This is a list of symphonies in C major written by notable composers.
Composer | Symphony |
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Carl Friedrich Abel | Symphony, Op. 10 No. 4 |
Kurt Atterberg | Symphony No. 6 , Op. 31 (1927-28) |
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach | Symphony BR C10 \ (Wf I: 6) |
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach |
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Mily Balakirev | Symphony No. 1 (1864-97) |
Woldemar Bargiel | Symphony, Op. 30 (1861) |
Arnold Bax | Symphony No. 2 in E minor and C major (1924-6) |
Ludwig van Beethoven | Symphony No. 1, Op. 21 (1800) |
Victor Bendix | Symphony No. 1 "Fjældstigning" , Op. 16 (1882) |
Franz Berwald | Symphony No. 3 "Singulière" |
Georges Bizet |
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Luigi Boccherini |
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William Boyce | Symphony in C major, Op. 2 No. 3 |
Joly Braga Santos | Symphony No. 3 in C major (1949) |
Havergal Brian |
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John Alden Carpenter | Symphony [1] |
Alfredo Casella | Symphony No. 3, Op. 63 (1939-40) |
George Whitefield Chadwick | Symphony No. 1 [2] |
Felix Draeseke | Symphony No. 3 Tragica , Op. 40 (1885-6) |
Paul Dukas | Symphony in C (1896) |
Georges Enescu | Symphony No. 3, Op. 21 (1916-18) |
Robert Fuchs | Symphony No. 1, Op. 37 (1884) |
Florian Leopold Gassmann | Symphonies Hill 21, 23, 43, 86. Also, a symphony in C major that might be by Aumon [3] instead. [4] |
Anatoly Luppov | Symphony No.1 in C major (1964) [5] |
William Gilchrist | Symphony No. 1 [6] |
Asger Hamerik | Symphony No. 4 "Majestic" , Op. 35 (premiered 1889, Baltimore) [7] |
Joseph Haydn |
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Michael Haydn |
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Aram Khachaturian | Symphony No. 3 "Symphony-Poem" (1947) |
Joseph Martin Kraus |
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Adolf Fredrik Lindblad | Symphony No. 1, Op. 19 (1831) |
Borys Lyatoshynsky | Symphony No. 5 "Slavonic", Op. 67 (1965-6) |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
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Nikolai Myaskovsky |
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Ludolf Nielsen | Symphony No. 3, Op. 22 (1914) |
Hans Pfitzner | Symphony No. 3 , Op. 46 (1940) |
Gavriil Popov | Chamber Symphony, previously known as Septet (1927) |
Sergei Prokofiev |
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Joachim Raff | Symphony No. 2, Op. 140 (1866) |
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | Symphony No. 3 , Op. 32, 1866-1873 (1st version), 1886 (2nd version) |
Jean Rivier | Symphony No. 2 for Strings (1937) |
Guy Ropartz | Symphony No. 4 in C major (1914) |
Anton Rubinstein | Symphony No. 2 Ocean , Op. 42 (original version of 1851-revisions to 1863) [8] |
Franz Schmidt | Symphony No. 4 (1932-33) |
Franz Schubert | |
Robert Schumann | Symphony No. 2, Op. 61 (1845-46) |
Vissarion Shebalin | Symphony No. 5, Op. 56 (1962) |
Dmitri Shostakovich | Symphony No. 7, Op. 60 "Leningrad" (1942) |
Jean Sibelius |
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Igor Stravinsky | Symphony in C (1940) |
Louis Spohr | Symphony No. 7 "The Earthly and Divine in Human Life", Op. 121 (1841) |
Richard Wagner | Symphony in C major (1832) |
Carl Maria von Weber |
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Mieczysław Weinberg | Symphony No. 7 , Op. 81 (1964) |
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