List of years in music (table)
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Clarinetist George Lewis in 1950 was prominent in the revived popularity of traditional jazz.

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1950.

Specific locations

Specific genres

Events

Albums released

No. 1 hit singles

These singles reached the top of Billboard magazine's charts in 1950.

First weekNumber of weeksTitleArtist
January 7, 19501"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"Gene Autry, 7,000,000 sold by 1969[7]
January 14, 19504"I Can Dream, Can't I?"The Andrews Sisters
February 11, 19501"Rag Mop"The Ames Brothers
February 18, 19504"Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy"Red Foley
March 18, 19504"Music! Music! Music!"Teresa Brewer
April 15, 19502"If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake"Eileen Barton
April 29, 195011"The Third Man Theme"Anton Karas, 4,000,000 sold[7]
July 15, 19505"Mona Lisa"Nat King Cole
August 19, 195013"Goodnight, Irene"Gordon Jenkins & The Weavers, 2,000,000 sold[7]
November 18, 19502"Harbor Lights"Sammy Kaye
December 2, 19504"The Thing"Phil Harris
December 30, 19509"The Tennessee Waltz"Patti Page

Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the limited set of charts available for 1950.

# Artist Title Year Country Chart entries
1Nat King ColeMona Lisa1950USUS 1940s 1 – Jun 1950, US 1 for 5 weeks Jul 1950, Oscar in 1950, US BB 2 of 1950, POP 2 of 1950, DDD 4 of 1950, Italy 48 of 1951, RIAA 109, Acclaimed 1292
2Patti PageTennessee Waltz1950USUS 1940s 1 – Nov 1950, US 1 for 9 weeks Dec 1950, US BB 4 of 1950, 6,000,000 sold by 1967[7]
3Phil HarrisThe Thing1950USUS 1940s 1 – Nov 1950, US 1 for 4 weeks Dec 1950, Peel list 1 of 1950, US BB 12 of 1950, POP 12 of 1950
4Red FoleyChattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy1950USUS 1940s 1 – Jan 1950, US 1 for 4 weeks Feb 1950, DDD 17 of 1950, US BB 18 of 1950, POP 25 of 1950
5Teresa BrewerMusic! Music! Music!1950USUS 1940s 1 – Feb 1950, US 1 for 4 weeks Mar 1950, US BB 3 of 1950, POP 3 of 1950

Top hit records

Top R&B hits on record

Classical music

Premieres

ComposerCompositionDateLocationPerformers
Andriessen, HendrikOrgan Concerto1950-11-01AmsterdamConcertgebouw Orchestra – Monteux[8]
Boulez, PierreLe Soleil des eaux (2nd version, subsequently withdrawn)1950-07-18ParisJoachim, Mollet, Peyron / RTF National Orchestra – Désormière[9]
Boulez, PierrePiano Sonata No. 2 (1948)1950-04-29ParisGrimaud[10]
Benjamin BrittenFive Flower Songs1950-07-23Darlington Hall, EnglandImogen Holst conducting a student choir[11]
Cage, JohnString Quartet in Four Parts1950-08-12Black Mountain, North CarolinaSummer Session Quartet[12]
Foss, LukasSong of Anguish1950-03-10BostonBoston Symphony – Foss[13]
Guridi, JesúsString Quartet No. 21950-05-14MadridNational Chamber Music Association[14]
Hartmann, Karl AmadeusAdagio (Symphony No. 2)1950-09-10Donaueschingen Festival, GermanySWF Symphony – Rosbaud[15]
Howells, HerbertHymnus Paradisi (1938)1950-09-07Gloucester, UK (Three Choirs Festival)Baillie, William Herbert / London Symphony – Howells[16][17]
Jolivet, AndréConcerto for Flute and Strings1950-01-24ParisRampla / [unknown orchestra and conductor][18]
Khachaturian, AramTriumphal Poem1950-12-09MoscowUSSR Radio Symphony – Gauk[19]
Martinu, BohuslavIntermezzo for Large Orchestra1950-12-29New York CityLouisville Orchestra – Whitney[20][21]
Martinu, BohuslavPiano Trio No. 21950-05-19Cambridge, MassachusettsLiepmann, Finckel, Tucker[22]
Martinu, BohuslavSinfonietta La Jolla1950-08-13San Diego, CaliforniaOrchestra of the Musical Arts Society of La Jolla – Sokoloff[23]
Nono, LuigiVariazioni canoniche sulla serie dell'op. 41 di Schoenberg1950-08-27Darmstädter Ferienkurse, GermanyDarmstadt Landestheater Orchestra – Scherchen[24]
Prokofiev, SergeiCello Sonata (1949)1950-03-01MoscowRostropovich, Richter[25]
Searle, HumphreyPoem for 22 Strings1950-08-27Darmstädter Ferienkurse, GermanyDarmstadt Landestheater Orchestra – Scherchen[26]
Strauss, Richard (d. 1949)Four Last Songs (1948)1950-05-22Royal Albert Hall, LondonFlagstad / Philharmonia Orchestra – Furtwängler[27]
Villa-Lobos, HeitorMontanhas de Brasil (Symphony No. 6) (1944)1950-04-29Rio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro Municipal Theatre Symphony – Villa-Lobos [28]
Villa-Lobos, HeitorPiano Concerto No. 2 (1948)1950-04-21Rio de JaneiroJoão de Souza Lima / Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theatre Symphony – Villa-Lobos[29]

