This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1929.

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Top popular recordings 1929

The following songs achieved the highest positions in Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954 and record sales reported on the "Discography of American Historical Recordings" website during 1929: Numerical rankings are approximate, they are only used as a frame of reference.

1929 Harlem Hit Parade + Blues

(created with Popular Music Chart Entries and Blues records)

Classical music

• Kurt Atterberg – Symphonic Poem Älven, Op. 33 • Béla Bartók • * Rhapsody No. 1, for violin and orchestra • * Twenty Hungarian Folksongs, for voice and piano • Arnold Bax • * Symphony No. 3 • * Sonata for Two Pianos • * Legend, for Viola and Piano • Amy Beach – String Quartet, Op. 89 • Conrad Beck – Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra • Boris Blacher – Jazz Koloraturen • Ernest Bloch • * Helvetia (Symphonic Poem) • * Abodah for Violin • Benjamin Britten – Rhapsody for String Quartet • Alan Bush – Dialectic Op. 15 for String Quartet • Carlos Chávez – Sonata for four horns • Aaron Copland – Symphonic Ode • Henry Cowell – Piano Concerto • Cornelis Dopper – Incidental Music to Vondel's Lucifer • Pierre-Octave Ferroud – Violin Sonata • Alexander Gretchaninov – String Quartet No. 4 in F Op. 124 • Roy Harris • *American Portraits, for orchestra • *String Quartet No. 1 • Paul Juon – Litaniae for Piano, Violin and Cello in C sharp minor • Wilhelm Kempff – Symphony No. 2 • Ernst Krenek • * Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen, op. 62 • * Triophantasie, op. 63 • Igor Markevitch • * Sinfonietta in F • * Piano Concerto • Bohuslav Martinů • * String Quartet No. 3 H.183 • * Violin Sonata No. 1 H.355 • Olivier Messiaen – Diptyque pour orgue • Darius Milhaud – Concerto No. 1 for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 108 • Ildebrando Pizzetti – Rondo Veneziano • Francis Poulenc – Aubade • Sergei Prokofiev – Prodigal Son, op. 46 (1928–29, ballet) • Silvestre Revueltas – Pieza para Orquesta • Julius Röntgen – Piano Concerto in E major • Albert Roussel • * Petite Suite, op. 39, for orchestra • * Prelude and Fughetta, op. 41, for organ • * Trio, for flute, viola and cello, op. 40 • Arnold Schoenberg – Piano Piece Op. 33a • Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 3 E flat major, Op. 20 • Jean Sibelius – 5 Esquisses, Op. 114, for piano • Igor Stravinsky • * Capriccio, for piano and orchestra • * Berceuse, for violin and piano (arr. from ballet The Firebird) • Ernst Toch • * Bunte Suite, Op. 48 • * Cello Sonata, Op. 50 • * Kleine Ouvertüre zu der Fächer (Little Overture to the (opera the) Fan), Op. 51 • Joaquín Turina • * Recuerdos de la antigua España, Op. 48, for piano • * Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 51 • * Miniaturas, Op. 52, for piano • * Ráfaga, Op. 53, for guitar • Heitor Villa-Lobos • * Chôros No. 9 for orchestra • * Chôros No. 12 for orchestra • * Chôros No. 13 for 2 orchestras & band • * Introdução aos Chôros (Introduction to the Chôros), for guitar and orchestra • *Chôros bis, for violin and cello • * Mômo Precoce, fantasy for piano and orchestra • * 12 Etudes for guitar • William Walton – Viola Concerto • Egon Wellesz – String Quartet No. 4 Op. 28

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