While most symphonies have a number, many symphonies are known by their (nick)name.
This article lists symphonies that are numbered and have an additional nickname, and symphonies that are primarily known by their name and/or key. Also various compositions that contain "symphony" or "sinfonia" in their name are included, whether or not strictly speaking they adhere to the format of a classical symphony.
Sinfonia concertante is a different genre, and works of that genre are not included here, unless for those named works that are usually known as a symphony.
Composer | No. | Key | Original name | Translation | Date | Additional information |
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Selman Ada | 1 | Turkish | 2004 | |||
Fritz Adam | 2 | Symphonie vosgienne | Vosges symphony | See Vosges | ||
Kalevi Aho | 7 | Insect Symphony | 1988 | |||
12 | Luosto | 2002–03 | See: Luosto | |||
13 | Symphonic Characterizations | 2003 | ||||
14 | Rituals | 2007 | ||||
17 | Sinfonisia freskoja | Symphonic Frescoes | 2017 | |||
Necil Kazım Akses | 4 | Sinfonia Romanesca Fantasia | 1982–84 | |||
5 | Thus spoke Atatürk; Sinfonia Rhetorica | Rhetoric Symphony | 1988 | |||
6 | Ölümsüz Kahramanlar | Immortal Heroes | 1992 | |||
Yasushi Akutagawa | Trinita Sinfonica | Symphonic Trinity | 1948 | |||
1 | Prima Sinfonia | First Symphony | 1954, revised 1955 | |||
Twin Stars | 1957 | For Children's choir, text made by Kenji Miyazawa, and for youth symphony | ||||
Ellora Symphony | 1958 | |||||
Hugo Alfvén | 4 | C minor | Från havsbandet | From the Outskirts of the Archipelago | 1919 | |
Charles-Valentin Alkan | C minor–E-flat minor | Symphonie pour piano seul | Symphony for solo piano | 1857 | Numbers 4–7 of Douze Études dans tous les tons mineurs, Op. 39, for solo piano | |
Zoltan Almashi | Symphony of Dialogues | |||||
2 | Island | |||||
Flor Alpaerts | 1 | Lentesymfonie | Slow Symphony | 1906 | ||
Louis Andriessen | Symfonie voor losse snaren | Symphony for Open Strings | 1978 | |||
Edmund Angerer | G major | Toy Symphony | Cassation for toys, 2 oboes, 2 horns, strings and continuo | |||
George Antheil | 1 | Zingaresca | 1920–22, revised 1923 | |||
3 | American | 1936–39, revised 1946 | ||||
4 | 1942 | 1942 | ||||
5 | Joyous | 1947–48 | ||||
6 | After Delacroix | 1947–48 | ||||
Blaž Arnič | 1 | Te Deum | 1932 | |||
3 | Duma | 1929–42 | ||||
4 | Resurrectionis | Resurrection | 1931–42 | |||
5 | Vojne vihre | War Whirlwinds | 1941 | Also called Partikularna | ||
6 | Samorastnik | 1950 | ||||
7 | Simfonija dela | Labour Symphony | 1948 | |||
8 | Na domači grudi | On Native Land | 1951 | |||
9 | Vojna in mir | War and Peace | 1960 | |||
Malcolm Arnold | Toy Symphony | 1957 | See Toy Symphony (section "Other Toy Symphonies") for more information. | |||
Florencio Asenjo | 2 | Maximalist | 1978 | |||
3 | Crystallizations | 1987 | ||||
4 | Outpourings | 2003 | ||||
5 | Ubiquity | 2003 | ||||
6 | Passion and Apotheosis | 2004 | In 2 movements 1. Passion 2. Apotehosis | |||
7 | Resonances | 2006 | ||||
Kurt Atterberg | 3 | D major | Västkustbilder | West-Coast Images | 1914-16 | Inspired by the coast village of Lysekil, located in the west coast of Sweden |
4 | G minor | Sinfonia piccola | Little Symphony | 1918 | Based on themes of Swedish folk music | |
5 | D minor | Sinfonia funebre | Funeral Symphony | 1917-22 | ||
6 | C major | Dollar symphony | 1927-28 | Popularly nicknamed for winning the 1928 International Columbia Graphophone Competition. | ||
7 | A minor | Sinfonia Romantica | Romantic Symphony | 1941-42 | Based on themes from his 1932 opera "Fanal". | |
9 | B flat minor | Sinfonia visionaria | Visionary Symphony | 1955-56 | ||
Lera Auerbach | 1 | Chimera | 2006 | The final two movements form a symphonic poem called Icarus | ||
2 | Requiem for a Poet | 2006 | For mezzo-soprano, cello, choir and orchestra | |||
3 | The Infant Minstrel and His Peculiar Menagerie | 2016 | ||||
Zvi Avni | Desert Scenes Symphony | |||||
Henk Badings | 6 | Psalmensymphonie | Psalm Symphony | 1953 | ||
7 | Louisville | 1954 | ||||
11 | Sinfonia Giocosa | Playful Symphony | 1964 | |||
12 | Symphonische Klangfiguren | Symphonic Sound Figures | 1964 | |||
14 | Symphonic Triptych | 1968 | ||||
15 | Conflicts and Confluences | 1983 | ||||
Acario Cotapos Baeza | El Pajaro Burlón | The Mockingbird | ||||
Konstantin Batashov | 2 | Киевская | Kyiv | 1982 | ||
Amy Beach | 1 | E minor | Gaelic Symphony | 1894 | Op. 32 | |
Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt | 2 | De Profundis | 1957 | |||
Ludwig van Beethoven | 3 | E-flat major | Eroica | Heroic | 1803–1804 | Op. 55. Premiered 1805 see also List of works by Beethoven#Symphonies |
5 | C minor | Schicksalssinfonie | Fate Symphony | 1804–1808 | Op. 67. Premiered 1808 | |
6 | F major | Pastorale | Pastoral | 1804–1808 | Op. 68. Premiered 1808 | |
Siegessinfonie Wellingtons Sieg oder die Schlacht bei Vittoria | Battle Symphony Wellington's Victory, or, the Battle of Vitoria | 1813 | Op. 91. Premiered 1813 for panharmonicon commissioned by instrument's inventor, later arranged for orchestra | |||
9 | D minor | Choral | 1817–1824 | Op. 125. Premiered 1824 | ||
Victor Bendix | 1 | C major | Fjældstigning | Mountain Climbing | 1882 | |
2 | D major | Sommerklange fra Sydrusland | Summer sound from South Russia | 1888 | ||
Pascal Bentoiu | 6 | Culori | Colours | 1985 | Op. 28 | |
8 | Imagini | Images | 1987 | Op. 30 | ||
Theodor Berger | 1 | Chronique symphonie | Chronic symphony | 1940–53 | Op. 10 | |
2 | Homerische Symphonie | Homeric Symphony | 1948 | Was used in the 1948–49 Austrian drama film On Resonant Shores | ||
3 | Sinfonia Parabolica | Parabolic Symphony | 1956 | |||
4 | Symphonischer Triglyph "Drei Fenster" | Triglyph Symphony "Three Windows" | 1957 | "Metamorphoses" for orchestra on motifs by Franz Schubert | ||
5 | Symphonie Jahreszeiten | Symphony of Seasons | 1957 | |||
6 | Hydromelos | 1965 | Based on water-tone music[ clarification needed ] [1] | |||
William Bergsma | 2 | Voyages | 1976 | |||
Hector Berlioz | 1 | Symphonie fantastique | Fantastic Symphony | 1830 | ||
2 | Harold en Italie | Harold in Italy | 1834 | |||
3 | Roméo et Juliette | Romeo and Juliet | 1839 | |||
4 | Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale | Grand Funereal and Triumphal Symphony | 1840 | |||
Leonard Bernstein | 1 | Jeremiah | 1939-42 | |||
2 | The Age of Anxiety | 1947-49 | ||||
3 | Kaddish | 1961-63 | ||||
Franz Berwald | 1 | Sérieuse | Serious Symphony | |||
2 | Capricieuse | Capricious Symphony | ||||
3 | Singulière | Singular Symphony | ||||
4 | Naïve | |||||
Georges Bizet | 2 | C major | Roma | Rome Symphony | 1860-66, revised until Bizet's death | |
Arthur Bliss | A Colour Symphony | 1921-22 | ||||
Karl-Birger Blomdahl | 3 | Facetter | Facets | 1950 | ||
Felix Blumenfeld | 1 | C minor | À la mémoire des chers défunts | To the Dear Beloved | 1906 | Op. 39 |
Manuel Palau Boix | 2 | D major | Murciana | Murcian | 1943 | |
Emmanuel Bondeville | 1 | Symphonie lyrique | Lyrical symphony | 1956 | ||
2 | Symphonie chorégraphique | Choreographic symphony | 1961 | |||
Jacques Bondon | 1 | Symphonie Latine | Latin Symphony | 1973 | ||
Hakon Børresen | 2 | A major | Havet | The Ocean | 1904 | |
Alexander Borodin | 2 | Богатырская Симфония | Symphony of Heroes | nickname first used by Vladimir Stasov | ||
Sergei Bortkiewicz | 1 | D major | З моєї Батьківщини | From my homeland | 1945 | Op. 52 |
Derek Bourgeois | 4 | A Wine Symphony | 1978 | |||
6 | A Cotswold Symphony | 1988 | ||||
7 | The First Two Thousand Years | 1999 | ||||
8 | The Mountains of Mallorca | 2002 | ||||
13 | The Unlucky | 2003 | ||||
16 | Songs of Mallorca | 2004 | ||||
41 | Sinfonia Andalucia | Andalusian Symphony | 2007 | |||
42 | Life, the Universe and Everything | 2009 | ||||
45 | What Ho! Symphony | 2009 | ||||
46 | A Dorset Symphony | 2009 | ||||
52 | The Halfway | 2009 | ||||
53 | Sinfonia Semplice | Simple Symphony | 2010 | |||
59 | Percussion Symphony | 2010 | ||||
67 | The Tuneful | 2011 | ||||
72 | The Ghost | 2012 | ||||
87 | Four British Seasons | 2013 | ||||
94 | The Predictable | 2014 | ||||
98 | Organ Symphony | 2015 | ||||
101 | The Sundial | 2015 | ||||
103 | The Swiss Roll | 2015 | ||||
104 | The Esterhazy | 2015 | ||||
105 | Symphony of Classical Forms | 2015 | ||||
111 | The Nelson | 2016 | ||||
Francis Bousquet | Hannibal | 1942 | ||||
Ina Boyle | 1 | Glencree | 1927 | |||
2 | The Dream of the Rood | 1930 | ||||
Johannes Brahms | 1 | Beethoven's Tenth | nickname first used by Hans von Bülow | |||
3 | suggested to be called "Heroic", name rejected by Brahms | |||||
Havergal Brian | 1 | D minor | The Gothic | 1919-27 | ||
4 | C major | Das Siegeslied | The Song of Victory | 1932-33 | ||
5 | Wine of Summer | 1937 | ||||
6 | Sinfonia Tragica | Tragic Symphony | 1947-48 | |||
22 | F minor | Symphonia Brevis | Short Symphony | |||
23 | C major | Sinfonia Grandis | Grand Symphony | conceived, but rejected in the end by the composer | ||
George Frederick Bristow | Arcadian | 1872 | Also called "The Pioneer" | |||
2 | D minor | Jullien | 1856 | |||
Benjamin Britten | Simple Symphony | |||||
Sinfonia da Requiem | Requiem Symphony | |||||
Spring Symphony | ||||||
Cello Symphony | 1963 | full title: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra Op. 68. Premiered 1964 | ||||
Stephen Brown | The Northern Journey | |||||
Yevgeny Brusilovsky | 3 | The Golden Steppe | 1944 | |||
6 | On a Theme of Kurmangazy | 1965 | ||||
Anton Bruckner | 00 | F minor | 00 | student work written prior to No. 1 | ||
0 | D minor | Nullte | written after No. 1 and before No. 2 | |||
2 | C minor | Symphony of Pauses | ||||
3 | D minor | Wagner Symphony | ||||
4 | E-flat major | Romantic | ||||
5 | B-flat major | Pizzicato/Tragic/Church of Faith/Fantastic | the name is not used anymore | |||
8 | C minor | Apocalyptic | the name is not used anymore | |||
Alfredo Buenaventura | 2 | Dakilang Lahi | 1974 | |||
Charles Wakefield Cadman | E minor | Pennsylvania Symphony | 1939 | |||
Pierre Capdevielle | 3 | Sinfonia da camera | 1952–53 | |||
Carlos Chávez | 1 | Sinfonía de Antígona | Symphony of Antigone | |||
2 | Sinfonía india | Indian Symphony | ||||
4 | Sinfonía romántica | Romantic Symphony | ||||
Caballos de vapor: sinfonía de baile | Horse Power: Dance Symphony | 1926–1932 | ||||
Llamadas: sinfonía proletaria | Calls [to Arms]: Proletarian Symphony | 1934 | ||||
Jeffrey Ching | 2 | Symphony No. 2, "The Imp of the Perverse" | 1992 | Based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe | ||
3 | Rituals | 1997–98 | Philippine government commission for the centennial of the country's independence. Single movement. | |||
