While most symphonies

Symphony

A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, scored almost always for orchestra. A symphony usually contains at least one movement or episode composed according to the sonata principle...

 have a number, many symphonies are known by their (nick)name.

For lists of symphonies by numbering, see following articles: No. 0 - No. 1 - No. 2 - No. 3 - No. 4 - No. 5 - No. 6 - No. 7 - No. 8 - No. 9 - No. 10 - No. 11; plus lists of symphonies by Haydn, Mozart, Shostakovitch...

The present article lists both symphonies that are numbered and have an additional nickname as well as symphonies that are known exclusively by their name or key.

Numbered symphonies with a nickname

• William Alwyn
  William Alwyn
  William Alwyn, CBE, born William Alwyn Smith was an English composer, conductor, and music teacher.-Life and music:...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 5 - Hydriotaphia

• Kurt Atterberg
  Kurt Atterberg
  Kurt Magnus Atterberg was a Swedish composer. He is best known for his symphonies, operas and ballets. Atterberg once said that: "The Russians, Brahms, Reger were my ideals." His music combines their influences with Swedish folk tunes.-Biography:Atterberg was born in Gothenburg as the son of the...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 3 - Västkustbilder
  • Symphony No. 4 - Sinfonia piccola
  • Symphony No. 5 - Sinfonia funèbre
  • Symphony No. 6 - Dollar symphony
  • Symphony No. 7 - Sinfonia romantica
  • Symphony No. 9 - Sinfonia visionaria

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
  
   (see also List of works by Beethoven#Symphonies)
  • Symphony No. 3 - Eroica
    Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)
    Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E flat major , also known as the Eroica , is a landmark musical work marking the full arrival of the composer's "middle-period," a series of unprecedented large scale works of emotional depth and structural rigor.The symphony is widely regarded as a mature...
    
    ("Heroic")
  • Symphony No. 6 - Pastorale
    Symphony No. 6 (Beethoven)
    Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, also known as the Pastoral Symphony , is a symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, and was completed in 1808...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 9 - Choral
    Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
    The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, is the final complete symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven. Completed in 1824, the symphony is one of the best known works of the Western classical repertoire, and has been adapted for use as the European Anthem...
    
    

• Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Jeremiah
    Symphony No. 1 (Bernstein)
    Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 1 Jeremiah was composed in 1942. Jeremiah is a programmatic work, following the Biblical story of the prophet Jeremiah. It uses texts from the Book of Lamentations in the Hebrew Bible...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 2 - The Age of Anxiety
    Symphony No. 2 (Bernstein)
    Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 2 The Age of Anxiety was composed from 1948 to 1949 in the US and Israel. It is titled after W. H. Auden's poem of the same name. It was dedicated to Serge Koussevitzky. The symphony was revised in 1965.-Instrumentation:...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 3 - Kaddish
    Symphony No. 3 (Bernstein)
    Kaddish is Leonard Bernstein's third symphony. The 1963 symphony is a dramatic work written for a large orchestra, a full choir, a boys' choir, a soprano soloist and a narrator. The name of the piece, Kaddish, refers to the Jewish prayer that is chanted at every synagogue service for the dead but...
    
    

• Franz Berwald
  Franz Berwald
  Franz Adolf Berwald was a Swedish Romantic composer who was generally ignored during his lifetime. He made his living as an orthopedic surgeon and later as the manager of a saw mill and glass factory....
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Sérieuse
  • Symphony No. 2 - Capricieuse
    Symphony No. 2 (Berwald)
    Franz Berwald completed the Symphony No. 2 in D major, "Capricieuse," on June 18, 1842, in Nyköping. The original score has been lost since the 1850s. In 1909, the Franz Berwald Foundation commissioned Ernst Ellberg to reconstruct the score from 4-stave sketches containing indications for...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 3 - Singulière
    Symphony No. 3 (Berwald)
    The Third Symphony in C major of the Swedish composer Franz Berwald. The symphony, nicknamed the Singulière, was written in 1845. It is about a half hour in length and is in three movements:#Allegro fuocoso in C major...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 4 - Naïve

• William T. Blows
  • Symphony No. 2 - Pleiades M45
  • Symphony No. 6 - Rustic
  • Symphony No. 7 - Romantic
  • Symphony No. 8 - Rhapsodic
  • Symphony No. 9 - Symphonie Poetique
  • Symphony No. 10 - Arthurus Rex

• Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Beethoven's Tenth
    Symphony No. 1 (Brahms)
    The Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68, is a symphony written by Johannes Brahms. Brahms spent at least fourteen years completing this work, whose sketches date from 1854. Brahms himself declared that the symphony, from sketches to finishing touches, took 21 years, from 1855 to 1876...
    
    - a nickname first used by Hans von Bülow
    Hans von Bülow
    Hans Guido Freiherr von Bülow was a German conductor, virtuoso pianist, and composer of the Romantic era. He was one of the most famous conductors of the 19th century, and his activity was critical for establishing the successes of several major composers of the time, including Richard...
    
    . Brahms's Third was suggested to be called "Heroic" but Brahms rejected this proposition.

• Havergal Brian
  Havergal Brian
  Havergal Brian , was a British classical composer.Brian acquired a legendary status at the time of his rediscovery in the 1950s and 1960s for the many symphonies he had managed to write. By the end of his life he had completed 32, an unusually large number for any composer since Haydn or Mozart...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Gothic
    Symphony No. 1 (Havergal Brian)
    The Symphony No. 1 in D minor by Havergal Brian was composed between 1919 and 1927, and partly owes its notoriety to being perhaps the largest symphony ever composed...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 2 - Man in his Cosmic Loneliness
  • Symphony No. 4 - Das Siegeslied
  • Symphony No. 5 - Wine of Summer
  • Symphony No. 6 - Sinfonia Tragica
  • Symphony No. 22 - Symphonia Brevis

• Anton Bruckner
  Anton Bruckner
  Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, complex polyphony, and considerable length...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 0 - Nullte
    Symphony No. 0 (Bruckner)
    This Symphony in D minor composed by Anton Bruckner was not assigned a number by its composer, and has subsequently become known by the German designation Die Nullte .-Composition:...
    
    - written after No. 1 and before No. 2
  • Symphony No. 00 - 00 - a student work written prior to No. 1
  • Symphony No. 2 - Symphony of Pauses
    Symphony No. 2 (Bruckner)
    Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 2 in C minor was completed in 1872, and revised, like most of Bruckner's other symphonies, at various points thereafter....
    
    
  • Symphony No. 3 - Wagner Symphony
    Symphony No. 3 (Bruckner)
    Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 3 in D minor was dedicated to Richard Wagner and is sometimes known as his "Wagner Symphony". It was written in 1873, revised in 1877 and again in 1891....
    
    
  • Symphony No. 4 - Romantic
    Symphony No. 4 (Bruckner)
    Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major is one of the composer's most popular works. It was written in 1874 and revised several times through 1888. It was dedicated to Prince Konstantin of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst. It was premiered in 1881 by Hans Richter in Vienna with great success...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 8 - Apocalyptic
    Symphony No. 8 (Bruckner)
    Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 in C minor is the last Symphony the composer completed. It exists in two major versions of 1887 and 1890. It was premiered under conductor Hans Richter in 1892 in Vienna...
    
    (the name is not used anymore)

• Carlos Chávez
  Carlos Chávez
  Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder and director of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra. He was influenced by native Mexican cultures. Of his six Symphonies, his Symphony No...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Sinfonía de Antígona
  • Symphony No. 2 - Sinfonía India
  • Symphony No. 4 - Sinfonía Romántica
  • Symphony No. 5 - Sinfonía para Cuerdas

• Aaron Copland
  Aaron Copland
  Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 2 - Short (1934)

• Richard Danielpour
  Richard Danielpour
  Richard Danielpour is an American composer.-Biography:Danielpour is born of Persian/Jewish descent. He studied at Oberlin College and the New England Conservatory of Music, and later at the Juilliard School of Music, where he received a DMA in composition in 1986...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 3 - Journey without Distance

• Johan de Meij
  Johan de Meij
  Johannes Abraham de Meij is a Dutch conductor, trombonist, and composer, best known for his Symphony No. 1, nicknamed "The Lord of the Rings" symphony.- Biography :...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - The Lord of the Rings
  • Symphony No. 2 - The Big Apple ("A New York Symphony")
  • Symphony No. 3 - Planet Earth

• Felix Draeseke
  Felix Draeseke
  Felix August Bernhard Draeseke was a composer of the "New German School" admiring Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and much vocal and chamber music.-Life:Felix Draeseke was born in the Franconian ducal town of...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 3 - Symphonia Tragica
  • Symphony No. 4 - Symphonia Comica

• Antonín Dvořák
  Antonín Dvorák
  Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - The Bells of Zlonice
    Symphony No. 1 (Dvorák)
    The Symphony No. 1 in C minor, B. 9, subtitled "The Bells of Zlonice" , was composed by Antonín Dvořák during February and March 1865...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 9 - From the New World
    Symphony No. 9 (Dvorák)
    The Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 , popularly known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1893 during his visit to the United States from 1892 to 1895. It is by far his most popular symphony, and one of the most popular in the modern repertoire...
    
