1949 in music

List of years in music (table)

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1949.

Events

Albums released

US No. 1 hit singles

These singles reached the top of the US charts in 1949.

First weekNumber of weeksTitleArtist
January 8, 19491"All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth"Spike Jones
January 15, 19491"Buttons and Bows"Dinah Shore
January 22, 19497"A Little Bird Told Me"Evelyn Knight
March 12, 19492"Cruising Down the River"Blue Barron
March 26, 19497"Cruising Down the River"Russ Morgan
May 14, 194911"(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend"Vaughn Monroe
July 30, 19495"Some Enchanted Evening"Perry Como
September 3, 19494"You're Breaking My Heart"Vic Damone
October 1, 19498"That Lucky Old Sun"Frankie Laine
November 26, 19496"Mule Train"Frankie Laine

Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the limited set of charts available for 1949.

# Artist Title Year Country Chart Entries
1 Vaughn Monroe Ghost Riders In The Sky 1949 United States US BB 1 of 1949, US 1 for 11 weeks May 1949, POP 1 of 1949, Europe 33 of the 1940s, RIAA 297, Acclaimed 1303
2 Frankie Laine Mule Train 1949 United States US 1940s 1 – Nov 1949, US 1 for 6 weeks Nov 1949, US BB 7 of 1949, POP 12 of 1949, RYM 38 of 1949, Europe 51 of the 1940s, Italy 73 of 1955
3 Frankie Laine That Lucky Old Sun 1949 United States US 1940s 1 – Sep 1949, US 1 for 8 weeks Oct 1949, US BB 2 of 1949, POP 10 of 1949, Europe 40 of the 1940s, RYM 57 of 1949
4 The Andrews Sisters I Can Dream, Can't I? 1949 United States US 1940s 1 – Oct 1949, US 1 for 4 weeks Jan 1950, Europe 4 of the 1940s, US BB 11 of 1950, POP 23 of 1950, RYM 69 of 1949
5 Gene Autry Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 1949 United States US 1940s 1 – Dec 1949, US 1 for 1 weeks Jan 1950, RYM 4 of 1949, RIAA 31, Global 33 (5 M sold) – 1949, Acclaimed 1051

