List of symphonies in C minor
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This is a list of symphonies in C minor
written by notable composers.
, see List of symphonies in C major. For symphonies in other keys, see List of symphonies by key.
C minor
C minor is a minor scale based on C, consisting of the pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. The harmonic minor raises the B to B. Changes needed for the melodic and harmonic versions of the scale are written in with naturals and accidentals as necessary.Its key signature consists of three flats...
written by notable composers.
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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. 4, op. 39 (1918-9) |
Boris Alexandrovich Arapov Boris Alexandrovich Arapov Boris Alexandrovich Arapov was a Russian composer.Arapov grew up in Poltava in Ukraine, and received there his first musical instruction. His first desire was to become a pianist. When he moved to Petrograd in 1921, he took piano lessons with Maria Yudina. However, a hand disease later forced... |
Symphony No. 1 (1947) |
Thomas Arne | Symphony No. 4 (ca 1767) |
Edgar Bainton Edgar Bainton Edgar Leslie Bainton was a British composer, most celebrated for his church music. Perhaps his most famous piece is the liturgical anthem And I saw a new heaven, but during recent years Bainton's other musical works - neglected for decades - have been increasingly often heard in the concert... |
Symphony No. 3 (completed 1956) |
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... |
Symphony No. 5, op. 67 Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven) The Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1804–08. This symphony is one of the most popular and best-known compositions in all of classical music, and one of the most often played symphonies. It comprises four movements: an opening sonata, an andante, and a fast... (1808) |
Felix Blumenfeld Felix Blumenfeld Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld was a Russian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher.He was born in Kovalevka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire , the son of Austrian Mikhail Frantsevich Blumenfeld and the Polish Marie Szymanowska, and studied composition at the St... |
Symphony Op. 39 To the Beloved Dead (by 1909) |
Luigi Boccherini Luigi Boccherini Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is most widely known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No... |
Symphony No. 17, op. 41 G. 519 (1788) |
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, op. 68 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... (1876) |
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... |
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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. 1 (Bruckner) Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 1 in C minor was the first symphony the composer thought worthy of performing, and bequeathing to the Vienna national library. Chronologically, it comes after the Study Symphony in F minor and before Symphony No. 0 in D minor. The first version of the Symphony No. 2... (1868) 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.... (1872) 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... (1887) |
Norbert Burgmüller Norbert Burgmüller Norbert Burgmüller was a German composer.-Life:Burgmüller was born in Düsseldorf, the youngest son in a musical family. His father, August Burgmüller, was the director of a theatre. His mother, Therese von Zandt, was a singer and piano teacher. He had two brothers, Franz and Friedrich, who was... |
Symphony No. 1, op. 2 (1831-3) |
Alfredo Casella Alfredo Casella Alfredo Casella was an Italian composer, pianist and conductor.- Life and career :Casella was born in Turin; his family included many musicians; his grandfather, a friend of Paganini's, was first cello in the San Carlo Theatre in Lisbon and eventually was soloist in the Royal Chapel in Turin... |
Symphony No. 2 op. 12 (1908/9) |
Frederic Cliffe Frederic Cliffe Frederic Cliffe was an English composer.-Life:As a youth, Cliffe showed a promising musical aptitude and was enrolled as a scholar of the National Training School for Music, the parent of the Royal College of Music, under its first Principal Arthur Sullivan.From 1884 to 1931 he held the post of... |
Symphony No. 1 (1889) |
Frederic Hymen Cowen Frederic Hymen Cowen Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen , was a British pianist, conductor and composer.-Early years:Cowen was born Hymen Frederick Cohen at 90 Duke Street, Kingston, Jamaica, the fifth and last child of Frederick Augustus Cohen and Emily Cohen née Davis. His siblings were Elizabeth Rose Cohen ; actress,... |
Symphony No. 3 Scandinavian (1880) |
Carl Czerny Carl Czerny Carl Czerny was an Austrian pianist, composer and teacher. He is best remembered today for his books of études for the piano. Czerny's music was profoundly influenced by his teachers, Muzio Clementi, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Antonio Salieri and Ludwig van Beethoven.-Early life:Carl Czerny was born... |
Symphony No. 1, Op. 781 |
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, B. 9 "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... (1865) |
