Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1
• Alan Bush – Piano Concerto, op. 18, with baritone and male choir in last movement
• Aaron Copland – Billy the Kid (ballet)
• Hanns Eisler – Roman Cantata
• Hamilton Harty – The Children of Lir
• Roy Harris – Symphony No. 3
• Herbert Howells – Hymnus Paradisi
• Janis Ivanovs – Symphony No. 3
• Frank Martin – Sonata da chiesa
• Carl Orff – Carmina Burana
• Walter Piston – Symphony No. 1
• Silvestre Revueltas – Sensemayá: Chant for the Killing of a Snake
• Dmitri Shostakovich – String Quartet No. 1
• Ernst Toch – Cantata of Bitter Herbs
• Leó Weiner – Divertimento for Strings no 2

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Opera

• Paul Frederic Bowles – Denmark Vesey
• Paul Hindemith – Mathis der Maler
• Dmitri Kabalevsky – Colas Breugnon
• Jeronimas Kacinskas – Nonet
• Ernst Krenek – Karl V
• Douglas Stuart Moore – The Devil and Daniel Webster

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Classical music

• Agustín Barrios - Variations on a Theme of Tarrega
• Arnold Bax - Pastoral Fantasia for Viola and String Orchestra
• Arthur Bliss - Piano Concerto in B-flat
• Karl Amadeus Hartmann - Concerto funebre for Violin and String Orchestra
• Herbert Howells - Concerto for Strings
• Joaquín Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez
• Hilding Rosenberg - String Quartet No. 4
• William Schuman - American Festival Overture
• Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 6 B minor, Op. 54
• Heitor Villa-Lobos - New York Sky-Line Melody
• William Walton - Violin Concerto

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Opera

• Gian-Carlo Menotti - The Old Maid and the Thief (radio opera)
• Tolibjon Sadikov - Leili and Mejnun (opera)

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Classical music

• Granville Bantock – Celtic Symphony
• Samuel Barber – Violin Concerto
• Lennox Berkeley – Symphony No. 1
• Benjamin Britten – Sinfonia da Requiem
• Aaron Copland – Episode, Music for Our Town
• Paul Creston – Symphony No. 1
• David Diamond – Concerto for Small Orchestra, String Quartet No. 1
• Hanns Eisler – Chamber Symphony
• John Fernström – Cello Concerto
• 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
• Olivier Messiaen – Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet For The End Of Time)
• Darius Milhaud – String Quartet No. 10
• Gosta Nystroem – Viola Concerto
• Walter Piston – Suite from The Incredible Flutist
• Sergei Rachmaninoff – Symphonic Dances
• Roger Sessions – From my Diary
• Igor Stravinsky – Symphony in C completed
• William Walton – The Wise Virgins (ballet)

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Opera

• Manuel Camacho Vega – Tonatiuh

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Classical music

• Joseph Achron – Concerto for Piano Solo
• Richard Addinsell – Warsaw Concerto
• Hanns Eisler – Fourteen Ways of Describing the Rain
• Roberto Gerhard – Sinfonía homenaje a Pedrell
• Reinhold Glière – Pochodnyj marš (Field march) for wind orchestra, op. 76
• Vítězslav Novák – De Profundis
• Harry Partch – Barstow
• Sergei Prokofiev – String Quartet No. 2 in F, Op. 92
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 7 C major, Op. 60 "Leningrad"

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Opera

• Benjamin Britten – Paul Bunyan
• Miguel Bernal Jiménez - Tata Vasco

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Classical music

• Alessandro Casagrande - Messa, in re minore, per soli coro e orchestra
• Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man
• Camargo Guarnieri - Abertura Concertante
• Carlos Guastavino - Once Upon A Time (ballet)
• Aram Khachaturian - Gayane (ballet)
• Gerald Finzi - Let Us Garlands Bring
• Bohuslav Martinů - Piano Quartet No. 1
• Arnold Schoenberg - Piano Concerto, Op. 42
• Igor Stravinsky - Four Norwegian Moods