4 | 明律回音 (in China) or Souvenir des Mings | Echo of the Ming Pitch-pipes (in China) or Memories of the Ming [dynasty] | 2002 | |||
5 | Kunstkammer | Cabinet of curiosities | 2004–05 | See Cabinet of curiosities | ||
Zhang Chun | Shengli jiaoxiangyue | Victory Symphony | 1956 [2] | |||
Ján Cikker | 2 | Spring | 1937 | |||
3 | 1945 | 1975 | ||||
Richard Clayderman | 1 | Zodiacal Symphony | 1988 | |||
Muzio Clementi | 3 | The Great National | ||||
Gloria Coates | 1 | Music on Open Strings | 1972 | |||
2 | Illuminatio in Tenebris | Enlightenment in the Dark | 1973/74 | Also called Music on Abstract Lines | ||
4 | Chiaroscuro | 1984 revised 1989/1990 | ||||
5 | Drei mystische Gesänge | Three mystical Chants | 1985 | For choir and orchestra, choir text by the composer's daughter Alexandra Coates | ||
6 | Music in Microtones | 1985/86 | ||||
8 | Indian Sounds | 1990/91 | ||||
9 | Homage to Van Gogh | 1992/94 | ||||
10 | Drones of Druids on Celtic Ruins | 1993 | ||||
14 | The Americans | 2001/02 | ||||
15 | Homage to Mozart | 2004/05 | ||||
16 | Time Frozen | 1993 | ||||
Edward Joseph Collins | 1 | B minor | Nos habeit humus | 1925 | ||
Paul Constantinescu | 2 | Simfonia Ploieșteană | The Ploieștean Symphony | 1961 | ||
Aaron Copland | Organ Symphony | Copland's Symphony No. 1 is an arrangement of this symphony without the organ | ||||
2 | Short Symphony | 1934 | ||||
Dance Symphony | arrangement of music from the ballet Grohg | |||||
Henry Cowell | 2 | Anthropos | ||||
3 | Gaelic | 1942 | ||||
4 | Short Symphony | 1946 | ||||
11 | Seven Rituals of Music | 1954 | ||||
13 | Madras | 1958 | Madras is the former name of Chennai, where the composer studied Indian music | |||
15 | Thesis | 1961 | ||||
16 | Icelandic | 1962 | ||||
17 | Lancaster | 1962? | ||||
Frederic Cowen | 3 | C minor | Scandinavian | 1880 | ||
4 | B-flat minor | The Welsh | 1884 | |||
6 | E major | Idyllic | 1897 | |||
Paul Creston | 3 | Three Mysteries | 1950 | Sheet music available here | ||
Dimitrie Cuclin | 16 | Triumful păcii | Triumphs of Peace | 1959 | ||
20 | Triumful infrăţirii popolarelor | Triumph in the Union of People | 1972 | |||
Ikuma Dan | 4 | 1965 Kanagawa | 1965 | |||
5 | Suruga | 1965 | ||||
6 | Hiroshima | 1985 | For soprano, nohkan, shinobue, and orchestra with text being written by Edmund Blunden | |||
7 | Jashūmon | Unfinished | ||||
Richard Danielpour | 3 | Journey without Distance | ||||
Michael Daugherty | 1 | Metropolis Symphony | 1988-93 | |||
Félicien David | Le désert | The desert | 1844 | An "ode-symphonie", for more information read: here | ||
Christoph Colomb | Christopher Columbus | 1847 | Also an "ode-symphonie", for the text (ode), see: here | |||
William L. Dawson | 1 | Negro Folk Symphony | 1934 | |||
Peter Maxwell Davies | 8 | Antarctic | 2001 | Op. 215 | ||
10 | Alla ricerca di Borromini | Looking for Borromini | 2013 | Op. 327 | ||
Edmond Dédé | 1 | Quasimodo Symphony | 1865 | |||
Yvonne Desportes | 1 | Saint-Gingolph | 1958 | See Saint-Gingolph | ||
2 | Monorythmie | Monorhythm | 1964 | |||
3 | L'Éternel féminin | The Eternal Feminine | 1969 | |||
Bernard van Dieren | 1 | Chinese | 1914 | |||
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf | Sinfonia nel gusto di cinque nazioni | Symphony in the style of five nations | 1767 | |||
Grande symphonie: Le carnaval ou La redoute | Grand Symphony: The carnival or The redoubt | |||||
A minor | Il deliro delli compositori, ossia Il gusto d'oggidi | The delirium of the composers, namely The style of today | ||||
A major | Nazionale nel gusto | National in taste | ||||
D major | Il combattimento delle passioni umane | the fight of human passions | ||||
1 | C major | Die vier Weltalter | The Four Worlds | The first symphony by Dittersdorf that is based on Ovid's Metamorphoses (Kr. 73–84; Kr. 79–84 only exist in parts) | ||
2 | D major | Der Sturz Phaëtons | The Fall of Phaeton | The second symphony by Dittersdorf that is based on Ovid's Metamorphoses | ||
3 | G major | Verwandlung Actæons in einen Hirsch | The Metamorphosis of Acteon Into a Stag | The third symphony by Dittersdorf that is based on Ovid's Metamorphoses | ||
4 | F major | Die Rettung der Andromeda durch Perseus | The Rescue of Andromeda by Perseus | The fourth symphony by Dittersdorf that is based on Ovid's Metamorphoses | ||
5 | D major | Die Versteinerung des Phineus und seiner Freunde | The Petrification of Phineus and his Friend | The fifth symphony by Dittersdorf that is based on Ovid's Metamorphoses | ||
6 | A major | Verwandlung der lycischen Bauern in Frösche | The Transformation of the Lycian Peasants into Frogs | The sixth symphony by Dittersdorf that is based on Ovid's Metamorphoses | ||
Felix Draeseke | 3 | Symphonia Tragica | ||||
4 | Symphonia Comica | |||||
Franco Donatoni | Souvenir | 1967 | ||||
Anton Webern | 1983 | |||||
Cornelis Dopper | 1 | Diana | 1895, revised 1921 | |||
2 | Scottish | 1903 | ||||
3 | Rembrandt | 1892, rewritten 1904 | dedicated to Rembrandt | |||
5 | Symphonia epica | Epic Symphony | 1908 | based on Homer's Iliad | ||
6 | Amsterdam | 1912 | ||||
7 | Zuiderzee | 1917 | ||||
Vladimir Dovgan | 4 | Romantic | 2001 | |||
Tan Dun | 1 | Eroica | 2009 | A theme from Beethoven's Eroica symphony is borrowed | ||
Antonín Dvořák | 1 | Zlonické zvony | The Bells of Zlonice | |||
9 | Z nového světa | From the New World | A.k.a. New World Symphony; Previously listed as No. 8 | |||
Petr Eben | 1 | Simphonia Gregoriana | Gregorian Symphony | 1954 | For Organ and Orchestra | |
Hanns Eisler | Deutsche Sinfonie | German Symphony | ||||
Halim El-Dabh | Symphonies in Sonic Vibration: Spectrum No. 1 | 1957 | ||||
Einar Englund | 1 | The War Symphony | 1946 | |||
2 | Amsel | Blackbird | 1948 | |||
3 | Barbarossa | 1971 | ||||
4 | Nostalgic | 1976 | ||||
5 | Sinfonia Fennica | Fennec Symphony | 1977 | |||
6 | Aphorisms | 1984 | For choir and orchestra | |||
Maurice Emmanuel | 2 | A major | Bretonne | Breton | 1930 | prem. 1935 |
Arthur Farwell | Rudolf Gott | 1934 | Written based on the music by Rudolf Gott (who might have been a friend of Arthur Farwell) | |||
John Fernström | 11 | Utan Mask | 1945 | |||
Josef Bohuslav Foerster | 3 | D major | Život | Life | 1895 | |
4 | C minor | Veliká noc | Easter Eve | 1905 | ||
Wolfgang Fortner | 1 | 1947 | 1947 | |||
Nils-Eric Fougstedt | Trittico sinfonico | Symphonic triptych | 1958 | The first Finnish dodecaphonic orchestral work (along with Paavo Heininen's first symphony written the same year) | ||
Bohdana Frolyak | 1 | Orbis Terrarum | The world | 1998 | ||
Luca Fumagalli | 1 | Sinfonia Marinaresca | Marine Symphony | Before 1908 | ||
Giovanni Gabrieli | Sacrae Symphoniae | Sacred Symphonies | 1597 (motets for voices and instruments) | |||
Symphoniae Sacrae II | Sacred Symphonies II | 1615 (motets for voices and instruments) | ||||
Emmanuele Galea | B-flat major | Sinfonia Pastorale | Patorale Symphony | c. 1825 | Rearranged and reorchestrated by Manuel Farrugia | |
José Maurício Nunes Garcia | 1 | Sinfonia Funebre | Funeral Symphony | 1790 | ||
2 | Sinfonia Tempestade | Tempest Symphony | ||||
Remus Georgescu | Simfonia Triade | Triad symphony | ~2005? | |||
Robert Gerhard | Leo | 1969 | A Chamber Symphony | |||
Homenaje a Pedrell | Hommage to Pedrell | 1941 | Homage to Carlos Pedrell, who died that year | |||
2b | Metamorphosis | 1967–68 | This was a rewrite of Gerhard's symphony 2 under a different name, this rewrite was left incomplete. | |||
4 | New York | 1967 | ||||
Edward German | 2 | Norwich | ||||
Friedrich Gernsheim | 3 | C minor | Mirjam | 1887 | ||
Vittorio Giannini | In memoriam Theodore Roosevelt | 1935 | ||||
IBM Symphony | 1937 | Dedicated to IBM | ||||
Don Gillis | 1 | An American Symphony | ||||
2 | Symphony of Faith | |||||
3 | A Symphony for Free Men | |||||
5 | In Memoriam | |||||
5½ | A Symphony for Fun | |||||
6 | The Pioneers | |||||
7 | Saga of the Prairie School | |||||
8 | A Dance Symphony | |||||
Louis Glass | 3 | D major | Forest Symphony | 1901 | ||
5 | C major | Sinfonia Svastika | Swastika Symphony | 1919 | While the Swastika is often associated with the Nazis, at the time the symphony was written the Swastika was a common symbol of good luck, or even a religious symbol. By the time this symphony was written the Nazi Movement had not begun | |
6 | Skjoldungeæt | The Birth of Scyldings | 1924 | |||
Philip Glass | 1 | Low | 1992 | |||
4 | Heroes | 1996 | ||||
5 | Requiem, Bardo, Nirmanakaya | 1999 | ||||
6 | Plutonian Ode | 2002 | ||||
7 | A Toltec Symphony | 2005 | ||||
12 | Lodger | 2019 | ||||
14 | Liechtenstein Suite | 2020 | ||||
Alexander Glazunov | 1 | E major | Slavonian | |||
7 | F major | Pastoral | ||||
Evgeny Glebov | 5 | To the Peace | ||||
Reinhold Glière | 3 | Ilya Muromets | ||||
Felix Glonti | 1 | Romantic Symphony | 1974 | A revision of Glonti's first symphony (1961) | ||
6 | Vita nova | New Life | 1974 | Based on La Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri. | ||
7 | Fiat lux | Let there be light | 1981 | See Let there be light | ||
8 | Symphonic Groups, Their Invariants and Representations | 1982 | ||||
11 | Mundus apertus | The World is open | 1987 | |||
12 | Liturgical Symphony | 1989 | Based on David IV of Georgia | |||
Radamés Gnattali | 1-5 | Sinfonia Popular | Popular Symphony | |||
Radamés Gnattali, Antônio Carlos Jobim, and Billy Blanco | Rio de Janeiro, a montanha, o sol, o mar | Rio de Janeiro, mountain, sun, sea | 1954 | A popular symphony in Samba beat. [3] | ||
Benjamin Godard | Symphonie Orientale | Oriental symphony | ||||
Karl Goldmark | Ländliche Hochzeit | Rustic Wedding Symphony | literally "Rural Wedding" | |||
Marin Goleminov | 1 | Children Symphony | 1963 | |||
3 | To Peace in the World | 1970 | ||||
4 | Shopophonia | 1978 | ||||
Evgeny Golubev | 7 | B minor | Heroic | 1972 | ||
Henryk Górecki | 2 | Kopernikowska | Copernican | 1972 | Op. 31 | |
3 | Symfonia pieśni żałosnych | Symphony of Sorrowful Songs | 1976 | Op. 36 | ||
Ida Gotkovsky | 1 | Symphonie de Printemps | Spring Symphony | 1973 | ||
2 | Brilliante Symphonie | Brilliant Symphony | 1988–89 | |||
3 | Symphonie à la jeunesse | Youth Symphony | 1993 | |||
Louis Moreau Gottschalk | 1 | La Nuit des Tropiques | Night of the Tropics | 1859 | ||
2 | À Montevide | To Montevideo | 1868 | |||
Morton Gould | 2 | Symphony on Marching Tunes | 1944 | |||
4 | West Point | 1952 | ||||
Kurt Graunke | 1 | E major | Die Heimat | (The) Homeland | 1969 | |
Alexander Gretchaninov | 2 | A major | Pastoral | 1908 | ||
Ferde Grofé | 1 | A Symphony in Steel | 1936 | |||
Ricard Lamote de Grignon | Simfonia Catalana | Catalan Symphony | 1950 | |||
