List of symphonies in A minor - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of symphonies in A minor
A minor
A minor is a minor scale based on A, consisting of the pitches A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. The harmonic minor scale raises the G to G...

written by notable composers.

Composer	Symphony
Hugo Alfvén Hugo Alfvén was a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter.- Violinist :Alfvén was born in Stockholm and studied at the Music Conservatory there from 1887 to 1891 with the violin as his main instrument, receiving lessons from Lars Zetterquist. He also took private composition lessons from Johan...	Symphony No. 5, Op. 54 (1942, 1952/3)
Victor Bendix Victor Bendix Victor Emanuel Bendix was a Jewish Danish composer, conductor and pianist. His teachers included Niels Gade....	Symphony No. 3, Op. 25 (1895)
Arrigo Boito Arrigo Boito Arrigo Boito , aka Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito, pseudonym Tobia Gorrio, was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer, best known today for his libretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi's operas Otello and Falstaff, and his own opera Mefistofele...	Symphony
Alexander Borodin Alexander Borodin Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin was a Russian Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian–Russian parentage. He was a member of the group of composers called The Five , who were dedicated to producing a specifically Russian kind of art music...	Symphony No. 3 (1886/7, incomplete)
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. 9 (1951) Symphony No. 25 (1965-6)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was an English composer who achieved such success that he was once called the "African Mahler".-Early life and education:...	Symphony, Op. 8 (1896)
Johann Nepomuk David Johann Nepomuk David Johann Nepomuk David was an Austrian composer.He began his musical career in the monastery of Sankt Florian, and was a composition student of Joseph Marx....	Symphony No. 1, Op. 18 (1937)
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf ----August Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf was an Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist.-1739-1764:...	Symphony "Il delirio delli compositori, ossia Il gusto d'oggidi" (1770s)
Thomas Dunhill Thomas Dunhill Thomas Frederick Dunhill was an English composer and writer on musical subjects. He is best-known for his song-cycle The Wind among the Reeds.-Life and career:Thomas Dunhill was born in Hampstead, London...	Symphony, Op. 48 (1914-6)
Johann Friedrich Fasch Johann Friedrich Fasch Johann Friedrich Fasch was a German violinist and composer.Fasch was born in Buttelstedt, was a choirboy in Weissenfels and studied under Johann Kuhnau at the famous St. Thomas School in Leipzig and later founded a Collegium Musicum in that city...	Symphony Fwv M:a 1
Eduard Franck Eduard Franck Eduard Franck was born in Breslau, the capital of the Prussian province of Silesia. He was the fourth child of a wealthy and cultivated banker who exposed his children to the best and brightest that Germany had to offer. Frequenters to the Franck home included such luminaries as Heine, Humboldt,...	Symphony (1846 - lost)
Niels Gade	Symphony No. 3, Op. 15 (1847)
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" (1893)
Evgeny Golubev Evgeny Golubev Evgeny Kirillovich Golubev was a Russian Soviet composer.He was taught by Nikolai Myaskovsky, and his students included Alfred Schnittke, who studied with him from 1953 until 1958 and Michael L. Geller...	Symphony No. 5, Op. 45 (1960)
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. 3, Op. 33 (1937)
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. 5 "Carnival" (1955, arrangement of a string quartet from 1912) Symphony No. 13 for Strings (1959)
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 (1872)
Mykola Kolessa Mykola Kolessa Mykola Kolessa was a prominent Ukrainian composer and conductor, born in the village of Sambir near Lviv and died in Lviv....	Symphony No. 2 (1966)
George Lloyd George Lloyd (composer) George Walter Selwyn Lloyd was a British composer.-Early life:Of Cornish ancestry, Lloyd grew up in a family with great enthusiasm for music. He was mainly home-schooled because of rheumatic fever. He later studied violin with Albert Sammons and composition with Harry Farjeon. He was a student at...	Symphony No. 1 (1932)
George Macfarren George Macfarren George Macfarren was a playwright and the father of composer George Alexander Macfarren. Macfarren's first play, Ah! What a Pity, or, The Dark Knight and the Fair Lady, was produced on 28 September 1818 at the English Opera House; for the next several decades, a Macfarren play was produced...	Symphony No. 5 (1833)
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. 6 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... (1904, revised 1906)
John Blackwood McEwen John Blackwood McEwen Sir John Blackwood McEwen was a Scottish classical composer and educator.- Biography :John Blackwood McEwen was born in Hawick in 1868. After initial training in Glasgow, he studied with Ebenezer Prout, Corder and Tobias Matthay at the Royal Academy of Music in London...	Symphony (1898)
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. 5 "Sinfonia Brevis", Op. 90 (1915)
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. 3, Op. 56 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... , "Scottish"
Alexander Mosolov Alexander Mosolov Alexander Vasilyevich MosolovMosolov's name is transliterated variously and inconsistently between sources. Alternative spellings of Alexander include Alexandr, Aleksandr, Aleksander, and Alexandre; variations on Mosolov include Mossolov and Mossolow...	Symphony No. 5 (1959–60)
Alexander Moyzes Alexander Moyzes Alexander Moyzes , was a Slovak 20th century neoromantic composer.-Biography:Moyzes was born into a musical family in 1906 at Kláštor pod Znievom in present Slovakia. His father was the composer and educator Mikuláš Moyzes...	Symphony No. 2, Op. 16 (1932, revised 1941)
