List of symphonies in D minor - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of symphonies in D minor written by notable composers.

Baroque and Classical symphonies in D minor

D minor

D minor is a minor scale based on D, consisting of the pitches D, E, F, G, A, B, and C. In the harmonic minor, the C is raised to C. Its key signature has one flat ....

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

Michael Haydn

Johann Michael Haydn was an Austrian composer of the classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.-Life:...

's Symphony No. 29 in D minor

Symphony No. 29 (Michael Haydn)

Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 29 in D minor, Opus 1 No. 3, Perger 20, Sherman 29, MH 393, written in Salzburg in 1784, is the only symphony he wrote in a minor key. It is the first of four D minor symphonies attributed to Joseph Haydn.- Movements :...

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-flat.

The first choice of clarinet

Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...

for orchestral music in D minor is naturally the clarinet in B. This choice, however, becomes problematic for multi-movement works that begin in D minor and end in D major, as the clarinet in A would be preferable for the parallel major. One solution is to write the first movement for clarinet in B and the last movement for clarinet in A, but this burdens the player with having to warm up the A instrument in time for the switch.

Composer	Symphony
Kurt Atterberg Kurt Atterberg Kurt Magnus Atterberg was a Swedish composer. He is best known for his symphonies, operas and ballets. Atterberg once said that: "The Russians, Brahms, Reger were my ideals." His music combines their influences with Swedish folk tunes.-Biography:Atterberg was born in Gothenburg as the son of the...	Symphony No. 5 "Funebre", Op. 20 (1917–22)
Ernst Bacon Ernst Bacon Ernst Lecher Bacon was an American composer, pianist, and conductor. A prolific author, Bacon composed over 250 songs over his career. He was awarded three Guggenheim Fellowships and a Pulitzer Scholarship in 1932 for his Second Symphony.-Biography:Ernst Bacon was born in Chicago, Illinois, on May...	Symphony (1932)
Edgar Bainton Edgar Bainton Edgar Leslie Bainton was a British composer, most celebrated for his church music. Perhaps his most famous piece is the liturgical anthem And I saw a new heaven, but during recent years Bainton's other musical works - neglected for decades - have been increasingly often heard in the concert...	Symphony No. 2 (1939–40)
Mily Balakirev Mily Balakirev Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev ,Russia was still using old style dates in the 19th century, and information sources used in the article sometimes report dates as old style rather than new style. Dates in the article are taken verbatim from the source and therefore are in the same style as the source...	Symphony No. 2 Symphony No. 2 (Balakirev) Mily Balakirev began work on his Symphony No. 2 in D minor in 1900, but did not complete the work until 1908. The premiere of the symphony was conducted by Russian composer Sergei Liapunov, a student of Balakirev, in St. Petersburg in 1909... (1900-8)
Franz Ignaz Beck Franz Ignaz Beck Franz Ignaz Beck was a German violinist, composer, conductor and music teacher who spent the greater part of his life in France, where he became director of the Bordeaux Grand Théâtre. Possibly the most talented pupil of Johann Stamitz, Beck is an important representative of the second generation...	Symphony, Op. 3, No. 5
Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...	Symphony No. 9, Op. 125 "Choral" Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, is the final complete symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven. Completed in 1824, the symphony is one of the best known works of the Western classical repertoire, and has been adapted for use as the European Anthem... (1824)
Adolphe Biarent Adolphe Biarent Adolphe Biarent was a Belgian composer, conductor, cellist and music teacher.Biarent studied at the conservatories of Brussels and of Ghent, and was a pupil of Émile Mathieu...	Symphony (1908)