Richard John Gualtieri | Symphony for John Dowland | Dedicated to John Dowland | ||||
Camargo Guarnieri | 2 | Uirapuru | 1946 | |||
4 | Brasília | 1964 | ||||
César Guerra-Peixe | 2 | Brasília | 1960 | |||
Adalbert Gyrowetz | Op. 6 n. 2 | E-flat major | Jupiter | Note that Opus 6 contains multiple symphonies, this is the 2nd in this opus. | ||
Op. 8 | D major | Great | ||||
Jacob Adolf Hägg | 2 | E-flat major | Nordic | 1899 | Op. 2 | |
Jovdat Hajiyev | 4 | In Memory of Lenin | ||||
5 | Man, the Earth, the Glory | 1984 | ||||
Johan Halvorsen | 2 | D minor | Fatum | 1924, revised 1928 | ||
Asger Hamerik | 1 | F major | Symphonie poétique | Poetic Symphony | 1879–80 | Technically Hamerik's second symphony as the 1860 symphony is lost. |
2 | C minor | Symphonie tragique | Tragic Symphony | 1882–83 | ||
3 | E major | Symphonie lyrique | Lyrical Symphony | 1883–84 | ||
4 | C major | Symphonie majestueuse | Majestic Symphony | 1884–89 | ||
5 | G minor | Symphonie sérieuse | Serious Symphony | 1889–91 | ||
6 | G major | Symphonie spirituelle | Spiritiual Symphony | 1897 | ||
7 | D minor | Korsymfoni | Choral Symphony | 1897, revised 1901–06 | For mixed choir, mezzo-soprano, and orchestra; also called Chor-Symphonie | |
Howard Hanson | 1 | Nordic | ||||
2 | Romantic | |||||
4 | Requiem | |||||
5 | Sinfonia sacra | |||||
7 | Sea | |||||
Roy Harris | 1 | Symphony 1933 | ||||
4 | Folksong | |||||
6 | Gettysburg | |||||
8 | San Francisco | |||||
Lou Harrison | Symphony on G | The word "on" is a deliberate part of the composer's title | ||||
Emil Hartmann | 5 | A minor | Fra Riddertiden | From Knights' time | 1887 | Published as Symphony No. 2 at the time |
Karl Amadeus Hartmann | 1 | Miserae | later retitled simply as 'symphonic poem' | |||
1 | Versuch eines Requiem | |||||
5 | Symphonie concertante | |||||
Hamilton Harty | 1 | An Irish Symphony | 1904, rev. 1914, 1924 | |||
Siegmund von Hausegger | Natursymphonie | Nature Symphony | 1911 | With chorus at the end based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Proömium | ||
Hanna Havrylets | 2 | In Memoriam | 1995 | |||
Joseph Haydn | 6 | D major | Le matin | Morning | 1761 | see also List of symphonies by Joseph Haydn |
7 | C major | Le midi | Noon | 1761 | ||
8 | G major | Le soir | Evening | 1761 | ||
22 | E-flat major | Der Philosoph | Philosopher | 1764 | ||
26 | D minor | Lamentatione | 1768 (maybe 1769) | |||
30 | C major | Alleluja | Alleluia | 1765 | ||
31 | D major | Hornsignal | Hornsignal | 1765 | ||
38 | C major | Echo | c. 1768 | |||
43 | E-flat major | Merkur | Mercury | 1770–1771 | ||
44 | E minor | Trauer | Mourning | 1770–1771 | ||
45 | F-sharp minor | Abschiedssinfonie | Farewell | 1772 | ||
47 | G major | The Palindrome | 1772 | |||
48 | C major | Maria Theresia | 1769 | |||
49 | F minor | La Passione | 1768 | |||
53 | D major | L'Impériale | 1778–1779 | |||
55 | E-flat major | Der Schulmeister | The Schoolmaster | 1774 | ||
59 | A major | Feuer | 1768 | |||
60 | C major | Il distratto | 1774 | |||
63 | C major | La Roxelane | 1779 | |||
64 | A major | Tempora mutantur | 1773 | |||
69 | C major | Laudon | c. 1774–1775 | |||
73 | D major | La Chasse | c. 1781 | |||
82 | C major | L'Ours | The Bear | 1786(?) | ||
83 | G minor | La Poule | The Hen | 1785 | ||
84 | E-flat major | In nomine Domini | 1786 | |||
85 | B-flat major | La Reine | The Queen | 1785(?) | ||
92 | G major | Oxford | 1789 | premiered 1789 | ||
94 | G major | Mit dem Paukenschlag | The Surprise | 1791 | premiered 1791 | |
96 | D major | Le Miracle | The Miracle | 1791 | premiered 1791 | |
100 | G major | Militär | Military | 1794 | premiered 1794 | |
101 | D major | Die Uhr | The Clock | 1794 | premiered 1794 | |
103 | E-flat major | Mit dem Paukenwirbel | Drumroll | 1795 | Premiered 1795 | |
104 | D major | London | 1795 | a.k.a. Salomon. Premiered 1795 | ||
107 | B-flat major | Sinfonie A | A | 1760–1761 | ||
108 | B-flat major | Sinfonie B | B | 1762 | ||
Paavo Heininen | 2 | Petite symphonie joyeuse | A small joyous symphony | 1962 | ||
Heinrich von Herzogenberg | D minor | Odysseus | 1872 | |||
Alfred Hill | 1 | Maori | ||||
2 | Joy of Life | 1941 | ||||
3 | Australia | |||||
4 | The pursuit of happiness | |||||
5 | Carnival | |||||
6 | Celtic | |||||
8 | The Mind of Man | |||||
9 | Melodious | |||||
10 | Short symphony | |||||
11 | The Four Nations | 1950s | ||||
Mirrie Hill | Arnhem Land | 1954 | ||||
Paul Hindemith | Mathis der Maler | The painter Matthias | a reference to Matthias Grünewald see also Mathis der Maler (opera) | |||
Pittsburgh Symphony | ||||||
Symphonia Serena | 1946 | |||||
Alun Hoddinott | 9 | Vision of Eternity | 1992 | For soprano and orchestra | ||
Heinrich Hofmann | Frithjof | 1874 | ||||
Joseph Holbrooke | Les Hommages | The Homages | 1900, revised 1904 | Originally intended to be a symphonic suite, first movement is homage to Edvard Grieg, second movement to Antonín Dvořák, and the final moment to Tchiakovsky | ||
1 | Homage to E. A. Poe | Homage to Edgar Allan Poe | ||||
2 | Apollo and the Seaman | |||||
3 | E minor | Ships | 1925 | Also called "Nelson Symphony", or "Our Navy". | ||
4 | B minor | Homage to Schubert | 1928, revised 1933, then 1943 | Also called "The Little One". | ||
5 | E-flat minor | Wild Wales | ||||
6 | G major | Old England | ||||
7 | D major | Al Aaraaf | 1929 | Arrangement of Holbrooke's String Sextet ("Henry Vaughan") in D major (1902) | ||
8 | B-flat | Dance Symphony | ||||
9 | Milton | |||||
Vagn Holmboe | 3 | Sinfonia rustica | ||||
4 | Sinfonia sacra | |||||
8 | Sinfonia boreale | |||||
Arthur Honegger | 3 | Symphonie Liturgique | ||||
4 | Deliciae basiliensis | |||||
5 | Di tre re | |||||
Gustav Holst | The Cotswolds | 1900 | ||||
Joseph Horovitz | Jubilee Toy Symphony | 1977 | For the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II. See Toy Symphony (section "Other Toy Symphonies") for more information. | |||
Izaäk Albertus Houck | 2 | C major | De vier leeftijden | The Four Seasons | Before 1890 | Op. 44 |
Alan Hovhaness | 1 | Exile | ||||
2 | Mysterious Mountain | |||||
6 | Celestial Gate | |||||
7 | Nanga Parvat | |||||
8 | Arjuna | |||||
9 | Saint Vartan | |||||
10 | Vahaken | |||||
11 | All Men are Brothers | |||||
12 | Choral | |||||
13 | Ardent Song | re-arrangement of music composed for the Martha Graham ballet Ardent Song | ||||
14 | Ararat | |||||
15 | Silver Pilgrimage | |||||
16 | Kayagum | |||||
17 | Symphony for Metal Orchestra | |||||
18 | Circe | re-arrangement of music composed for the 1963 Martha Graham ballet Circe | ||||
19 | Vishnu | |||||
20 | Three Journeys to a Holy Mountain | |||||
21 | Etchmiadzin | |||||
22 | City of Light | |||||
23 | Ani | |||||
24 | Majnun | |||||
25 | Odysseus | |||||
32 | The Broken Wings | |||||
46 | To the Green Mountains | |||||
47 | Walla Walla, Land of Many Waters | |||||
48 | Vision of Andromeda | |||||
49 | Christmas Symphony | |||||
50 | Mount St. Helens | |||||
52 | Journey to Vega | |||||
53 | Star Dawn | |||||
57 | Cold Mountain | |||||
58 | Symphony Sacra | |||||
60 | To the Appalachian Mountains | |||||
62 | Oh Let Man Not Forget These Words Divine | |||||
63 | Loon Lake | |||||
64 | Agiochook | |||||
65 | Artstakh | |||||
66 | Hymn to Glacier Peak | |||||
67 | Hymn to the Mountains | |||||
Mountains and Rivers Without End | 1968 | Chamber Symphony for 10 Players | ||||
Georges Hugon | 2 | La Genèse d'Or | The Golden Genesis | |||
3 | Promotheus | Unfinished | ||||
Jeno Hubay | 2 | Háborús-szimfónia | War-Symphony | 1914 | Revised in 1922, op. 93 | |
Petőfi | 1922 | Based on words by Sándor Petőfi, op. 119 | ||||
Bertold Hummel | 2 | Reverenza | ||||
3 | Jeremiah | |||||
Victor Hely-Hutchinson | Carol Symphony | 1927 | Choral work, based on 5 Christmas songs | |||
Akira Ifukube | Ballet symphonique après Etenraku | Symphonic ballet after Etenraku | 1940 | Based on the melody of Etenraku | ||
Ballata Sinfonica | Ballad Symphony | 1943 | ||||
Arctic Forest | 1944 | |||||
Sinfonia Tapkaara | Tapkaara Symphony | 1954, revised 1979 | ||||
Vincent d'Indy | 1 | Italienne | Italian | never published | ||
3 | Sinfonia brevis de bello Gallico | Brief sinfonia of the war in Gaul | ||||
Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français a.k.a. Symphonie Cévenole | Symphony on a French Mountain Air ("Cévennes Symphony") | |||||
Konstatin Ivanov | 1 | F-sharp minor | Космическая симфония | Space Symphony | 1975 | In memory of Yuri Gagarin |
Jānis Ivanovs | 4 | Atlantīda | Atlantic | 1941 | ||
6 | Latgales | Latgalian | 1949 | |||
12 | Sinfonia energica | 1967 | ||||
13 | Symphonia humana | 1969 | ||||
14 | Sinfonia da caméra | 1971 | ||||
15 | Sinfonia Ipsa | 1972 | ||||
Charles Ives | 3 | The Camp Meeting | ||||
New England Holidays | a.k.a. Holidays Symphony | |||||
Universe Symphony | ||||||
Werner Jaegerhuber | 1 | L'île enchantée | The Enchanted Island | |||
James Price Johnson | Harlem Symphony | 1932 | ||||
Robert Sherlaw Johnson | 1 | Northumbrian Symphony | 1999 | Uses the Northumbrian pipes | ||
Miloslav Kabeláč | 5 | B-flat minor | Drammatica | Dramatic | 1960 | For textless soprano and orchestra |
8 | Antiphonies | 1970 | ||||
Pierre Kaelin | Symphonie des deux mondes | Symphony of the Two Worlds | on a text by Helder Camara | |||
Mykhalio Kalachevsky | A minor | Ukrainskaya simfoniya | (The) Ukrainian Symphony | 1876 | ||
Imants Kalniņš | 4 | Rock Symphony | 1972, revised 1973, then 1998 | The last movement was originally in the symphony, however was cut out, it only returned back in the 1998 revision. | ||
Giya Kancheli | 2 | Chants | 1970 | |||
4 | In memoria di Michelangelo | In memory of Michelangelo | 1974–75 | |||
7 | Epilogue | 1986 | ||||
Artur Kapp | 4 | Youth Symphony | 1948 | |||
Eugen Kapp | 1 | C minor | Patriootiline | Patriotic | 1942–43 | |
2 | G minor | Eesti sümfoonia | Estonian Symphony | 1953–54 | ||
3 | F major | Kevadine | Spring | 1963–64 | ||
Alemdar Karamanov | 4 | May | 1956 | |||
7 | Lunnoe more | Moon Night | 1958 | |||
11–14 | Sovershishasja | Accomplished | 1965–66 | Symphony cycle | ||
15–16 | In Amorem Et Vivificantem | In Love and Giving Life | 1974 | The symphonies are meant to be together | ||
17 | America | 1974 | ||||
18–23 | Byst | Was | 1976–1980 | Symphony cycle [note 1] | ||
24 | Adzhimushkaj | 1983 | Adzhimushkaj is a World War II battle site, and is also the name of a minor planet | |||
Dezider Kardoš | 2 | O rodnej zemi | On Native Health | 1955 | ||
4 | Piccola | Small | 1962 | |||
Rudolf Karel | 3 | Sinfonie Démon | Demon symphony | 1918–20 | ||
4 | Symphonie renaissance | Renaissance symphony | 1921 | |||
5 | Spring symphony | 1938 | ||||
Mieczysław Karłowicz | E minor | Rebirth | Op. 7 | |||
