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1964 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1964.

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Events

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Albums released

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December

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Biggest hit singles

The following singles achieved the highest chart positions in 1964.

Other significant singles

Published popular music

Other notable songs

Classical music

Premieres

Compositions

  • Gilbert Amy
  • Alpha-beth, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, and horn
  • Cahiers d'épigrammes, for piano
  • Eyvin Andersen – Concerto for violin and orchestra
  • Jurriaan Andriessen – After the Fall, incidental music
  • Louis Andriessen
  • A Flower Song II, for oboe
  • A Flower Song III, for cello
  • Ittrospezione III, for two pianos and three instrumental groups,
  • Sweet, for alto recorder
  • Malcolm Arnold
  • Pieces (5), for violin and piano, Op. 84
  • Sinfonietta No. 3, for orchestra, Op. 81
  • A Sunshine Overture, for orchestra, Op. 83
  • Water Music, for winds and percussion, Op. 82
  • Milton Babbitt
  • Ensembles for Synthesizer, for four-track tape
  • Philomel, for soprano and four-track tape
  • Samuel Barber
  • Chorale for Ascension Day, for chorus, brass, timpani, and organ (ad lib.)
  • Night Flight, for orchestra, Op.19a,
  • Luciano Berio
  • Chemins I on Sequenza II, for harp and orchestra
  • Folk Songs, for soprano and seven instruments
  • Rounds, for voice and harpsichord (subsequently withdrawn)
  • Traces, for soprano, mezzo-soprano, two actors, chorus, and orchestra (subsequently withdrawn)
  • Harrison Birtwistle
  • Entr'actes and Sappho Fragments, for soprano, flute, oboe, violin, viola, harp, and percussion
  • Three Movements with Fanfares, for chamber orchestra
  • Rob du Bois
  • Deuxième série de rondeaux, for piano four-hands and optional percussion
  • Just Like a Little Sonata, for piano
  • Pastorale VI, for piano
  • Pastorale VII, for alto recorder
  • Quartet, for oboe, violin, violin, and cello (revised version)
  • Benjamin Britten
  • Cadenza for Haydn's Cello Concerto in C major
  • Suite No. 1 for cello solo, Op. 72
  • Symphony for Cello and Orchestra, op. 68 (revised version)
  • Earle Brown – Corroboree, for three or two pianos
  • Carlos Chávez
  • Concerto for four horns and orchestra (revision)
  • Fuga HAGC, for violin, viola, cello, and contrabass
  • Resonancias, for orchestra
  • Tambuco, for six percussionists
  • Aaron Copland
  • Down a Country Lane, for school orchestra
  • Emblems, for symphonic band
  • Music for a Great City
  • George Crumb – Four Nocturnes (Night Music II) for violin and piano
  • Luigi Dallapiccola
  • Parole di San Paolo, for mezzo-soprano or boy's voice and 11 instruments
  • Quattro liriche di Antonio Machado, version for soprano and chamber orchestra
  • Mario Davidovsky
  • Electronic Study No. 3
  • Synchronisms No. 2 for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and tape
  • Synchronisms No. 3 for cello and electronic sound
  • Peter Maxwell Davies
  • Little Pieces (5), for piano
  • Second Fantasia on John Taverner's In Nomine, for orchestra
  • Shakespeare Music, for 11 instruments
  • Michel Decoust – Horizon remarquable (lyrics by René Char)
  • David Diamond
  • The Martyr for male choir (revised version)
  • "My Papa's Waltz", for voice and piano
  • "Prayer", for voice and piano
  • String Quartet No. 8
  • Symphony No. 5
  • We Two, song cycle, voice and piano
  • Andrzej Dobrowolski – Music for Strings and Four Groups of Wind Instruments
  • Henri Dutilleux – Métaboles
  • Morton Feldman
  • The King of Denmark, for percussion solo
  • Numbers, for flute, horn, trombone, tuba, percussion, celesta, piano, violin, and contrabass
  • Piano Piece
  • Vertical Thoughts IV, for piano
  • Wolfgang Fortner
  • Epigramme, for piano
  • Minne, cantata for tenor and guitar