Vilém Blodek Vilém Blodek Vilém Blodek was a Czech composer, flautist, and pianist.- Biography :Blodek was born into a poor family and was educated at a German Piarist school in Prague...	Symphony (1858–59)
Luigi Boccherini Luigi Boccherini Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is most widely known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No...	Symphony No. 4, Op. 12/4, G. 506 La casa del diavolo (1771) Symphony No. 15, Op. 37/3, G. 517 (1787) Symphony No. 20 , Op. 45, G. 522 (1792)
Henry Brant Henry Brant Henry Dreyfuss Brant was a Canadian-born American composer. An expert orchestrator with a flair for experimentation, many of Brant's works featured spatialization techniques.- Biography :...	Symphony No. 2 (1942)
Havergal Brian Havergal Brian Havergal Brian , was a British classical composer.Brian acquired a legendary status at the time of his rediscovery in the 1950s and 1960s for the many symphonies he had managed to write. By the end of his life he had completed 32, an unusually large number for any composer since Haydn or Mozart...	Symphony No. 1 "Gothic" Symphony No. 1 (Havergal Brian) The Symphony No. 1 in D minor by Havergal Brian was composed between 1919 and 1927, and partly owes its notoriety to being perhaps the largest symphony ever composed... (1927)
George Frederick Bristow George Frederick Bristow George Frederick Bristow was an American composer. He advocated American classical music, rather than favoring European pieces. He was famously involved in a related controversy involving William Henry Fry and the New York Philharmonic Society.-Musical career:Bristow was born into a musical...	Symphony No. 2, Op. 24 "Jullien" (apparently written by 1854, premiered in 1856)
Anton Bruckner Anton Bruckner Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, complex polyphony, and considerable length...	Symphony No. 0 "Die Nullte" Symphony No. 0 (Bruckner) This Symphony in D minor composed by Anton Bruckner was not assigned a number by its composer, and has subsequently become known by the German designation Die Nullte .-Composition:... (1860s) Symphony No. 3 Symphony No. 3 (Bruckner) Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 3 in D minor was dedicated to Richard Wagner and is sometimes known as his "Wagner Symphony". It was written in 1873, revised in 1877 and again in 1891.... (1873) Symphony No. 9 Symphony No. 9 (Bruckner) Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 9 in D minor is the last Symphony upon which he worked, leaving the last movement incomplete at the time of his death in 1896. The symphony was premiered under Ferdinand Löwe in Vienna in 1903, after Bruckner's death... (1896, inc.)
Oscar Byström Oscar Byström (composer) Oscar Fredrik Bernadotte Byström was a Swedish composer and scholar.Born in Stockholm into the family of a military officer, he followed his father in a military career and rose to the rank of captain by 1857. However, already in the 1840s he gained recognition as both a pianist and song composer,...	Symphony (1870–72, rev. 1895)
Christian Cannabich Christian Cannabich Johann Christian Innocenz Bonaventura Cannabich , was a German violinist, composer, and Kapellmeister of the Classical era...	Symphony No. 50 (1772?)
Albert Dietrich Albert Dietrich Albert Hermann Dietrich , was a German composer and conductor, remembered less for his own achievements than for his friendship with Johannes Brahms.Dietrich was born at Golk, near Meissen...	Symphony, Op. 20 (completed February 1870 at latest, dedicated to Johannes Brahms)
Ernő Dohnányi Erno Dohnányi Ernő Dohnányi was a Hungarian conductor, composer, and pianist. He used the German form of his name Ernst von Dohnányi for most of his published compositions....	Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 (1901)
Antonín Dvořák Antonín Dvorák Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...	Symphony No. 4, Op. 13, B. 41 Symphony No. 4 (Dvorák) The Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 13, B. 41 is classical composition by Czech composer Antonín Dvořák.-The work:Dvořák composed his fourth symphony between January and March of 1874. The influence of Wagner can clearly be heard in this symphony. The principal theme of the second movement is a... (1874) Symphony No. 7, Op. 70, B. 141 Symphony No. 7 (Dvorák) Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70, B. 141, by Antonín Dvořák was first performed in London on April 22, 1885 shortly after the piece was completed on March 17, 1885.-Compositional structure:Allegro maestosoPoco adagio... (1885)