Tolga Kashif | The Queen Symphony | based on the music of the pop group Queen | ||||
Elena Kats-Chernin | Symphonia Eluvium | Eluvium Symphony | 2011 | |||
Bernhard Kaun | 1 | Romantic Symphony | 1969 | |||
Hugo Kaun | 1 | D minor | An mein Vaterland. Dem Andenken meines Vaters | To my fatherland. My father's memory | 1895 | The score is published by Breitkopf & Härtel since 1898. |
Hershy Kay | Western Symphony | 1954 | This work is a ballet, Kay arranged some American Folk Tunes and worked with choreographer George Balanchine. | |||
Donald Keats | 2 | Elegiac Symphony | 1960–62 | See: Elegy | ||
Edgar Stillman Kelley | 1 | F | Gulliver | 1914–35 | ||
2 | B-flat | New England | 1913, rev. 1922 | |||
Robert Kelly | 1 | A | Miniature Symphony | 1950 | ||
3 | Emancipation | 1961 | For band | |||
Aaron Jay Kernis | 1 | Symphony in Waves | 1989 | |||
Hidayat Inayat Khan | Message Symphony | 1972 | The composer said the symphony "message" is "Love, Harmony and Beauty"; Op. 30 [5] | |||
Jack Frederick Kilpatrick | 7 | The Republic of Texas | 1957 | Kilpatrick is from the Cherokee Nation | ||
8 | Oklahoma | 1957 | For dancers, narrator, and orchestra | |||
Byong-Kon Kim | 2 | Symphony of Three Metaphors | 1983 | |||
3 | Festival Symphony | 1984 | ||||
Oliver King | 1 | F major | Night | 1880 | ||
Theron Wilford Kirk | 2 | Saga of the Plains | ||||
Koichi Kishi | E-flat minor | Buddha | ||||
Dmitri Klebanov | 1 | Бабий яр | In Memoriam to the Martyrs of Babi Yar | 1945 | Banned by the Soviet Government | |
8 | Poeme about Bread | 1983 | ||||
Yves Klein | 1 | Monotone-Silence Symphony | 1949 | One chord is played continuously for 20 minutes, and then silence follows for another 20 minutes. | ||
Paul von Klenau | 4 | Dante-Symphonie | Dante Symphony | 1913 | ||
5 | Triptikon | 1939 | ||||
6 | Nordische Symphonie | Nordic Symphony | 1940 | |||
7 | Die Sturmsymphonie | The Storm Symphony | 1941 | |||
8 | Im Alten Stil | In Old-Style | 1942 | |||
August Klughardt | Waldleben | Life in the forest | 1871 | withdrawn | ||
1 | Lenore | 1873 | ||||
Ernst Gernot Klussmann | 6 | Rodope or Rhodope | 1964 | Op. 39 | ||
Erland von Koch | 2 | Sinfonia dalecarlia | Dalecarlian Symphony | 1945 | ||
4 | Sinfonia Seria | Serious Symphony | 1952–53, revised 1963 | |||
5 | Lapponica | 1977 | ||||
6 | Salvare la terra | Salvage the Earth | 1992 | |||
Charles Koechlin | Seven Stars Symphony | |||||
Lev Kolodub | 2 | Shevchenko's images | 1964 | A Symphony-Duma | ||
3 | Symphony in the style of the Ukrainian Baroque | 1980 | ||||
4 | 86 | 1986 | ||||
5 | Pro memoria | 1990 | In memory of those who died in Ukrainian disasters | |||
6 | C major and A | C major and A. Schoenberg | 1999 | Dedicated to Arnold Schoenberg | ||
7 | Metamorphoses | 2000, revised 2003 | ||||
8 | Pryluky | 2003 | Written for youth orchestra. Dedicated after Pryluky | |||
9 | New Feelings | 2004 | ||||
10 | According to sketches of young years | 2005 | ||||
11 | New Shores | 2007 | ||||
12 | Zeitheist | Also called The spirit of time | ||||
Thomas Koppel | Symfoni for gadens børn | Symphony for children in the streets | ||||
Nikolai Korndorf | 4 | Underground Music | 1996 | See Underground music | ||
Meyer Kupferman | Icon | |||||
Franz Lachner | 5 | C minor | Passionata | Passionate | 1835 | Also known as the "Prize Symphony" for winning an 1835 competition. Heavily criticized by Robert Schumann. [6] |
Ignaz Lachner | Toy Symphony | See Toy Symphony (section "Other Toy Symphonies") for more information. | ||||
László Lajtha | 4 | D major | Le Printemps | The Spring | 1951 | Op. 52 |
7 | Révolution | Revolution | 1957 | Also called the Autumn | ||
Édouard Lalo | Symphonie espagnole | Spanish Symphony | for violin and orchestra | |||
Serge Lancen | Manhattan Symphonie | Manhattan Symphony | 1962 | For wind orchestra | ||
Symphonie de Noël | Symphony of Christmas | 1964 | For wind orchestra | |||
Mini Symphonie | Mini Symphony | 1967 | For wind orchestra | |||
Symphonie de Paris | Paris Symphony | 1975 | For wind orchestra | |||
Symphonie de l'Eau | Water Symphony | 1986 | For wind orchestra | |||
Symphonie Ibérique | Iberian Symphony | 1991 | For wind orchestra | |||
Symphonie Joyeuse | Joyous Symphony | 1993 | For wind orchestra | |||
Zwiefache Symphonie | Double Symphony | 1993 | For wind orchestra | |||
Marcel Landowski | 1 | Jean de la Peur | Jean the Feared | 1949 | ||
3 | Des Espaces | Spaces | 1964 | |||
5 | Les Lumieres de la Nuit | The Lights of the Night | 1998 | |||
Peter Lange-Müller | 1 | D minor | Efterår | Autumn | Op. 17 | |
Rued Langgaard | 1 | Klippepastoraler | Cliffside Pastorals | 1908–09, revised 1910–11 | ||
2 | Vårbrud | Awakening of Spring | 1912–14, revised (as version 2) 1926–33 | |||
3 | Ungdomsbrus | The Flush of Youth | 1915–16, revised 1925–33 | |||
4 | Løvfald | Leaf-fall | 1916–20 | |||
5 | Steppenatur | Nature of the Steppe | 1917–18, revised 1920–1931 | The name only applies for the revised version | ||
6 | Det Himmelrivende | The Stormy Sky | 1919–20, revised 1928–30 | |||
7 | Ved Tordenskjold i Holmens Kirke | author=Tordenskjold in Holmen Church | 1925–26, revised 1930–32 | The name only applies to the revised version | ||
8 | Minder ved Amalienborg | Memories at Amalienborg | 1926–28, revised 1929–34 | |||
9 | Fra Dronning Dagmars By | From Queen Dagmar's City | 1942 | |||
10 | Hin Tordenbolig | Yon Hall of Thunder | 1944–45 | |||
11 | Ixion | 1944–45 | ||||
12 | Helsingeborg | 1946 | ||||
13 | Undertro | Belief in Wonders | 1946–47 | |||
14 | Morgenen | Morning | 1947–48, revised 1951 | |||
15 | Søstormen | Storm at Sea | 1937–49 | |||
16 | Syndflod af Sol | Deluge of the Sun | 1951 | |||
Sfærernes Musik | Music of the Spheres | 1916–18 | ||||
Claude Lapham | Symphonie Japonaise | Japanese Symphony | 1934 | First American symphony to include a Shakuhachi [7] | ||
Aleksander Lasoń | 3 | 1999 | 1996–97 | "Apokalypsis" for choir and orchestra | ||
Dieter Lehnhoff | 1 | Sinfonia poetica | Poetic Symphony | 1975 | ||
2 | Sinfonia festiva | Festive Symphony | 1990 | |||
3 | Sinfonia Caribe | Caribe Symphony | 2014 | Drawn from the opera "Caribe" | ||
Jón Leifs | 1 | Sögusinfónía | Saga Symphony | 1941–42 | ||
Jeanne Leleu | Transparences | 1931 | ||||
Jean-Yves Daniel Lesur | 1 | Symphonie de danses | Symphony of dances | 1958 | ||
2 | d'ombre et de lumière | shadow and light | 1974 | |||
Sheng Lihong | 1 | Ocean Symphony | ||||
Malcolm Lipkin | 1 | Sinfonia di Roma | Roman Symphony | 1958–65 | ||
2 | The Pursuit | 1975–79 | ||||
3 | Sun | 1979–86 | ||||
Franz Liszt | Dante Symphony | full name: A symphony to Dante's Divina Commedia | ||||
Eine Faust-Symphonie | Faust Symphony | |||||
George Lloyd | 10 | November Journeys | 1981 | |||
Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez | 2 | O Caçador de Esmeraldas | The Emerald Hunter | 1947 | ||
Aleksi Machavariani | 4 | Youthful | 1983 | |||
5 | Ushba | 1986 | ||||
6 | Amirani-Prometheus | 1987 | ||||
7 | Gelati | 1989 | For choir and orchestra, with texts based on the stories of King David | |||
Tod Machover | Toy Symphony | 2002–03 | Uses Machover's Hyperviolin. See Toy Symphony (section "Other Toy Symphonies") for more information. | |||
1 | A Toronto Symphony | 2013 | For orchestra and electronic | |||
2 | A Symphony for Our Times | 2015 | Written for the closing performance of the World Economic Forum 2015 meeting. | |||
Gustav Mahler | 1 | D major | Der Titan | Titan | 1884-88, rev 1892 | Initially conceived as a symphonic poem |
2 | C minor | Auferstehung | Resurrection | 1888-94 | ||
6 | A minor | Tragische | Tragic | 1903-04 | ||
7 | Lied der Nacht | Song of the Night | 1904-05 | |||
8 | E-flat major | Sinfonie der Tausend | Symphony of a Thousand | 1906 | Mahler disapproved of the name | |
Das Lied von der Erde | The Song of the Earth | 1908 | a symphony in the guise of a song cycle. see Curse of the ninth | |||
Gyula Major | 2 | Symphonie hongroise | Hungarian Symphony | pub. 1900 | ||
6 | Scenen aus dem Weltkrieg | Scenes from the world war | 1915–16 | |||
Jan Adam Maklakiewicz | 2 | Święty Boże | The Holy Lord | 1927 | ||
Irina Manukian | 2 | Ecce Homo | ||||
3 | Thirty-two Variations On Descending Bass | |||||
John Marsh | 10 | E-flat major | A Conversation Symphony | 1778 | Part of the "Salisbury Symphonies" | |
24 | E-flat major | La Chasse | The Chase | 1790 | Symphony No. 7 of the "Chinchester Symphonies" | |
Jean Martinon | 1 | Voyages | Voyage | 1956 | Unpublished | |
2 | Hymne a la Vie | Hymn to Life | 1944 | Unpublished, Op. 37 | ||
3 | Irlandaise | Irish | 1948 | Op. 45 | ||
4 | Altitudes | 1965 | Op.53; There are 3 versions of the symphony, the "Originaux" (Original), the Corrections, and the New coda final, all three revisions were from the same year. | |||
Bohuslav Martinů | 6 | Fantaisies Symphoniques | Symphonic Fantasies | 1951-53 | ||
Joseph Marx | Eine Herbstsymphonie | Autumn Symphony | 1921 | |||
Eine symphonische Nachtmusik | Symphonic Night music | 1922 | ||||
John McCabe | Six-minute Symphony | |||||
John Blackwood McEwen | 5 | C-sharp minor | Solway | 1911 | ||
Johan de Meij | 1 | The Lord of the Rings | ||||
2 | The Big Apple – A New York Symphony | |||||
3 | Planet Earth | |||||
Erkki Melartin | 4 | Kesäsinfonia | Summer Symphony | |||
5 | Sinfonia brevis | Short Symphony | ||||
7 | Sinfonia gaia | Joyous Symphony | unfinished | |||
Felix Mendelssohn | 2 | Lobgesang | Hymn of Praise | |||
3 | Schottische | Scottish | ||||
4 | Italienische | Italian | ||||
5 | Reformation | |||||
Kindersymphonien | Toy Symphony | 3 total, 1st 1827, 2nd 1828, the 3rd is unknown. | Now lost. See Toy Symphony (section Other Toy Symphonies) for more information. | |||
Flô Menezes | Sinfonias | Symphonies | 1997–1998 | 8-channel electronic work using snippets from hundreds of symphonies in the classical repertoire | ||
Louis Mennini | 2 | Da Festa | The Festive | 1963 | ||
Gian Carlo Menotti | 1 | Halcyon | 1976 | |||
Aarre Merikanto | 2 | War | 1918 | |||
Olivier Messiaen | Turangalîla-Symphonie | Turangalîla Symphony | 1946–1948 | Premiered 1949. Revised 1990. | ||
Krzysztof Meyer | 2 | Epitaphium Stanisław Wiechowicz | Epitaph for Stanisław Wiechowicz | 1967 | Dedicated to Stanisław Wiechowicz | |
3 | Symphonie d'Orphée | Symphony of Orpheus | 1986 | |||
D major | in Mozartean style | 1976–77 | ||||
6 | Polish | 1982 | ||||
7 | Sinfonia del tempo che passa | Symphony of passing time | 2002–2003 | |||
8 | Sinfonia da requiem | Requiem Symphony | 2009 | |||
9 | Fidae speique | Faithful and Hopeful | 2016 | |||
Francisco Mignone | Sinfonia do Trabalho | Labour Symphony | 1939 | |||
Sinfonia tropical | Tropical Symphony | 1958 | ||||
