List of symphonies in G major - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of symphonies in G major
G major
G major is a major scale based on G, with the pitches G, A, B, C, D, E, and F. Its key signature has one sharp, F; in treble-clef key signatures, the sharp-symbol for F is usually placed on the first line from the top, though in some Baroque music it is placed on the first space from the bottom...

written by notable composers.

Composer	Symphony
Carl Friedrich Abel	Symphony op. 1 no. 6/WK 6Symphony op. 4 no. 5/WK 11Symphony op. 7 no. 1/WK 13Symphony op. 14 no. 5/WK 29Symphony op. 17 no. 6/WK 36
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach right\|250pxCarl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach...	Symphony H 648/Wq 173Symphony H 655/Wq 180Symphony H 657/Wq 182:1Symphony H 666/Wq 183:4Symphony H 667
Johann Christian Bach Johann Christian Bach Johann Christian Bach was a composer of the Classical era, the eleventh and youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is sometimes referred to as 'the London Bach' or 'the English Bach', due to his time spent living in the British capital...	Symphony op. 3 no. 6/W C6Symphony op. 6 no. 1/W C7aSymphony W C7bSymphony op. 8 no. 2/W C13
Franz Ignaz Beck Franz Ignaz Beck Franz Ignaz Beck was a German violinist, composer, conductor and music teacher who spent the greater part of his life in France, where he became director of the Bordeaux Grand Théâtre. Possibly the most talented pupil of Johann Stamitz, Beck is an important representative of the second generation...	Sinfonia, op. 1 no. 5 (Callen 5) (published 1758)
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 G576
Christian Cannabich Christian Cannabich Johann Christian Innocenz Bonaventura Cannabich , was a German violinist, composer, and Kapellmeister of the Classical era...	Sinfonia (1760)Sinfonia, op. 10 no. 2 (no. 47) (by 1772)Sinfonia, no. 67
Muzio Clementi Muzio Clementi Muzio Clementi was a celebrated composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. Born in Italy, he spent most of his life in England. He is best known for his piano sonatas, and his collection of piano studies, Gradus ad Parnassum...	Symphony "no. 3" Grand National Symphony (incomplete)
Eric DeLamarter Eric DeLamarter Eric DeLamarter was an American composer and classical organist.He was the child of Dr. Louis and Mary B. DeLamarter, and went to Albion College....	Symphony (1920)
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. 1 (1868–69/revised 1871–72)
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. 8, op. 88, B. 163 Symphony No. 8 (Dvorák) The Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, B. 163, was composed and orchestrated by Antonín Dvořák within the two-and-a-half-month period from August 26 to November 8 1889 in Vysoká u Příbrami, Bohemia... (1889)
George Dyson George Dyson (composer) Sir George Dyson KCVO was a well-known English musician and composer. His son is the physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson and among his grandchildren are the science historian George Dyson and Esther Dyson...	Symphony (1937)
Jean Françaix Jean Françaix Jean René Désiré Françaix was a French neoclassical composer, pianist, and orchestrator, known for his prolific output and vibrant style.-Life:...	Symphony in G (1953)
François Joseph Gossec François Joseph Gossec François-Joseph Gossec was a French composer of operas, string quartets, symphonies, and choral works.-Life and work:...	Symphony op. 12 no. 2 (RH 36) (published 1769)
Theodore Gouvy Louis Théodore Gouvy Louis Théodore Gouvy was a French composer.- Biography :Gouvy was born into a French speaking family in the Alsatian village of Goffontaine, in the Sarre, a region on the France-Prussia border...	Symphony op. 58 (Symphonie brève; variations et rondo pour orchestre)
Christoph Graupner Christoph Graupner Christoph Graupner was a German harpsichordist and composer of high Baroque music who lived and worked at the same time as Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and George Frideric Handel.-Graupner's life:Born in Hartmannsdorf near Kirchberg in Saxony, Graupner received his first musical...	GWV 578–611 are all in this key (see List of symphonies by Christoph Graupner.)