John Lodge Ellerton John Lodge Ellerton John Lodge Ellerton was an English composer of classical music.Ellerton was born in Cheshire with the name of John Lodge. According to the Dictionary of National Biography of 1889, he attended Rugby School and graduated with an MA from Brasenose College Oxford University in 1828...	Symphony No. 3 "Wald-Symphonie", Op. 120 (about 1857)
Pietro Floridia Pietro Floridia Pietro Floridia was an Italian composer of classical music.According to David Johnson , Floridia was born in Modica, Sicily, and studied in Naples, where he created his first opera, Carlotta Clepier...	Symphony (1888)
Josef Bohuslav Foerster Josef Bohuslav Foerster Josef Bohuslav Foerster was a Czech composer of classical music. He is often referred to as J. B. Foerster. The surname is sometimes spelled Förster.- Life :...	Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 (1887) Symphony No. 5, Op. 141 (1929)
César Franck César Franck César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....	Symphony in D minor Symphony in D minor (Franck) The Symphony in D minor is the most famous orchestral work and the only symphony written by the 19th-century Belgian composer César Franck. After two years of work, the symphony was completed 22 August 1888. It was premiered at the Paris Conservatory on 17 February 1889 under the direction of ...
Niels Gade	Symphony No. 5, Op. 25 (1852)
John Gardner John Gardner (composer) John Linton Gardner, CBE is an English composer of classical music.-Biography:Gardner was born in Manchester, England and brought up in Ilfracombe, North Devon. His father Alfred Linton Gardner was a local GP and amateur composer who was killed in action in the last months of the First World War....	Symphony No. 1, Op. 12 (1946-7)
Louis Théodore Gouvy Louis Théodore Gouvy Louis Théodore Gouvy was a French composer.- Biography :Gouvy was born into a French speaking family in the Alsatian village of Goffontaine, in the Sarre, a region on the France-Prussia border...	Symphony No. 4, Op. 25.
Paul Graener Paul Graener Paul Graener was a German composer and conductor.-Biography:Graener was born in Berlin and orphaned as a young child. A boy soprano, he taught himself composition and in 1896 moved to London, where he gave private lessons and served briefly as conductor at the Haymarket Theatre...	Symphony, Op. 39 (published 1912)
Henry Kimball Hadley Henry Kimball Hadley Henry Kimball Hadley was an American composer and conductor.-Life:Hadley was born into a musical family in Somerville, Massachusetts...	Symphony No. 4, Op. 64 (1911)
Johan Halvorsen Johan Halvorsen Johan Halvorsen was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist.-Biography:Born in Drammen, Norway he was an accomplished violinist from a very early age and became a prominent figure in Norwegian musical life...	Symphony No. 2 "Fate" (rev. 1928)
Joseph Haydn Joseph Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...	Symphony No. 26 "Lamentatione" Symphony No. 26 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 26 in D minor, Hoboken 1/26, is one of the early Sturm und Drang Symphonies written by Joseph Haydn. It is popularly known as the Lamentatione.- Background :... (1766) Symphony No. 34 Symphony No. 34 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 34 in D minor was written by Joseph Haydn. It was written in 1765 shortly before Haydn's Sturm und Drang period.- Scoring :... (1767) Symphony No. 80 Symphony No. 80 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 80 in D minor, Hoboken 1/80, is a symphony composed by Joseph Haydn in 1784 as part of a trio of symphonies that also included symphonies 79 and 81... (1783-4)
