List of symphonies in D minor

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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.

List

ComposerSymphony
Kurt Atterberg Symphony No. 5 "Funebre", Op. 20  [ nl ] (1917–22) [1]
Ernst Bacon Symphony (1932) [2]
Edgar Bainton Symphony No. 2 (1939–40) [3]
Mily Balakirev Symphony No. 2 (1900–08)
Franz Ignaz Beck Symphony, Op. 3, No. 5
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Op. 125 "Choral" (1822–24)
Victor Bendix Symphony No. 4  [ nl ], Op. 30 (1904–06?)
Adolphe Biarent Symphony (1908) [4]
Vilém Blodek Symphony (1858–59)
Luigi Boccherini
  • Symphony No. 4, Op. 12/4, G. 506 La casa del diavolo (1771) [5]
  • Symphony No. 15, Op. 37/3, G. 517 (1787) [5]
  • Symphony No. 20, Op. 45, G. 522 (1792) [5]
Hjalmar Borgstrøm Symphony No. 2  [ nl ], Op. 24 (1912)
Henry Brant Symphony No. 2 (1942) [6]
Havergal Brian Symphony No. 1 "Gothic" (1919–27)
George Frederick Bristow Symphony No. 2, Op. 24 "Jullien" (apparently written by 1854, premiered in 1856) [7] [8]
Anton Bruckner
Fritz Brun Symphony No. 3 [9]
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) [10] [11]
Ernst von Dohnányi Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 (1900–01)
Antonín Dvořák
John Lodge Ellerton Symphony No. 3 "Wald-Symphonie", Op. 120 (about 1857)
Pietro Floridia Symphony (1888)
Josef Bohuslav Foerster
  • Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 (1887) [12]
  • Symphony No. 5, Op. 141 (1929)
César Franck Symphony in D minor
Niels Gade Symphony No. 5  [ nl ], Op. 25 (1852) [13]
John Gardner Symphony No. 1, Op. 12 (1946–47) [14]
Jan van Gilse Symphony No. 3 "Elevation"  [ nl ] (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  [ fr ], Op. 25. (1855) [15]
Paul Graener Symphony, Op. 39 (published 1912)
Henry Kimball Hadley Symphony No. 4, Op. 64 (1911)
Johan Halvorsen Symphony No. 2  [ nl ] "Fate" (rev. 1928)
Joseph Haydn
Michael Haydn Symphony No. 29, MH 393, Perger 20 (1784)
Hans Huber
  • Symphony No. 1 "Tell-Symphonie" Op. 63 (1880–01) [16]
  • Symphony No. 7 "Swiss" (premiered September 1917) [17]
Jānis Ivanovs Symphony No. 2 (1935) [18]
Charles Ives Symphony No. 1 (1898–1902)
Jan Kalivoda Symphony No. 3, Op. 32 (premiered 1830)
Manolis Kalomiris Symphony No. 3 (1955) [19]
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
  • Symphony No. 3, Op. 41 (1833–34) [20]
  • Symphony No. 7, Op. 58 (1839)
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) [21]
