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Dying days
- Filipe de Sousa ()
- Meinrad Schütter (12 January)
- Andrey Pavlovich Petrov (15 February)
- Werner Wolf Glaser (29 March)
- Robin Orr (9 April)
- Benzion Orgad (28 April)
- Jan Koetsier (28 April)
- Joseph Dorfman (7 June)
- György Sándor Ligeti (12 June)
- Howard Shanet (19 June)
- Warren Barker (3 August)
- Jacques Wildberger (23 August)
- James Tenney (24 August)
- John Weinzweig (24 August)
- Clermont Pépin (2 September)
- Malcolm Arnold (23 September)
- Jean-Louis Dhaine (29 September)
- Stanko Horvat (30 October)
- Lucien Goethals (12 December)
- Daniel Pinkham (18 December)
- Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya (22 December)
Music events
- First performance of "La Lis", in Skjern, Denmark. (28 January) → Peter Wallin
- Premiere of Violin Concerto no. 2, performed by violinist Mark Feldman, at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, USA. (18 March) → Jay Weigel
- Premiere of Toccatina Capricciosa for solo piano (written 1823) at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, USA, with Artis Wodehouse playing the piano. (24 April) → Anthony Philip Heinrich
- First performance of "Fancy Lady Manners" (movement 2 from "H.C. Andersen Suite", in Billundcentret, Billund, Denmark (27 April) → Peter Wallin
- Premiere of "Ripples of Flame", a song cycle on poems by T.E. Browen for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England. (27 April) → Andrew Griffiths
- New York City premiere of "Native New Yorker" featuring an original score by William Susman at the Tribeca Film Festival, in New York, USA (30 April) → William Susman
- Premiere of After Life, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (2 June) → Michel van der Aa
- World premiere of Aenea in Karthago (opera), in Stuttgart, Germany. (2 June) → Joseph Martin Kraus
- Premiere of the music for the opening ceremony of the 2006 Soccer World Cup, in Munich, Germany. (9 June) → Moritz Eggert
- First complete performance of Symphony No. 5 (for Brass Band), in Brørup, Denmark. (13 June) → Peter Wallin
- Premiere of "Azul" for cello and orchestra, in Boston, USA, with Yo-Yo Ma playing the cello. (4 August) → Osvaldo Golijov
- Premiere of MIXTUR (2003), Salzburg, Austria. (30 August) → Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Premiere of The Flames of Quietude, in Den Haag, The Netherlands. (16 September) → Vanessa Lann
- (26 September) → Philip Glass
- Premiere of Hämmerklavier XVIII: 3 Miniaturen (3 Miniatures), in Munich, Germany (14 October) → Moritz Eggert
- Premiere at New Orleans Film Festival of Harold Sylvester's film "NOLA" featuring score by Jay Weigel. (17 October) → Jay Weigel
- Premiere of the opera "Olga", by Jorge Antunes, libretto by Gerson Valle. (22 October) → Jorge Antunes
- World première of Lux Aeterna at the Cello Biënnale, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (30 October) → Alexander Knaifel
- First performance of "3 things to do after retirement", in Multihuset, Brørup, Denmark (31 October) → Peter Wallin
- Premiere of «Plus près de toi que tu ne l’es toi-même», for mixed choir a cappella, in New York City, USA. (5 November) → Laurent Mettraux
- First performance of "The Punch" (Version 3) in Holsted, Denmark (5 November) → Peter Wallin
- Premiere of Serenata in Chiaroscuro for organ, M. 650 (2005-6), in Berne-Bümpliz, Switzerland. (12 November) → Laurent Mettraux
- Premiere of Menuet for ensemble, in Théâtre de l’Oriental, Vevey, Switzerland. (3 December) → Laurent Mettraux
- Premiere of Dans la Nuit, in the Grand Salon at the Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France. (7 December) → Robin Toan
- Premiere of Second Symphony by State Philharmonia St Petersburg State Capella, Serge Inkov conductor. (21 December) → David Frederick Golightly
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