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. 6, op. 38 "Symphonie spirituelle" (1897)
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. 3 Symphony No. 3 (Haydn) Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 3 in G major, Hoboken I/3, is believed to have been written between 1760 and 1762.It is scored for 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns, strings and continuo... (composed by 1762 1762 in music - Events :Johann Christian Bach composing for the King's Theatre in London; here he meets Carl Friedrich Abel for the first time.Michael Haydn moves to Salzburg, to become Konzertmeister to the Archbishop.... )Symphony No. 8 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... , Le Soir (1761 1761 in music - Events :Francesco Geminiani visits Dublin, where he is robbed of a valuable manuscript.Domenico Cimarosa enters the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto.Joseph Haydn enters the service of the Esterházy family- Opera :... ?)Symphony No. 18 Symphony No. 18 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 18 in G major, Hoboken I/18, is a symphony by Joseph Haydn. The composition date is uncertain. The Breitkopf catalogue entry assures that it was composed no later than 1766, but most scholars believe it was composed at least a few years before then... (composed by 1766 1766 in music - Events :Joseph Haydn becomes Kapellmeister to the Esterházys. The orchestra is increased to 22 players.Niccolò Piccinni is invited to Paris by Queen Marie Antoinette.Dom Bédos de Celles publishes his influential L'art du facteur d'orgues.- Opera :... )Symphony No. 23 Symphony No. 23 (Haydn) Joseph Haydn wrote Symphony No. 23 in G major, Hoboken I/23, in 1764.The work is scored for 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns, and strings with continuo... (1764 1764 in music - Events :* Wilhelm Friedemann Bach leaves his post as organist at Halle.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart becomes a pupil of Johann Christian Bach.- Classical music :Joseph Haydn – Symphony no 22 Michael Haydn – Trumpet Concerto... )Symphony No. 27 Symphony No. 27 (Haydn) Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 27 in G major was likely written before 1760. Its chronological position was assigned by Eusebius Mandyczewski in 1907... (composed by 1766 1766 in music - Events :Joseph Haydn becomes Kapellmeister to the Esterházys. The orchestra is increased to 22 players.Niccolò Piccinni is invited to Paris by Queen Marie Antoinette.Dom Bédos de Celles publishes his influential L'art du facteur d'orgues.- Opera :... )Symphony No. 54 Symphony No. 54 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 54 in G major, Hoboken I/54, is a symphony by Joseph Haydn, composed in 1774.-Instrumentation:The symphony exists in 3 versions. The first version is scored for 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns, and strings. Subsequently the second version included a second bassoon part and a timpani... (1774 1774 in music - Events :Antonio Salieri is appointed court composer to the Emperor Joseph II.Domenico Cimarosa is invited to Rome for the opera season.Charles Burney writes A Plan for a Music School.Pascal Taskin becomes keeper of the King's instruments.... )Symphony No. 81 Symphony No. 81 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 81 in G major is a symphony by Joseph Haydn was composed in 1784 as part of a trio of symphonies that also included symphonies 79 and 80.-Movements:It is scored for flute, two oboes, two bassoons, two horns and strings.... (composed by 1784 1784 in music -Events:March - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gives the first performances of his Piano Concerto No. 15 at the Trattnerhof and Burgtheater in ViennaApril 29 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and violinist Regina Strinasacchi perform Mozart's Sonata in B flat for Violin and Keyboard for the first time, in the... )Symphony No. 88 Symphony No. 88 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 88 in G major was written by Joseph Haydn. It is occasionally referred to as The Letter V referring to an older method of cataloguing Haydn's symphonic output.The symphony was completed in 1787... (late 1780s)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:... (1791)Symphony No. 94 "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... (1791)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 :... (1794)
Michael Haydn Michael Haydn Johann Michael Haydn was an Austrian composer of the classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.-Life:...	Symphony No. 1C, MH 26 (1758?)Symphony No. 3 Symphony No. 3 (Michael Haydn) Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 3 in G major, also known as Divertimento in G major, Sherman 3, MH 26, was written in Großwardein in 1763, according to the Göttweig catalog. It is not listed in the Perger catalog... , (Divertimento) (1763)Symphony No. 12 Symphony No. 12 (Michael Haydn) Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 12 in G major, Perger 7, Sherman 12, MH 108, written in Salzburg in 1768, was at one time mistaken for a symphony by Joseph Haydn Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 12 in G major, Perger 7, Sherman 12, MH 108, written in Salzburg in 1768, was at one time mistaken for a... , MH 108, Perger 7 (1768)Symphony No. 25 Symphony No. 25 (Michael Haydn) The Symphony No. 25 in G major, Perger 16, Sherman 25, MH 334 is a classical symphony that was composed by Michael Haydn in 1783, with a completion date of May 23. It is scored for flute , 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns and strings.... , MH 284, Perger 16 (1783) (given an introduction by Mozart, who conducted it the same year and for a while regarded as Mozart's Symphony No. 37 Symphony No. 37 (Mozart) The so-called Symphony No. 37 in G major, K. 444/425a, is an introduction by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a symphony in G by Michael Haydn.- History :... , K. 444)Symphony No. 35 Symphony No. 35 (Michael Haydn) Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 35 in G major, Perger 27, Sherman 35, MH 474, written in Salzburg in 1788, is the last G major symphony he wrote, the second of his final set of six symphonies.Scored for 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns and strings... , MH 474, Perger 27 (1788)
Friedrich Koch Friedrich Koch Friedrich Ernst Koch was a German composer, cellist and teacher. He was born in Berlin and studied cello with Robert Hausmann and composition with Woldemar Bargiel at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik...	Symphony No. 2, op. 10 (published 1891)
Leopold Kozeluch Leopold Kozeluch Leopold Kozeluch was a Czech composer and teacher of classical music. He was born in the town of Velvary, in Bohemia .-Life:...	Symphony P I: 8, op. 24 no. 3Symphony P I: G1
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. 4 Symphony No. 4 (Mahler) The Symphony No. 4 by Gustav Mahler was written between 1899 and 1901, though it incorporates a song originally written in 1892. The song, "Das himmlische Leben", presents a child's vision of Heaven. It is sung by a soprano in the work's fourth and last movement... (1901)
John Marsh John Marsh (composer) John Marsh was an English music composer, born in Dorking, England. A lawyer by training, he is known to have written at least 350 compositions, including at least 39 symphonies...	Symphony No. 8 (9) (1778)
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....