Top hit records

Top R&B and Country hit records

Published popular music

Classical music

Premieres

Sortable table
Composer Composition Date Location Performers
Barber, Samuel Piano Sonata 1949-12-09 Cuba Havana Horowitz [5]
Bartók, Béla Viola Concerto (1945) 1949-12-02 United States Minneapolis Primrose / Minneapolis Symphony – Dorati [6]
Bernstein, Leonard The Age of Anxiety (Symphony No. 2) 1949-04-08 United States Boston Bernstein / Boston Symphony – Koussevitzky [7]
Britten, Benjamin Spring Symphony 1949-07-09 Netherlands Amsterdam (Holland Festival) Vincent, Ferrier, Pears / Netherlands Radio Choir, Concertgebouw Orchestra – Van Beinum [8]
Bush, Alan Nottingham Symphony (Symphony No. 2) 1949-06-27 United Kingdom Nottingham London Philharmonic – Ellenberg [9]
Carter, Elliott Wind Quintet 1949-02-27 United States New York City Orenstein, Abosch, Paul, Bobo, Popkin [10]
Copland, Aaron Preamble for a Solemn Occasion 1949-12-19 United States New York City Olivier / Boston Symphony – Bernstein [11]
Cowell, Henry Symphony No. 5 (1948) 1949-01-05 United States Washington DC USA National Symphony – Kindler [12]
Delius, Frederick Summer Evening, Winter Night and Spring Morning (1890) 1949-01-02 United Kingdom London [unknown orchestra] – Beecham [13]
Dello Joio, Norman Concertante for Clarinet and Orchestra 1949-05-22 United States Chautauqua, NY Shaw / Chautauqua Symphony – Autori [14]
Egge, Klaus Sinfonia giocosa (Symphony No. 2) (1947) 1949-07-09 Norway Oslo [unknown orchestra] – Grüner-Hegge [15]
Einem, Gottfried von Orchestral Suite from Dantons Tod 1949-02-09 Allied-occupied Germany Baden-Baden SWF Symphony – Rosbaud [16]
Enescu, George Romanian Concert Overture (1948) 1949-01-23 United States Washington DC USA National Symphony – Enescu [17]
Ghedini, Giorgio Federico Concerto funebre in memoria di Duccio Galimberti (1948) 1949-03-02 Italy Rome Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra – Rossi [18]
Ginastera, Alberto Ollantay (1947) 1949-10-29 Argentina Buenos Aires Teatro Colón Regular Orchestra – E. Kleiber [19]
Ginastera, Alberto String Quartet No. 1 (1948) 1949-10-24 Argentina Buenos Aires Mozart Quartet [20]
Glinka, Mikhail String Quartet (1824) 1949-02-27 Soviet Union Moscow Beethoven Quartet [21]
Harris, Roy Kentucky Spring 1949-04-05 United States Louisville Louisville Philharmonic – Whitney [22]
Henze, Hans Werner Apollo und Hyazintus 1949-06-26 West Germany Frankfurt Plümacher, Picht-Axenfeld / Members of the HR Symphony – Henze [23]
Henze, Hans Werner Ballett-Variationen 1949-09-26 West Germany Düsseldorf NWDR Symphony – Romansky [24]
Henze, Hans Werner Chor gefangener Trojer (1948) 1949-02-06 Allied-occupied Germany Bielefeld Bieleld Musikverein Choir, Stadtorchester Bielefeld – Hoffmann [25]
Henze, Hans Werner Symphony No. 2 1949-12-01 West Germany Stuttgart SDR Radio Symphony – Müller-Kray [26]
Henze, Hans Werner Variations for Piano 1949-06-17 West Germany Frankfurt Kaul [27]
Hindemith, Paul Concerto for Woodwinds, Harp and Orchestra 1949-05-15 United States New York City CBS Symphony – Johnson [28]
Honegger, Arthur Concerto da camera 1949-05-06 Switzerland Zurich Jaunet, Saillet / Collegium Musicum Zürich – Sacher [29]
Howells, Herbert Music for a Prince (1948) 1949-01-23 United Kingdom London BBC Symphony – Sargent [30]
Jolivet, André Étude sur les modes antiques (1944) 1949-06-09 France Paris Haloua [31]
Jolivet, André Symphonic Suite from Guignol et Pandore (1943) 1949-12-11 France Paris Colonne Orchestra – Fourestier [32]
Landowski, Marcel Jean de la Peur (Symphony No. 1) 1949-04-03 France Paris Pasdeloup Orchestra – Wolff [33]
Lutoslawski, Witold Overture for Strings 1949-11-09 Czechoslovakia Prague Prague Radio Symphony – Fitelberg [34]
Malipiero, Gian Francesco Mondi celesti (1947) 1949-02-03 Italy Capri [unknown ensemble] – Giulini [35]
Malipiero, Gian Francesco Sinfonia degli archi (Symphony No. 6) 1949-02-11 Switzerland Basel Basel Chamber Orchestra – Sacher [36]
Martinu, Bohuslav Piano Concerto No. 3 1949-11-20 United States Dallas Fiskurny / Dallas Symphony – Hendl [37]
Mennin, Peter The Cycle (Symphony No. 4) 1949-03-18 United States New York City Collegiate Chorale, New York Philharmonic – Shaw [38]
Messiaen, Olivier Turangalîla Symphony (1948) 1949-12-02 United States Boston Loriod, Martenot / Boston Symphony – Bernstein [39]
Milhaud, Darius Concerto for Marimba and Vibraphone 1949-02-12 United States St. Louis Connor / St. Louis Symphony – Golschmann [40]
Milhaud, Darius Kentuckiana (1948) 1949-01-04 United States Louisville Louisville Orchestra – Whitney [41]
Myaskovsky, Nikolai Cello Sonata No. 2 1949-03-05 Soviet Union Moscow Rostropovich, Dedyukhin [42][43]
Nystroem, Gösta Sinfonia del mare (Symphony No. 3) (1948) 1949-03-24 Sweden Gothenburg Eksell / Gothenburg Symphony – Eckerberg [44]
Ohana, Maurice La venta encantada (1940) 1949-04-29 France Paris Girard Orchestra – Girard [45]
Panufnik, Andrzej Sinfonia rustica (Symphony No. 1) (1948) 1949-05-13 Poland Warsaw Warsaw Philharmonic – Panufnik [46]
Poulenc, Francis Cello Sonata (1948) 1949-05-18 France Paris Fournier, Poulenc [47]
Rubbra, Edmund Symphony No. 5 (1947) 1949-01-26 United Kingdom London BBC Symphony – Boult [48]
Scelsi, Giacinto La nascita del Verbo 1949-10-28 France Paris RTF National Orchestra and Chorus – Desormière [49]
Schoenberg, Arnold Phantasy for Violin and Piano 1949-09-13 United States Los Angeles Koldofsky, Stein [50]
Schuman, William Symphony No. 6 (1948) 1949-02-26 United States Dallas Dallas Symphony – Dorati [51]
Seiber, Matyás Ulysses 1949-05-27 United Kingdom London Lewis / Morley College Choir, Kalmar Orchestra – Goehr [52]
Shostakovich, Dmitri Song of the Forests 1949-12-11 Soviet Union Leningrad [unknown chorus], Leningrad Philharmonic – Mravinsky [53]
Tansman, Alexandre Music for Strings (1947) 1949-01-24 Spain Barcelona Barcelona Chamber Orchestra – Tansman [54]
Thompson, Randall Symphony No. 3 1949-05-15 United States New York City CBS Symphony – Johnson [55]
Ustvolskaya, Galina The Dream of Stepan Razin 1949-10-08 Soviet Union Leningrad [unknown baritone] / Leningrad Philharmonic – Mravinsky [56]
Weinberg, Mieczyslaw Moldavian Rhapsody 1949-11-30 Soviet Union Moscow (USC Plenum) USSR Radio Symphony – Gauk [57]
Zimmermann, Bernd Alois Concerto for Strings 1949-07-25 West Germany Cologne NWDR Symphony – Meylan [58]
Zimmermann, Bernd Alois Symphonic Variations and Fugue on In dulci jubilo 1949-12-10 West Germany Coblenz Southwest German Radio Symphony – Gerdes [59]