Michael Haydn Michael Haydn Johann Michael Haydn was an Austrian composer of the classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.-Life:...	Symphony No. 29 Symphony No. 29 (Michael Haydn) Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 29 in D minor, Opus 1 No. 3, Perger 20, Sherman 29, MH 393, written in Salzburg in 1784, is the only symphony he wrote in a minor key. It is the first of four D minor symphonies attributed to Joseph Haydn.- Movements :... , MH 393, Perger 20 (1784)
Hans Huber Hans Huber (composer) Hans Huber was a composer from Switzerland.He was born in Eppenberg-Wöschnau . The son of an amateur musician, Huber became a chorister and showed an early talent for the piano. In 1870 he entered Leipzig Conservatory...	Symphony No. 1 "Tell-Symphonie" Op. 63 (1882) Symphony No. 7 "Swiss" (published 1922)
Jānis Ivanovs Janis Ivanovs Jānis Ivanovs was a Soviet Latvian classical music composer.In 1931, he graduated from the Latvian State Conservatory in Riga. In 1944, he joined the conservatory's faculty, becoming a full professor in 1955. He is regarded as being the most distinguished Latvian symphonist...	Symphony No. 2 (1935)
Charles Ives Charles Ives Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original"...	Symphony No. 1 Symphony No. 1 (Ives) Charles Ives's Symphony No. 1 in D minor, written between 1898 and 1902, is a good example of how Ives learned from composers before him. Many of his later symphonies relied on Protestant hymns as the main theme... (1898)
Jan Kalivoda Jan Kalivoda Jan Křtitel Václav Kalivoda , was a composer, conductor and violinist of Bohemian birth.-Life:...	Symphony No. 3, Op. 32 (premiered 1830)
Manolis Kalomiris Manolis Kalomiris Manolis Kalomiris ), was a Greek classical composer. He was the founder of the Greek National School of Music.-Biography:Born in Smyrna, he attended school in Constantinople and studied piano and composition in Vienna. After working for a few years as a piano teacher in Kharkov he settled in...	Symphony No. 3 (1955)
Hugo Kaun Hugo Kaun Hugo Wilhelm Ludwig Kaun was a German composer, conductor, and music teacher.Kaun was born in Berlin, and completed his musical training in his native city. In 1886 , he left Germany for the United States and settled in Milwaukee, which was home to a well-established German immigrant community...	Symphony No. 1, Op. 22 (1895), An mein Vaterland. Dem Andenken meines Vaters
Joseph Martin Kraus Joseph Martin Kraus Joseph Martin Kraus , was a composer in the classical era who was born in Miltenberg am Main, Germany. He moved to Sweden at age 21, and died at the age of 36 in Stockholm...	Sinfonia Da Chiesa, VB 147
Franz Lachner Franz Lachner Franz Paul Lachner was a German composer and conductor.Lachner was born in Rain am Lech to a musical family . He studied music with Simon Sechter and Maximilian, the Abbé Stadler. He conducted at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna. In 1834, he became Kapellmeister at Mannheim...	Symphony No. 3, Op. 41 (published 1834) Symphony No. 7, Op. 58 (published 1839)
Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe	Symphony
Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...	Symphony No. 3 Symphony No. 3 (Mahler) The Symphony No. 3 by Gustav Mahler was written between 1893 and 1896. It is his longest piece and is the longest symphony in the standard repertoire, with a typical performance lasting around ninety to one hundred minutes.- Structure :... (1896)
Nina Makarova Nina Makarova Nina Vladimirovna Makarova was the wife of composer Aram Khachaturian and a composer in her own right who had great interest in Russian and Mari folksongs. She co-composed several pieces with her husband, including the Music to M. Aliger's Play "A Tale of Truth" and Music to Yu. Chepurin's Play...	Symphony (1938, revised 1962)
Otto Malling Otto Malling Otto Valdemar Malling was a Danish composer, from 1900 the cathedral organist in Copenhagen and from 1889 professor, then from 1899 Director of the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen....	Symphony, Op. 17 (by 1884)
Giuseppe Martucci Giuseppe Martucci Giuseppe Martucci was an Italian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. As a composer and teacher he was influential in reviving Italian interest in non-operatic music. As a conductor he helped to introduce Richard Wagner's operas to Italy and also gave important early concerts of English music...	Symphony No. 1, Op. 75 (1888–95)