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Opera

• Walter Damrosch - The Opera Cloak
• Dmitri Kabalevsky - In the Fire

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Classical music

Yehudi Menuhin in 1943

• Béla Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra
• Benjamin Britten - Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
• Reinhold Glière - 25 let Krasnoj Armii (25 Years of the Red Army), Ouverture for wind-orchestra op. 84
• Paul Hindemith
  • Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber for orchestra
  • Ludus Tonalis, for piano
• Joaquin Homs - Choral Mass
• Rued Langgaard - Concerto in one movement for violin and orchestra
• Bohuslav Martinů
  • Symphony No. 2
  • In Memory of Lidice
  • Concerto for Two Pianos
  • Violin Concerto
• Vítězslav Novák - May Symphony, for soli, chorus and orchestra
• Carl Orff - Catulli Carmina (revised version)
• Walter Piston - Symphony No. 2
• Manuel Ponce - Viola Concerto
• Sergei Prokofiev - Flute Sonata in D Major
• William Schuman - Symphony No. 5, for strings
• Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 8
• Eduard Tubin - Suite on Estonian Dances for Violin and Piano
• Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 5 in D Major
• William Walton - The Quest (ballet)

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Opera

• Hans Krása - Brundibár, children's opera, first performed by inmates of Terezin transit camp

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Classical music

• George Antheil - Symphony No 4
• Leonard Bernstein - Fancy Free (ballet)
• Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring (ballet)
• George Crumb - Two Duos for flute and clarinet
• David Diamond - Rounds
• 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
• Vagn Holmboe - Symphony No. 4
• Joseph Jongen - Concerto for Harp No. 1
• Zoltán Kodály - Missa Brevis
• Frank Martin - Petite symphonie concertante
• Darius Milhaud - Suite française
• Dmitri Shostakovich - Trio for violin, cello and piano No. 2 E minor, Op. 67; String Quartet No.2 in A major, Op. 68
• Michael Tippett - A Child of our Time
• Heitor Villa-Lobos - Symphony No. 6 - Montanhas do Brasil (The Mountains of Brazil)
• Grace Williams - Sea Sketches

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Opera

• Sergei Prokofiev - War and Peace

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Classical music

• Samuel Barber - Cello Concerto
• George Crumb - Four Pieces for violin and piano
• George Crumb - Four Songs for voice, clarinet and piano
• George Crumb - Sonata for piano
• Morton Gould - Viola concerto
• Bohuslav Martinů - Rhapsodie Tcheque
• Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 9 E flat major, Op. 70
• Richard Strauss - Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings
• Igor Stravinsky - Ebony Concerto for clarinet and jazz band

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Opera

• Benjamin Britten - Peter Grimes
• Paul Dessau - Die Reisen des Glücksgotts
• Frederick Jacobi - The Prodigal Son

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1946

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Classical music

• Malcolm Arnold – Symphony for Strings opus 13
• Arno Babadzhanian – Polyphonic Piano Sonata
• Benjamin Britten – Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
• Aaron Copland – Symphony No. 3
• George Crumb – Poem; Seven Songs for voice and piano
• Gottfried von Einem – Dantons Tod
• Don Gillis – Symphony No. 5½, A Symphony for Fun
• Ruth Gipps – Symphony No. 2
• Jesús Guridi – Sinfonía Pirenaica
• Karl Amadeus Hartmann – Symphony No. 2 "Adagio"
• Herbert Howells – Gloucester Service
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Cello Concerto
• Bohuslav Martinů – Symphony No. 5, H.310; Toccata e Due Canzoni; String Quartet No. 6, H.312
• Peter Mennin – Symphony No. 3
• Vincent Persichetti – Symphony No. 3
• Edmund Rubbra – Cello Sonata opus 60
• Roger Sessions – Symphony No. 2, Piano Sonata No. 2
• Igor Stravinsky – Concerto in D for Strings
• Michael Tippett – Little Music for String Orchestra
• William Walton – String Quartet No. 2

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Opera

• Benjamin Britten – The Rape of Lucretia

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Classical music

• Milton Babbitt – Three Compositions for Piano
• Samuel Barber – Knoxville: Summer of 1915
• Lennox Berkeley – Piano Concerto in B-flat
• Pierre Boulez - "Second Piano Sonata"
• Doreen Carwithen (Mary Alwyn) – ODTAA (One Damn Thing After Another)
• Paul Creston – Fantasy for Trombone
• George Crumb
  • Gethsemane for small orchestra
  • Three Early Songs for Voice and Piano
• David Diamond – String Quartet No. 3
• Maurice Duruflé – Requiem
• Henri Dutilleux – oboe Sonata
• Einar Englund – Symphony No. 1 War Symphony
• Vittorio Giannini – Variations on a Cantus Firmus
• Morton Gould – American Salute
• Vagn Holmboe – Symphony No. 6
• Charles Ives – Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840–60 (Concord Sonata, revised version)
• Miloslav Kabeláč – Overture No. 2 for large orchestra
• Gian Francesco Malipiero
  • Symphony No. 5 (Concertante in Eco)
  • Symphony No. 6 (degli Archi)
• Nikolai Myaskovsky
  • Pathetic Overture in C Minor, Op.76
  • String Quartet No. 12 in G, Op.77
• Sergei Prokofiev
  • Symphony No. 6 in E-flat Minor
  • Symphony No. 4 in C Major (extensively revised version)
• Edmund Rubbra – Symphony No. 5
• Mátyás Seiber – Ulysses (cantata)
• Harold Shapero – Symphony for Classical Orchestra
• Igor Stravinsky
  • Orpheus (ballet)
  • Petrushka (ballet) (2nd version)
• Edgard Varèse – Tuning Up
• William Walton – String Quartet in A minor (1945–47)