Giuseppe Martucci Symphony No. 1  [ it ], Op. 75 (1888–95) [22]
Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5, Op. 107 Reformation (1832)
Frank Merrick Symphony in D minor (1912) [23]
Ödön Mihalovich Symphony (published about 1883.)
Nikolai Myaskovsky Symphony No. 15  [ de ], Op. 38 (1933–34)
Ludvig Norman Symphony No. 3, Op. 58 (published 1885) [24]
George Onslow Symphony No. 2, Op. 42
Fredrik Pacius Symphony (1850)
Gottfried von Preyer Symphony No. 1, Op. 16 [25]
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) [26]
Ture Rangström
  • Symphony No. 2 "Mitt land" (1919)
  • Symphony No. 4 "Invocation" for Organ and Orchestra (1936)
Napoléon Henri Reber Symphony No. 1
Emil von Reznicek Symphony No. 1 Tragic (1901)
Josef Rheinberger Symphony No. 1 "Wallenstein", Op. 10 (premiered 1866) [27]
Ferdinand Ries Symphony No. 5, Op. 112 (1813) [28]
Henri-Joseph Rigel Symphony No. 10, Op. 21, No. 2 [29]
Albert Roussel Symphony No. 1 "Le Poème de la forêt", Op. 7  [ fr ] (1904–06)
Anton Rubinstein Symphony No. 4  [ it ] "Dramatic", Op. 95 (1874) [30]
Vadim Salmanov Symphony No. 1 (1952) [31]
Adolphe Samuel
  • Symphony No. 4, Op. 33 (1863) [32]
  • Symphony No. 6, Op. 44 (1891)
Philipp Scharwenka Symphony, Op. 96 (published 1895) [33] [34]
Martin Scherber Symphony No. 1 (1938)
Robert Schumann Symphony No. 4, Op. 120 (1841)
Johanna Senfter Symphony No. 2, Op. 27 [35]
Dmitri Shostakovich
Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 6, Op. 104 (1918–23)
Christian Sinding Symphony No. 1, Op. 21  [ nl ] (1880–89) [36]
Arthur Somervell Symphony Thalassa
Louis Spohr Symphony No. 2, Op. 49 (1820) [37]
Charles Villiers Stanford
  • Symphony No. 2 "Elegiac"(1880) [38]
  • Symphony No. 7, Op. 124 (1911) [23]
Richard Strauss Symphony No. 1, AV 69 (1880) [39]
Hermann Suter Symphony, Op. 17 (1914) [40]
Sergei Taneyev Symphony No. 3  [ fr ] (1884) [41]
Eduard Tubin Symphony No. 3 "Heroic" (1940–42, revised 1968)
Johann Baptist Wanhal
  • Symphony, Bryan d1 (by 1773). [42]
  • Symphony, Bryan d2 (with five horn parts) [43]
Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 8 (1955)
Louis Vierne Organ Symphony No. 1  [ fr ]
Robert Volkmann Symphony No. 1, Op. 44 (published 1863) [44]
Karl Weigl Symphony No. 2 (1922) [45]
Johann Wilhelm Wilms Symphony No. 6, Op. 58
Richard Wüerst Symphony, Op. 54 (published in 1869) [46]
Alexander von Zemlinsky Symphony No. 1 (1892) [47]