    (older editions list this symphony as No. 5 or No. 8)

• Edward German
  Edward German
  Sir Edward German was an English musician and composer of Welsh descent, best remembered for his extensive output of incidental music for the stage and as a successor to Arthur Sullivan in the field of English comic opera.As a youth, German played the violin and led the town orchestra, also...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 2 - Norwich

• Don Gillis
  • Symphony No. 1 - An American Symphony
  • Symphony No. 2 - Symphony of Faith
  • Symphony No. 3 - A Symphony for Free Men
  • Symphony No. 5 - In Memoriam
  • Symphony No. 5½ - A Symphony for Fun
    Symphony No. 5½ (Gillis)
    The Symphony No. 5½, A Symphony for Fun, is an orchestral symphony written in 1946 by American composer Don Gillis.Gillis, a prolific composer, had already written five symphonies when he embarked on this work's composition...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 6 - The Pioneers
  • Symphony No. 7 - Saga of the Prairie School
  • Symphony No. 8 - A Dance Symphony

• Philip Glass
  Philip Glass
  Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Low
  • Symphony No. 4 - Heroes
  • Symphony No. 5 - Choral
    Symphony No. 5 (Glass)
    Symphony No. 5 is a symphony composed by Philip Glass. It is scored for chorus and orchestra.It was commissioned by the Salzburg Festival, Austria and premiered August 28, 1999 and was conducted by Dennis Russell Davies....
    
    
  • Symphony No. 6 - Plutonian Ode
    Symphony No. 6 (Glass)
    Symphony No. 6, also known as the Plutonian Ode Symphony, is a symphony composed by Philip Glass. It is based on the poem Plutonian Ode by Allen Ginsberg; parts of which are sung by the soprano soloist in the work. The symphony was commissioned by Carnegie Hall in honor of Glass' 65th birthday and...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 7 - Toltec
    Symphony No. 7 (Glass)
    A Toltec Symphony is a 2005 symphony by Philip Glass. The National Symphony Orchestra commissioned Glass to write it to commemorate the 60th birthday of conductor Leonard Slatkin...
    
    

• Alexander Glazunov
  Alexander Glazunov
  Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Slavic
    Symphony No. 1 (Glazunov)
    Alexander Glazunov wrote his Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 5, in 1881, when he was 16 years old. It was premiered the following year in St. Petersburg.-Structure:The symphony is written in four movements:# Allegro# Scherzo: Allegro# Adagio...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 7 - Pastoral
    Symphony No. 7 (Glazunov)
    The Symphony No. 7 in F major the Pastoral, Op. 77, was completed by Alexander Glazunov on July 4, 1902. It is dedicated to Mitrofan Belyayev.It is in four movements:*Allegro moderato*Andante*Scherzo: Allegro giocoso*Finale: Allegro maestoso...
    
    

• Reinhold Glière
  Reinhold Glière
  Reinhold Moritzevich Glière was a Russian and Soviet composer of German–Polish descent.- Biography :Glière was born in Kiev, Ukraine...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 3 - Ilya Muromets

• Henryk Górecki
  Henryk Górecki
  Henryk Mikołaj Górecki was a composer of contemporary classical music. He studied at the State Higher School of Music in Katowice between 1955 and 1960. In 1968, he joined the faculty and rose to provost before resigning in 1979. Górecki became a leading figure of the Polish avant-garde during...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 2 - Copernican
    Symphony No. 2 (Górecki)
    Symphony No. 2, the "Copernican," Op. 31 is a choral symphony composed by Henryk Górecki in 1972 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. Composed in a monumental style for solo soprano, baritone, choir and orchestra, it features text from Psalms no...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 3 - Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
    Symphony No. 3 (Górecki)
    The Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, also known as the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs , is a symphony in three movements composed by Henryk Górecki in Katowice, Poland, between October and December 1976. The work is indicative of the transition between Górecki's dissonant earlier manner and his more tonal...
    
    

• César Guerra-Peixe
  César Guerra-Peixe
  César Guerra-Peixe was a Brazilian violinist and composer.Guerra-Peixe was born in Petrópolis, son of Portuguese immigrants with gypsy origins. As a composer he wrote influenced by Hans-Joachim Koellreutter several works using straight twelve-tone technique, but switched in 1949 to adapt...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 2 - Brasília

• Howard Hanson
  Howard Hanson
  Howard Harold Hanson was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and champion of American classical music. As director for 40 years of the Eastman School of Music, he built a high-quality school and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American music...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Nordic
  • Symphony No. 2 - Romantic
    Symphony No. 2 (Hanson)
    The Symphony No. 2 in D-flat major, Opus 30, W45, was written by Howard Hanson on commission from Serge Koussevitsky for the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1930, and published by Carl Fischer Music....
    
    
  • Symphony No. 4 - Requiem
  • Symphony No. 5 - Sinfonia sacra
  • Symphony No. 7 - Sea

• Roy Harris
  Roy Harris
  Roy Ellsworth Harris , was an American composer. He wrote much music on American subjects, becoming best known for his Symphony No...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Symphony 1933
  • Symphony No. 4 - Folksong
  • Symphony No. 6 - Gettysburg
  • Symphony No. 8 - San Francisco

• Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  Karl Amadeus Hartmann was a German composer. Some have lauded him as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century, although he is now largely overlooked, particularly in English-speaking countries.-Life:...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Miserae
    Miserae
    Miserae is a symphonic poem by the German composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann.Composed in 1933-34, it was written in response to the plight of those who died in the first Nazi internment camps...
    
    (later retitled simply as 'symphonic poem')
  • Symphony No. 1 - Versuch eines Requiem
  • Symphony No. 5 - Symphonie concertante

• Joseph Haydn
  Joseph Haydn
  Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
  
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  • Symphony No. 6 - Le matin
    Symphony No. 6 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 6 in D major is an early symphony written by Joseph Haydn and the first written after Haydn had joined the Esterházy court. It is the first of three that are characterised by unusual virtuoso writing across the orchestral ensemble...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 7 - Le midi
    Symphony No. 7 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 7 in C major, Hoboken I/7, is a symphony by Joseph Haydn, sometimes called "Le midi." The symphony was most likely composed in 1761, together with the other two of the Day Trilogy, No.s 6 and 8....
    
    
  • Symphony No. 8 - Le soir
    Symphony No. 8 (Haydn)
    Joseph Haydn wrote his Symphony No. 8 in G major under the employ of Prince Esterházy in 1761, in the transition between the Baroque and Classical periods. It is the third part of a set of three symphonies - Le matin , Le midi and Le soir .-Orchestration:The orchestration used in Symphony No...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 22 - Philosopher
    Symphony No. 22 (Haydn)
    Symphony No. 22 in E-flat major, Hoboken I/22, is a symphony written by Joseph Haydn in 1764. Nicknamed "The Philosopher" , it is the most widely programmed of Haydn's early symphonies....
    
    
  • Symphony No. 26 - Lamentatione
    Symphony No. 26 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 26 in D minor, Hoboken 1/26, is one of the early Sturm und Drang Symphonies written by Joseph Haydn. It is popularly known as the Lamentatione.- Background :...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 30 - Alleluia
    Symphony No. 30 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 30 in C major, Hoboken I/30, is a symphony by Joseph Haydn composed in 1765. It is nicknamed the Alleluia Symphony because of Haydn's use of a Gregorian Alleluia chant in the opening movement.-Description:...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 31 - Hornsignal
    Symphony No. 31 (Haydn)
    Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 31 in D major was composed in 1765 for Haydn's patron Nikolaus Esterházy. It is nicknamed the "Hornsignal" symphony, because it gives a prominent role to an unusually large horn section, i.e. four players...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 38 - Echo
    Symphony No. 38 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 38 in C major, Hoboken I/38, is an early and festive symphony by Joseph Haydn. The symphony was composed some time between 1765 and 1769. Because of the virtosic oboe parts in the finale two movements, its been suggested that the work's composition may have coincided with the...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 43 - Mercury
    Symphony No. 43 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 43 in E-flat major, Hoboken I/43, is a symphony by Joseph Haydn. Since the nineteenth century it has been referred to by the subtitle "Mercury". The symphony was composed by 1771. It is scored for two oboes, bassoon, two horns and strings....
    
    
  • Symphony No. 44 - Trauer
    Symphony No. 44 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 44 in E minor, Hoboken 1/44, was completed in 1772 by Joseph Haydn. It is popularly known as Trauer...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 45 - Farewell
    Symphony No. 45 (Haydn)
    Symphony No. 45 in F-sharp minor, known as the "Farewell" Symphony , was composed by Joseph Haydn in 1772....
    
    
  • Symphony No. 47 - The Palindrome
    Symphony No. 47 (Haydn)
    -Movements:Scored for 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns, and strings.It is in four movements:#Allegro, 4/4#Un poco adagio cantabile, 2/4#Menuetto e Trio, 3/4#Presto assai, 2/2...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 48 - Maria Theresia
    Symphony No. 48 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 48 in C major, Hoboken I/48, is a symphony by Joseph Haydn written in 1768 or 1769. The work has the nickname Maria Theresia as it was long thought to have been composed for a visit by the Holy Roman Empress, Maria Theresa of Austria in 1773. An earlier copy dated 1769 was later...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 49 - La passione
    Symphony No. 49 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 49 in F minor was written in 1768 by Joseph Haydn during his Sturm und Drang period. It is popularly known as La passione...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 53 - L'impériale
    Symphony No. 53 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 53 in D major, Hoboken I/53, is a symphony by Joseph Haydn. It is often referred to by the subtitle "L'Impériale". The symphony was composed by 1774. It is scored for flute, two oboes, bassoon, two horns and strings....
    
