List of symphonies in E minor - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of symphonies in E minor
E minor
E minor is a minor scale based on the note E. The E natural minor scale consists of the pitches E, F, G, A, B, C, and D. The E harmonic minor scale contains the natural 7, D, rather than the flatted 7, D – to align with the major dominant chord, B7 .Its key signature has one sharp, F .Its...

written by notable composers.

Composer	Symphony
Alexander Alyabyev Alexander Alyabyev Alexander Aleksandrovich Alyabyev, also rendered as Alabiev or Alabieff was a Russian composer. He wrote seven operas, twenty musical comedies, more than 200 songs, and many other pieces. His most famous work is The Nightingale, a song based on a poem by Anton Delvig. It was composed while...	Symphony (1830)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach right\|250pxCarl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach...	Symphony, Wotquenne 177, Helm 653 (exists in other versions) (Berlin 1756)
Amy Beach Amy Beach Amy Marcy Cheney Beach was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Most of her compositions and performances were under the name Mrs. H.H.A. Beach.-Early years:Beach was born Amy Marcy Cheney in Henniker, New Hampshire into...	Symphony, Op. 32 "Gaelic" (1894-6)
Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...	Symphony No. 4, Op. 98 Symphony No. 4 (Brahms) The Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 by Johannes Brahms is the last of his symphonies. Brahms began working on the piece in 1884, just a year after completing his Symphony No... (1885)
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. 2 (1930-1) Symphony No. 19 (1961)
Ignaz Brüll Ignaz Brüll Ignaz Brüll was an Austrian pianist and composer.Ignaz Brüll was born the eldest son of a prosperous Jewish merchant family in the Moravian provincial town of Prostějov . In 1850 he moved with his parents to Vienna, which became the centre of his life and work...	Symphony, Op. 31, 1880
Frederic Cliffe Frederic Cliffe Frederic Cliffe was an English composer.-Life:As a youth, Cliffe showed a promising musical aptitude and was enrolled as a scholar of the National Training School for Music, the parent of the Royal College of Music, under its first Principal Arthur Sullivan.From 1884 to 1931 he held the post of...	Symphony No. 2, 1892
Felix Draeseke Felix Draeseke Felix August Bernhard Draeseke was a composer of the "New German School" admiring Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and much vocal and chamber music.-Life:Felix Draeseke was born in the Franconian ducal town of...	Symphony No. 4, WoO 38 "Symphonia Comica" (1912)
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. 9, Op. 95, B. 178 Symphony No. 9 (Dvorák) The Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 , popularly known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1893 during his visit to the United States from 1892 to 1895. It is by far his most popular symphony, and one of the most popular in the modern repertoire... (1893)
Zdeněk Fibich Zdenek Fibich Zdeněk Fibich was a Czech composer of classical music. Among his compositions are chamber works , symphonic poems, three symphonies, at least seven operas , melodramas including the substantial trilogy Hippodamia,...	Symphony No. 3, Op. 53 (1898)
Grzegorz Fitelberg Grzegorz Fitelberg Grzegorz Fitelberg was a Polish conductor, violinist and composer. He was a member of the Młoda Polska group, together with artists such as Karol Szymanowski, Ludomir Różycki and Mieczysław Karłowicz....	Symphony No. 1, Op. 16 (1904)
Alberto Franchetti Alberto Franchetti Alberto Franchetti was an Italian opera composer.-Biography:Alberto Franchetti was born in Turin, a Jewish nobleman of independent means. He studied first in Venice, then in Dresden under Felix Draeseke, and finally at the Munich Conservatory under Josef Rheinberger. His first major success...	Symphony (1884)
Wilhelm Furtwängler Wilhelm Furtwängler Wilhelm Furtwängler was a German conductor and composer. He is widely considered to have been one of the greatest symphonic and operatic conductors of the 20th century. By the 1930s he had built a reputation as one of the leading conductors in Europe, and he was the leading conductor who remained...	Symphony No. 2 Symphony No. 2 (Furtwängler) Symphony No. 2 in E minor was written by Wilhelm Furtwängler between 1945 and 1946. After quitting his conducting posts in Germany and Austria in protest of Nazi cultural policy, Furtwängler moved to Switzerland, where he wrote this symphony... (1945-6)
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. 3, Op. 189 (1989)