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Opera

• Benjamin Britten – Albert Herring
• Gottfried von Einem – Dantons Tod
• Gian Carlo Menotti – The Telephone
• Ildebrando Pizzetti – L'Oro
• Virgil Thomson – The Mother of Us All

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Classical music

• George Antheil — Violin Sonata No. 4; String Quartet No. 3
• Pierre Boulez — Piano Sonata No. 2
• Havergal Brian — Symphony No. 7
• John Cage — Suite for Toy Piano
• Elliott Carter — Cello Sonata
• Aaron Copland — Red Pony Suite; Clarinet Concerto
• George Crumb — Alleluja for unaccompanied chorus
• Einar Englund — Symphony No. 2 Blackbird
• Ross Lee Finney — String Quartet No. 5
• Vagn Holmboe — Concerto No. 11 for trumpet and orchestra (his only trumpet concerto, but once called Chamber Concerto No. 11 because of its scoring)
• Dmitri Kabalevsky — Violin Concerto in C major
• Bohuslav Martinů — Piano Concerto No. 3; The Strangler (ballet)
• Nikolai Myaskovsky — Cello Sonata No. 2
• Andrzej Panufnik — Symphony No. 1 Sinfonia Rustica
• Francis Poulenc — Sonate pour violoncelle et piano, Op. 143 (1948)
• Sergei Prokofiev — The Story of a Real Man (opera, completed this year)
• Alan Rawsthorne — Violin Concerto No. 1
• Pierre Schaeffer — Étude aux chemins de fer
• William Schuman — Symphony No. 6
• Harold Shapero - Symphony for Classical Orchestra^[1]
• Dmitri Shostakovich — From Jewish Folk Poetry (song cycle)
• Richard Strauss — Four Last Songs
• Igor Stravinsky — Mass for Chorus and Double Wind Quintet
• Eduard Tubin — Double Bass Concerto
• Henning Wellejus — Violin Concerto in A minor

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Opera

• Arthur Bliss - The Olympians
• Norman Demuth - Le Flambeau

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Classical music

• Aaron Avshalomov – Second Symphony
• Marcel Bitsch – Six Esquisses symphoniques
• Havergal Brian – Symphony No. 8 in B-flat Minor
• George Crumb – Sonata for violin and piano
• Ferenc Farkas – Finnish Popular Dances
• André Jolivet – Flute Concerto
• Paul Hindemith – Sonata for Double Bass and Piano
• Dmitry Kabalevsky – Cello Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op.49 (1948–9)
• Olivier Messiaen – Mode de valeurs et d'intensités
• 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
• Sergei Prokofiev – Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op.119
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Song of the Forests (oratorio)
• Edgard Varèse – Dance for Burgess
• Mieczysław Weinberg – Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes, Op. 47 No. 1

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Opera

• Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Pilgrim's Progress

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Classical music

• Pierre Boulez –
  • Polyphonie X
  • Le soleil des eaux, for soprano, chorus and orchestra (second version)
• John Cage – String Quartet in Four Parts
• Arnold Schoenberg –
  • Psalm 130 “De profundis”, op. 50b
  • Modern Psalm, op. 50c (unfinished)
• Karlheinz Stockhausen –
  • Choral ("Wer uns trug mit Schmerzen in dies Leben"), for a capella choir, Nr. 1/9 (1950)
  • Chöre für Doris, for a capella choir, Nr. ¹/₁₁ (1950)
  • Drei Lieder, for alto voice and chamber orchestra, Nr. 1/10 (1950)

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Opera

• Luigi Dallapiccola – Il Prigionero (The Prisoner)
• Norman Dello Joio – The Triumph of Saint Joan
• Lukas Foss – The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (opera in two scenes, libretto by Jean Karsavina, premiered on May 18, 1950, at Indiana University)
• Vittorio Giannini – The Taming of the Shrew
• Gian-Carlo Menotti – The Consul