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 No. 10 Symphony No. 10 (Mozart) The Symphony No. 10 in G major, K. 74, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart probably during his first journey to Italy in the spring of 1770.The symphony is scored for two oboes, two horns and strings... , K. 74Symphony No. 12 Symphony No. 12 (Mozart) Symphony No. 12 in G major, K. 110/75b, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was composed in Salzburg in the summer of 1771. The symphony was apparently prepared in anticipation of Mozart's second Italian journey, which was to take place between August and December 1771. The symphony is in four movements,... , K. 110Symphony No. 15 Symphony No. 15 (Mozart) The Symphony No. 15 in G major, K. 124 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was written in Salzburg during the first weeks of 1772. A note on the autograph manuscript indicates that it might have been written for a religious occasion, possibly in honour of the new Archbishop of Salzburg... , K. 124 (1772)Symphony No. 17 Symphony No. 17 (Mozart) Symphony No. 17 in G major, K. 129, is the second of three symphonies completed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in May 1772, when he was sixteen years old, but some of its sections may have been written earlier.-Structure:... , K. 129 (1772)Symphony No. 27 Symphony No. 27 (Mozart) Symphony No. 27 in G major, K. 199/161b, is a symphony composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in April, 1773. The symphony has the scoring of two flutes, two horns, and strings.He wrote the symphony in three movements:#Allegro, 3/4#Andantino grazioso, 2/4... , K. 199 (1773)Symphony No. 32 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:... "Overture in the Italian style", K. 318 (1779)
George Onslow	Symphony No. 4, op. 71 (1846)
Carlo d'Ordoñez	Symphony, Bryan G0
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. 1 (1880–81 or 1882?)
Hans Pfitzner Hans Pfitzner Hans Erich Pfitzner was a German composer and self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.-Biography:Pfitzner was born in Moscow, Russia, where his...	Little Symphony, op. 44 (1946)
Ignaz Pleyel Ignaz Pleyel Ignace Joseph Pleyel , ; was an Austrian-born French composer and piano builder of the Classical period.-Early years:...	Symphony Ben.130Symphony Ben.156/op. 68 (1804)
Napoléon Henri Reber Napoléon Henri Reber Napoléon Henri Reber was a French composer.He studied with Anton Reicha and Jean François Lesueur, wrote chamber music, and set to music the new poems of the best French poets...	Symphony No. 4 (by 1850)
Anton Reicha Anton Reicha Anton Reicha was a Czech-born, later naturalized French composer. A contemporary and lifelong friend of Beethoven, Reicha is now best remembered for his substantial early contribution to the wind quintet literature and his role as a teacher – his pupils included Franz Liszt and Hector Berlioz...	Symphony No. 1 (actually no. 3?) (ca. 1808)
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. 3, for strings (pub. 1939)
Chevalier de Saint-Georges Chevalier de Saint-Georges Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George was an important figures in the Paris musical scene in the second half of the 18th century as composer, conductor, and violinist. Prior to the revolution in France, he was also famous as a swordsman and equestrian...	Symphony Op. 11 No. 1 G.73
Vadim Salmanov Vadim Salmanov The composer Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov is perhaps best known for his Symphony No...	Symphony No. 2 (1959)
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...	Symphony No. 6 "Historical Symphony in the Style and Taste of Four Different Periods", op. 116 (1839)Symphony No. 8, op. 137 (1847)
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 G major
Johann Stamitz Johann Stamitz Jan Václav Antonín Stamic was a Czech composer and violinist. Johann was the father of Carl Stamitz and Anton Stamitz, also composers...	Symphony, op. 3 no. 1 (Wolf G2) (probably written between 1751–54; published 1757)Symphony, op. 3 no. 3 (Wolf G3) (probably written between 1751–54; published 1757)Symphony, op. 8 no. 3 (Wolf G5) (probably written 1745–49; published 1763)
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 G1Symphony, Bryan G2Symphony, Bryan G4Symphony, Bryan G6Symphony, Bryan G8Symphony, Bryan G10Symphony, Bryan G11Symphony, Bryan G13
	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... (1914)
Mieczysław Weinberg	Symphony No. 2, op. 30 (1946)
Felix Weingartner Felix Weingartner Paul Felix von Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist.-Biography:...	Symphony No. 1, op. 23 (1898)

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