1945 compositions

symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich

composition by Benjamin Britten

Metamorphosen, study for 23 solo strings (TrV 290, AV 142) is a composition by Richard Strauss for ten violins, five violas, five cellos, and three double basses, typically lasting 25 to 30 minutes. It was composed during the closing months of the Second World War, from August 1944 to March 1945. The piece was commissioned by Paul Sacher, the founder and director of the Basler Kammerorchester and Collegium Musicum Zürich, to whom Strauss dedicated it. It was first performed on 25 January 1946 by Sacher and the Collegium Musicum Zürich, with Strauss conducting the final rehearsal.

musical composition for piano and orchestra by Béla Bartók

oboe concerto by Richard Strauss

viola concerto by Béla Bartók, left incomplete upon his death and completed by Tibor Serly

concerto by Erich Wolfgang Korngold

score composed by Sergei Prokofiev for Sergei Eisenstein's film Ivan the Terrible and its sequel

concerto by Benjamin Britten

musical work composed by Jesús Guridi Bidaola

composition by Igor Stravinsky

song

work by Samuel Barber

suite

composition for solo clarinet and jazz ensemble by Igor Stravinsky

jazz composition by Charlie Parker

symphony by Michael Tippett