  • Zyklus, for cello and piano
  • Gara Garayev
  • Symphony No. 3
  • Roberto Gerhard
  • The Anger of Achilles, incidental music
  • Macbeth, incidental music
  • Alberto Ginastera
  • Bomarzo cantata, for tenor or baritone, narrator, and chamber orchestra, Op. 32
  • Don Rodrigo Symphony, for soprano and orchestra, Op. 31a
  • Alexander Goehr
  • Five Poems and an Epigram of William Blake, for chorus and trumpet, Op. 17
  • Pieces (3), for piano, Op. 18
  • Karel Goeyvaerts – Stuk voor piano en tape
  • Fernando Lopes Graça
  • Canciones (4), for voice and chamber orchestra (revised version)
  • Prelúdio, capricho e galope, for violin and piano (second revision)
  • Romances, for voice and piano
  • Sonnets (4), for voice and piano
  • String Quartet No. 1
  • Ferde Grofé – World's Fair Suite
  • Alois Hába
  • String Quartet No. no.15, Op. 95, in -tones
  • Suite, for bass clarinet solo, Op. 96
  • Roy Harris
  • Epilogue to Profiles in Courage–JFK, for orchestra
  • Etudes for Pedals, for organ
  • Fantasy, for organ, brass, and timpani
  • Horn of Plenty, for orchestra
  • Jubilate for Worship (Alleluia), for SATB choir, brass, piano, and percussion
  • Salute to Youth, for orchestra
  • Sonata, for cello and piano
  • Hans Werner Henze
  • Chor gefangener Trojer, for chorus and orchestra (revised version)
  • Divertimenti, for two pianos
  • Der Frieden, incidental music
  • Ein Landarzt, opera in one-act (revised from the 1951 radio opera version)
  • Lieder von einer Insel, for chamber chorus, trombone, two cellos, contrabass, chamber organ, percussion, and timpani
  • Sinfonische Etüden (3), for orchestra (revised version)
  • Tancredi, ballet, for orchestra
  • Zwischenspiele (from Der junge Lord), for orchestra
  • Alan Hovhaness
  • Bagatelles (4), for string quartet, Op. 30
  • Floating World "Ukiyo", for orchestra, Op. 209
  • Haiku (3), for piano, op. 113
  • Meditation on Zeami, for orchestra, Op. 207
  • Sonata, for flute solo, Op. 118
  • Sonata, for 2 oboes and organ, Op. 130 (revised version)
  • String Quartet no.3, Op. 208, No. 1
  • String Quartet no. 4, Op. 208, No. 2
  • Variations and Fugue, for orchestra, Op. 18
  • Kan Ishii – Otokonoko ga umareta, for chorus
  • Maki Ishii – Galgenlieder
  • Wojciech Kilar – Diphthongos for mixed choir and orchestra
  • Włodzimierz Kotoński
  • Monochromia, for oboe solo
  • Pezzo, for flute and piano
  • Wind Quintet
  • György Ligeti – Fragment, for ten instruments (revised version)
  • David Lumsdaine – Annotations of Auschwitz (cantata with words by Peter Porter)
  • Witold Lutosławski – String Quartet
  • Bruno Maderna
  • Aria da "Hyperion", for soprano, flute, and orchestra
  • Dimensioni IV, for flute, picccolo, alto flute, bass flute, and chamber orchestra
  • Yoritsune Matsudaira
  • Chamber Concerto, for harpsichord and harp
  • Concerto No. 1 for piano and orchestra
  • Toshirō Mayuzumi
  • Campanology Olympica, electronic music
  • Ongaku no tanjō, for orchestra
  • Raihai jokyoku, for orchestra
  • Olivier Messiaen
  • Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum, for 34 wind instruments and 3 percussionists
  • Prélude, for piano
  • Darius Milhaud
  • Adam, for soprano, 2 tenors, and 2 baritones, Op. 411
  • Adieu (cantata), for voice, flute, viola, and harp, Op. 410
  • L'amour chanté, for voice and piano, Op. 409
  • Concerto for harpsichord and orchestra, Op. 407
  • Septet, for 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, and contrabass, Op. 408
  • Ä°lhan Mimaroğlu
  • Agony, for magnetic tape
  • Le Tombeau d'Edgar A. Poe, for magnetic tape
  • Intermezzo, for magnetic tape
  • Bowery Bum, for magnetic tape
  • Makoto Moroi
  • Pieces (5), for shakuhachi
  • Toccata, Sarabande, and Tarantella, for piano and two string orchestras
  • Bo Nilsson – La bran, for chorus and orchestra
  • Luigi Nono
  • Da un diario italiano, for two choruses
  • La fabbrica illuminata, for mezzo-soprano and tape
  • Juan Orrego-Salas
  • Concerto, for winds, Op. 53