    
  • Symphony No. 55 - The Schoolmaster
    Symphony No. 55 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 55 in E-flat major, Hoboken I/55, is a symphony by Joseph Haydn, composed by 1774. It is scored for 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns and strings. It is in four movements:#Allegro di molto, 3/4#Adagio ma semplicemente, 2/4 in B-flat major...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 59 - Feuer
    Symphony No. 59 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 59 in A major is a relatively early work by Joseph Haydn that is known popularly as the Fire Symphony.-Date of composition:...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 60 - Il distratto
    Symphony No. 60 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 60 in C major, Hoboken I/60, was written by Joseph Haydn. It is sometimes given the nickname Il Distratto , or in German, »Der Zerstreute«.- Nickname :...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 63 - La Roxelane
    Symphony No. 63 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 63 in C major, Hoboken I/63, is a symphony by Joseph Haydn written sometime between 1779 and 1781. It is often known by the title of the second movement, La Roxelane, named for Roxelana, the influential wife of Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 64 - Tempora mutantur
    Symphony No. 64 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 64 in A major is a symphony by Joseph Haydn dated between 1773 and 1775. The likely date of composition puts it at the tail end of the Sturm und Drang period that produced masterpieces such as symphonies 44 to 48. It is often known by the nickname Tempora mutantur.- Nickname ...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 69 - Laudon
    Symphony No. 69 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 69 is a symphony by Joseph Haydn in C major, Hoboken I/69, known as the "Laudon" symphony'. It was composed around 1775-1776. It represent a stylistic departure from the composer's earlier intense Sturm und Drang period and was written at the same time as Haydn was writing...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 73 - La chasse
    Symphony No. 73 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 73 in D major, Hoboken 1/73, is a symphony by Joseph Haydn composed in 1782. It is often known by the subtitle La chasse .-Nickname :...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 82 - The Bear
    Symphony No. 82 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 82 in C major, Hoboken 1/82, is the first of the so-called six Paris Symphonies written by Joseph Haydn. It is popularly known as the Bear Symphony .-Background:...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 83 - The Hen
    Symphony No. 83 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 83 in G minor, Hoboken I/83, is the second of the six so-called Paris Symphonies written by Joseph Haydn in 1785 and it was published by Artaria in Vienna in December 1787....
    
    
  • Symphony No. 84 - In nomine Domini
    Symphony No. 84 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 84 in E-flat major, Hoboken I/84, is the third of the so-called six Paris Symphonies written by Joseph Haydn. It is sometimes known by the subtitle In nomine Domini.- Background :...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 85 - La Reine
    Symphony No. 85 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 85 in B flat major, Hoboken 1/85, is the fourth of the six "Paris" symphonies written by Joseph Haydn. It is popularly known as La Reine .- Background :...
    
    ("The queen")
  • Symphony No. 92 - Oxford
    Symphony No. 92 (Haydn)
    Joseph Haydn completed his Symphony No. 92 in G major, Hoboken 1/92, popularly known as the Oxford Symphony, in 1789 as one of a set of three symphonies that Haydn had been commissioned by the French Count d'Ogny to compose.-Background:...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 94 - The Surprise
    Symphony No. 94 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 94 in G major is the second of the twelve so-called London symphonies written by Joseph Haydn. It is usually called by its nickname, the Surprise Symphony, although in German it is more often referred to as the Symphony "mit dem Paukenschlag" .-Date of composition:Haydn wrote...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 96 - The Miracle
    Symphony No. 96 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 96 in D major, Hoboken I/96, was completed by Joseph Haydn in 1791 as part of the set of symphonies composed on his first trip to London. It was first performed at the Hanover Square Rooms in London on 11 March 1791. Although it is the fourth of the so-called twelve London...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 100 - Military
    Symphony No. 100 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 100 in G major, Hoboken I/100, is the eighth of the twelve so-called London Symphonies written by Joseph Haydn and completed in 1793 or 1794. It is popularly known as the Military Symphony.-Nickname :...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 101 - The Clock
    Symphony No. 101 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 101 in D major is the ninth of the twelve so-called London Symphonies written by Joseph Haydn. It is popularly known as The Clock because of the "ticking" rhythm throughout the second movement....
    
    
  • Symphony No. 103 - Drumroll
    Symphony No. 103 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 103 in E-flat major, Hoboken 1/103, is the eleventh of the twelve so-called London Symphonies written by Joseph Haydn.This symphony is nicknamed "The Drumroll", after the long roll on the timpani with which it begins....
    
    
  • Symphony No. 104 - London
    Symphony No. 104 (Haydn)
    The Symphony No. 104 in D major is Joseph Haydn's final symphony. It is the last of the twelve so-called London Symphonies, and is known as the London Symphony....
    
    
  • A
    Symphony A (Haydn)
    Joseph Haydn's Symphony 'A' in B-flat major, Hoboken I/107, was written between 1757 and 1760. It is not in the usual numbering scheme for Haydn symphonies because it was originally thought to be a string quartet and was catalogued as Hob. III/5....
    
    (No. 107 according to the numbering by Hoboken
    Hoboken-Verzeichnis
    The Hoboken-Verzeichnis is the catalogue of over 750 works by Joseph Haydn as compiled by Anthony van Hoboken.Unlike Ludwig von Köchel's catalogue of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's works, or Otto Erich Deutsch's catalogue of Franz Schubert's works, which are both arranged chronologically by date of...
    
    )
  • B
    Symphony B (Haydn)
    Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. B in B-flat major, Hoboken I/108, was written between 1757 and 1760. It does not fall into the usual numbering scheme of Haydn's symphonies because it had later been published without its wind parts as a "Partita"....
    
    (No. 108 according to the numbering by Hoboken)

• Alfred Hill
  Alfred Hill
  Alfred Francis Hill CMG OBE was an Australian/New Zealand composer, conductor and teacher.-Biography:Alfred Hill was born in Melbourne in 1869. His year of birth is shown in many sources as 1870, but this has now been disproven. He spent most of his early life in New Zealand...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Maori
  • Symphony No. 3 - Australia
  • Symphony No. 4 - The pursuit of happiness
  • Symphony No. 5 - Carnival
  • Symphony No. 6 - Celtic
  • Symphony No. 9 - Melodious
  • Symphony No. 10 - Short symphony

• Vagn Holmboe
  Vagn Holmboe
  Vagn Gylding Holmboe was a Danish composer and teacher who wrote largely in a neo-classical style.-Life:At the age of 16, Holmboe began formal music training at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen on the recommendation of Carl Nielsen. He studied under Knud Jeppesen and Finn Høffding...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 3 - Sinfonia rustica
  • Symphony No. 4 - Sinfonia sacra
  • Symphony No. 8 - Sinfonia boreale

• Arthur Honegger
  Arthur Honegger
  Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam locomotive.-Biography:Born...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 3 - Liturgique
  • Symphony No. 4 - Deliciae basiliensis
    Symphony No. 4 (Honegger)
    The Symphony No. 4 by Swiss composer Arthur Honegger is a work for orchestra, written in 1946 on a commission from Paul Sacher. Subtitled Deliciæ Basiliensis, it was first performed on January 21, 1947, by the Basel Chamber Orchestra under Sacher...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 5 - Di tre re
    Symphony No. 5 (Honegger)
    The Symphony No. 5 by Swiss composer Arthur Honegger is a three-movement work for orchestra written in the autumn of 1950. It's subtitle Di tre re is a reference to the D played by the solo timpani at the end of each movement...
    
    

• Alan Hovhaness
  Alan Hovhaness
  Alan Hovhaness was an Armenian-American composer.His music is accessible to the lay listener and often evokes a mood of mystery or contemplation...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Exile
  • Symphony No. 2 - Mysterious Mountain
  • Symphony No. 6 - Celestial Gate
  • Symphony No. 7 - Nanga Parvat
  • Symphony No. 8 - Arjuna
  • Symphony No. 9 - Saint Vartan
  • Symphony No. 10 - Vahaken
  • Symphony No. 11 - All Men are Brothers
  • Symphony No. 12 - Choral
  • Symphony No. 13 - Ardent Song
  • Symphony No. 14 - Ararat
  • Symphony No. 15 - Silver Pilgrimage
  • Symphony No. 16 - Kayagum
  • Symphony No. 17 - Symphony for Metal Orchestra
  • Symphony No. 18 - Circe
  • Symphony No. 19 - Vishnu
  • Symphony No. 20 - Three Journeys to a Holy Mountain
  • Symphony No. 21 - Etchmiadzin
  • Symphony No. 22 - City of Light
  • Symphony No. 23 - Ani
  • Symphony No. 24 - Majnun
  • Symphony No. 25 - Odysseus
  • Symphony No. 32 - The Broken Wings
  • Symphony No. 46 - To the Green Mountains
  • Symphony No. 47 - Walla Walla, Land of Many Waters
  • Symphony No. 48 - Vision of Andromeda
  • Symphony No. 49 - Christmas Symphony
  • Symphony No. 50 - Mount St. Helens
  • Symphony No. 52 - Journey to Vega
  • Symphony No. 53 - Star Dawn
  • Symphony No. 57 - Cold Mountain
  • Symphony No. 58 - Symphony Sacra
  • Symphony No. 60 - To the Appalachian Mountains
  • Symphony No. 62 - Oh Let Man Not Forget These Words Divine
  • Symphony No. 63 - Loon Lake
  • Symphony No. 64 - Agiochook
  • Symphony No. 65 - Artstakh
  • Symphony No. 66 - Hymn to Glacier Peak
  • Symphony No. 67 - Hymn to the Mountains

• Bertold Hummel
  Bertold Hummel
  Bertold Hummel was a German composer of modern classical music.- Life :Bertold Hummel was born November 27, 1925 in Hüfingen . He studied at the Academy of Music in Freiburg from 1947 to 1954, taking composition with Harald Genzmer, and cello with Atis Teichmanis...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 2 - Reverenza http://www.bertoldhummel.de/english/commentaries/opus_30.html
  • Symphony No. 3 - Jeremiah http://www.bertoldhummel.de/english/commentaries/opus_100.html

• Vincent d'Indy
  Vincent d'Indy
  Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher.-Life:Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Italienne ("Italian" - never published)
  • Symphony No. 3 - Sinfonia brevis de bello Gallico ("Brief sinfonia
    Sinfonia
    Sinfonia is the Italian word for symphony. In English it most commonly refers to a 17th- or 18th-century orchestral piece used as an introduction, interlude, or postlude to an opera, oratorio, cantata, or suite...
    
     of the war in Gaul")

• Janis Ivanovs
  Janis Ivanovs
  Jānis Ivanovs was a Soviet Latvian classical music composer.In 1931, he graduated from the Latvian State Conservatory in Riga. In 1944, he joined the conservatory's faculty, becoming a full professor in 1955. He is regarded as being the most distinguished Latvian symphonist...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 4 - Atlantis
  • Symphony No. 6 - Latvian
  • Symphony No. 12 - Sinfonia energica
  • Symphony No. 13 - Symphonia humana
  • Symphony No. 15 - Sinfonia Ipsa

• Charles Ives
  Charles Ives
  Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original"...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 3 - The Camp Meeting
    Symphony No. 3 (Ives)
    The Symphony No. 3, S. 3 , The Camp Meeting by Charles Ives was written between the years of 1908 and 1910. In 1947, Ives was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Symphony No. 3. Later, his works were performed by conductors like Leonard Bernstein...
    