Louise Farrenc Louise Farrenc Louise Farrenc was a French composer, virtuosa pianist and teacher. Born Jeanne-Louise Dumont in Paris, she was the daughter of Jacques-Edme Dumont, a successful sculptor, and sister to Auguste Dumont.-Biography:... |
Symphony No. 1, op. 32 (1841) |
Josef Bohuslav Foerster Josef Bohuslav Foerster Josef Bohuslav Foerster was a Czech composer of classical music. He is often referred to as J. B. Foerster. The surname is sometimes spelled Förster.- Life :... |
Symphony No. 4, op. 54 "Easter Eve" (1905) |
Niels Gade | Symphony No. 1, op. 5 (1842) |
Friedrich Gernsheim Friedrich Gernsheim Friedrich Gernsheim was a German composer, conductor and pianist.Gernsheim was born in Worms. He was given his first musical training at home under his mother's care, then starting from the age of seven under Worms' musical director, Louis Liebe, a former pupil of Louis Spohr... |
Symphony No. 3, op. 54 "Mirjam" (1888) |
Louis Glass Louis Glass Louis Glass was a Danish composer.Glass, born in Copenhagen, was almost an exact contemporary of Carl Nielsen and like Nielsen was a student of Niels Gade. However, Glass also studied at the Brussels Conservatory where he became enamored of the music of César Franck and Anton Bruckner, both of... |
Symphony No. 2 (with chorus), op. 28 (1899) |
Alexander Glazunov Alexander Glazunov Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor... |
Symphony No. 6, op. 58 (completed 1896) |
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. 2, op. 25 (1907) |
Edvard Grieg Edvard Grieg Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in... |
Symphony in C minor, EG 119 |
Johan Halvorsen Johan Halvorsen Johan Halvorsen was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist.-Biography:Born in Drammen, Norway he was an accomplished violinist from a very early age and became a prominent figure in Norwegian musical life... |
Symphony No. 1 (1923) |
Asger Hamerik Asger Hamerik Asger Hamerik , was a Danish composer of classical music.Born in Frederiksberg , he studied music with J.P.E. Hartmann and Niels Gade. He wrote his first pieces in his teens, including an unperformed symphony... |
Symphony No. 2, op. 32 Symphonie tragique (1882-3) |
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... |
Symphony No. 52 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 52 in C minor is one of the last Sturm und Drang symphonies composed by the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn while the composer was in residence at Esterházy in 1771 or 1772..... Symphony No. 78 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 78 in C minor, Hoboken 1/78, is a symphony by Joseph Haydn in 1782-Early set of symphonies for London:In 1782, almost a decade before Haydn composed the first of his famous London symphonies, he composed a trio of symphonies – 76, 77 and 78 – for a trip to London which... Symphony No. 95 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 95 in C minor is the third of the so-called twelve London symphonies written by Joseph Haydn. It is the only one of the twelve London symphonies in a minor key.... |
William Herschel William Herschel Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS, German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer. Born in Hanover, Wilhelm first followed his father into the Military Band of Hanover, but emigrated to Britain at age 19... |
Symphony No. 8 (1761) |
Heinrich von Herzogenberg Heinrich von Herzogenberg Heinrich Picot de Peccaduc, Freiherr von Herzogenberg was an Austrian composer and conductor descended from a French aristocratic family.... |
Symphony No. 1, op. 50 |
Richard Hol Richard Hol Richard Hol was a Dutch composer and conductor, based for most of his career at Utrecht. His conservative music showed the influence of Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann and the Leipzig school, though as a conductor he offered Dutch audiences the modern music of Hector Berlioz and Richard... |
Symphony No. 1 (1863) |
Jānis 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. 7 (1953) |
Salomon Jadassohn Salomon Jadassohn Salomon Jadassohn was a German composer and a renowned teacher of piano and composition at the Leipzig Conservatory.-Life:... |
Symphony No. 4, op. 101 (1889) |
Dmitri Kabalevsky Dmitri Kabalevsky Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky was a Russian composer.He helped to set up the Union of Soviet Composers in Moscow and remained one of its leading figures. He was a prolific composer of piano music and chamber music; many of his piano works have been performed by Vladimir Horowitz. He is probably... |
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Hugo Kaun Hugo Kaun Hugo Wilhelm Ludwig Kaun was a German composer, conductor, and music teacher.Kaun was born in Berlin, and completed his musical training in his native city. In 1886 , he left Germany for the United States and settled in Milwaukee, which was home to a well-established German immigrant community... |
Symphony No. 2, Opus 85 (dedicated to Peter Raabe Peter Raabe Peter Raabe was a German composer and conductor. Graduated in the Higher Musical School in Berlin and in the universities of Munich and Jena. In 1894-98 Raabe worked in Königsberg and Zwickau. In 1899-1903 he worked in the Dutch Opera-House . In 1907-20 Raabe was the 1st Court Conductor in Weimar... ) |