Compositions

Opera

Film

Jazz

Musical theatre

Musical films

Dorothy Kirsten and Bing Crosby in "Mr. Music".

Births

January – February

March – April

May – June

July – August

September – October

November – December

Deaths

Notes

  1. ↑ Anon., "Columbia Records Acquires Casals", The New York Times (14 March): 21.
  2. ↑ "Composer Wins Music Contest". The New York Times. August 30, 1950. p. 27.
  3. ↑ "Hymnus Paradisi". The Musical Times. Musical Times Publications Ltd. 91 (1291): 352–353. September 1950. doi:10.2307/935574. JSTOR 935574.
  4. ↑ Howard Taubman (October 12, 1950). "Gulda Impresses in Piano Program: 20-Year-Old Austrian Artist Shows Great Musical Gifts in Recital at Carnegie Hall". The New York Times. p. 51.
  5. ↑ "Soprano Winds Steber Award". The New York Times. November 4, 1950. p. 13.
  6. ↑ Ronald Crichton, "Sargent, Sir (Harold) Malcolm (Watts)", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan, 2001).
  7. 1 2 3 4 Murrells, Joseph (1978). The book of golden discs. Internet Archive. London : Barrie & Jenkins. ISBN 978-0-214-20512-5.
  8. ↑ "Bruno Klassiek". Archived from the original on June 24, 2015. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Pierre Boulez: Le Soleil des eaux" (work details) (in French and English). IRCAM.
  10. ↑ Encyclopedia Universalis
  11. ↑ "Benjamin Britten: Five Flower Songs" (work details) (in French and English). IRCAM.
  12. ↑ Black Mountain Studies Journal
  13. ↑ "Boston Symphony Orchestra". Archived from the original on January 18, 2017. Retrieved May 25, 2017.
  14. ↑ Doce Notas
  15. ↑ Schott Music
  16. ↑ Naxos
  17. ↑ Thesis by Martin John Ward for the University of Birmingham, p.75
  18. ↑ "André Jolivet: Flute Concerto" (work details) (in French and English). IRCAM.
  19. ↑ "Le Chant du Monde" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 23, 2015. Retrieved June 30, 2015.
  20. ↑ Naxos Records
  21. ↑ "Louisville Orchestra". Archived from the original on June 26, 2015. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  22. ↑ "Classics Online". Archived from the original on June 26, 2015. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  23. ↑ Boosey & Hawkes
  24. ↑ "Fondazione Onlus". Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved June 24, 2015.
  25. ↑ Classical Connect
  26. ↑ Darmstädter Ferienkurse, 1946–1966
  27. ↑ Musicweb International
  28. ↑ Historia de la sinfonía
  29. ↑ Villa-Lobos, sua obra Archived October 16, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Version 1.0. (MinC / IBRAM, and the Museu Villa-Lobos, 2009; based on the third edition, 1989): 56–57.
  30. ↑ "Hamara Ghar : Lyrics and video of Songs from the Movie Hamara Ghar (1950)". HindiGeetMala. October 17, 2016. Retrieved December 20, 2016.
  31. ↑ "Grable to appear in Blue Heaven: Star Ends Hold-Out Against the Fox Studios". The New York Times. October 19, 1949. p. 37.
  32. ↑ Naati 101 Chitralu S. V. Rama Rao, Kinnera Publications, Hyderabad, 2006, pp. 54–55.
  33. ↑ Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 176.
  34. ↑ Crowther, Bosley (March 31, 1950). "The Screen in Review". The New York Times. p. 43.
  35. ↑ "Info on ciao.it". Ciao.it. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved August 17, 2018.
  36. ↑ Mercado, Mario R. (1989). Kurt Weill: A Guide to His Works. Kurt Weill Foundation for Music.
  37. ↑ "Straube, Karl". Deutsche Biographie (in German). Retrieved August 30, 2021.
  38. ↑ Prince of Pianists | Lipatti | Classical Music | Mark Ainley Archived October 22, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  39. ↑ Musician, Player and Listener. Amordian Press. 1978. p. 45.
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