Felix Mendelssohn Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...	Symphony No. 5, Op. 107 Symphony No. 5 (Mendelssohn) The Symphony No. 5 in D major/D minor, Op. 107, called the Reformation Symphony, was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1830 in honor of the 300th anniversary of the Presentation of the Augsburg Confession. This Confession was a key document of Lutheranism and its Presentation to Emperor Charles V in... Reformation (1832)
Frank Merrick Frank Merrick Frank Merrick was an English pianist in the early 1900s. He was born in Clifton, now part of Bristol.Merrick's peers included Artur Schnabel and Mark Hambourg, and he studied with Theodor Leschetizky. From 1911 to 1929, he taught at the Royal Manchester College of Music and from 1929 at the Royal...	Symphony in D minor (1912)
Ödön Mihalovich Ödön Mihalovich Ödön Péter József de Mihalovich was a Hungarian composer and music educator....	Symphony (published about 1883.)
Nikolai Myaskovsky Nikolai Myaskovsky Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of the Soviet symphony".-Early years and first important works:...	Symphony No. 15, Op. 38 (1933-4)
Ludvig Norman Ludvig Norman Ludvig Norman was a Swedish composer, conductor, pianist, and music teacher. Together with Franz Berwald and Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, he ranks among the most important Swedish symphonists of the 19th century....	Symphony No. 3, Op. 58 (published 1885)
George Onslow	Symphony No. 2, Op. 42
Fredrik Pacius Fredrik Pacius Fredrik Pacius was a German composer and conductor who lived most of his life in Finland. He has been called the "Father of Finnish music"....	Symphony (1850)
Gottfried von Preyer Gottfried von Preyer Gottfried von Preyer was an Austrian composer, conductor and teacher.Preyer studied with Simon Sechter from 1828 to 1834. He became professor of harmony and composition at the Vienna Conservatory in 1839, and from 1844 to 1849 he was director of the conservatory. He was also Vizehofkapellmeister...	Symphony No. 1, Op. 16.
Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...	Symphony No. 2, Op. 40 Symphony No. 2 (Prokofiev) Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 2 in D minor in Paris in 1924-5, during what he called "nine months of frenzied toil". He characterized this symphony as a work of "iron and steel".- Structure :... (1925)
Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...	Symphony No. 1, Op. 13 Symphony No. 1 (Rachmaninoff) Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 13, is a music piece by Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, written at Ivanovka, an estate near Tambov, Russia, between January and October 1895... (1896)
Joachim Raff Joachim Raff Joseph Joachim Raff was a German-Swiss composer, teacher and pianist.-Biography:Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. His father, a teacher, had fled there from Württemberg in 1810 to escape forced recruitment into the military of that southwestern German state that had to fight for Napoleon in...	Symphony No. 6, Op. 189 (1873)
Ture Rangström Ture Rangström Anders Johan Ture Rangström belonged to a new generation of Swedish composers who in the first decade of the 20th century introduced modernism to their compositions. In addition to composing Rangström was also a musical critic and conductor.Rangström was born in Stockholm, where initially he...	Symphony No. 2 "Mitt land" (1919) Symphony No. 4 "Invocation" for Organ and Orchestra (1936)
Napoléon Henri Reber Napoléon Henri Reber Napoléon Henri Reber was a French composer.He studied with Anton Reicha and Jean François Lesueur, wrote chamber music, and set to music the new poems of the best French poets...	Symphony No. 1
Emil von Reznicek Emil von Reznicek Emil Nikolaus Freiherr von Reznicek was an Austrian late Romantic composer of Czech ancestry.-Life:...	Symphony No. 1 Tragic (1901)
Josef Rheinberger Josef Rheinberger Josef Gabriel Rheinberger was a German organist and composer, born in Liechtenstein.-Short biography:...	Symphony No. 1 "Wallenstein", Op. 10 (premiered 1866)