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Classical music

• Malcolm Arnold – English Dances for Orchestra, op. 33
• Pierre Boulez – Polyphonie X
• John Cage – Imaginary Landscape No. 4
• György Ligeti – Concert românesc for Orchestra
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues for Piano op. 87 finished
• Karlheinz Stockhausen – Kreuzspiel
• Heitor Villa-Lobos – Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra

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Opera

• Benjamin Britten – Billy Budd, with libretto by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier
• Paul Dessau – The Trial of Lucullus, with libretto by Bertolt Brecht (March 18, Berlin), despite rumours that the work would be forbidden by the East German authorities.^[17]
• Marcel Landowski – Le Rire de Nils Halerius
• Gian-Carlo Menotti – Amahl and the Night Visitors
• Igor Stravinsky – The Rake's Progress, with libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Pilgrim's Progress^[18]

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• John Cage - 4′33″
• Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No.5 in B-flat major, Op. 92
• Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Etude, musique concrète
  • Klavierstücke I–IV
  • Punkte ("Points"), for orchestra (first version)
  • Schlagquartett, for piano and 3 pair of timpani (first version)
  • Spiel, for orchestra

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• Franco Alfano - Sakùntala (revision of La leggenda di Sakùntala)
• Leonard Bernstein - Trouble in Tahiti
• Raymond Chevreuille - Atta Troll
• Mozart Camargo Guarnieri - Pedro Malazarte (comic opera in one act, libretto by Mario de Andrade, premiered in May at the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro)
• Sergei Prokofiev - War and Peace

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1953

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• Classical music

  • György Ligeti – Sonata for Solo Cello
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    • Ballet Suite No. 4
    • Symphony No. 10 E minor, Op. 93
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen -
    • Kontra-Punkte
    • Klavierstücke I–IV (revised version)
    • Studie I, electronic music
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams – Sinfonia antartica
  • Heitor Villa-Lobos
    • Harp Concerto
    • Cello Concerto No. 2

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  • The Decembrists (Yuri Shaporin) first staged 23 June 1953 at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow.
  • The Dumb Wife (Joseph Horovitz), premiered 21 November 1953 at the Guildhall School, London, by the Intimate Opera Company.
  • Gloriana (Benjamin Britten) composed 1953, first performed on 8 July 1953 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in the presence of Elizabeth II.
  • Irmelin (Frederick Delius) composed 1890–92; first produced Oxford, 4 May 1953.
  • Lenora 40/50 (Rolf Liebermann) first produced in Berlin on 12 February 1953 at the State Opera House in the British sector.
  • Man of Enterprise (Denis Bloodworth) first produced on 8 December 1953 at Tiffin School, Kingston, Surrey, by the school operatic society.
  • Menna (Arwel Hughes) premiered by the Welsh National Opera at the Pavilion in Cardiff on 9 November, with the composer conducting.
  • Nelson (Lennox Berkeley), premiered in a concert performance 14 February 1953 by the English Opera Group at Wigmore Hall, London.
  • Sevil (Fikrat Amirov)
  • Three's Company (Antony Hopkins), premiered 21 November 1953 at the Guildhall School, London, by the Intimate Opera Company.
  • The Tinners of Cornwall (Inglis Gundry), premiered 30 September 1953 at Rudolf Steiner Hall, conducted by Geoffrey Corbett.

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Classical music

• Pierre Boulez - Le Marteau sans Maître
• Aram Khachaturian - Spartacus, ballet
• György Ligeti - String Quartet No. 1, Metamorphoses Nocturnes
• Igor Stravinsky - In Memoriam Dylan Thomas
• Edgard Varèse - Déserts (1950-54)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams - Tuba Concerto in F minor

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Opera

• Jack Beeson - Hello, Out There
• Benjamin Britten - The Turn of the Screw (opera)
• Valentino Bucchi – Il contrabasso (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, 20 June)
• Aaron Copland - The Tender Land
• Paul Hindemith - Neues vom Tage (revision)
• Bohuslav Martinů - Mirandolina
• Jerome Moross - The Golden Apple
• William Walton - Troilus and Cressida

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Classical music

• Karlheinz Stockhausen – Klavierstücke V–VIII
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony No. 8
• Iannis Xenakis – Pithoprakta for orchestra

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Opera

• Carlisle Floyd – Susannah
• Dmitri Kabalevsky – Nikita Vershinin
• Lukas Foss – Griffelkin (opera in three acts, libretto by A. Reed after H. Foss, premiered on November 6, 1955, on NBC television)

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