Sinfonia transamazônica | Transamazonic Symphony | 1972 | ||||
Darius Milhaud | Le printemps | Spring | 1917 | Little Symphony No. 1 | ||
Pastorale | 1918 | Little Symphony No. 2 | ||||
Sérénade | Serenade | 1921 | Little Symphony No. 3 | |||
Dixtuor pour instruments à cordes | Decet for string instruments | 1921 | Little Symphony No. 4 | |||
Dixtuor pour instruments à vents | Decet for wind instruments | 1922 | Little Symphony No. 5 | |||
3 | Te Deum | 1946 | ||||
8 | Rhôdanienne | Rhone Symphony | 1957 | |||
11 | Romantique | Romantic Symphony | 1960 | |||
12 | La Rurale | Rural Symphony | 1961 | |||
Pacem in terris | Peace on Earth | 1963 | Choral symphony, with text by Pope John XXIII | |||
Symphonie pour l'univers claudélien | Symphony for the Claudelian Universe | 1968 | Dedicated to Paul Claudel | |||
Richard Mohaupt | 1 | Rhythm and Variations | 1939–1940 | premiered 1942 | ||
Stephen Montague | Toy Symphony | 1999 | For chamber orchestra. See Toy Symphony (section "Other Toy Symphonies") for more information. | |||
Emánuel Moór | 2 | In Memoriam to Ludwig Kossuth | 1894 | Ludwig Kossuth is most likely Lajos Kossuth; Premiered on November 1, 1894, by the London Symphony Orchestra. [8] | ||
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | A minor | Odense Symphony | K. Anh 220 (16a) – spurious | |||
G major | Old Lambach Symphony | 1766(?) | 45a | |||
25 | G minor | Little G minor | see also List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart#Symphonies | |||
31 | Paris | |||||
32 | Overture in the Italian style | |||||
35 | Haffner | |||||
36 | Linz | |||||
38 | Prague | |||||
40 | G minor | Great G minor | Also: The Fortieth (number as nickname) | |||
41 | Jupiter | |||||
Gottfried Müller | Symphony "Dürer" | Dedicated to Albrecht Dürer | ||||
Karl-Franz Muller | 1 | Symphony des Machines | Symphony of the Machines | 1959 | ||
2 | Arcadian Symphony | 1970–72 | ||||
3 | Altische Symphonie | Old Symphony | ||||
4 | Sardinian Symphony | |||||
5 | Sarda Symphony | |||||
6–9 | Sinfonia Breve | Short Symphony | 1960s | He wrote 3 of these symphonies. The 2nd was written in 1963. | ||
10 | Sinfonia imitanda | Imitative Symphony | 1957 | |||
11–15 | Sinfonia Mazedonia | Macedonian Symphony | 1963–87 | He wrote 4 of these symphonies | ||
16–17 | Preclassical Symphony | He wrote 2 of these symphonies | ||||
19 | Thelassian Symphony | |||||
Askold Murov | Тобольская | Tobolsk | 1971 | |||
4 | Стереофония | Stereophonia | 1974 | |||
Nikolai Myaskovsky | 6 | E-flat minor | Революционная | Revolutionary | 1921-23 | Popularly nicknamed due to its use of the French revolutionary songs Ah! ça ira and Carmagnole, more used in the West than in Russia. |
12 | G minor | Колхозная | Collective Farm | 1931-32 | Conceived as a programmatic symphony, the composer later disowned the title, which is still being widely used. | |
16 | F major | Авиационная | Aviation | 1933-34 | Inspired by the crash of the plane Tupolev ANT-20 "Maxim Gorky". The finale also quotes a song written by Myaskovsky: "The Aeroplanes are Flying". | |
21 | F-sharp minor | Симфония-Фантазия | Symphony-Fantasy | 1940 | ||
22 | B minor | Симфония-баллада | Symphony-Ballad | 1941 | Conceived as a programmatic symphony with a further subtitle: "On the Great Patriotic War". All of these were removed before publication in 1944. | |
23 | A minor | Cимфония-сюита | Symphony-Suite | 1941 | Also known as "Symphony-Suite on Kabardanian Folk Themes" | |
Richard Nanes | 1 | B-flat major | Atlantis – The Sunken City | |||
2 | B major | The False Benediction | ||||
3 | The Holocaust | |||||
4 | The Eternal Conflict | |||||
Sulkhan Nassidse | 4 | Colchian | 1975 | |||
5 | Pirosmani | 1978 | ||||
6 | Passion | 1979 | ||||
7 | Dalai | 1979 | ||||
8 | Fresco | 1981 | ||||
11 | Liturgical | 1991 | ||||
Carl Nielsen | 2 | De fire Temperamenter | The Four Temperaments | |||
3 | Sinfonia Espansiva | Expansive Symphony | ||||
4 | Det Uudslukkelige | The Inextinguishable | ||||
6 | Sinfonia Semplice | Simple Symphony | ||||
Kai Nieminen | 1 | La Selva | The Jungle | prem. 2013 | Commissioned by the Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä | |
2 | Nello specchio della notte | In the mirror of the night | prem. 2015 | |||
Serge Nigg | 1 | Jérôme Bosch | Hieronymus Bosch | 1960 | See: Hieronymus Bosch | |
Per Nørgård | 1 | Sinfonia austera | Austere Symphony | 1953–55 | ||
4 | Indischer Roosen-Gaarten und Chinesischer Hexensee | Indian Rose Garden and Chinese Witch's Lake | 1981 | |||
6 | Når alt kommer til alt | At the End of the Day | 1999 | |||
Ib Nørholm | 2 | Isola Bella | ||||
3 | Day's Nightmare | 1973 | ||||
4 | Decreation | |||||
5 | The Elements | |||||
6 | Moraliteter | Moralities | 1987? | |||
7 | Ecliptic Instincts | |||||
8 | Faith and Longing | |||||
9 | The Sun Garden in Three Shades of Light | |||||
13 | Contrappunto con Amore | Counterpoint with Love | 2013 | |||
Zygmunt Noskowski | 2 | C minor | Elegiac | 1875–79 | ||
3 | F major | From Spring to Spring | 1903 | |||
Feliks Nowowiejski | 3 | Bialowieska | 1940 | |||
Gösta Nystroem | 1 | Sinfonia breve | Short Symphony | 1929–31 | ||
2 | Sinfonia Espressiva | Expressive Symphony | 1932–35 revised 1937 | |||
3 | Sinfonia del Mare | Symphony of the Sea | 1946–48 | After Ebba Lindqvist | ||
4 | Sinfonia Shakespeariana | Shakespearian Symphony | 1952 | Dedicated to William Shakespeare, (see -ana#In music) | ||
5 | Sinfonia Seria | Serious Symphony | 1962–63 | |||
Sinfonia di Lotano | Symphony from Distance | 1963 | ||||
6 | Sinfonia Tramontana | 1965 | ||||
Hisato Ohzawa | 3 | D major | 『建国の交響楽』 | Symphony of the Founding of Japan | 1937 | Written for the 2600th anniversary on the founding of Japan |
Hisatada Otaka | 1 | Society for the Construction of the Bell Tower of Peace | 1948–1949 | The symphony is either incomplete or partially lost | ||
Ignacy Jan Paderewski | 1 | B minor | Polonia | 1903–08 | ||
John Knowles Paine | 2 | A major | Im Frühling | In Spring | 1879 | |
Andrzej Panufnik | 1 | Sinfonia rustica | ||||
2 | Sinfonia elegiaca | Elegiac Symphony | ||||
3 | Sinfonia sacra | Sacred Symphony | ||||
4 | Sinfonia concertante | Concertant Symphony | ||||
5 | Sinfonia di sfere | Symphony of the Spheres | ||||
6 | Sinfonia mistica | Mystic Symphony | ||||
7 | Metasinfonia | Metasymphony | ||||
8 | Sinfonia votiva | Votive Symphony | ||||
9 | Sinfonia di speranza | Symphony of Hope | ||||
Paul Paray | Symphonie d'archets | Symphony of Bows | 1919 | Orchestration of his String Quartet in E-minor | ||
2 | A minor | Le Tréport | 1936–39 | See: Le Tréport | ||
Hubert Parry | 2 | Cambridge | ||||
3 | English | |||||
5 | Symphonic fantasia | |||||
Arvo Pärt | 1 | Polyphonic | ||||
4 | Los Angeles | |||||
Alla Pavlova | 1 | Farewell, Russia | 1994 | |||
2 | For the New Millennium | 1998 | ||||
6 | Vincent | 2008 | ||||
Georgs Pelēcis | Trīspadsmitā Londonas simfonija | Thirteenth London Symphony | 2000 | |||
Krzysztof Penderecki | 2 | Christmas | ||||
4 | Adagio | |||||
5 | Korean | |||||
6 | Chinese Poems | 2008–17 | ||||
7 | The Seven Gates of Jerusalem | |||||
8 | Lieder der Vergänglichkeit | Songs of Transience | ||||
Vincent Persichetti | 7 | Liturgical | ||||
9 | Sinfonia Janiculum | Symphony of the Janiculum | ||||
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger | 1 | B-flat major | Baneret | The Banner | 1889–1903, revised 1932–1933 | |
2 | E-flat major | Sunnanfärd | The Journey of Southerly Winds | 1910 | ||
3 | F minor | Same Ätnam | Lappland Symphony | 1913–1915 | ||
4 | A major | Holmia | Stockholm | 1929 | ||
5 | B major | Solitudo | Solitude | 1923–1933 | ||
6 | Hellas | Greece | 1935–1936 | Unfinished | ||
Václav Pichl | D major | Mars | ||||
D major | Sinfonia Pastorale | Pastorale Symphony | c. 1800 | |||
Willem Pijper | 1 | Pan | 1917 | |||
Ildebrando Pizzetti | Sinfonia del Fuoco | Symphony of Fire | 1914 | For the silent film Cabiria | ||
Sergei Prokofiev | 1 | Classical | ||||
David del Puerto | 1 | Boreas | ||||
2 | Nusantara | |||||
3 | En la melancolía de tu recuerdo, Soria | In the Melancholy of your Memory, Soria | ||||
Lu Qiming | Bai Qiu'en | Bethune | some point between 1959 and 1966 [2] | |||
Robin de Raaff | 1 | Tanglewood Tales | 2007–2015 | |||
2 | Two Worlds Colliding | 2010 | for saxophone quartet and orchestra | |||
3 | Illumination...Eclipse | 2015 | ||||
4 | Melodies unheard | 2016–2017 | for (mezzo) soprano and orchestra | |||
5 | Allegory of Time | 2003–2022 | ||||
Allan Rae | 1 | In the Shadow of Atlantis | 1972 | |||
2 | Winds of Change | 1978 | ||||
Joachim Raff | 1 | An das Vaterland | To the Father Land | |||
3 | Im Walde | In the Forest | ||||
5 | Lenore | |||||
6 | Gelebt, Gestrebt, Gelitten, Gestritten, Gestorben, Umworben | |||||
7 | In den Alpen | In the Alps | ||||
8 | Frühlingsklänge | Sounds of Spring | ||||
9 | Im Sommer | In Summer | ||||
10 | Zur Herbstzeit | To Autumn Time | ||||
11 | Der Winter | The Winter | ||||
Ture Rangström | 1 | C-sharp minor | August Strindberg in memoriam | 1914 | Dedicated in memory of August Strindberg | |
2 | D minor | Mitt land | My Country | 1919 | ||
3 | D-flat major | Sång under stjärnorna | Singing under the stars | 1929 | ||
4 | D minor | Invocatio | Invocation | 1935 | ||
Einojuhani Rautavaara | 2 | Sinfonia Intima | Intimate Symphony | 1957 | ||
4 | Arabescata | 1986 | ||||
5 | Monologue with Angels | 1985-86 | Name removed by the composer later on | |||
6 | Vincentiana | 1992 | based on themes of his opera Vincent | |||
7 | Angel of Light | 1994 | ||||
8 | The Journey | 1999 | ||||
Alan Rawsthorne | 2 | A Pastoral Symphony | 1959 | |||
Gardner Read | The Temptation of St. Anthony | Soon after World War II | A Dance Symphony | |||
Carl Reinecke | 2 | C minor | Håkon Jarl | 1874–75, rev. 1888 | See Haakon Sigurdsson | |
Kinder-Sinfonie | Toy Symphony | 1897 | See Toy Symphony (section "Other Toy Symphonies") for more information. | |||
Leonid Rezetdinov | 2 | Симфония планет | Symphony of the Planets | |||
3 | Матрица | Matrix | ||||
4 | Босх. Сады земных наслаждений | Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights | Based on Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights | |||
Маленькая инструментальная месса | The Little Instrument Mass | A Chamber Symphony | ||||
Модерн | Modern | A Chamber Symphony | ||||
Kleine Welten | Small World | A Chamber Symphony | ||||
Josef Rheinberger | 1 | D minor | Wallenstein | 1866–67 | ||
Knudåge Riisager | 4 | Sinfonia Gaia | Symphony Theme | 1939–40 | ||
5 | Sinfonia serena | Serene Symphony | 1949–50 | |||
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | 2 | Antar | ||||
