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| 1950 |
| | | Kirsten Flagstad sings the posthumous premiere, in London, of Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs | |
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| 1951 |
| | | A Question of Upbringing begins Antony Powell's 'A Dance to the Music of Time' | |
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| 1951 |
| | | The Rake's Progress, with music by Igor Stravinsky and libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman, has its premiere in Venice | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Hans Werner Henze's first full-length opera, Boulevard Solitude, has its premiere in Hanover | |
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| 1952 |
| | | In his first book of Structures, for two pianos, Pierre Boulez provides a classic of serial music | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Vaughan Williams bases his seventh symphony, Sinfonia Antartica, on his score for the film Scott of the Antarctic | |
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| 1952 |
| | | US composer John Cage's 4'33" consists of precisely that number of minutes and seconds of silence | |
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| 1952 |
| | | The Modern Jazz Quartet, led by pianist John Lewis, plays in the sophisticated style that becomes known as 'cool jazz' | |
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| 1953 |
| | | British choreographer Kenneth MacMillan creates his first ballet, Somnambulism, to music by Stan Kenton | |
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| 1953 |
| | | English composer William Walton writes Orb and Sceptre for the coronation of Elizabeth II | |
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