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Birthdays
- Jan Fila (24 January)
- Leo Rini (5 March)
- Giovanni Albini (30 March)
- Stephen Mark Barchan (1 October)
- Yusuf SMS Albasri (12 November)
Dying days
- Jean Wiéner ()
- Renzo Rossellini ()
- Carl Orff (29 March)
- Anatoly Alexandrov (16 April)
- Humphrey Searle (12 May)
- Kara (Gara) Karayev|Garayev (13 May)
- Richard Hall (24 May)
- Federico Moreno Torroba (12 September)
- Glenn Gould (4 October)
- Salvador Contreras-Sánchez (7 November)
- Eduard Tubin (17 November)
- Juhan Aavik (26 November)
- Philipp Jarnach (17 December)
Music events
- Premiere of La Vera Storia, in Milan, Italy. (9 March) → Luciano Berio
- Premiere of Canzona for orchestra, in Zürich, Switzerland. (30 March) → Tadeusz Baird
- Premiere of Die Wundersame Schustersfrau, in Schwetzingen, Germany. (25 April) → Udo Zimmermann
- Premiere of Cats, in New York, USA. (11 May) → Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Premiere of Notations, in Paris, France. (18 June) → Pierre Boulez
- Premiere of Requiem, in Kiel, Germany. (26 June) → Aribert Reimann
- Premiere of Songerie pour Orchestre de Chambre, in Salzburg, Austria. (12 August) → Udo Zimmermann
- Premiere of Tehillim, in Houston, USA. (16 September) → Steve Reich
- Premiere of Fratres for 12 cellos, in Berlin, Germany. (18 September) → Arvo Pärt
- Premiere of Candide (new version), in New York, USA. (13 October) → Leonard Bernstein
- Premiere of Tutuguri, Poème Dansé, in Berlin, Germany. (12 November) → Wolfgang Rihm
- Premiere of Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Johannem, in Munich, Germany. (27 November) → Arvo Pärt
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