    

• Mieczysław Karłowicz
  • Symphony in E minor Op.7 - Rebirth

• Thomas Koppel
  Thomas Koppel
  Thomas Koppel was a versatile Danish classical music and avant-garde popular composer and musician.His father, Herman David Koppel , a composer and pianist of Jewish origin, fled the Nazis with his family in 1943. Thomas was born in a refugee camp in Sweden...
  
  
  • Symfoni for gadens børn (Symphony for children in the streets)

• Peter Lange-Müller
  • Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 17 - Efterår (Autumn)

• Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Titan
    Symphony No. 1 (Mahler)
    The Symphony No. 1 in D major by Gustav Mahler was mainly composed between late 1887 and March 1888, though it incorporates music Mahler had composed for previous works. It was composed while Mahler was second conductor at the Leipzig Opera, Germany...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 2 - Resurrection
    Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)
    The Symphony No. 2 by Gustav Mahler, known as the Resurrection, was written between 1888 and 1894, and first performed in 1895. Apart from the Eighth Symphony, this symphony was Mahler's most popular and successful work during his lifetime. It is his first major work that would eventually mark his...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 6 - Tragic
    Symphony No. 6 (Mahler)
    The Symphony No. 6 in A minor by Gustav Mahler, sometimes referred to as the Tragische , was composed between 1903 and 1904 . The work's first performance was in Essen, on May 27, 1906, conducted by the composer.The tragic, even nihilistic ending of No...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 7 - Song of the Night
    Symphony No. 7 (Mahler)
    Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony was written in 1904-05, with repeated revisions to the scoring. It is sometimes referred to by the title Song of the Night , though this title was not Mahler's own and he disapproved of it. Although the symphony is often described as being in the key of 'E minor,'...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 8 - Symphony of a Thousand
    Symphony No. 8 (Mahler)
    The Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major by Gustav Mahler is one of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire. Because it requires huge instrumental and vocal forces it is frequently called the "Symphony of a Thousand", although the work is often performed with fewer than a...
    
    

• Bohuslav Martinů
  Bohuslav Martinu
  Bohuslav Martinů was a prolific Czech composer of modern classical music. He was of Czech and Rumanian ancestry. Martinů wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Martinů became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 6 - Fantaisies Symphoniques

• Erkki Melartin
  Erkki Melartin
  Erkki Melartin was a Finnish composer and pupil of Martin Wegelius from 1892-99 in Helsinki, and Robert Fuchs from 1899-1901 in Vienna. He shares identical birth and death years with the composer Maurice Ravel....
  
  
  • Symphony No. 4 Kesäsinfonia (Summer Symphony)
  • Symphony No. 5 Sinfonia brevis
  • Symphony No. 7 Sinfonia gaia (unfinished)

• Felix Mendelssohn
  Felix Mendelssohn
  Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 2 - Lobgesang
    Symphony No. 2 (Mendelssohn)
    The Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, op. 52, called the "Lobgesang" Symphony, was composed by Felix Mendelssohn. It was written in 1840 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the invention of printing, along with the less-known Festgesang "Gutenberg Cantata".The composer's description of the work...
    
    ("Hymn of Praise")
  • Symphony No. 3 - Scottish
    Symphony No. 3 (Mendelssohn)
    The Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, known as the Scottish Symphony, is a work by Felix Mendelssohn. It is thought that a painting on a Scottish trip made by Mendelssohn had inspired the 33-year-old composer, especially the opening theme of the first movement.The emotional scope of the work is...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 4 - Italian
    Symphony No. 4 (Mendelssohn)
    The Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90, commonly known as the Italian, is an orchestral symphony written by German composer Felix Mendelssohn ....
    
    
  • Symphony No. 5 - Reformation
    Symphony No. 5 (Mendelssohn)
    The Symphony No. 5 in D major/D minor, Op. 107, called the Reformation Symphony, was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1830 in honor of the 300th anniversary of the Presentation of the Augsburg Confession. This Confession was a key document of Lutheranism and its Presentation to Emperor Charles V in...
    
    

• Darius Milhaud
  Darius Milhaud
  Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 3 - Te Deum
    Symphony No. 3 (Milhaud)
    The Symphony No. 3, op. 271, sub-titled Te Deum, is a work for orchestra and chorus by French composer Darius Milhaud. The piece originated in a 1946 request by Radio France for a Te Deum celebrating the allied victory in World War II...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 8 - Rhôdanienne
    Symphony No. 8 (Milhaud)
    The Symphony No. 8, op. 362, subtitled Rhôdanienne, is a work for orchestra by French composer Darius Milhaud. The piece was written in 1957 on a commission from the University of California. Its four programmatic movements paint a musical landscape of the course of the Rhone River.Milhaud's Eighth...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 11 - Romantique
    Symphony No. 11 (Milhaud)
    The Symphony No. 11, op. 384, nicknamed Romantique, is a work for orchestra by French composer Darius Milhaud. The piece was written in 1960 on a joint commission from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Public Library, and received its premiere under conductor Paul Kletzki.Milhaud's...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 12 - La Rurale
    Symphony No. 12 (Milhaud)
    The Symphony No. 12, op. 390, subtitled La rurale, is a work for orchestra by French composer Darius Milhaud. The piece was written in 1961 for the dedication of the concert hall at the University of California, Davis, a campus historically focused on agricultural studies.Milhaud's Twelfth Symphony...
    
    

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
  
   (see also List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart#Symphonies):
  • Symphony No. 25 - Little G minor
    Symphony No. 25 (Mozart)
    The Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183/173dB, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in October 1773, shortly after the success of his opera seria Lucio Silla. It was supposedly completed October 5, a mere two days after the completion of his Symphony No. 24, although this remains unsubstantiated...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 31 - Paris
    Symphony No. 31 (Mozart)
    The Symphony No. 31 in D major, K. 297/300a, better known as the Paris Symphony, is one of the more famous symphonies by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.-Composition and premiere:...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 32 - Overture in the Italian style
    Symphony No. 32 (Mozart)
    The Symphony No. 32 in G major, K. 318, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1779, after his return from Paris.The symphony is in the form of an Italian overture, consisting of three brief movements that follow one another without break:...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 35 - Haffner
    Symphony No. 35 (Mozart)
    Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1782 and is also called the Haffner Symphony. It was commissioned by the Haffners, a prominent Salzburg family, for the occasion of Sigmund Haffner's ennoblement...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 36 - Linz
    Symphony No. 36 (Mozart)
    The Symphony No. 36 in C major, KV 425, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart during a stopover in the Austrian town of Linz on his and his wife's way back home to Vienna from Salzburg in late 1783. The entire symphony was written in four days to accommodate the local count's announcement, upon...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 38 - Prague
    Symphony No. 38 (Mozart)
    The Symphony No. 38 in D major, K. 504, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in late 1786. It was premiered in Prague on January 19, 1787, a few weeks after Le nozze di Figaro opened there. It is popularly known as the Prague Symphony...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 40 - Great G minor
    Symphony No. 40 (Mozart)
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his Symphony No. 40 in G minor, KV. 550, in 1788. It is sometimes referred to as the "Great G minor symphony," to distinguish it from the "Little G minor symphony," No. 25. The two are the only minor key symphonies Mozart wrote....
    
    , or simply The Fortieth as the number started to work as a nickname, making the mentioning of it being actually a symphony redundant.
  • Symphony No. 41 - Jupiter
    Symphony No. 41 (Mozart)
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed his Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551, on 10 August 1788. It was the last symphony that he composed.The work is nicknamed the Jupiter Symphony...
    
    

• Carl Nielsen
  Carl Nielsen
  Carl August Nielsen , , widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 2 - The Four Temperaments
    Symphony No. 2 (Nielsen)
    Symphony No. 2 De fire Temperamenter, "The Four Temperaments", Op. 16, FS 29 is the second symphony by Danish composer Carl Nielsen, written in 1901–1902 and dedicated to Ferruccio Busoni. It was first performed in 1 December 1902 for the Danish Concert Association, with Nielsen himself conducting...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 3 - Sinfonia Espansiva
    Symphony No. 3 (Nielsen)
    The Danish composer Carl Nielsen wrote his Symphony No. 3 "Sinfonia Espansiva", Op. 27, FS 60, between 1910 and 1911 by . It typically lasts around 33 minutes.The symphony followed Nielsen's tenure as bandmaster at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 4 - The Inextinguishable
    Symphony No. 4 (Nielsen)
    Symphony No. 4 "The Inextinguishable", Op. 29, FS 76, by Danish composer Carl Nielsen, was completed in 1916. Composed against the backdrop of the First World War, this symphony is among the most dramatic that Nielsen wrote, featuring a "battle" between two sets of timpani.-Origin:Danish Composer...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 6 - Sinfonia Semplice
    Symphony No. 6 (Nielsen)
    Symphony No. 6 "Sinfonia semplice", , FS 116. In August 1924 Danish composer Carl Nielsen began working on a Sixth Symphony, which turned out to be his last. By the end of October he wrote to Carl Johan Michaelsen:...
    