Jean Rivier | 6 | E minor | Les Présages | The Omens | 1958 | See Omen, unrelated to the ballet Les Présages |
7 | F major | Les Contrastes | Contrasts | 1971 | ||
Eric Rogers | Palladium Symphony | |||||
Bernhard Romberg | 1 | C minor | Trauer-Symphonie | Mourning Symphony | 1810? | Dedicated in memory of Queen Louise of Prussia |
4 | C major | Symphonie Burlesque and Kindersymphonie | Burlesque Symphony and Toy Symphony | 1836? | This is Op. 62, not to be confused by Op. 53 symphony in C. | |
Julius Röntgen | 5 | Der Schnitter Tod | The Grim Reaper | |||
10 | Walzersymphonie | Waltz Symphony | ||||
11 | Wirbelsymphonie | Vortex Symphony | ||||
Bitonal Symphony | ||||||
Symphonietta Humoristica | Humouristic Sinfonietta | |||||
Guy Ropartz | 1 | Sur un choral Breton | On a Breton Song | 1894–95 | ||
John Luke Rose | 1 | The Mystic | 1973 | |||
Hilding Rosenberg | 3 | De fyra livsåldrarna | The Four ages of Man | 1939, rev. 1943 and 1949 | Third movement added in the 1949 revision | |
4 | Johannes uppenbarelse | Revelation of Johannes | 1940 | For choir and orchestra, text based on the Bible by Hjalmar Gullberg | ||
5 | Örtagårdsmästaren | The Master of the Herb Garden | 1944 | |||
6 | Sinfonia Simplice | Simple Symphony | 1951 | |||
8 | In candidum | 1974 | For choir and orchestra with text by Vilhelm Ekelund | |||
Antonio Rosetti | D major | Symphony de chasse | 1786 | |||
Sinfonia di Caccia | 1786 | |||||
Nobert Rosseau | 2 | Sinfonia liturgica | Liturgical Symphony | 1961 | For Orchestra and Choir. [9] | |
Anton Rubinstein | 2 | Ocean | ||||
4 | Dramatic | |||||
Edmund Rubbra | 8 | Hommage à Teilhard de Chardin | ||||
9 | Resurrection | a.k.a. Sinfonia Sacra | ||||
10 | da Camera | Chamber Symphony | ||||
11 | à Colette | |||||
Johann Rufinatscha | 1 | D major | Mein erstes Studium | 1834 | ||
Camille Saint-Saëns | F major | Urbs Roma | City of Rome | 1856 | ||
3 | C minor | Avec Orgue | With Organ | 1886 | ||
Luis H. Salgado | 1 | G minor | Andina | 1949 | Revised in 1972 with the name Sinfonía de Ritmos Vernaculares (Symphony of Vernacular Rhythms) | |
2 | D minor | Sintética N. 1 | Synthetic N. 1 | 1953 | In one movement | |
3 | D major | Sobre un Tema Rococó: A-D-H-G-E | On a Rococo Theme: A-D-H-G-E | 1955 | ||
4 | D major | Ecuatoriana | Ecuadorian | 1957 | ||
5 | Neo-Romántica | Neo-Romantic | 1958 | |||
D major | Sintética N. 2 | Synthetic 2 | 1977 | In one movement | ||
Aulis Sallinen | 2 | Symphonic Dialogue | (All his symphonies listed here) | |||
5 | Washington Mosaics | |||||
6 | From a New Zealand Diary | |||||
7 | The Dreams of Gandalf | |||||
8 | Autumnal Fragments | |||||
Robert Levine Sanders | 1 | G | Little Symphony | 1936–37 | In 1938, won the New York Philharmonic Symphony Society award. The 1943 symphony in B-flat major is for concert band. | |
Cláudio Santoro | 4 | Sinfonia da Paz | Symphony of Peace | 1953 | ||
7 | Brasília | 1960 | ||||
10 | Amazonas | 1982 | ||||
Joly Braga Santos | 5 | Virtus Lusitaniae | Virtue of Portugal | 1966 | ||
Fazıl Say | 1 | Istanbul Symphony | 2009 | |||
2 | Mesopotamia | 2011 | ||||
3 | Universe | 2012 | ||||
Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry | Symphonie pour un homme seul | Symphony for One Man Alone | 1949–1950 | multi-movement musique concrète composition, premiered 1950 several revisions including a 1966 one by Henry | ||
Philipp Scharwenka | 1 | Herbstfeier | Fall Celebration | |||
Josef Schelb | Sinfonia Apocaliptica | Apocalyptic Symphony | ||||
Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff | 1 | In die Alpen | In the Alps | For choir and orchestra, lost | ||
2 | Schicksalsgewalten | Forces of Fate | Lost | |||
Martin Scherber | 1–3 | D minor, B minor, F minor | Metamorphosis-Symphonies | 1938, 1951–52, 1954–55 | This is the name given by the composer to his 3 symphonies | |
Christopher Schlegel | 1 | C major | Odyssey | |||
2 | E minor | Viking | ||||
3 | F major | Virtues of a Man | 1999? | |||
4 | F major | America | ||||
5 | G-sharp minor | Athena | ||||
6 | Values | |||||
Gaetono Maria Schiassi | Christmas Symphony | |||||
Heather Schmidt | 1 | Manufactured Landscapes | 2005 | |||
Florent Schmitt | 3 | Janiana | 1941 | |||
Franz Schubert | 4 | C minor | Tragische | Tragic | 1816 | D 417 See also List of compositions by Schubert#Symphonies |
6 | C major | Kleine Sinfonie C-Dur | Little C major | 1817–18 | D 589 | |
8 | B minor | Unvollendete | Unfinished | 1822 | D 759. Occasionally listed as No. 7 | |
9 | C major | Große Sinfonie C-Dur | Great C major | 1825–1828 | D 944. Also listed as No. 7 or No. 8 Identified as the elusive Gmunden-Gasteiner Sinfonie (Gastein Symphony) | |
10 | D major | The Last | 1828 | D 936a. Reconstruction based on sketches | ||
Erwin Schulhoff | Symphonia Germanica | Germanic Symphony | 1919 | A satirical symphony | ||
6 | Svobody | Freedom | 1940 | For chorus and orchestra | ||
Georg Schumann | 1 | B minor | Preis-Symphonie | Prize Symphony | 1887 | |
Robert Schumann | 1 | Frühling | Spring | |||
3 | Rheinische | Rhenish | ||||
Daniel Bruno Schvetz | 4 | Sinfonía Apocalíptica | Apocalyptic Symphony | 2006 | Dedicated to Edoardo Sanguineti for his Abecedario Apocalíptico | |
Alexander Scriabin | 3 | C minor | Le Divin Poème | The Divine Poem | 1902-04 | |
4 | Le Poème de l'extase | The Poem of Ecstasy | 1905-07 | Despite being considered a symphonic poem, the composer referred to it as his fourth symphony | ||
5 | Prométhée: Le Poème du Feu | Prometheus: The Poem of Fire | 1908-10 | Also referred to by the composer as his fifth symphony | ||
Antonio Scontrino | Sinfonia marinesca | Marine Symphony | ||||
Sinfonia romantica | Romantic Symphony | |||||
Giovanni Sgambati | Sinfonia festiva | Festive Symphony | 1878 | This is not a numbered symphony. It is also called "Ouverture d'fete". | ||
Epitalamio sinfonico | Symphonic epithalamium | 1887 | The Naxos recording calls it "Sinfonia epitalamio" (Nuptial Symphony). Not a numbered symphony. | |||
Ding Shande | Changzeng | Long March | some point between 1959 and 1966 [2] | |||
Harold Shapero | Symphony for Classical Orchestra | 1947 | ||||
Michael Jeffrey Shapiro | 1 | Pomes Penyeach | ||||
Rodion Shchedrin | 2 | 25 прелюдий | 25 Preludes | 1965 | ||
3 | Лица русских сказок | Scenes of Russian Fairy Tales | 2000 | |||
Vladimir Shcherbachov | 2 | Blok | 1925 | For choir and orchestra, choir text based on works by Alexander Blok. [10] Also spelled as Blokovskaya. | ||
4 | Ижорская | Izhora | 1932–1934 (1935?) | Also spelled as Izhorskaya, or "History of the Izhorsky Factory". [11] | ||
5 | Русская | Russian | 1948, revised 1950 | Also spelled Russkaya, or "The Russian". | ||
Minao Shibata | 2 | ゆく河の流れは絶えずして | The neverending flow of the river | 1975 | For chorus and orchestra | |
Dmitri Shostakovich | 2 | B major | To October | |||
3 | E-flat major | The First of May | ||||
7 | C major | Leningrad | ||||
11 | G minor | The Year 1905 | ||||
12 | D minor | The Year 1917 | ||||
13 | B-flat minor | Babi Yar | ||||
Andriy Shtoharenko | 1 | Україна моя | My Ukraine | 1942–43 | Symphony-cantata | |
2 | Пам`яті товариша | In Memory of a Comrade | 1965 | |||
3 | Київська | Kyivska | 1972 | |||
4 | Симфонічні казки | Symphony tales | 1973 | |||
6 | Біографічна | Biography | 1978 | |||
Rudolph Simonsen | 1 | Zion | 1920s | |||
2 | Hellas | Greek | 1920s | |||
Roman Simovych | 1 | Гуцульська | Hutsul | 1945 | ||
2 | Лемківська | Lemkivska [or Lemko] | 1947 | |||
3 | Весняна | Spring | 1951 | |||
4 | Героїчна | Heroic | 1954 | |||
5 | Гірська | Mountain | 1955 | |||
Ādolfs Skulte | 1 | F minor | On Peace | 1954 | ||
2 | G-sharp minor | Ave Sol | 1959 | Based on words by Rainis | ||
3 | C minor | Cosmic | 1963 | |||
4 | A major | Youth | 1965 | |||
7 | Preserve Nature! | 1981 | ||||
Klement Slavický | 4 | Pax hominibus in universo orbi | Peace to people all over the world | 1985 | Dedicated to the United Nation's 40 year anniversary. | |
Sergei Slonimsky | 10 | Cercles de l'enfer | The Circles of Hell | 1992 | ||
Bedřich Smetana | 1 | E major | Triumfální symfonie | Triumphal Symphony | 1853–1854, revised 1881 | Dedicated to the wedding of Franz Joseph I of Austria |
Robert W. Smith | 1 | The Divine Comedy | ||||
2 | The Odyssey | |||||
3 | Don Quixote | |||||
Symphony of Souls | ||||||
Arthur Sommervell | 1 | D minor | Thalassa | 1912 | ||
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji | 1 | Tāntrik Symphony for Piano Alone | 1938–39 | for piano | ||
2 | Jāmī | 1942–51 | for orchestra, chorus and baritone | |||
5 | Symphonia brevis for Piano | Brief Symphony for Piano | 1973 | for piano | ||
6 | Symphonia claviensis | Symphony for Piano | 1975–76 | for piano | ||
Enrique Soro | 1 | A major | Sinfonía romántica | Romantic Symphony | One of the first symphonies composed in Chile [12] | |
Vladimír Soukup | 1 | Youth | 1954 | |||
2 | Dramatic | 1962 | ||||
3 | Canto Allegro | Song of Joy | 1964 | |||
Phillip Sparke | 1 | A Pittsburg Symphony | 1990–92 | |||
2 | Earth, Water, Sun, Wind | 1999 | ||||
3 | Colour Symphony | 2014 | ||||
Carl Stamitz | D major | Symphonie de Chasse | ||||
Charles Villiers Stanford | 2 | Elegiac | ||||
3 | Irish | |||||
5 | L'Allegro ed il Penseroso | |||||
6 | In Memoriam G. F. Watts | |||||
Yevhen Stankovych | 2 | Heroic | ||||
3 | Affirmed | |||||
4 | Lyrical | |||||
5 | Pastoral | |||||
In memory of a poet | Chamber Symphony 4 | |||||
Secret Desires | Chamber Symphony 5 | |||||
Maxim Berezovsky | Chamber Symphony 10; Dedicated to Maxim Berezovsky | |||||
Bernard Stevens | 1 | A Symphony of Liberation | 1945 | |||
William Grant Still | 1 | A-flat major | Afro-American | 1930 | ||
2 | G minor | Song of A New Race | 1936-37 | |||
3 | Sunday Symphony | 1958 | ||||
4 | Autochthonous | 1947 | ||||
5 | Western Hemisphere | 1945, rev 1947 | ||||
Richard Strauss | Eine Alpensinfonie | An Alpine Symphony | ||||
Symphonia Domestica | Domestic Symphony | |||||
Igor Stravinsky | Symphony of Psalms | |||||
Symphonies d'instruments à vent | Symphonies of Wind Instruments | single-movement work for wind ensemble, not actually a symphony | ||||
Josef Suk | 2 | Asrael | Azrael | |||
Stjepan Šulek | 2 | Eroica | 1946 | |||
Epitaf | 1971 | |||||
Runke | 1972 | |||||
Franz Xaver Süssmayr | C major | Sinfonia Turchesca | Turkish Symphony | 1790 | See Turkish music (style) | |
Lubawa Sydorenko | 1 | Ab Inito | From the Beginning | 2004 | Premiered in 2009; With a violin solo | |
Takashi Yoshimatsu | 1 | カムイチカプ交響曲 | Kamui-Chikap Symphony | 1988–90 | Kamui-Chikap meaning "divine bird" | |
2 | 地球にて | On Earth | 1990–91 | |||
6 | 鳥と天使たち | Birds and Angels | 2013 | |||