Compositions

Musical theater

Musical films

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ↑ "Sonata for Bolt & Screw". Time magazine. January 24, 1949. Retrieved 2007-12-15.
  2. ↑ "Mr. Walter Widdop – A Fine English Tenor", The Times, 7 September 1949, p. 7
  3. ↑ Kanfer, Stefan (1989). A summer world : the attempt to build a Jewish Eden in the Catskills from the days of the ghetto to the rise and decline of the Borscht Belt (1st ed.). New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. pp. 205–209. ISBN 978-0374271800.
  4. ↑ http://www.imc-cim.org/about-imc-separator/who-we-are.html
  5. ↑ Samuel Barber: A Guide to Research
  6. ↑ Boosey & Hawkes
  7. ↑ The Leonard Bernstein Office
  8. ↑ IRCAM
  9. ↑ Alan Bush Trust
  10. ↑ IRCAM
  11. ↑ IRCAM
  12. ↑ Henry Cowell Website
  13. ↑ Amadeus Online almanac
  14. ↑ University of Virginia Social Networks and Archival Content
  15. ↑ Amadeus Online almanac
  16. ↑ Gottfried von Einem Foundation
  17. ↑ Patachonf Discographies
  18. ↑ Le muse del popolo: storia dell'Arci a Torino, 1957-1967
  19. ↑ Alberto Ginastera: A Researcha dn Information Guide
  20. ↑ IRCAM
  21. ↑ Amadeus Online almanac
  22. ↑ University of Virginia Social Networks and Archival Contents
  23. ↑ IRCAM
  24. ↑ IRCAM
  25. ↑ Hans Werner Henze Stiftung
  26. ↑ IRCAM
  27. ↑ IRCAM
  28. ↑ Schott Music
  29. ↑ The Music of Arthur Honegger
  30. ↑ The Career and Reputation of Herbert Howells (page 116)
  31. ↑ IRCAM
  32. ↑ IRCAM
  33. ↑ Guide de la musique symphonique
  34. ↑ IRCAM
  35. ↑ Amadeus Online almanac
  36. ↑ All the conducting masterclasses
  37. ↑ Naxos Records
  38. ↑ Eroica Recordings
  39. ↑ IRCAM
  40. ↑ The Emergence and Evolution of a Generalized Marimba Technique
  41. ↑ NuMuLu
  42. ↑ Niukolai Myaskovsky: The Conscience of Russian Music
  43. ↑ Le Chant du Monde
  44. ↑ Gehrmans Musikförlag
  45. ↑ IRCAM
  46. ↑ Polish Music Information Centre
  47. ↑ Hyperion Records
  48. ↑ Barbirolli Society
  49. ↑ Hors de l'avant garde: Son, musique et composition chez Giacinto Scelsi dans la production de sa maturité (page 23)
  50. ↑ IRCAM
  51. ↑ Naxos Records
  52. ↑ Musicwbe International
  53. ↑ Shostakovich: A Life Remembered
  54. ↑ L'oeuvre de Alexandra Tansman: Catalogue practique
  55. ↑ Your Classical
  56. ↑ IRCAM
  57. ↑ Atlanta Symphony, page 32
  58. ↑ IRCAM
  59. ↑ IRCAM
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