    

• Andrzej Panufnik
  Andrzej Panufnik
  Sir Andrzej Panufnik was a Polish composer, pianist, conductor and pedagogue. He became established as one of the leading Polish composers, and as a conductor he was instrumental in the re-establishment of the Warsaw Philharmonic orchestra after World War II...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 3 - Sinfonia sacra

• Hubert Parry
  Hubert Parry
  Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet was an English composer, teacher and historian of music.Parry's first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer he is best known for the choral song "Jerusalem", the coronation anthem "I was glad" and the hymn tune "Repton", which sets the words...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 2 - Cambridge
  • Symphony No. 3 - English
  • Symphony No. 5 - Symphonic fantasia

• Arvo Pärt
  Arvo Pärt
  Arvo Pärt is an Estonian classical composer and one of the most prominent living composers of sacred music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-made compositional technique, tintinnabuli. His music also finds its inspiration and influence from...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Polyphonic
  • Symphony No. 4 - Los Angeles
    Symphony No. 4 (Pärt)
    Los Angeles is the fourth symphony by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt.Pärt's previous symphonies are scored for full orchestra, but this one is only scored for string orchestra, harp and percussion .The work was commissioned by Los Angeles Philharmonic Association and the Canberra International Music...
    
    

• Krzysztof Penderecki
  Krzysztof Penderecki
  Krzysztof Penderecki , born November 23, 1933 in Dębica) is a Polish composer and conductor. His 1960 avant-garde Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima for string orchestra brought him to international attention, and this success was followed by acclaim for his choral St. Luke Passion. Both these...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 2 - Christmas
    Symphony No. 2 (Penderecki)
    Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki wrote his Symphony No. 2 during the winter of 1979–80. Sometimes referred to as the "Christmas Symphony" , neither the score nor the parts make any reference to this moniker.-Structure:The symphony, lasting 30–35 minutes, is in...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 4 - Adagio
  • Symphony No. 5 - Korean
  • Symphony No. 7 - The Seven Gates of Jerusalem
    Symphony No. 7 (Penderecki)
    Krzysztof Penderecki wrote his Seventh Symphony, subtitled "Seven Gates of Jerusalem," in 1996 to commemorate the third millennium of the city of Jerusalem. Originally conceived as an oratorio, this choral symphony was premièred in Jerusalem in January 1997; it was only after the first Polish...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 8 - Lieder der Vergänglichkeit
    Symphony No. 8 (Penderecki)
    The Symphony No. 8 "Lieder der Vergänglichkeit" by Krzysztof Penderecki is a choral symphony in twelve relatively short movements set to nineteenth and early twentieth-century German poems. The work was completed and premiered in 2005. The symphony has an approximate duration of 35 minutes...
    
    

• Vincent Persichetti
  Vincent Persichetti
  Vincent Ludwig Persichetti was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, Persichetti was a native of Philadelphia...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 5 - Symphony for Strings
  • Symphony No. 7 - Liturgical
  • Symphony No. 9 - Sinfonia Janiculum

• Sergei Prokofiev
  Sergei Prokofiev
  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Classical
    Symphony No. 1 (Prokofiev)
    Sergei Prokofiev began work on his Symphony No. 1 in D major in 1916, but wrote most of it in 1917, finishing work on September 10. It is written in loose imitation of the style of Haydn , and is widely known as the Classical Symphony, a name given to it by the composer...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 2 - Iron and Steel
    Symphony No. 2 (Prokofiev)
    Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 2 in D minor in Paris in 1924-5, during what he called "nine months of frenzied toil". He characterized this symphony as a work of "iron and steel".- Structure :...
    
    

• David del Puerto
  David del Puerto
  -Biography:Born in 1964 in Madrid, musically trained in the guitar, disciple of Francisco Guerrero and Luis de Pablo in his native city, David del Puerto emerged very early as one of the most talented composers of his generation...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Boreas
  • Symphony No. 2 - Nusantara
  • Symphony No. 3 - En la melancolía de tu recuerdo, Soria

• Einojuhani Rautavaara
  Einojuhani Rautavaara
  Einojuhani Rautavaara is a Finnish composer of contemporary classical music, and is one of the most notable Finnish composers after Jean Sibelius.-Life:...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 4 - Arabescata
  • Symphony No. 6 - Vincentiana (based on themes of his opera Vincent)
  • Symphony No. 7 - Angel of Light
    Symphony No. 7 (Rautavaara)
    Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara wrote his Symphony No. 7, subtitled Angel of Light, in 1994. It belongs to his Angel Series, inspired by childhood dreams and revelations. The symphony has won wide popularity for its deep spirituality. The premiere recording by Segerstam has won a Grammy...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 8 - The Journey
    Symphony No. 8 (Rautavaara)
    Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara wrote his Symphony No. 8, subtitled The Journey, in 1999.-Instrumentation:2 Flutes, Piccolo, 2 Oboes, English Horn, 2 Clarinets in B flat, Bass Clarinet, 2 Bassoons, Contrabassoon, 4 Horns in F, 4 Trumpets in C, 3 Trombones, Tuba, Percussion: Timpani,...
    
    

• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 2 - Antar

• Anton Rubinstein
  Anton Rubinstein
  Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian-Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 2 - Ocean
  • Symphony No. 4 - Dramatic

• Edmund Rubbra
  Edmund Rubbra
  Edmund Rubbra was a British composer. He composed both instrumental and vocal works for soloists, chamber groups and full choruses and orchestras. He was greatly esteemed by fellow musicians and was at the peak of his fame in the mid-20th century. The most famous of his pieces are his eleven...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 8 - Hommage à Teilhard de Chardin
  • Symphony No. 9 - Resurrection (also known as Sinfonia Sacra)
  • Symphony No. 10 - da Camera
  • Symphony No. 11 - à Colette

• Camille Saint-Saëns
  Camille Saint-Saëns
  Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 3 - Organ
    Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)
    The Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, was completed by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1886 at what was probably the artistic zenith of his career. It is also popularly known as the "Organ Symphony", even though it is not a true symphony for organ, but simply an orchestral symphony where two sections out...
    
    

• Cláudio Santoro
  Cláudio Santoro
  Cláudio Franco de Sá Santoro was an internationally renowned Brazilian composer and violinist.-Early life:...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 4 - Sinfonia da Paz
  • Symphony No. 7 - Sinfonia Brasília

• Franz Schubert
  Franz Schubert
  Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
  
   (See also List of compositions by Schubert#Symphonies):
  • Symphony No. 4 - Tragic
    Symphony No. 4 (Schubert)
    The Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D. 417, commonly called the Tragic , was composed by Franz Schubert in 1816. It was completed one year after the Third Symphony, when Schubert was 19 years old...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 6 - Little C major
    Symphony No. 6 (Schubert)
    The Symphony No. 6 in C major, D. 589, is a symphony by Franz Schubert composed between October 1817 and February 1818. Its first public performance was in Vienna in 1828...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 8 - Unfinished
    Symphony No. 8 (Schubert)
    Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor , commonly known as the "Unfinished Symphony" , D.759, was started in 1822 but left with only two movements known to be complete, even though Schubert would live for another six years. A scherzo, nearly completed in piano score but with only two pages...
    
    (occasionally listed as No. 7)
  • Symphony No. 9 - Great C major
    Symphony No. 9 (Schubert)
    The Symphony No. 9 in C major, D. 944, known as the Great , is the final symphony completed by Franz Schubert. Nicknamed The Great C major originally to distinguish it from his Symphony No...
    
    (usually appears as No. 9 in modern editions [this numbering was based on the supposition that the Gmunden-Gastein symphony had been lost; it has now been established that the Great C major is in fact that work], older references may list the work as No. 7 or rarely as No. 8 [Neue Schubert-Ausgabe])
  • Symphony No. 10 - The Last
    Symphony No. 10 (Schubert)
    Schubert's Symphony No. 10 in D major, D.936a, is an unfinished work that survives in a partly fragmentary piano sketch. Only properly identified in the 1970s, it has been orchestrated by Brian Newbould in a conjectural completion that has subsequently been performed, published and recorded.-The...
    
    (reconstruction based on sketches)

• Robert Schumann
  Robert Schumann
  Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Spring
    Symphony No. 1 (Schumann)
    Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 38 was the first symphonic work composed by Robert Schumann. Although Schumann made some "symphonic attempts" in the autumn of 1840 soon after he married his beloved Clara Wieck, he did not compose his First Symphony until early 1841...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 3 - Rhenish
    Symphony No. 3 (Schumann)
    Composed from November 2 to December 9, 1850, the Symphony No. 3 “Rhenish” in E flat major, Op. 97, is the last symphony that Robert Schumann composed, although it was not the last symphony that he published...
    
    

• Alexander Scriabin
  Alexander Scriabin
  Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist who initially developed a lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin. Quite independent of the innovations of Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed an increasingly atonal musical system,...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 3 - The Divine Poem
    Symphony No. 3 (Scriabin)
    Alexander Scriabin's Symphony No. 3 in C minor , entitled Le Divin Poème , was written between 1902 and 1904 and published in about 1904.Its four sections are as follows:*Introduction*I. Luttes...
    
