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1945 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1945.

Specific locations

Specific genres

Events

Publications

Albums released

Biggest hit songs

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the limited set of charts available for 1945.

Title Artist Song title Year Country Chart Entries
1 Les Brown & Doris Day "Sentimental Journey" 1945 United States US BB 1 of 1945, US 1 for 9 weeks May 1945, POP 1 of 1945, Europe 37 of the 1940s, RYM 69 of 1945, RIAA 77, Acclaimed 818
2 The Andrews Sisters "Rum & Coca-Cola" 1945 United States US 1940s 1 – January 1945, US 1 for 7 weeks February 1945, US BB 2 of 1945, POP 2 of 1945, RYM 3 of 1944, Europe 6 of the 1940s
3 Perry Como "Till the End of Time" 1945 United States US 1940s 1 – August 1945, US 1 for 9 weeks September 1945, US BB 12 of 1945, POP 23 of 1945, Europe 30 of the 1940s, RYM 85 of 1945
4 Johnny Mercer "On the Atcheson, Topeka & the Sante Fe" 1945 United States US 1940s 1 – July 1945, US 1 for 7 weeks July 1945, US BB 4 of 1945, POP 11 of 1945, RYM 89 of 1945
5 Les Brown& Doris Day "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" 1945 United States US 1940s 1 – March 1945, US 1 for 7 weeks April 1945, US BB 7 of 1945, POP 13 of 1945, RYM 70 of 1945

Top hit records

Singer Betty Hutton in 1945

Classical music

Premieres

Sortable table
Composer Composition Date Location Performers
Boulez, Pierre Three Psalmodies for Piano 1945-02-12 France Paris Grimaud [1]
Britten, Benjamin Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes 1945-06-13 United Kingdom Cheltenham (Festival) London Philharmonic – Britten [2]
Britten, Benjamin Passacaglia from Peter Grimes 1945-08-29 United Kingdom London BBC Symphony – Boult [3]
Britten, Benjamin String Quartet No. 2 1945-11-21 United Kingdom London Zorian Quartet [4]
Carpenter, John Alden The Seven Ages 1945-12-02 United States New York City New York Philharmonic – Rodzinski [5]
Copland, Aaron Jubilee Variation on a Theme of Goossens 1945-03-23 United States Cincinnati Cincinnati Symphony – Goossens [6]
Finzi, Gerald Earth and Air and Rain (1935) 1945-07-02 United Kingdom London Falkner, Ferguson [7]
Ginastera, Alberto Las horas de una estancia 1945-06-11 Uruguay Montevideo Baridon, Satalia de Perna [8]
Ginastera, Alberto Psalm 150 1945-04-07 Argentina Buenos Aires Teatro Colón Regular Orchestra and Chorus – Wolff [9]
Jolivet, André Le chant de Linos (quintet version) 1945-06-01 France Paris Jamet Quintet [10]
Jolivet, André Trois chansons de ménestrels 1945-02-10 France Paris Dyonis, Soulage [11]
Khachaturian, Aram Fantasy on Russian Themes 1945-11-06 Soviet Union Moscow USSR State Radio Symphony – Gorchakov [12]
Kodály, Zoltán Missa brevis 1945-02-11 Hungary Budapest [unknown performers] [13]
Lutoslawski, Witold Wind Trio 1945-09-?? Poland Krákow Snieckowski, Rudnicki, Orlow [14]
Malipiero, Gian Francesco Sinfonia delle campane (Symphony No. 3) 1945-11-04 Italy Florence [unknown orchestra] – Markevitch [15]
Martinu, Bohuslav Symphony No. 3 1945-10-12 United States Boston Boston Symphony – Koussevitzky [16]
Messiaen, Olivier Trois petites liturgies de la présence divine 1945-04-21 France Paris Loriod, Martenot / Paris Conservatory Concert Society Orchestra – Désormière [17]
Messiaen, Olivier Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus 1945-03-23 France Paris Loriod [18]
Novák, Vitezslav May Symphony 1945-12-05 Czechoslovakia Prague [unknown performers] [19]
Piston, Walter Sonatina for Violin and Harpsichord 1945-11-30 United States New York City Schneider, Kirkpatrick [20]
Prokofiev, Sergei Symphony No. 5 1945-01-13 Soviet Union Moscow USSR State Symphony – Prokofiev [21]
Shostakovich, Dmitri Symphony No. 9 1945-11-03 Soviet Union Leningrad Leningrad Philharmonic – Mravinsky [22]
Stravinsky, Igor Elegy for Viola 1945-01-26 United States Washington DC Prévost [23]
Tippett, Michael Symphony No. 1 1945-11-10 United Kingdom Liverpool Royal Liverpool Philharmonic – Sargent [24]
Tubin, Eduard Capriccio for Violin and Piano No. 2 1945-09-25 Sweden Stockholm Aumere, Roots [25]
Villa-Lobos, Heitor String Quartet No. 7 1945-05-30 Brazil Theatro Municipal (Rio de Janeiro) Quarteto Borgerth[26]
Castelnuovo-Tedesco / Milhaud / Schoenberg / Shilkret / Stravinsky / Tansman / Toch Genesis Suite 1945-11-18 United States Los Angeles Janssen Symphony – Janssen [27]

Compositions

Opera

Jazz

Main article: 1945 in jazz

Musical theater

Musical films

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ^ IRCAM
  2. ^ The Making of Peter Grimes: Notes and Commentaries
  3. ^ Oregon Symphony
  4. ^ IRCAM
  5. ^ New York Philharmonic
  6. ^ IRCAM
  7. ^ Boosey & Hawkes
  8. ^ IRCAM
  9. ^ IRCAM
  10. ^ IRCAM
  11. ^ IRCAM
  12. ^ Soviet Composers
  13. ^ "Kodály Institute". Archived from the original on 2017-10-09. Retrieved 2015-07-10.
  14. ^ IRCAM
  15. ^ Orchestra Virtuale del Flaminio
  16. ^ All Music
  17. ^ IRCAM
  18. ^ IRCAM
  19. ^ Klassika
  20. ^ Association for Recorded Sound Collections
  21. ^ New York Philharmonic
  22. ^ Naxos Records
  23. ^ IRCAM
  24. ^ Schott Music
  25. ^ ERP Music
  26. ^ Villa-Lobos, sua obra: Programa de Ação Cultural, second edition (Rio de Janeiro: MEC, DAC, Museu Villa-Lobos, 1972): 86.
  27. ^ Milken Archive of Jewish Music
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