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...	Symphony "Odense" K. Anh 220 (16a) (1765?)
Nikolai Myaskovsky Nikolai Myaskovsky Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of the Soviet symphony".-Early years and first important works:...	Symphony No. 3, Op. 15 Symphony No. 3 (Myaskovsky) Nikolai Myaskovsky wrote his Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 15 in 1914.It is in two movements:#Non troppo vivo, vigoroso#Deciso e sdegnosoIt is dedicated to Boris Asafyev.... (1914) Symphony No. 23, Op. 56 (1941)
Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...	Symphony No. 3, Op. 44 Symphony No. 3 (Rachmaninoff) Sergei Rachmaninoff composed his Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44 between 1935 and 1936. The Third Symphony is considered a transitional work in Rachmaninoff's output. In melodic outline and rhythm it is his most expressively Russian symphony, particularly in the dance rhythms of the finale... (1935-6)
Joachim Raff Joachim Raff Joseph Joachim Raff was a German-Swiss composer, teacher and pianist.-Biography:Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. His father, a teacher, had fled there from Württemberg in 1810 to escape forced recruitment into the military of that southwestern German state that had to fight for Napoleon in...	Symphony No. 11, Op. 214 "Winter" (1876, unfinished)
Ferdinand Ries Ferdinand Ries Ferdinand Ries was a German composer.- Life :Born into a musical family of Bonn, Ries was a friend and pupil of Beethoven who published in 1838 a collection of reminiscences of his teacher, co-written with Franz Wegeler...	Symphony No. 7, Op. 181 (1835)
Jean Rivier Jean Rivier Jean Rivier was a French composer of classical music.He composed over two hundred works, including music for orchestra, chamber groups, chorus, piano, and solo instruments....	Symphony No. 5
Julius Röntgen Julius Röntgen Julius Engelbert Röntgen was a German-Dutch composer of classical music.-Life:Julius Röntgen was born in Leipzig, Germany, to a family of musicians. His father, Engelbert Röntgen, was first violinist in the Gewandhaus orchestra in Leipzig; his mother, Pauline Klengel, was a pianist, the aunt of...	Symphony (1931)
Guy Ropartz	Symphonie sur un Choral breton. (1894-5)
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. 6, Op. 111 (1886)
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. 2, Op. 55 (1859)
Vadim Salmanov Vadim Salmanov The composer Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov is perhaps best known for his Symphony No...	Symphony No. 3 (1963)
Bernhard Scholz Bernhard Scholz Bernhard E. Scholz, was a German conductor, composer and teacher of music.- Life :Bernhard Scholz was born in Mainz in 1835. He was intended by his father to take over his father's business and studied to be a printer at Imp. Lemercier in Paris. But music became his career...	Symphony No. 2, Op. 80 (published 1896)
Franz Schreker Franz Schreker Franz Schreker was an Austrian composer, conductor, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, his style is characterized by aesthetic plurality , timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and...	Symphony, Op. 1
Cyril Scott Cyril Scott Cyril Meir Scott was an English composer, writer, and poet.-Biography:Scott was born in Oxton, England to a shipper and scholar of Greek and Hebrew, and Mary Scott , an amateur pianist. He showed a talent for music from an early age and was sent to the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany to...	Symphony No. 2, Op. 22 (1903)
Jean Sibelius Jean Sibelius Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. His mastery of the orchestra has been described as "prodigious."...	Symphony No. 4, Op. 63 Symphony No. 4 (Sibelius) The Symphony No. 4 in A minor, Op. 63, is one of seven completed symphonies composed by Jean Sibelius. Written between 1910 and 1911, it was premiered in Helsinki on 3 April 1911 by the Philharmonia Society, with Sibelius conducting.... (1910-1)
Alice Mary Smith Alice Mary Smith Alice Mary Smith, married name Alice Mary Meadows White was an English composer.Smith was born in London, the third child of a relatively well-to-do family. She showed aptitude for music from her early years and took lessons privately from William Sterndale Bennett and George Macfarren, publishing...	Symphony in A minor (probably 1876)
Alexandre Tansman Alexandre Tansman Alexandre Tansman was a Polish-born composer and virtuoso pianist. He spent his early years in his native Poland, but lived in France for most of his life...	Symphony No. 2 (1926)
Randall Thompson Randall Thompson Randall Thompson was an American composer, particularly noted for his choral works.-Career:He attended Harvard University, became assistant professor of music and choir director at Wellesley College, and received a doctorate in music from the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music...	Symphony No. 3
Johann Baptist Vanhal Johann Baptist Vanhal Johann Baptist Vanhal also spelled Wanhal, Waṅhall or Wanhall was an important classical music composer born in Nechanice, Bohemia to a Czech family.- Biography :...	Symphony Bryan a1 Symphony Bryan a2 (1770s)
Sergei Vasilenko	Symphony No. 5, Op. 123 (1947)
Louis Vierne Louis Vierne Louis Victor Jules Vierne was a French organist and composer.-Life:Louis Vierne was born in Poitiers, Vienne, nearly blind due to congenital cataracts, but at an early age was discovered to have an unusual gift for music. Louis Victor Jules Vierne (8 October 1870 – 2 June 1937) was a French...	Symphony, Op. 24 (1907-8)
Karl Weigl Karl Weigl Karl Ignaz Weigl was an Austrian composer. He was born in Vienna, being the son of a bank official who was also a keen amateur musician. Alexander Zemlinsky took him as a private pupil in 1896. Weigl went to school at the Franz-Joseph-Gymnasium and graduated from there in 1899...	Symphony No. 6 (1947)
Mieczysław Weinberg	Symphony No. 4, Op. 61 (1957) Symphony No. 6, Op. 79 (1962-3) Symphony No. 10, Op. 98 (1968)

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