    

• Michael Jeffrey Shapiro
  Michael Jeffrey Shapiro
  Michael Jeffrey Shapiro is a noted American composer and conductor.The son of a klezmer band clarinetist, Michael Shapiro was born in Brooklyn, New York, and spent most of his high school years in Baldwin, a Long Island suburb. The winner of several piano competitions during his youth, he earned...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Pomes Penyeach
    Pomes Penyeach
    Pomes Penyeach is a collection of thirteen short poems written by James Joyce.It was written over a twenty-year period from 1904 to 1924 and originally published on 7 July 1927 by Shakespeare and Co. for the price of one shilling or twelve francs...
    
    

• Dmitri Shostakovich
  Dmitri Shostakovich
  Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
  
  
  • Symphony No. 2 - To October
    Symphony No. 2 (Shostakovich)
    Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No. 2 in B major, Opus 14 and subtitled To October, for the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution. It was first performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and the Academy Capella Choir under Nikolai Malko, on 5 November 1927...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 3 - The First of May
    Symphony No. 3 (Shostakovich)
    The Symphony No. 3 in E flat major by Dmitri Shostakovich was first performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and Academy Capella Choir under Aleksandr Gauk on 21 January 1930....
    
    
  • Symphony No. 7 - Leningrad
    Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich)
    Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 dedicated to the city of Leningrad was completed on 27 December 1941. In its time, the symphony was extremely popular in both Russia and the West as a symbol of resistance and defiance to Nazi totalitarianism and militarism...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 11 - The Year 1905
    Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich)
    The Symphony No. 11 in G minor by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1957 and premiered by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Natan Rakhlin on 30 October 1957...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 12 - The Year 1917
    Symphony No. 12 (Shostakovich)
    Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112, subtitled The Year of 1917, in 1961, dedicating it to the memory of Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. The symphony was premiered that October by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Yevgeny...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 13 - Babi Yar
    Symphony No. 13 (Shostakovich)
    The Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor by Dmitri Shostakovich was first performed in Moscow on 18 December, 1962 by the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the basses of the Republican State and Gnessin Institute Choirs, under Kirill Kondrashin . The soloist was Vitali Gromadsky...
    
    

• Robert W. Smith
  Robert W. Smith
  Robert W. Smith is an American composer, arranger, and teacher.-Biography:Smith was born in the small town of Daleville, Alabama on October 24 1958. He attended high school in Dadeville, after which he left for Troy State University, where he played lead trumpet in the Sound of the South Marching...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - The Divine Comedy
    The Divine Comedy (Smith)
    The Divine Comedy Symphony is Robert W. Smith’s first complete symphonic band symphony. It was based on Dante's epic, The Divine Comedy. Smith had studied this, and Homer’s Odyssey, at Troy....
    
    
  • Symphony No. 2 - The Odyssey
    The Odyssey (Smith)
    The Odyssey Symphony is Robert W. Smith's second symphonic band symphony. Smith had studied both this and Dante's The Divine Comedy at Troy University....
    
    
  • Symphony No. 3 - Don Quixote

• Charles Villiers Stanford
  Charles Villiers Stanford
  Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer who was particularly notable for his choral music. He was professor at the Royal College of Music and University of Cambridge.- Life :...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 2 - Elegiac
  • Symphony No. 3 - Irish
  • Symphony No. 5 - L'Allegro ed il Penseroso
  • Symphony No. 6 - In Memoriam G F Watts

• William Grant Still
  William Grant Still
  William Grant Still was an African-American classical composer who wrote more than 150 compositions. He was the first African American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra, the first to have a symphony performed by a leading orchestra, the first to have an opera performed by a major...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Afro-American
  • Symphony No. 2 - Song of A New Race
  • Symphony No. 3 - Sunday Symphony
  • Symphony No. 4 - Autochthonous
  • Symphony No. 5 - Western Hemisphere

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Winter Daydreams
    Symphony No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote his Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Winter Daydreams , Op. 13, in 1866, just after he accepted a professorship at the Moscow Conservatory: it is the composer's earliest notable work. The composer's brother Modest claimed this work cost Tchaikovsky more labor and suffering...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 2 - Little Russian
    Symphony No. 2 (Tchaikovsky)
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed his Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17 in 1872. One of Tchaikovsky's very joyous compositions, it was successful upon its premiere; it also won the favor of the group of nationalistic Russian composers known as "The Five", led by Mily Balakirev...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 3 - Polish
    Symphony No. 3 (Tchaikovsky)
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op. 29, was written in 1875. He began it at Vladimir Shilovsky's estate at Ussovo on 5 June and finished it on 1 August at Verbovka. It is dedicated to Shilovsky.The Symphony No...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 6 - Pathétique
    Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky)
    The Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, Pathétique is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's final completed symphony, written between February and the end of August 1893. The composer led the first performance in Saint Petersburg on 16/28 October of that year, nine days before his death...
    
    

• Jivan Gurgeni Ter-T'at'evosian
  • Symphony No. 2 - Sud'ba cheloveka ("The Fate of a Man")
  • Symphony No. 5 - Paganini

• Eduard Tubin
  Eduard Tubin
  -Life:Tubin was born in Torila, Governorate of Livonia, Estonia. Both his parents were music lovers, and his father played trumpet and trombone in the village band. His first taste of music came at school where he learned flute and balalaika. Later, his father swapped a cow for a piano, and the...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 2 - Legendary
  • Symphony No. 3 - Heroic
  • Symphony No. 4 - Lyrical
  • Symphony No. 9 - Sinfonia semplice

• Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Ralph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song: this activity both influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, beginning in 1904, in which he included many...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - A Sea Symphony
  • Symphony No. 2 - A London Symphony
    A London Symphony
    A London Symphony is the second symphony composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The work is sometimes referred to as the Symphony No. 2, though it was not designated as such by the composer...
    
    
  • Symphony No. 3 - A Pastoral Symphony
    • Vaughan Williams' first three symphonies were not known by number until after the 4th
      Symphony No. 4 (Vaughan Williams)
      The Symphony No. 4 in F minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams was dedicated by the composer to Arnold Bax.Unlike Vaughan Williams's first three symphonies it was not given a title, the composer stating that it was to be understood as pure music, without any incidental or external inspiration.In contrast...
      
       was written
  • Symphony No. 7 - Sinfonia antartica

• Malcolm Williamson
  Malcolm Williamson
  Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson AO , CBE was an Australian composer. He was the Master of the Queen's Music from 1975 until his death.-Biography:...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Elevamini
  • Symphony No. 2 - Pilgrim på Havet
  • Symphony No. 3 - The Icy Mirror
  • Symphony No. 4 - Jubilee
  • Symphony No. 5 - Aquerò
  • Symphony No. 6 - Liturgy of Homage to the Australian Broadcasting Commission in its Fiftieth Year as University to the Australian Nation
  • Symphony No. 7 - Symphony for Strings
    Symphony No. 7 (Williamson)
    Australian composer Malcolm Williamson wrote his Symphony No. 7 in 1984 to a joint commission from the Chamber Youth Strings of Melbourne and the State of Victoria, Australia. It was written mostly at the composer's home in Sandon, Hertfordshire, England....
    
    

• Heitor Villa-Lobos
  Heitor Villa-Lobos
  Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - O Imprevisto ("The Unforeseen")
  • Symphony No. 2 - Ascenção ("The Ascension")
  • Symphony No. 3 - A Guerra ("The War")
  • Symphony No. 4 - A Vitória ("The Victory")
  • Symphony No. 5 - A Paz ("The Peace") - LOST
  • Symphony No. 6 - Montanhas do Brasil ("The Mountains of Brasil")
  • Symphony No. 10 - Sumé Pater Patrium, Amerindia

• Paul W. Whear
  Paul W. Whear
  Paul W. Whear is an American composer, music educator, double-bassist, and conductor.-Life:Whear studied at Marquette University—The Catholic Jesuit University in Milwaukee where he received the B.N.S.; after service as an officer in The U.S Navy, he attended DePauw University School of Music in...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 1 - Stonehenge Symphony

• Charles-Marie Widor
  Charles-Marie Widor
  Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor was a French organist, composer and teacher.-Life:Widor was born in Lyon, to a family of organ builders, and initially studied music there with his father, François-Charles Widor, titular organist of Saint-François-de-Sales from 1838 to 1889...
  
  
  • Symphony for Organ No. 9 - Gothic
  • Symphony for Organ No. 10 - Roman

• Jason Wright Wingate
  Jason Wright Wingate
  Jason Wright Wingate is an American composer, cellist and poet based in New York City. Notable works include the chamber work Landscapes of Consciousness, and the Symphony No...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 2 - Kleetüden
    Symphony No. 2: Kleetüden
    The Symphony No. 2: Kleetüden; Variationen für Orchester nach Paul Klee by Jason Wright Wingate was completed in 2009 and consists of 27 movements, each depicting a painting or drawing by Paul Klee...
    
    

Symphonies referred to by their key exclusively

• Georges Bizet
  Georges Bizet
  Georges Bizet formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.During a...
  
  
  • Symphony in C
    Symphony in C (Bizet)
    The Symphony in C is an early work by the French composer Georges Bizet. According to Grove's Dictionary, the symphony "reveals an extraordinarily accomplished talent for an 17-year-old student, in melodic invention, thematic handling and orchestration." Bizet started work on the symphony on 29...
    
    (composed 1855)
• César Franck
  César Franck
  César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....
  