  • Sonata, for violin and piano, op. 9 (revised version)
  • Sonata a 4 (Edgewood Sonata), for flute, oboe, harpsichord, and contrabass, Op. 55
  • Luis de Pablo – Escena, for SATB choir, strings, and percussion
  • Arvo Pärt
  • Collage über B-A-C-H, oboe, harpsichord, piano, and strings
  • Diagramme, for piano, Op.11
  • Musica sillabica, for 12 instruments, Op. 12
  • Quintettino, for wind quintet
  • Juan Carlos Paz
  • Concreción 1964, for flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, and tuba
  • Galaxia 64, for organ
  • Música para piano y orquesta
  • Krzysztof Penderecki
  • Cantata in honorem Almae Matris Universitatis Iagellonicae sescentos abhinc annos fundatae, for 2 choruses, contrabassoon, brass, percussion, piano, and organ
  • Pieśń żałobna ku czci B. Rutkowskiego, for chorus
  • Sonata, for cello and orchestra
  • Vincent Persichetti
  • Cummings Choruses (4), for two voices and piano, Op. 98
  • Introit, for string orchestra, Op. 96
  • Winter Cantata (11 Haiku), for four-part women's choir, flute, and marimba, Op. 97
  • Goffredo Petrassi
  • Concerto for Orchestra No. 7
  • Sesto non-senso, for a cappella choir
  • Tre per sette, for piccolo (+ flute + alto flute), oboe (+ English horn), E clarinet (+ clarinet)
  • Walter Piston
  • Quartet for violin, viola, cello, and piano
  • Sextet for strings
  • Terry Riley – In C
  • Hilding Rosenberg – Sönerna (Cain and Abel), ballet, for orchestra
  • Ahmed Adnan Saygun – Ten Etudes on "Aksak" Rhythms, for piano
  • R. Murray Schafer – Statement in Blue, for youth orchestra
  • Dieter Schnebel
  • Compositio, for orchestra (revised version)
  • Concert sans orchestre (réactions 2), for piano and audience
  • William Schuman – Amaryllis Variations, for string trio
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
  • String Quartet No. 9 in E-flat major, Op. 117
  • String Quartet No. 10 in A-flat major, Op. 118
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Mikrophonie I
  • Mixtur for five orchestra groups, sine-wave generators, and ring modulators
  • Igor Stravinsky
  • Elegy for J.F.K., for baritone or mezzo-soprano and 3 clarinets
  • Fanfare for a New Theatre, for two trumpets
  • Tōru Takemitsu
  • Blue Aurora for Toshi Ichiyanagi, theatre piece
  • Ichinotani monogatari, incidental music
  • Natsukashino San Francisco, for tape
  • James Tenney – Music for Player Piano
  • Mikis Theodorakis – Axion Esti
  • Virgil Thomson
  • Autumn, concertino for harp, strings, and percussion
  • Auvergnat Folk Songs (5), for SATB choir and orchestra
  • The Feast of Love, for baritone and orchestra
  • Pilgrims and Pioneers, for band
  • When I Survey the Bright Celestial Sphere, for unison voices and organ or piano
  • Iannis Xenakis
  • Eonta, for two trumpets, three trombones, and piano
  • Hiketides: les suppliates d'Eschyle, for 50 female voices and 10 instruments or orchestra
  • La Monte Young
  • Bowed Mortar Relays, action work, realization of Composition 1960 no. 9
  • Eat (music for the film by Andy Warhol), for tape
  • Haircut (music for the film by Andy Warhol), for tape
  • Kiss (music for the film by Andy Warhol), for tape
  • Prelude to The Tortoise, for voices, various instruments, and electronic drones
  • Sleep (music for the film by Andy Warhol), for tape
  • The Tortoise Droning Selected Pitches from The Holy Numbers for The Two Black Tigers, The Green Tiger and The Hermit, for voices, various instruments, and electronic drones
  • The Tortoise Recalling The Drone of The Holy Numbers as They Were Revealed in the Dreams of The Whirlwind and The Obsidian Gong and Illuminated by The Sawmill, The Green Sawtooth Ocelot and The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer, for voices, various instruments, and electronic drones
  • The Well-Tuned Piano
  • Joji Yuasa – Projection Esemplastic with White Noise, electronic music
  • Bernd Alois Zimmermann
  • Monologue, for two pianos
  • Un petit rien, for small orchestra

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