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Events

Establishments
February 22nd: The Symphony of Charles Ives, created by Leonard Bernstein at the head of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
March 9: The Symphony of Arthur Honegger, created in Boston under the direction of Charles Munch.
March 21: The Sonatine op. 29 for clarinet and piano by Malcolm Arnold, created in London.
March 30: Walter Piston's Symphony, created by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Antal Doráti.
March: It was a small ship, opera-comic by Germaine Tailleferre created at the Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique.
14 April : English Dances by Malcolm Arnold, created by the London Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Adrian Boult.
21 April: The Symphony of Karl Amadeus Hartmann, created by Hans Müller-Kray in Stuttgart.

May 10: the Concerto pour cor op.91 by Reinhold Glière, created in St.Petersburg by Cornist Valery Polekh under the direction of the composer.
7 June:
The Symphony of Henri Dutilleux, created in Paris under the direction of Roger Désormière.
Four rhythm studies by Olivier Messiaen, created at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse by Yvonne Loriod (see 1950).
June 9: L'anima del filosofo, opera by Joseph Haydn, has his first stage performance in Florence, with Maria Callas, 160 years after his composition.
13 June: the Stabat Mater by Francis Poulenc, created at the Strasbourg Festival.
June 19: Concerto for piano and orchestra by André Jolivet, created in Strasbourg with Lucette Descaves at the piano and the composer with the baguette.
July 29: Beethoven Symphony performed by the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra directed by Wilhelm Furtwängler.
September 11: The Rake's Progress, opera by Igor Stravinsky, created in Venice.
October 6 : Polyphonie X, by Pierre Boulez played at the Donaueschingen festival.
October 7th: Symphony by Hans Werner Henze, created at the Donaueschingen Festival under the direction of Hans Rosbaud.
19 November: The Ardent Buisson by Charles Koechlin, created by the Orchestre national de France, under the direction of Roger Désormière.
Billy Budd, four-act opera by Benjamin Britten, created at the Covent Garden (Royal Opera House).

Not known

The Symphony of Malcolm Arnold, created at the Cheltenham Music Festival.
László Lajtha composes the String Quartet op. 53.
Bohuslav Martins the Serenade for violin, viola, cello and two clarinets H. 334.

Other

January: New Year concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at Musikverein, directed by Clement Kraus.

May 3: Opening of the Royal Festival Hall in London.
Foundation of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra.
Wagner's Parsifal directed completely new by Wieland Wagner at the first post-war Bayreuth Festival, with Hans Knappertsbusch as conductor.
Foundation of the Prague Chamber Orchestra.

Prices
Mattiwilda Dobbs obtained the singing from the Geneva International Musical Performance Competition.
Georges Barboteu gets the horn of the Conc