  
  • Symphony in D minor
    Symphony in D minor (Franck)
    The Symphony in D minor is the most famous orchestral work and the only symphony written by the 19th-century Belgian composer César Franck. After two years of work, the symphony was completed 22 August 1888. It was premiered at the Paris Conservatory on 17 February 1889 under the direction of ...
    
    
• Paul Hindemith
  Paul Hindemith
  Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child...
  
  
  • Symphony in E flat
  • Symphony in B flat (for Concert Band)
• Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
  
  
  • Symphony in E flat (1907) - sometimes indicated as "Opus 1"
  • Symphony in C
    Symphony in C (Stravinsky)
    The Symphony in C is a work by Russian expatriate composer Igor Stravinsky.The Symphony was written between 1938 and 1940 on a commission from American philanthropist Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss. It was a turbulent period of the composer's life, marked by illness and deaths in his immediate family...
    
    (1940)
• Richard Wagner
  Richard Wagner
  Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
  
  
  • Symphony in C
    Symphony in C major (Wagner)
    Symphony in C major, WWV29, is one of two symphonies Richard Wagner wrote. The other being the incomplete, two movement Symphony in E major WWV35.- Form :The Symphony in C major is in four movements:* I. Sostenuto e maestoso - Allegro con brio...
    
    (composed 1831, premiered 1832)
  • Symphony in E flat (unfinished)

Symphonies known by their name only

• Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
  
  
  • Symphonie fantastique
    Symphonie Fantastique
    Symphonie Fantastique: Épisode de la vie d'un Artiste...en cinq parties , Op. 14, is a program symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is one of the most important and representative pieces of the early Romantic period, and is still very popular with concert audiences...
    
    
  • Harold en Italie ("Harold in Italy")
  • Roméo et Juliette
  • Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale
    Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale
    Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale , Op. 15, is the fourth and last symphony by the French composer Hector Berlioz, first performed on 28 July 1840 in Paris...
    
    
• Georges Bizet
  Georges Bizet
  Georges Bizet formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.During a...
  
  
  • "Roma" Symphony
    Roma Symphony (Bizet)
    The Symphony in C "Roma" is the second of Georges Bizet's symphonies. Unlike his first symphony, also in C major, which was written quickly at the age of 17, Roma was written over an eleven-year span, between the ages of 22 and 33 . Bizet was never fully satisfied with it, subjecting it to a...
    
     (sometimes called an unfinished symphony
    Unfinished symphony
    An unfinished symphony is a fragment of a symphony left by composers that are considered incomplete or unfinished for various reasons. The archetypal unfinished symphony is Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8, written in 1822, six years before his death. It features two fully orchestrated movements...
    
    , but it was finished, albeit not to Bizet's satisfaction)
• Arthur Bliss
  Arthur Bliss
  ‎Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, CH, KCVO was an English composer and conductor.Bliss's musical training was cut short by the First World War, in which he served with distinction in the army...
  
  
  • A Colour Symphony
    A Colour Symphony
    A Colour Symphony, Op. 24, F. 106, was written by Arthur Bliss in 1921–22. It was his first major work for orchestra and remains one of his best known...
    
    
• Benjamin Britten
  Benjamin Britten
  Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
  
  
  • Simple Symphony
    Simple Symphony
    The Simple Symphony, Op.4 is a work for string orchestra or string quartet by Benjamin Britten.It was written as a piece for string orchestra and received its first performance in 1934 in Norwich, with Britten conducting an amateur orchestra....
    
    
  • Sinfonia da Requiem
    Sinfonia da Requiem
    Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20, for orchestra is a symphony written by Benjamin Britten in 1940 at the age of 26. It was one of several works commissioned from different composers by the Japanese Government to mark the 2,600th anniversary of the founding of the Japanese Empire...
    
    ("Requiem Symphony")
  • Spring Symphony
    Spring Symphony
    The Spring Symphony is Benjamin Britten's Opus 44. It is dedicated to Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It was premiered in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam on Thursday 14 July 1949 as part of the Holland Festival, when the composer was 35...
    
    
• Aaron Copland
  Aaron Copland
  Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...
  
  
  • Organ Symphony (Copland's Symphony No. 1 is an arrangement of this symphony without the organ)
• Michael Daugherty
  Michael Daugherty
  Michael Kevin Daugherty is an American composer, pianist, and teacher. Influenced by popular culture, Romanticism, and Postmodernism, Daugherty is one of the most colorful and widely performed American concert music composers of his generation...
  
  
  • Metropolis Symphony
    Metropolis Symphony
    Metropolis Symphony for Orchestra by American composer Michael Daugherty, is a five-movement symphony inspired by Superman comics. The entire piece was created over the span of five years with separate commissions for each movement. Individual movements may be performed separately, however, it is...
    
    
• Hanns Eisler
  Hanns Eisler
  Hanns Eisler was an Austrian composer.-Family background:Eisler was born in Leipzig where his Jewish father, Rudolf Eisler, was a professor of philosophy...
  
  
  • Deutsche Sinfonie
    Deutsche Sinfonie
    Deutsche Sinfonie, Op. 50, is a composition for soloists, chorus and orchestra by Hanns Eisler. Despite the title, it is considered to be more in the style of a cantata than a symphony...
    
    
• Karl Goldmark
  Karl Goldmark
  Karl Goldmark, also known originally as Károly Goldmark and later sometimes as Carl Goldmark; May 18, 1830, Keszthely – January 2, 1915, Vienna) was a Hungarian composer.- Life and career :...
  
  
  • Rustic Wedding Symphony
    Rustic Wedding Symphony
    Rustic Wedding Symphony, Op. 26 is a symphony in E flat major by Karl Goldmark, written in 1875, a year before his renowned Violin Concerto No. 1....
    
    (Ländliche Hochzeit, literally "Countryside Wedding")
• Paul Hindemith
  Paul Hindemith
  Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child...
  
  
  • Mathis der Maler ("The painter Matthias", a reference to Matthias Grünewald
    Matthias Grünewald
    Matthias Grünewald or "Mathis" , "Gothart" or "Neithardt" , , was a German Renaissance painter of religious works, who ignored Renaissance classicism to continue the expressive and intense style of late medieval Central European art into the 16th century.Only ten paintings—several consisting...
    
    ) — see also Mathis der Maler (opera)
    Mathis der Maler (opera)
    Mathis der Maler is an opera by Paul Hindemith. The libretto is also by the composer.The opera's genesis lay in Hindemith's interest in the Protestant Reformation...
    
    .
• Alan Hovhaness
  Alan Hovhaness
  Alan Hovhaness was an Armenian-American composer.His music is accessible to the lay listener and often evokes a mood of mystery or contemplation...
  
  
  • Mountains and Rivers Without End
    Mountains and Rivers Without End
    Mountains And Rivers Without End is a large 18th century silk painting by Korean artist Yi In-Mun, located in the National Museum of Korea....
    
    (Chamber Symphony for 10 Players, 1968)
• Vincent d'Indy
  Vincent d'Indy
  Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher.-Life:Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and...
  
  
  • Symphonie Cévenole ("Cévennes
    Cévennes
    The Cévennes are a range of mountains in south-central France, covering parts of the départements of Gard, Lozère, Ardèche, and Haute-Loire.The word Cévennes comes from the Gaulish Cebenna, which was Latinized by Julius Caesar to Cevenna...
    
     Symphony"), a.k.a. Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français ("Symphony on a French Mountain Air")
• Charles Ives
  Charles Ives
  Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original"...
  
  
  • Holidays Symphony
    A Symphony: New England Holidays
    A Symphony: New England Holidays, also known as A New England Holiday Symphony or simply a Holiday Symphony, is a composition for orchestra written by Charles Ives. It took Ives from 1897 to 1913 to complete all four movements. The four movements in order are:*I. Washington’s Birthday*II....
    
    (A Symphony: New England Holidays)
  • Universe Symphony
    Universe Symphony (Ives)
    The Universe Symphony is an unfinished work by American classical music composer Charles Ives.The date of composition is unknown, but he probably worked on it periodically between 1911 and 1928...
    
    
• Pierre Kaelin
  • Symphonie des deux mondes ("Symphony of the Two Worlds", on a text by Helder Camara
    Hélder Câmara
    Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Olinda and Recife.He was known as the 'Bishop of Corum' and took a clear position with the urban poor....
    
    )
• Tolga Kashif
  Tolga Kashif
  Tolga Kashif is a British born musical conductor, composer, orchestrator, producer and arranger of Turkish Cypriot descent.-Early life:...
  
  
  • The Queen Symphony (based on the music of the pop group Queen
    Queen (band)
    Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...
    
    )
• Charles Koechlin
  Charles Koechlin
  Charles Louis Eugène Koechlin was a French composer, teacher and writer on music. He was a political radical all his life and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things as medieval music, The Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling, Johann Sebastian Bach, film stars , travelling, stereoscopic...
  
  
  • Seven Stars Symphony
• Franz Liszt
  Franz Liszt
  Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
  
  
  • Dante Symphony
    Dante Symphony
    A Symphony to Dante's Divine Comedy, S.109, or simply the "Dante Symphony", is a program symphony composed by Franz Liszt. Written in the high romantic style, it is based on Dante Alighieri's journey through Hell and Purgatory, as depicted in The Divine Comedy...
    
    , full name: A symphony to Dante
    DANTE
    Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe is a not-for-profit organisation that plans, builds and operates the international networks that interconnect the various national research and education networks in Europe and surrounding regions...
    
    's Divina Commedia
  • Faust Symphony
    Faust Symphony
    A Faust Symphony in three character pictures , S.108, or simply the "Faust Symphony", was written by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt and was inspired by Johann von Goethe's drama, Faust...
    
