This is a list of symphonies in D minor written by notable composers.
Baroque and Classical symphonies in D minor usually used 2 horns in F (whereas for most other minor keys 2 or 4 horns were used, half in the tonic and half in the relative major). Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 29 in D minor is notable for using two trumpets in D (the horns are in F but change to D for the coda of the finale). In the Romantic era, D minor symphonies, like symphonies in almost any other key, used horns in F and trumpets in B♭.
The first choice of clarinet for orchestral music in D minor is naturally the clarinet in B♭. This choice, however, becomes problematic for multi-movement works that begin in D minor and end in D major, as the clarinet in A would be preferable for the parallel major. One solution is to write the first movement for clarinet in B♭ and the last movement for clarinet in A, but this burdens the player with having to warm up the A instrument in time for the switch.
Composer | Symphony |
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Kurt Atterberg | Symphony No. 5 "Sinfonia Funebre" , Op. 20 (1917–22) [1] |
Ernst Bacon | Symphony (1932) [2] |
Edgar Bainton | Symphony No. 2 (1939–40) [3] |
Mily Balakirev | Symphony No. 2 (1900–08) [4] |
Franz Ignaz Beck | Symphony, Op. 3, No. 5 |
Ludwig van Beethoven | Symphony No. 9 "Choral", Op. 125 (1822–24) |
Victor Bendix | Symphony No. 4 , Op. 30 (1904–06, rev 1916) [5] |
Adolphe Biarent | Symphony (1908) [6] |
Vilém Blodek | Symphony (1858–59) |
Luigi Boccherini |
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Hjalmar Borgstrøm | Symphony No. 2 , Op. 24 (1912) |
Henry Brant | Symphony No. 2 (1942) [8] |
Havergal Brian | Symphony No. 1 "Gothic" (1919–27) |
George Frederick Bristow | Symphony No. 2, Op. 24 "Jullien" (apparently written by 1854, premiered in 1856) [9] [10] |
Anton Bruckner |
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Fritz Brun | Symphony No. 3 [11] |
Oscar Byström | Symphony (1870–72, rev. 1895) |
Christian Cannabich | Symphony No. 50 (1772?) |
Albert Dietrich | Symphony, Op. 20 (completed February 1870 at latest, dedicated to Johannes Brahms) [12] [13] |
Ernst von Dohnányi | Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 (1900–01) |
Antonín Dvořák |
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John Lodge Ellerton | Symphony No. 3 "Wald-Symphonie", Op. 120 (about 1857) |
Pietro Floridia | Symphony (1888) |
Josef Bohuslav Foerster |
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César Franck | Symphony in D minor |
Niels Gade | Symphony No. 5 , Op. 25 (1852) [15] |
John Gardner | Symphony No. 1, Op. 12 (1946–47) [16] |
Jan van Gilse | Symphony No. 3 "Elevation" (1906–07) |
Alexander Glazunov | Symphony No. 9 (begun in 1910 but left unfinished by Glazunov's death in 1936. First movement orchestrated by Gavril Yudin in 1947) |
Mikhail Glinka | Symphony in D minor "On Two Russian Themes" (1833/1937) left unfinished and completed by Vissarion Shebalin |
Théodore Gouvy | Symphony No. 4 , Op. 25. (1855) [17] |
Paul Graener | Symphony, Op. 39 (published 1912) |
Henry Kimball Hadley | Symphony No. 4, Op. 64 (1911) |
Johan Halvorsen | Symphony No. 2 "Fate" (rev. 1928) |
Joseph Haydn |
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Michael Haydn | Symphony No. 29, MH 393, Perger 20 (1784) |
Hans Huber | |
Jānis Ivanovs | Symphony No. 2 (1935) [20] |
Charles Ives | Symphony No. 1 (1898–1902) |
Jan Kalivoda | Symphony No. 3, Op. 32 (premiered 1830) |
Manolis Kalomiris | Symphony No. 3 (1955) [21] |
Hugo Kaun | Symphony No. 1, Op. 22 (1895), An mein Vaterland. Dem Andenken meines Vaters |
August Klughardt | Symphony No. 1 "Lenore", Op. 27 (1873) |
Joseph Martin Kraus | Sinfonia Da Chiesa, VB 147 |
Franz Lachner |
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László Lajtha | Symphony No. 1, Op. 24 (1936) |
Carl Loewe | Symphony in D minor |
Gustav Mahler | Symphony No. 3 (1895–96) |
Nina Makarova | Symphony (1938, revised 1962) |
Otto Malling | Symphony, Op. 17 (by 1884) [23] |
Giuseppe Martucci | Symphony No. 1 , Op. 75 (1888–95) [24] |
Felix Mendelssohn | Symphony No. 5, Op. 107 Reformation (1832) |
Frank Merrick | Symphony in D minor (1912) [25] |
Ödön Mihalovich | Symphony (published about 1883.) |
Nikolai Myaskovsky | Symphony No. 15 , Op. 38 (1933–34) |
Ludvig Norman | Symphony No. 3, Op. 58 (published 1885) [26] |
George Onslow | Symphony No. 2, Op. 42 |
