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| 1946 |
| | | British conductor Thomas Beecham founds the third orchestra of his career, calling it the Royal Philharmonic | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Francis Poulenc makes an opera of Guillaume Apollinaire's play Les Mamelles de Tirésias ('The Breasts of Tiresias') | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Saxophonist 'Bird' Parker forms his own quintet in New York, often to be heard at Minton's Playhouse in Harlem | |
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| 1948 |
| | | The Cello Sonata by US composer Elliott Carter introduces 'metric modulation' | |
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| 1948 |
| | | George Balanchine's New York City Ballet becomes the resident company in the City Center for Music and Drama | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Richard Strauss completes his Four Last Songs in the year before his death | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears together establish an annual festival in the Suffolk seaside town of Aldeburgh | |
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| 1948 |
| | | French composer Pierre Schaeffer writes the first pieces of musique concrète, and coins the term | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Olivier Messiaen completes Turangaîlila-symphonie, a symphony in ten movements for an orchestra including ondes martenot | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Frederick Ashton's Cinderella, to music by Prokofiev, is the first full-length ballet by an English choreographer | |
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