    , in German: Eine Faust-Symphonie
• John McCabe
  John McCabe (composer)
  John McCabe CBE is an English composer and pianist.- Biography :John McCabe was born in Huyton, Liverpool, Merseyside. A prolific composer from an early age, he had written thirteen symphonies by the time he was eleven...
  
  
  • Six-minute Symphony
• Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
  
  
  • Das Lied von der Erde
    Das Lied von der Erde
    Das Lied von der Erde is a large-scale work for two vocal soloists and orchestra by the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler...
    
    (a symphony in the guise of a song cycle - see Curse of the ninth
    Curse of the ninth
    The curse of the ninth is a superstition connected with the history of classical music. In essence, it is the belief that a "ninth symphony" is destined to be a composer's last; i.e. that he or she will be "fated" to die after writing it, or before completing a "tenth"...
    
    )
• Olivier Messiaen
  Olivier Messiaen
  Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...
  
  
  • Turangalîla-Symphonie
    Turangalîla-Symphonie
    The Turangalîla-Symphonie is a large-scale piece of orchestral music by Olivier Messiaen. It was written from 1946 to 1948, on a commission by Serge Koussevitzky for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The premiere was given by that orchestra on December 2, 1949, conducted by Leonard Bernstein in Boston...
    
    
• Francisco Mignone
  Francisco Mignone
  Francisco Paulo Mignone is one of the most significant figures in Brazilian classical music, and one of the most significant Brazilian composers after Heitor Villa-Lobos...
  
  
  • Sinfonia do Trabalho (1939)
  • Sinfonia tropical (1958)
  • Sinfonia transamazônica (1972)
• Leopold Mozart
  Leopold Mozart
  Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was a German composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist. Mozart is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule.-Childhood and student years:He was born in Augsburg, son of...
  
  
  • Toy Symphony
    Toy Symphony
    The Toy Symphony is a musical work with parts for toy instruments and is popularly played at Christmas....
    
    (Cassation in G major for toys, 2 oboes, 2 horns, strings and continuo)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
  
  
  • Odense Symphony
    Mozart symphonies of spurious or doubtful authenticity
    This list of Mozart symphonies of spurious or doubtful authenticity contains 39 symphonic works where an initial attribution to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has subsequently been proved spurious, or is the subject of continuing doubt...
    
    in A minor, K. Anh 220 (16a) (spurious)
  • Lambach Symphony
    Mozart symphonies of spurious or doubtful authenticity
    This list of Mozart symphonies of spurious or doubtful authenticity contains 39 symphonic works where an initial attribution to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has subsequently been proved spurious, or is the subject of continuing doubt...
    
    in G major, K. Anh 221 (45a) (1766? Generally believed to be Leopold Mozart
    Leopold Mozart
    Johann Georg Leopold Mozart was a German composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist. Mozart is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule.-Childhood and student years:He was born in Augsburg, son of...
    
    's work)
• Gösta Nystroem
  Gösta Nystroem
  Gösta Nystroem was a Swedish composer.Nystroem, originally Nyström, was born in Silvberg, Sweden, a parish in the province of Dalarna, but spent most of his childhood in Österhaninge near Stockholm, at the time a small village but nowadays a suburban district. His father was a headmaster and an...
  
  
  • Sinfonia breve
• Robert W. Smith
  Robert W. Smith
  Robert W. Smith is an American composer, arranger, and teacher.-Biography:Smith was born in the small town of Daleville, Alabama on October 24 1958. He attended high school in Dadeville, after which he left for Troy State University, where he played lead trumpet in the Sound of the South Marching...
  
  
  • Symphony of Souls
• Richard Strauss
  Richard Strauss
  Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...
  
  
  • An Alpine Symphony
  • Symphonia Domestica
    Symphonia Domestica
    Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53 is a tone poem for large orchestra by Richard Strauss. The work is a musical reflection of the secure domestic life so valued by the composer himself and, as such, harmoniously conveys daily events and family life.-History and composition:In 1898, Strauss became the...
    
    
• Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
  
  
  • Symphony of Psalms
    Symphony of Psalms
    The Symphony of Psalms by Igor Stravinsky was written in 1930 and was commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This piece is a three-movement choral symphony and was composed during Stravinsky's neoclassical period. The symphony derives...
    
    
  • Symphony in Three Movements
    Symphony in Three Movements
    Symphony in Three Movements is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine for opening night of its Stravinsky Festival to the composers's eponymous symphony from 1942–45, and lighting by Mark Stanley...
    
    
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
  
  
  • Manfred Symphony
    Manfred Symphony
    The Manfred Symphony in B minor, Op. 58, is a programmatic symphony composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky between May and September 1885. It is based on the poem "Manfred" written by Lord Byron in 1817...
    
    
• Charles Tournemire
  Charles Tournemire
  Charles Tournemire was a French composer and organist, notable partly for his improvisations, which were often rooted in the music of Gregorian chant...
  
  
  • Symphonie sacrée - for organ
• Charles-Marie Widor
  Charles-Marie Widor
  Charles-Marie Jean Albert Widor was a French organist, composer and teacher.-Life:Widor was born in Lyon, to a family of organ builders, and initially studied music there with his father, François-Charles Widor, titular organist of Saint-François-de-Sales from 1838 to 1889...
  
  
  • Sinfonia sacra (1908 - for organ and orchestra)
  • Symphonie antique (1911 - for organ and orchestra, with choral finale)
• Attributed to Friedrich Witt
  Friedrich Witt
  Friedrich Jeremias Witt was a German composer and cellist. He is perhaps best known as the likely author of a Symphony in C major known as the Jena Symphony, once attributed to Ludwig van Beethoven.-Biography:...
  
  
  • "Jena Symphony
    Jena Symphony
    The so-called "Jena Symphony" is a symphony that was at one time attributed to Ludwig van Beethoven. The symphony was discovered by Fritz Stein in 1909 in the archives of a concert society in Jena, from which it derived its name. Stein believed it to be the work of Beethoven and it was so...
    
    "

Works named "symphony" that are not technically symphonies

• Charles-Valentin Alkan
  Charles-Valentin Alkan
  Charles-Valentin Alkan was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day. His attachment to his Jewish origins is displayed both in his life and his work. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of six, earning many awards, and as an adult became a famous virtuoso...
  
  
  • Numbers 4-7 of his Douze Études dans tous les tons mineurs, Op. 39, for solo piano, are collectively sub-titled Symphony for solo piano
• Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
  
  
  • Battle Symphony
    Wellington's Victory
    Wellington's Victory, or, the Battle of Vitoria, Op. 91 is a minor orchestral work composed by Ludwig van Beethoven to commemorate the Duke of Wellington's victory over Joseph Bonaparte's forces at the Battle of Vitoria in Basqueland on June 21, 1813...
    
    (a piece for panharmonicon
    Panharmonicon
    The Panharmonicon was a musical instrument invented in 1805 by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, a contemporary and friend of Beethoven. Beethoven apparently composed his piece "Wellington's Victory" to be played on this behemoth mechanical orchestral organ to commemorate Arthur Wellesley's victory over the...
    
     commissioned by the instrument's inventor and later arranged for orchestra)
• Benjamin Britten
  Benjamin Britten
  Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
  
  
  • Cello Symphony
• Aaron Copland
  Aaron Copland
  Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...
  
  
  • Dance Symphony (an arrangement of music from the ballet Grohg)
• Alan Hovhaness
  Alan Hovhaness
  Alan Hovhaness was an Armenian-American composer.His music is accessible to the lay listener and often evokes a mood of mystery or contemplation...
  
  
  • Symphony No. 13 (a slight re-arrangement of music composed for the Martha Graham
    Martha Graham
    Martha Graham was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on modern visual arts, Stravinsky had on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture.She danced and choreographed for over seventy years...
    
     ballet Ardent Song)
  • Symphony No. 18 (a slight re-arrangement of music composed for the 1963 Martha Graham
    Martha Graham
    Martha Graham was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on modern visual arts, Stravinsky had on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture.She danced and choreographed for over seventy years...
    
     ballet Circe
    Circe
    In Greek mythology, Circe is a minor goddess of magic , described in Homer's Odyssey as "The loveliest of all immortals", living on the island of Aeaea, famous for her part in the adventures of Odysseus.By most accounts, Circe was the daughter of Helios, the god of the sun, and Perse, an Oceanid...
    
    )
• Édouard Lalo
  Édouard Lalo
  Édouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo was a French composer.-Biography:Lalo was born in Lille , in northernmost France. He attended that city's music conservatory in his youth. Then, beginning at age 16, Lalo studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Berlioz's old enemy François Antoine Habeneck...
  
  
  • Symphonie espagnole
    Symphonie Espagnole
    The Symphonie espagnole in D minor, Op. 21, is a work for violin and orchestra by Édouard Lalo.-History:The work was written in 1874 for violinist Pablo de Sarasate, and premiered in Paris in February 1875....
    
    
• Flô Menezes
  • Sinfonias (1997–98) - 8-channel electronic work using snippets from hundreds of symphonies in the classical repertoire
• Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
  
  
  • Symphonies of Wind Instruments
    Symphonies of Wind Instruments
    The Symphonies of Wind Instruments is a concert work written by Igor Stravinsky in 1920, for an ensemble of woodwind and brass instruments. The piece is in one movement, lasting about 9 minutes...
    
    (a single-movement work for wind ensemble)
• Ilayaraaja
  • Thiruvasagam in Symphony (2005 - oratorio of Classical hymns on Lord Shiva written by Manikkavasagar (8 A.D.))

See also

• List of classical music sub-titles, nicknames and non-numeric titles

External links

• Many more named symphonies in this Chronological list of symphonies