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | 1 | Winter Daydreams | ||||
2 | Little Russian | |||||
3 | Polish | |||||
Ма́нфред | Manfred Symphony | 1885 | Op. 58. Premiered 1886 | |||
6 | Pathétique | Pathetic Symphony | ||||
Jivan Gurgeni Ter-T'at'evosian | 2 | Sud'ba cheloveka | The Fate of a Man | |||
5 | Paganini | |||||
Johannes Paul Thilman | 1–3 | G major, F major, and D major | Kleine Sinfonie | Little Symphony | 1951, 1952, 1953 | |
Virgil Thomson | 1 | Symphony on a Hymn Tune | 1926–28 | The hymns which the symphony is based on are Jesus Loves Me and How Firm a Foundation | ||
Ernst Toch | 5 | Jephtha, Rhapsodic Poem | ||||
Charles Tournemire | 1 | A major | Romantique | Romantic | 1900 | |
2 | B major | Quessant | 1908–09 | |||
3 | D major | Moscau | Moscow | 1912–13 | ||
4 | Pages Symphoniques | Symphonic Pages | 1912–13 | |||
5 | F major | De la montagne | The Mountain | 1913–14 | ||
7 | Les danses de la Vie | Dances of Life | 1918–22 | |||
8 | Le triomphe de la mort | Triumph of Death | 1920–24 | |||
Symphonie-Choral | Choral Symphony | 1935 | For organ | |||
Symphonie sacrée | Sacred Symphony | For organ | ||||
Nguyễn Lân Tuất | 1 | Dự cảm nội chiến | Premonition to Civil War | 1981 | ||
2 | Tổ quốc tôi | My Fatherland | 1984 | |||
3 | Tiếng hát trong tù | The Condemned one's dreams | 1989 | Also called "Singing in Prison" | ||
4 | Gửi người yêu nơi xa | To a faraway lover | 1995 | |||
5 | Đời nghệ sĩ | Artist's life | 2013– | Incomplete as the composer died in 2014. | ||
Eduard Tubin | 2 | Legendary | ||||
3 | Heroic | |||||
4 | Lyrical | |||||
9 | Sinfonia semplice | Simple Symphony | ||||
Joaquín Turina | Sinfonía sevillana | Seville Symphony | 1920 | |||
Sinfonía del mar | Symphony of the sea | 1945–1981 | Turina died in 1949, at that point the symphony was still incomplete, the symphony would only be completed in 1981 by Manuel Castillo Navarro-Aguilera | |||
Viktor Ullmann | 1 | Von meiner Jugend | From my Youth | Some point between September 1942 and October 1944 | This was written while Ullmann was in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. [13] | |
Galina Ustvolskaya | 2 | True and Eternal Bliss! | 1979 | Text based on work by Hermann of Reichenau | ||
3 | Jesus Messiah, Save Us! | 1983 | Based on works by Hermann of Reichenau | |||
4 | Prayer | 1985–87 | Based on work by Hermann of Reichenau | |||
5 | Amen | 1989–90 | ||||
Jan Van der Roost | 1 | Sinfonia Hungarica | Hungarian Symphony | |||
Ralph Vaughan Williams | 1 | A Sea Symphony | ||||
2 | A London Symphony | |||||
3 | Pastoral Symphony | |||||
7 | Sinfonia antartica | |||||
Ernest Vanjura | C major | Ukrainian Symphony | ~1790 | The Piano form of the symphony was published, in fact being the only symphony part of Vanjura's Trois Sinfonies Nationales to be published during the composer's lifetime. From this, the orchestration was done by Mykhailo Verykivsky, however Margarita Pavlovna Prâšnikova rediscovered the original score of all 3. | ||
E-flat major | Russian Symphony | ~1790 | Part of Vanjura's Trois Sinfonies Nationales | |||
B-flat major | Polish Symphony | ~1790 | Part of Vanjura's Trois Sinfonies Nationales | |||
Solon C. Verret | 2? | Symphonie des glaïeuls | Gladiolus Symphony | See Gladiolus | ||
3? | Symphonie des nuits tropicales | Symphony of Tropical Nights | ||||
Anatol Vieru | 1 | Oda tacerii | Ode to Silence | 1967 | ||
3 | La un cutremur | At an Earthquake | 1978 | |||
6 | Exodus | 1989 | ||||
7 | Anul soarelui calm | The Year of the Tranquil Sun | 1992–93 | |||
Heitor Villa-Lobos | 1 | O Imprevisto | The Unforeseen | |||
2 | Ascenção | The Ascension | ||||
3 | A Guerra | The War | ||||
4 | A Vitória | The Victory | ||||
5 | A Paz | The Peace | lost | |||
6 | Sobre a linha das montanhas do Brasil | On the Outline of the Mountains of Brasil | ||||
10 | Sumé Pater Patrium: Sinfonia Amerindia | Sumé, Father of Fathers: Amerindian Symphony | ||||
Antonio Vivaldi | B minor | Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro | Symphony for the Holy Sepulcher | sonata for 2 violins, viola & continuo, RV 169 | ||
Vladimir Vlasov | Симфония "Патетическая" | "Pathetic" Symphony | 1980 | For coloratura soprano, women choir and orchestra | ||
Georg Joseph Vogler | C major | La Scala | The Stairs | 1799 | ||
William Wallace | 1 | Creation Symphony | prem. 1899 | |||
Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen | Apokalyptische Symphonie | Apocalyptic Symphony | ~1925 | |||
Leyou Wang | 1 | Xiangsheng | Crosstalks | ~2019 | ||
Robert Ward | 5 | Canticles of America | 1976 | |||
7 | The Savannah | 2003 | ||||
Egan Wegan | 4 | D major | Saturn | |||
Mieczysław Weinberg | 8 | Flowers of Poland | 1964 | |||
9 | Everlasting Time | 1940–67 | ||||
11 | Festive Symphony | 1969 | ||||
12 | In Memoriam of D. Shostakovich | 1975–76 | Dedicated to Dmitri Shostakovich | |||
15 | I Believe in This Earth | 1977 | ||||
17 | Memory | 1984 | ||||
18 | War, there is no word more cruel | 1986 | ||||
19 | The Bright May | 1986 | ||||
21 | Kaddish | 1991 | ||||
Karl Weigl | 5 | Apocalyptic Symphony | 1945 | |||
Julius Weismann | Sinfonia Brevis | Short Symphony | ||||
Paul W. Whear | 1 | Stonehenge Symphony | ||||
Charles-Marie Widor | 9 | C minor | Symphonie Gothique | Gothic Symphony | 1895 | for organ solo |
10 | D major | Symphonie Romane | Roman Symphony | 1899 | for organ solo | |
C minor | Sinfonia sacra | Sacred Symphony | 1908 | for organ and orchestra | ||
Symphonie antique | Ancient Symphony | 1911 | for soloists, chorus, organ and orchestra | |||
Alberto Williams | 2 | C minor | La bruja de las montañas | The witch of the mountains | 1910 | |
3 | F major | The Sacred Forest | 1911 | |||
4 | E-flat major | El ataja-caminos | 1935 | |||
5 | E-flat major | El corazón de la muñeca | The Doll's heart | 1936 | ||
6 | B major | The Death of the Comet | 1937 | |||
7 | D | Eterno Reposo | Eternal Rest | 1937 | ||
8 | F minor | The Sphinx | 1938 | |||
9 | B-flat | Los batracios (La humorística) | 1939 | |||
Malcolm Williamson | 1 | Elevamini | ||||
2 | Pilgrim på Havet | |||||
3 | The Icy Mirror | |||||
4 | Jubilee | |||||
5 | Aquerò | |||||
6 | Liturgy of Homage | full title: Liturgy of Homage to the Australian Broadcasting Commission in its Fiftieth Year as University to the Australian Nation | ||||
Meredith Willson | 1 | A Symphony of San Francisco | ||||
2 | Missions of California | |||||
Thomas Wilson | 4 | Passeleth Tapestry | 1988 | Commissioned by Renfrew District Council together with Strathclyde Regional Council to mark Paisley's 500th anniversary as a Burgh of Barony. | ||
Jason Wright Wingate | 2 | Kleetüden | ||||
Friedrich Witt | 6 | A minor | Turque | Turkish | ||
14 | C major | Jenaer Sinfonie | Jena Symphony | 1793? | Upon its discovery (1909) attributed to Beethoven, later more probable attribution to Witt | |
William Wordsworth | 6 | Elegiaca | Elegiac | 1977 | Dedicated to the composer's son, Tim Wordsworth, after he was killed in a car crash in 1971. Words based on works by Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Donne, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. For baritone, mezzo-soprano, chorus, and orchestra. | |
7 | Cosmos | 1980 | ||||
8 | Pax Hominibus | Peace to Men | 1986 | |||
Bolesław Woytowicz | 2 | Warszawska | Warsaw | 1945 | ||
Wang Xilin | Symphony of Shangdang Bangzi | 1974 | ||||
6 | Song of Life | 2004 | ||||
7 | He Yi Zhuang Cheng | 2007 | ||||
8 | Comedic Dialogue | 2009 | Chamber symphony | |||
9 | China Requiem | 2015 | ||||
Xian Xinghai | 1 | 民族解放 | Liberation of the Nation | 1941 | ||
2 | 神圣之战 | The Holy War | 1943 | |||
Oleg Yanchenko | 1 | Эроика | Eroica | 1966 | ||
2 | Андрей Рублёв | Andriy Rublev | 1977 | |||
3 | Белая Вежа | Belaya Vezha | 1982 | |||
4 | Слово о полку Игореве | The Tales of Igor's Campaign | 1985 | |||
5 | Мемориал Микеланджело | Michelangelo Memorial | 1988 | |||
6 | Апокалипси | Apocalypse | 1994 | |||
Boris Yarovinsky | 2 | A minor | Романтична | Romantic | ||
Shi Yong-Kang | Dongfang de shuguang | Dawn in the East | some point between 1959 and 1966 [2] | |||
Webster A. Young | 1 | 1977 – Davis to Paris | 1977 | |||
3 | California | |||||
4 | Oregon | |||||
5 | The Gold Guitar | 2014 | ||||
Bao Yuan-kai | Son of the people | 2004 | ||||
1 | Jubilee | 2004 | ||||
2 | Sketch of War | 2005 | ||||
3 | Beijing Opera | 2006 | ||||
Wang Yunjie | 1 | To Construct the Motherland | 1956 [2] | |||
2 | Kang Ri zhanzheng | The War of Resistance Against Japan | some point between 1959 and 1966 [2] | |||
Eugene Zador | A children's symphony | [14] | ||||
Mario Zafred | 3 | Canto del Carso | Song of Carso | 1949 | See Carso | |
4 | In onore della resistenza | In honor of the resistance | 1950 | |||
5 | Prati e boschi della primavera | Spring meadows and woods | 1952 | |||
Winfried Zillig | Tanzsymphonie | Dance Symphony | ||||
Ján Zimmer | 6 | Improvisata | 1965 | Op. 51 | ||
10 | Homage to Haydn | 1979 | Op. 92; Dedicated to Franz Haydn | |||
Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli | In order: D major, E-flat major, F major, D major, G minor, C major, D major, and finally E major | Sinfonia Milanese | Milanese Symphony | This is a series of symphonies called "Sinfonia Milanese", in this series there are 8 symphonies. | ||
C minor | Sinfonia Funebre | Funeral Symphony | 1836 | |||
Bernard Zweers | 3 | B-flat major | Aan Mijn Vaderland | To my Fatherland | 1886–90 | |
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich | 1 | Three Movements for Orchestra | ||||
Sergey Zyatov | 1 | Symphonia in Prata | Symphony in the Meadows | 2019 | ||
Peter Mennin | 4 | The Cycle | 1947-48 | |||
7 | Variation-Symphony | 1964 | ||||
Allan Pettersson | 12 | De Döda på Torget | The Dead of the Market Square | 1974 | ||
José Ignacio Blesa Lull | 1 | La Balada de la Tríada | The Ballad of the Triad | Based on the trilogy of novels "Memorias de Idhún" by Laura Gallego García | ||
2 | El Gran Místico | The Great Mystic | Based on the life of philosopher and mystic Ramon Llull | |||
3 | El Compositor de Tormentas | The Composer of Storms | Inspired by the novel "The Composer of Storms" by Andrés Pascual | |||
Pedro Vilarroig | 3 | Filosófica | Philosophical | 1979 | ||
4 | Cosmos | 1980 | ||||
5 | Renacer | Rebirth | 1983 | |||
7 | Tempestad | Tempest | 1986 | |||
9 | Génesis | Genesis | 2006 | |||
Guan Xia | 2 | 希望 | Hope | 1999 | ||
Jean Sibelius | E minor | Kullervo | 1891-92 | The piece is a large-scale hybrid of a symphony and a symphonic poem | ||
Elliott Carter | 3 | Symphonia: "Sum fluxae pretium spei" | Symphony: "I am the prize of flowing hope" | 1993-96 | Inspired by the poem "Bulla" (The Bubble) by Richard Crashaw | |