Fredrik Pacius | Symphony (1850) |
Gottfried von Preyer | Symphony No. 1, Op. 16 [27] |
Florence Price | Symphony No. 4 (1945) |
Sergei Prokofiev | Symphony No. 2, Op. 40 (1925) |
Sergei Rachmaninoff | Symphony No. 1, Op. 13 (1896) |
Joachim Raff | Symphony No. 6, Op. 189 (1873) [28] |
Ture Rangström |
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Napoléon Henri Reber | Symphony No. 1 |
Emil von Reznicek | Symphony No. 1 Tragic (1901) |
Josef Rheinberger | Symphony No. 1 "Wallenstein", Op. 10 (premiered 1866) [29] |
Ferdinand Ries | Symphony No. 5, Op. 112 (1813) [30] |
Henri-Joseph Rigel | Symphony No. 10, Op. 21, No. 2 [31] |
Albert Roussel | Symphony No. 1 "Le Poème de la forêt", Op. 7 (1904–06) |
Anton Rubinstein | Symphony No. 4 "Dramatic", Op. 95 (1874) [32] |
Vadim Salmanov | Symphony No. 1 (1952) [33] |
Adolphe Samuel |
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Philipp Scharwenka | Symphony, Op. 96 (published 1895) [35] [36] |
Martin Scherber | Symphony No. 1 (1938) |
Robert Schumann | Symphony No. 4, Op. 120 (1841) |
Johanna Senfter | Symphony No. 2, Op. 27 [37] |
Dmitri Shostakovich | |
Jean Sibelius | Symphony No. 6, Op. 104 (1918–23) |
Christian Sinding | Symphony No. 1, Op. 21 (1880–89) [38] |
Arthur Somervell | Symphony Thalassa |
Louis Spohr | Symphony No. 2, Op. 49 (1820) [39] |
Charles Villiers Stanford | |
Richard Strauss | Symphony No. 1, AV 69 (1880) [41] |
Hermann Suter | Symphony, Op. 17 (1914) [42] |
Sergei Taneyev | Symphony No. 3 (1884) [43] |
Eduard Tubin | Symphony No. 3 "Heroic" (1940–42, revised 1968) |
Johann Baptist Wanhal | |
Ralph Vaughan Williams | Symphony No. 8 (1955) |
Louis Vierne | Organ Symphony No. 1 |
Robert Volkmann | Symphony No. 1, Op. 44 (published 1863) [46] |
Karl Weigl | Symphony No. 2 (1922) [47] |
Johann Wilhelm Wilms | Symphony No. 6, Op. 58 |
Richard Wüerst | Symphony, Op. 54 (published in 1869) [48] |
Alexander von Zemlinsky | Symphony No. 1 (1892) [49] |
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach | Symphony in D minor, BR-JCFB C 4 / Wf I/3 (ca. 1768) [50] |
Sources
The Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34, by Johannes Brahms was completed during the summer of 1864 and published in 1865. It was dedicated to Her Royal Highness Princess Anna of Hesse. As with most piano quintets composed after Robert Schumann's Piano Quintet (1842), it is written for piano and string quartet.
Heinrich Picot de Peccaduc, Freiherr von Herzogenberg was an Austrian composer and conductor descended from a French aristocratic family.
Anton Bruckner's Symphony in F minor, WAB 99, was written in 1863, at the end of his study period in form and orchestration by Otto Kitzler.
Mily Balakirev began work on his Symphony No. 2 in D minor in 1900, but did not complete the work until 1908. The premiere of the symphony was conducted by Russian composer Sergei Liapunov, a student of Balakirev, in St. Petersburg in 1909. Another performance was held in Paris soon afterwards.
The Symphony No. 1 in C minor, B. 9, subtitled The Bells of Zlonice, was composed by Antonín Dvořák during February and March 1865. It is written in the early Romantic style, inspired by the works of Ludwig van Beethoven and Felix Mendelssohn. Dvořák never heard or revised the symphony, because the completed work was lost during his lifetime. It premiered in 1936.
Wilhelm Reinhard Berger was a German composer, pianist and conductor.
Scherzo in D minor is Sergei Rachmaninoff's earliest surviving composition for orchestra, composed when he was a student at the Moscow Conservatory. It takes between four and five minutes to play.
The Dryad, Op. 45/1, is a tone poem for orchestra written in 1910 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. He completed it between skiing trips. He conducted the first performance in Kristiania, Norway, on 8 October 1910, together with the premiere of In memoriam. He arranged it for piano in 1910. The piece has been regarded as one of the composer's "shortest and most original orchestral works", as an "impressionist miniature", proceeding from fragments to a "dance-like theme".
The Symphony in B flat major is an orchestral work by Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky. Although often referred to as ‘No. 2’, this designation is not the composer's own. It was actually his third essay in symphonic form following the symphonies in E minor of 1891 and D minor (1892).