Ferdinand Ries Ferdinand Ries Ferdinand Ries was a German composer.- Life :Born into a musical family of Bonn, Ries was a friend and pupil of Beethoven who published in 1838 a collection of reminiscences of his teacher, co-written with Franz Wegeler...	Symphony No. 5 Symphony No. 5 (Ries) Ferdinand Ries wrote Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Opus 112, in London in 1813. It was the second symphony Ries wrote. It was first performed at a Philharmonic Society concert on Valentine's Day 1814... , Op. 112 (1813)
Henri-Joseph Rigel Henri-Joseph Rigel Henri-Joseph Rigel was a German-born composer of the Classical era who spent most of his working life in France. He was born in Wertheim am Main where his father was musical intendant to the local prince. After an education in Germany, where his teachers included Jommelli, Rigel moved to Paris in...	Symphony No. 10, Op. 21, No. 2
Albert Roussel Albert Roussel Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period...	Symphony No. 1 "Le Poème de la forêt", Op. 7 (1904-6)
Anton Rubinstein Anton Rubinstein Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian-Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos...	Symphony No. 4 "Dramatic", Op. 95 (1874)
Vadim Salmanov Vadim Salmanov The composer Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov is perhaps best known for his Symphony No...	Symphony No. 1 (1952)
Adolphe Samuel Adolphe Samuel Adolphe-Abraham Samuel was a Belgian music critic, conductor and composer. Samuel was Jewish, and late in life converted to Christianity. He spent much time in Brussels where he was a pupil of François-Joseph Fétis, and where he was a friend of Hector Berlioz...	Symphony No. 4, Op. 33 (1863) Symphony No. 6, Op. 44 (1891)
Philipp Scharwenka Philipp Scharwenka Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka was a German composer and teacher of music. He was the older brother of Xaver Scharwenka.- Early training :...	Symphony, Op. 96 (published 1895)
Martin Scherber Martin Scherber Martin Scherber was a German composer and the creator of metamorphosis symphonies.- Childhood and Youth :Martin Scherber was born as the third child of Marie and Bernhard Scherber in Nuremberg, where his father was First Bassist in the orchestra of the State Opera House. Martin was a quiet child,...	Symphony No. 1 (1938)
Robert Schumann Robert Schumann Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....	Symphony No. 4, Op. 120 Symphony No. 4 (Schumann) The Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120, composed by Robert Schumann, was completed in 1841 . Schumann heavily revised the symphony in 1851, and it was this version that reached publication.... (1841)
Johanna Senfter Johanna Senfter Johanna Senfter was a German composer.Johanna Senfter was born and died in Oppenheim. From 1885 she studied composition under Knorr, violin under Rebner, piano under Friedberg and organ at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main. This gave her a considerable amount of musical training when in...	Symphony No. 2, Op. 27
Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....	Symphony No. 5, Op. 47 Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich) 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... (1937) Symphony No. 12, Op. 112 "The Year 1917" Symphony No. 12 (Shostakovich) Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112, subtitled The Year of 1917, in 1961, dedicating it to the memory of Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution. The symphony was premiered that October by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Yevgeny... (1961)
Jean Sibelius Jean Sibelius Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. His mastery of the orchestra has been described as "prodigious."...	Symphony No. 6, Op. 104 Symphony No. 6 (Sibelius) Jean Sibelius's Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104, was completed in 1923. Although the symphony is usually described as being "in D minor" the score does not contain a key attribution. Much of the symphony is in fact in the Dorian mode.... (1923)
Christian Sinding Christian Sinding Christian August Sinding was a Norwegian composer.-Personal life:He was born in Kongsberg as a son of mine superindendent Matthias Wilhelm Sinding and Cecilie Marie Mejdell . He was a brother of the painter Otto Sinding and the sculptor Stephan Sinding...	Symphony No. 1, Op. 21 (1880–90)