Gavriil Popov | 2 | A minor | Родина | Motherland | 1943 | Based on music from the film score She Defends the Motherland |
3 | G minor | Героическая | Heroic | 1939-46 | Also known as the "Spanish" for its use of Hispanic themes. It is partially derived from the soundtrack of the 1939 film "Spain". | |
4 | Слава Отчизне | Glory to the Fatherland | 1948-49 | Originally conceived as a concerto for a cappella chorus based on texts by Mikhail Golodniy | ||
5 | A major | Пасторальная | Pastoral | 1956 | ||
6 | Праздничная | Festive | 1969 | |||
Kosaku Yamada | F major | かちどきと平和 | Triumph and Peace | 1912 | ||
舞踏交響曲『マグダラのマリア』" | Choreographic Symphony "Mary Magdalene" | 1916-18 | After sketches from an unrealise ballet | |||
交響曲『明治頌歌』 | Symphony "Inno Meiji" | 1921 | ||||
長唄交響曲『鶴亀』 | Nagauta Symphony "Tsurukane" | 1934 | ||||
Viktor Kalabis | 2 | Sinfonia Pacis | Symphony of Peace | 1961-62 | ||
5 | Fragment | 1975-76 | ||||
Arnold Bax | Spring Fire | 1913 | Mixture of a symphony and a symphonic poem | |||
Alan Bush | 2 | G major | The Nottingham Symphony | 1949 | ||
3 | The Byron Symphony | 1959-60 | ||||
4 | Lascaux Symphony | 1982-83 | ||||
Mikis Theodorakis | 1 | Proti Simfonia | 1948-54 | |||
2 | Song of the Earth | 1980-82 | ||||
4 | Of the Choral Odes | 1986-87 | ||||
5 | Spring Symphony | 1978-84 | ||||
Borys Lyatoshynsky | 1 | B minor | Мир переможе війну | Peace will Defeat War | 1951, rev 1954 | Name removed in the revision by political pressures |
5 | C major | Слов'янська | Slavonic | 1965-66 | ||
Zhu Jian'er | 3 | 西藏 | Tibet | 1988 | ||
4 | 6.4.2-1 | 1990 | ||||
6 | 3Y | 1992-94 | ||||
7 | 天籁、地籁、人籁 | Sounds of Paradise, Earth & Mankind | 1994 | |||
8 | 求索 | Seeking | 1994 | |||
10 | 江雪 | River Snow | 1997-98 | Based on the poem by Liu Zongyuan | ||
Jesús Rueda | 1 | Laberinto | Labyrinth | 2000 | ||
2 | Acerca del Límite | About/On the Limit | 2001 | |||
3 | Luz | Light | 2004-08 | |||
4 | Julio | July | 2017 | |||
5 | Naufragios | Shipwrecks | 2018-19 | |||
6 | Huida a las Tinieblas | Flight Into Darkness | 2020 | |||
7 | Visiones Nórdicas | Nordic Visions | 2021 | |||
8 | Elegíaca | Elegiac | 2021 | |||
9 | Oblivion | 2022 | ||||
10 | La Era Real | The Real/Royal Era | 2022 | |||
11 | El Camino | The Way | 2023 | |||
12 | Oceana | 2023 | ||||
13 | Memoria y Deseo | Memory and Desire | 2024 | |||
Carl Friedrich Abel was a German composer of the pre-Classical era. He was a renowned player of the viola da gamba, and produced significant compositions for that instrument. He was director of music at the Dresden court from 1743, and moved to London in 1759, becoming chamber-musician to Queen Charlotte in 1764. He founded a subscription concert series there with Johann Christian Bach. According to the Catalogue of Works of Carl Friedrich Abel (AbelWV), he left 420 compositions, with a focus on chamber music.
Romantic music is a stylistic movement in Western Classical music associated with the period of the 19th century commonly referred to as the Romantic era. It is closely related to the broader concept of Romanticism—the intellectual, artistic, and literary movement that became prominent in Western culture from about 1798 until 1837.
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often for orchestra. Although the term has had many meanings from its origins in the ancient Greek era, by the late 18th century the word had taken on the meaning common today: a work usually consisting of multiple distinct sections or movements, often four, with the first movement in sonata form. Symphonies are almost always scored for an orchestra consisting of a string section, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments which altogether number about 30 to 100 musicians. Symphonies are notated in a musical score, which contains all the instrument parts. Orchestral musicians play from parts which contain just the notated music for their own instrument. Some symphonies also contain vocal parts.
A concerto is, from the late Baroque era, mostly understood as an instrumental composition, written for one or more soloists accompanied by an orchestra or other ensemble. The typical three-movement structure, a slow movement preceded and followed by fast movements, became a standard from the early 18th century.
The Italian overture is a piece of orchestral music which opened several operas, oratorios and other large-scale works in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Walter Hamor Piston, Jr., was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at Harvard University.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed his Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551, on 10 August 1788. The longest and last symphony that he composed, it is regarded by many critics as among the greatest symphonies in classical music. The work is nicknamed the Jupiter Symphony, probably coined by the impresario Johann Peter Salomon.
The Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, by Dmitri Shostakovich is a work for orchestra composed between April and July 1937. Its first performance was on November 21, 1937, in Leningrad by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky. The premiere was a "triumphal success" that appealed to both the public and official critics, receiving an ovation that lasted well over half an hour.
Divertimento is a musical genre, with most of its examples from the 18th century. The mood of the divertimento is most often lighthearted and it is generally composed for a small ensemble. The term is used to describe a wide variety of secular (non-religious) instrumental works for soloist or chamber ensemble. It is usually a kind of music entertainment, although it could also be applied to a more serious genre. After 1780, the term generally designated works that were informal or light.
Sinfonia is the Italian word for symphony, from the Latin symphonia, in turn derived from Ancient Greek συμφωνία symphōnia, from the prefix σύν (together) and ϕωνή (sound). In English it most commonly refers to a 17th- or 18th-century orchestral piece used as an introduction, interlude, or postlude to an opera, oratorio, cantata, or suite. The word is also found in other Romance languages such as Spanish or Portuguese.
Sinfonia concertante is an orchestral work, normally in several movements, in which one or more solo instruments contrast with the full orchestra. It emerged as a musical form during the Classical period of Western music from the Baroque concerto grosso. Sinfonia concertante encompasses the symphony and the concerto genres, a concerto in that soloists are on prominent display, and a symphony in that the soloists are nonetheless discernibly a part of the total ensemble and not preeminent. Sinfonia concertante is the ancestor of the double and triple concerti of the Romantic period corresponding approximately to the 19th century.
In music, a cycle can be several things. Acoustically, it is one complete vibration, the base unit of Hertz being one cycle per second. Theoretically, an interval cycle is a collection of pitch classes created by a sequence of identical intervals. Cycles are also individual pieces of larger works, like the movements in a suite, symphony sonata, or string quartet. This can range from settings of the Mass or a song cycle to an opera cycle. Another cycle is the complete performance of an individual composer's work in one genre.
Ildebrando Pizzetti was an Italian composer of classical music, as well as being a musicologist and a music critic.
Walter Johannes Damrosch was a Prussian-born American conductor and composer. He was the director of the New York Symphony Orchestra and conducted the world premiere performances of various works, including Aaron Copland's Symphony for Organ and Orchestra, George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F and An American in Paris, and Jean Sibelius' Tapiola. Damrosch was also instrumental in the founding of Carnegie Hall. He also conducted the first performance of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the composer himself as soloist.
The All-Night Vigil is an a cappella choral composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff, his Op. 37, premiered on 10/23 March 1915 in Moscow.
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" can also be applied to non-Western art musics. Classical music is often characterized by formality and complexity in its musical form and harmonic organization, particularly with the use of polyphony. Since at least the ninth century it has been primarily a written tradition, spawning a sophisticated notational system, as well as accompanying literature in analytical, critical, historiographical, musicological and philosophical practices. A foundational component of Western culture, classical music is frequently seen from the perspective of individual or groups of composers, whose compositions, personalities and beliefs have fundamentally shaped its history.
Sinfonia (Symphony) is a composition by the Italian composer Luciano Berio which was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for its 125th anniversary. Composed in 1968–69 for orchestra and eight amplified voices, it incorporates musical quotations to represent an abstract and distorted history of culture. The eight voices are not incorporated classically but rather speak, whisper and shout excerpts from texts including Claude Lévi-Strauss' The Raw and the Cooked, Samuel Beckett's novel The Unnamable, instructions from the scores of Gustav Mahler and other writings.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov composed his Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 1, between 1861 and 1865 under the guidance of Mily Balakirev. Balakirev also premiered the work at a concert of the Free Music School in December 1865. Rimsky-Korsakov revised the work in 1884.
A choral symphony is a musical composition for orchestra, choir, and sometimes solo vocalists that, in its internal workings and overall musical architecture, adheres broadly to symphonic musical form. The term "choral symphony" in this context was coined by Hector Berlioz when he described his Roméo et Juliette as such in his five-paragraph introduction to that work. The direct antecedent for the choral symphony is Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Beethoven's Ninth incorporates part of the ode An die Freude, a poem by Friedrich Schiller, with text sung by soloists and chorus in the last movement. It is the first example of a major composer's use of the human voice on the same level as instruments in a symphony.
Alemdar Sabitovich Karamanov was a composer.