Notes

  1. ↑ Lace, Ian (July 2002). "Review of Recording of Atterberg Symphonies 2 and 5". MusicWeb International. Retrieved 23 November 2007.
  2. ↑ Farrell, Sam (2000). "Biography of Ernst Bacon". Classical.net. Retrieved 22 June 2008.
  3. ↑ "Information about Recording of Bainton Symphony". Chandos Records . Retrieved 21 November 2007.
  4. ↑ "The Online Catalog of the Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (Joint Library Network)" (in German). Retrieved 22 December 2007.
  5. 1 2 3 "Boccherini Symphony Catalog at U. Quebec" . Retrieved 25 November 2007.
  6. ↑ "Henry Brant Worklist". Carl Fischer. Archived from the original on 13 March 2005. Retrieved 27 August 2008.
  7. ↑ "Permanent Link to Record for Bristow's 2nd symphony at New York Public Library" . Retrieved 27 August 2008.
  8. ↑ "Cornell Library Record for Krueger's Recording of Bristow's 2nd Symphony". 1969. Retrieved 27 August 2008.
  9. ↑ Fritz Brun: Symphony No. 3 OCLC   637915150
  10. ↑ Frisch 2003 , Table 1-1: "A chronological listing of symphonies by contemporary composers published in the Austro-German sphere in the period between Schumann's Third and Brahms's First". Dietrich's is listed under 1870 (its date of publication, as Frisch explains in a note on p. 10).
  11. ↑ Witte, Peter (31 March 2007). "Page about Dietrich's D minor Symphony" (in German). Klassika.info. Retrieved 22 December 2007.
  12. ↑ "Records International Description of Recording of Foerster Symphony 1". MD+G. April 2008. Retrieved 11 June 2008.
  13. ↑ Information at IMSLP.
  14. ↑ "British Symphonies on CD Page 1". MusicWeb International. 2007. Retrieved 23 November 2007.
  15. ↑ Sonneck 1912 , p. 168; see also the website of the Institut Théodore Gouvy.[ full citation needed ]
  16. ↑ Hans Huber: "Symphony No. 1 in D minor Op. 63 ‘Tell Symphony’ ", Musikproducktion Juergen Hoeflich.
  17. ↑ Hans Huber: Symphony No. 7 "Swiss" RISM   402004891 RISM]
  18. ↑ van Rijen, Onno (11 February 2007). "Janis Ivanovs". Archived from the original on 25 October 2007. Retrieved 23 November 2007.
  19. ↑ Tsalahouris, Philippos (2007). "Description of Kalomiris Third Symphony". Naxos Records. Retrieved 10 February 2008.
  20. ↑ Sonneck 1912, p. 247.
  21. ↑ "Samfundet Publication of Malling Symphony – Link in Cornell Catalog". 1884. Retrieved 27 August 2008.
  22. ↑ Schlüren, Christoph (2003). "Preface to score of Martucci First Symphony". Musikproducktion Juergen Hoeflich. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  23. 1 2 "The English Symphony 1880–1920". Musical Resources UK. 2007-03-25. Archived from the original on 28 June 2007. Retrieved 21 November 2007.
  24. ↑ Sonneck 1912, p. 324.
  25. ↑ Sonneck 1912, p. 343.
  26. ↑ Leichting, Avrohom (2007). "Online Publication of Preface to Score of Raff Symphony No. 6 (Reprinted from Musikproduktion Höflich with permission)" . Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  27. ↑ "Rheinberger Chronology". Carus-Verlag. Archived from the original on 27 February 2009. Retrieved 18 November 2007.
  28. ↑ Barnett, Rob (February 2007). "Review of Recording of Ries' Symphonies". MusicWeb International. Retrieved 22 November 2007.
  29. ↑ Lewis, Dave. "Description of Concerto Köln Recording of Rigel Symphonies". Allmusic. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
  30. ↑ Robinson, Bradford (2004). "Online publication of preface to score of Rubinstein D minor Symphony". Musikproduktion Juergen Hoeflich. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  31. ↑ "Recording of All Salmanov's Symphonies". Records International. September 2005. Retrieved 10 February 2008.
  32. ↑ Bergmans, Charles (1901). Le Conservatoire Royal de musique de Gand: étude sur son histoire et son organisation at Google Books. Gand: G. Beyer. OCLC   23413212. Page 379.
  33. ↑ "Permanent Link to Library of Congress Card". Breitkopf und Härtel. Retrieved 10 June 2008..
  34. ↑ Sonneck 1912, p. 409.
  35. ↑ Weiermüller-Backes, Isolde (2006-01-28). "Page Listing Senfter's 2nd Symphony". Klassika.info. Retrieved 22 December 2007.
  36. ↑ "Sinding Werkverzeichnis" (in German). Klassika.info. Retrieved 22 December 2007.
  37. ↑ Barnett, Rob (August 2007). "Review of Hyperion Recording of Spohr Symphonies 1 and 2". MusicWeb International. Retrieved 10 February 2008.
  38. ↑ Lewis Foreman (1991). "Booklet accompanying recording of Stanford 2nd Symphony" (PDF). Chandos Records. Retrieved 21 November 2007.
  39. ↑ "Description of Strauss D minor Symphony" (in German). Klassika.info. 14 January 2006. Retrieved 22 December 2007.
  40. ↑ "Announcement of Recording of Suter's Symphony" (in German). 2004. Retrieved 10 June 2008.
  41. ↑ Nice, David (2007). "Notes to recording of Taneyev Symphonies 1 and 3" (PDF). Chandos Records. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2007.
  42. ↑ Bryan, ed.: Vanhal – Six Symphonies at Google Books, page xvi.
  43. ↑ Bryan, Paul. "Description of Recording of Wanhal's Symphony d2". Naxos Direct. Retrieved 22 June 2008.
  44. ↑ "Heckenast Parts Edition of Volkmann, published in 1863" . Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  45. ↑ "Karl Weigl Papers". Irving S. Gilmore Music Library of Yale University. Archived from the original on 10 September 2007. Retrieved 21 November 2007.
  46. ↑ Frisch 2003, p. 9.
  47. ↑ "Alexander Zemlinsky: Vienna 1884–1892". www.zemlinsky.at. Retrieved December 31, 2010.

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