August Klughardt August Klughardt August Friedrich Martin Klughardt was a German composer and conductor.- Life :Klughardt, who was born in Köthen, took his first piano and music theory lessons at the age of 10. Soon, be began to compose his first pieces, which were performed by a music circle Klughardt had founded himself at... |
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Joseph Martin Kraus Joseph Martin Kraus Joseph Martin Kraus , was a composer in the classical era who was born in Miltenberg am Main, Germany. He moved to Sweden at age 21, and died at the age of 36 in Stockholm... |
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Franz Krommer Franz Krommer Franz Krommer was a Czech composer of classical music, whose seventy-year life began the year of the death of George Frideric Handel and ended a few years after that of Ludwig van Beethoven.-Life:The main events of his life were somewhat as follows:* From 1773 to 1776,... |
Symphony No. 4, op. 102 (published in 1821) |
Joseph Küffner Joseph Küffner Joseph Küffner was a German musician and composer, a contemporary of Beethoven.-Life:... |
Symphony No. 4, op. 141 |
Franz Lachner Franz Lachner Franz Paul Lachner was a German composer and conductor.Lachner was born in Rain am Lech to a musical family . He studied music with Simon Sechter and Maximilian, the Abbé Stadler. He conducted at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna. In 1834, he became Kapellmeister at Mannheim... |
Symphony No. 5 op. 52 (by 1835) |
Albéric Magnard Albéric Magnard Lucien Denis Gabriel Albéric Magnard was a French composer, sometimes referred to as the "French Bruckner", though there are significant differences between the two composers... |
Symphony No. 1, op. 4 (1890) |
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. 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... (1894) |
Witold Maliszewski Witold Maliszewski Witold Maliszewski , was a Polish composer, first Rector and founder of Odessa Conservatory and professor at Warsaw Conservatory, pupil of N. Rimsky-Korsakov.- Biography :... |
Symphony No. 3, op. 14 |
Daniel Gregory Mason Daniel Gregory Mason Daniel Gregory Mason was an American composer and music critic.-Biography:... |
Symphony No. 1, op. 11 (1913-4) |
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. 1, op. 11 Symphony No. 1 (Mendelssohn) Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 11, is a work by Felix Mendelssohn, which was completed on March 31, 1824, when the composer was only 15 years old. However, the autographed score was not published until 1831. The symphony was dedicated to the Royal Philharmonic Society who premièred the work in... (1824) |
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. 1 (Myaskovsky) The Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 3, by Nikolai Myaskovsky was written in 1908 .It is in three movements:# Lento, ma non troppo. Allegro.# Larghetto, quasi andante# Allegro assai e molto risoluto... (1908, rev. 1921) |
John Knowles Paine John Knowles Paine John Knowles Paine , was the first American-born composer to achieve fame for large-scale orchestral music.-Life:He studied organ, orchestration, and composition in Germany and toured in Europe for three years... |
Symphony No. 1, op. 23 (1875) Symphony No. 1 (Paine) Symphony No. 1 in C minor, is the first symphony by American composer John Knowles Paine.-History:The symphony was composed between 1872 and 1875 and first performed in Boston on the 26th of January 1876.-Instrumentation:*2 flutes*2 oboes... |
Boris Parsadanian Boris Parsadanian Boris Parsadanian was an Armenian-Estonian composer.Born in Kislovodsk, Russia, his initial studies were conducted under Litinsky at the Studio of the Armenian House of Culture. His studies were interrupted by World War II, for which he was decorated for his service... |
Symphony No. 1 op. 5 (1958) |
Ignaz Pleyel Ignaz Pleyel Ignace Joseph Pleyel , ; was an Austrian-born French composer and piano builder of the Classical period.-Early years:... |
*Symphony, Benton 121 (1778) |
Florence Price Florence Price - Career :Florence Price is considered the first black woman in the United States to be recognized as a symphonic composer. Even though her training was steeped in European tradition, Price’s music consists of mostly the American idiom and reveals her Southern roots... |
Symphony No. 3 (1940) |
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. 3, op. 44 Symphony No. 3 (Prokofiev) Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 3 in C minor in 1928.-Background:The music derives from Prokofiev's opera The Fiery Angel. This opera had been accepted for performance in the 1927-28 season at the Berlin State Opera by Bruno Walter, but this production never materialised; in fact, the... (1928) |
Carl Reinecke Carl Reinecke Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke was a German composer, conductor, and pianist.-Biography:Reinecke was born in Altona, Hamburg, Germany; until 1864 the town was under Danish rule. He studied with his father, Johann Peter Rudolph Reinecke, a music teacher... |
Symphony No. 2, Hakon Jarl, op. 134 (1874) |
František Xaver Richter |
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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. 2, op. 80 (1814) |
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 No. 3 (1910) |
