1940 in music

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Classical music

• Granville Bantock - Celtic Symphony
• Samuel Barber - Violin Concerto
• Lennox Berkeley - Symphony No. 1
• Benjamin Britten - Sinfonia da Requiem
• Aaron Copland - Episode, Music for Our Town
• Paul Creston - Symphony No. 1
• David Diamond - Concerto for Small Orchestra, String Quartet No. 1
• Hanns Eisler - Chamber Symphony
• John Fernström - Cello Concerto
• Roy Harris - Folksong Symphony
• Karl Amadeus Hartmann - Symphony No. 1 Versuch eines Requiems
• Paul Hindemith - Cello Concerto, Symphony in E-flat
• Aram Khachaturian - Violin Concerto
• Gideon Klein - String Quartet op. 2
• László Lajtha - Cello Concerto
• Igor Markevitch - Lorenzo il Magnifico
• Olivier Messiaen - Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet For The End Of Time)
• Darius Milhaud - String Quartet No. 10
• Gosta Nystroem - Viola Concerto
• Walter Piston - Suite from The Incredible Flutist
• Sergei Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances
• Roger Sessions - From my Diary
• Igor Stravinsky - Symphony in C completed
• William Walton - The Wise Virgins (ballet)