Arthur Somervell Arthur Somervell Sir Arthur Somervell was an English composer, and after Hubert Parry one of the most successful and influential writers of art song in the English music renaissance of the 1890s-1900s....	Symphony Thalassa
Louis Spohr Louis Spohr Louis Spohr was a German composer, violinist and conductor. Born Ludewig Spohr, he is usually known by the French form of his name. Described by Dorothy Mayer as "The Forgotten Master", Spohr was once as famous as Beethoven. As a violinist, his virtuoso playing was admired by Queen Victoria...	Symphony No. 2, Op. 49 (1820)
Charles Villiers Stanford Charles Villiers Stanford Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer who was particularly notable for his choral music. He was professor at the Royal College of Music and University of Cambridge.- Life :...	Symphony No. 2 "Elegiac"(1880) Symphony No. 7, Op. 124 (1911)
Richard Strauss Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...	Symphony No. 1, AV 69 (1880)
Hermann Suter Hermann Suter Hermann Suter , was a Swiss composer and conductor.Born in Kaiserstuhl, Aargau, Suter studied in the conservatories at Basel, Stuttgart and Leipzig, under Hans Huber and Carl Reinecke. He was an organist and conductor in Zurich from 1892 to 1902, after which he moved to Basel, where he lived to his...	Symphony, Op. 17 (1914)
Sergei Taneyev Sergei Taneyev Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev , was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author.-Life:...	Symphony No. 3 (1884)
Eduard Tubin Eduard Tubin -Life:Tubin was born in Torila, Governorate of Livonia, Estonia. Both his parents were music lovers, and his father played trumpet and trombone in the village band. His first taste of music came at school where he learned flute and balalaika. Later, his father swapped a cow for a piano, and the...	Symphony No. 3 "Heroic" (1940-2, revised 1968)
Johann Baptist Vanhal Johann Baptist Vanhal Johann Baptist Vanhal also spelled Wanhal, Waṅhall or Wanhall was an important classical music composer born in Nechanice, Bohemia to a Czech family.- Biography :...	Symphony, Bryan d1 (by 1773). Symphony, Bryan d2 (with five horn parts)
Ralph Vaughan Williams Ralph Vaughan Williams Ralph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song: this activity both influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, beginning in 1904, in which he included many...	Symphony No. 8 Symphony No. 8 (Vaughan Williams) Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 8 in D minor was composed between 1953 and 1955. It was the first of his symphonies which Vaugham Williams allowed to be given a number. Sir John Barbirolli conducted the premiere of the piece on May 2, 1956, with the Halle Orchestra. Eugene Ormandy gave the... (1955)
Robert Volkmann Robert Volkmann Friedrich Robert Volkmann was a German composer.-Life:He was born in Lommatzsch, Saxony, Germany. His father was a music director for a church, so he trained his son in music to prepare him as a successor...	Symphony No. 1, Op. 44 (1863)
Karl Weigl Karl Weigl Karl Ignaz Weigl was an Austrian composer. He was born in Vienna, being the son of a bank official who was also a keen amateur musician. Alexander Zemlinsky took him as a private pupil in 1896. Weigl went to school at the Franz-Joseph-Gymnasium and graduated from there in 1899...	Symphony No. 2 (1922)
Johann Wilhelm Wilms Johann Wilhelm Wilms Johann Wilhelm Wilms was a Dutch-German composer, best known for writing Wien Neêrlands Bloed, which served as the Dutch national anthem from 1815 to 1932....	Symphony No. 6, Op. 58
Richard Wüerst Richard Wüerst Richard Wüerst was a German composer, music professor and pedagogue.Wüerst was a pupil of Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen's at the Royal Academy and a pupil of Felix Mendelssohn's in Berlin...	Symphony, Op. 54 (published in 1869)
Alexander von Zemlinsky Alexander von Zemlinsky Alexander Zemlinsky or Alexander von Zemlinsky was an Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher.-Early life:...	Symphony No. 1 (1892)

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