Johann Rufinatscha Johann Rufinatscha Johann Rufinatscha was an Austrian composer, theorist and music teacher.-Life:Rufinatscha was born in 1812 in Mals . At the age of 14 he came to Innsbruck, where he studied the piano, violin, and musical study at the conservatory... |
Symphony No. 4 (1846) (fragmentary) |
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, op. 78 "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... (1886) |
Xaver Scharwenka Xaver Scharwenka Franz Xaver Scharwenka was a German pianist, composer and teacher. He was the brother of Philipp Scharwenka , who was also a composer and teacher of music.- Life and career :... |
Symphony, op. 60 (1885) |
Ernest Schelling Ernest Schelling Ernest Henry Schelling was an American pianist, composer, and conductor.Born in Belvidere, New Jersey, Schelling was a child prodigy. His first teacher was his father. He entered the Academy of Music in Philadelphia at age 4. At age 7, Schelling traveled to Europe to study. He was admitted to the... |
Symphony in C minor |
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... |
Symphony No. 4, D. 417 "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... |
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. 2 (Scriabin) Alexander Scriabin's Symphony No. 2, Op. 29, in C minor was written in 1901 and first performed in St Petersburg under Anatol Lyadov on 12 January 1902. It is the most structurally conventional of all Scriabin's symphonies.... (1902) 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... (1904) |
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. 4 (Shostakovich) Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Opus 43, between September 1935 and May 1936, after abandoning some preliminary sketch material... (1936) Symphony No. 8 (Shostakovich) The Symphony No. 8 in C minor by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in the summer of 1943, and first performed on November 4 of that year by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky, to whom the work is dedicated.... (1943) |
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 No. 1 (1863) |
Louis Spohr Louis Spohr Louis Spohr was a German composer, violinist and conductor. Born Ludewig Spohr, he is usually known by the French form of his name. Described by Dorothy Mayer as "The Forgotten Master", Spohr was once as famous as Beethoven. As a violinist, his virtuoso playing was admired by Queen Victoria... |
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Josef Suk Josef Suk (composer) Josef Suk was a Czech composer and violinist.- Life :Suk was born in Křečovice. He studied at Prague Conservatory from 1885 to 1892, where he was a pupil of Antonín Dvořák and Antonín Bennewitz. In 1898, he married Dvořák's eldest daughter, Otilie Dvořáková , affectionately known as Otilka... |
Symphony No. 2, op. 27 "Asrael" Asrael (symphony) The Asrael Symphony for large orchestra in C minor , Op. 27 , was written by Josef Suk in memory of his father-in-law and teacher, Antonín Dvořák , and his wife Otilie Suková .- Background :Suk began to compose his funeral symphony at the beginning of 1905,... (1904-6) |
Sergei Taneyev Sergei Taneyev Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev , was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author.-Life:... |
Symphony No. 4, op. 12 (1896-8) |
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. 2, op. 17 "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... (1879) |
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. 1 ETW 1 (1931-4) |
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 :... |
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Felix Weingartner Felix Weingartner Paul Felix von Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist.-Biography:... |
Symphony No. 5, op. 71 (1924) |
Richard Wetz Richard Wetz Richard Wetz was a German late Romantic composer best known for his three symphonies. In these works, he "seems to have aimed to be an immediate continuation of Bruckner, as a result of which he actually ended up on the margin of music history".-1875-1906: Youth:Richard Wetz was born to a merchant... |
Symphony No. 1 (1916) |
Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse | Symphony No. 6, DF 122 (1798, ref. ca. 1800) |
Johann Wilhelm Wilms Johann Wilhelm Wilms Johann Wilhelm Wilms was a Dutch-German composer, best known for writing Wien Neêrlands Bloed, which served as the Dutch national anthem from 1815 to 1932.... |
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Felix Woyrsch Felix Woyrsch Felix Woyrsch was a German composer and choir director.Woyrsch lived in Dresden and Hamburg while young, studying in the latter under Ernst August Heinrich Chevallier. He held posts as a conductor and organist in several German cities in the 1890s and 1900s... |
Symphony No. 1 (1908) |
Pavel Wranitzky | Symphony, op. 11 (published 1791) |
Richard Wüerst Richard Wüerst Richard Wüerst was a German composer, music professor and pedagogue.Wüerst was a pupil of Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen's at the Royal Academy and a pupil of Felix Mendelssohn's in Berlin... |
Symphony No. 3 (1861) |
See also
For symphonies in C majorC major
C major is a musical major scale based on C, with pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. Its key signature has no flats/sharps.Its relative minor is A minor, and its parallel minor is C minor....
, see List of symphonies in C major. For symphonies in other keys, see List of symphonies by key.