Louis Glass Louis Glass Louis Glass was a Danish composer.Glass, born in Copenhagen, was almost an exact contemporary of Carl Nielsen and like Nielsen was a student of Niels Gade. However, Glass also studied at the Brussels Conservatory where he became enamored of the music of César Franck and Anton Bruckner, both of...	Symphony No. 4, Op. 43
Howard Hanson Howard Hanson Howard Harold Hanson was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and champion of American classical music. As director for 40 years of the Eastman School of Music, he built a high-quality school and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American music...	Symphony No. 1 "Nordic" (1922)
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. 44 "Trauer" Symphony No. 44 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 44 in E minor, Hoboken 1/44, was completed in 1772 by Joseph Haydn. It is popularly known as Trauer... (1770)
Alfred Hill Alfred Hill Alfred Francis Hill CMG OBE was an Australian/New Zealand composer, conductor and teacher.-Biography:Alfred Hill was born in Melbourne in 1869. His year of birth is shown in many sources as 1870, but this has now been disproven. He spent most of his early life in New Zealand...	Symphony No. 7 (1956 arrangement of Quartet No. 10, 1935)
Ferdinand Hiller Ferdinand Hiller Ferdinand Hiller was a German composer, conductor, writer and music-director.-Biography:Ferdinand Hiller was born to a wealthy Jewish family in Frankfurt am Main, where his father Justus was a merchant in English textiles – a business eventually continued by Ferdinand’s brother Joseph...	Symphony, "Es muss doch Fruhling werden" Op. 67
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. 2 "Bocklinsymphonie", Op. 115 (1897-8)
Joseph Huber Joseph Huber Joseph Huber is the chair of economic and environmental sociology at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.He has written influential papers on monetary policy, for instance "Seigniorage Reform and Plain Money"...	Symphony No. 3 "Durch Dunkel zum Licht", Op. 10
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov was a Russian composer, conductor and teacher.- Biography :...	Symphony No. 1, Op. 46 (1908)
Mieczysław Karłowicz	Symphony, Op. 7 "Revival" (1902)
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. 3, Op. 96 (1913)
Aram Khachaturian Aram Khachaturian Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a prominent Soviet composer. Khachaturian's works were often influenced by classical Russian music and Armenian folk music...	Symphony No. 1 (1934) Symphony No. 2 "The Bell" (or "Symphony with Bells") (1943)
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...	Symphony, VB 141 (possibly about 1782-3)
George Alexander Macfarren George Alexander Macfarren Sir George Alexander Macfarren was an English composer.-Life:George Alexander Macfarren was born in London on 2 March 1813 to George Macfarren, a dancing-master, dramatic author, and journalist, and Elizabeth Macfarren, née Jackson. At the age of seven, Macfarren was sent to Dr...	Symphony (by 1874)
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. 7 Symphony No. 7 (Mahler) Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony was written in 1904-05, with repeated revisions to the scoring. It is sometimes referred to by the title Song of the Night , though this title was not Mahler's own and he disapproved of it. Although the symphony is often described as being in the key of 'E minor,'... (1906)
Emánuel Moór Emánuel Moór Emánuel Moór was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and inventor of musical instruments....	Symphony, Op. 65
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. 4, Op. 17 (1917-8) Symphony No. 9, Op. 28 Symphony No. 9 (Myaskovsky) Nikolai Myaskovsky wrote his Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 28, between 1926 and 1927. It was dedicated to Nikolai Malko.The symphony is in four movements:#Andante sostenuto #Presto #Lento molto #Allegro con grazia... (1926-7)
Hubert Parry Hubert Parry Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet was an English composer, teacher and historian of music.Parry's first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer he is best known for the choral song "Jerusalem", the coronation anthem "I was glad" and the hymn tune "Repton", which sets the words...	Symphony No. 4 (begun around 1888-9, premiered 1889, revised 1910)
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. 2, Op. 27 Symphony No. 2 (Rachmaninoff) Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 is a music piece by Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, created in 1906–07. The premiere was conducted by the composer himself in St. Petersburg on 8 February 1908. Its duration is approximately 60 minutes when performed uncut; cut performances can be as... (1907)
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. 9, Op. 208 "Im Sommer" (1878)
František Xaver Richter	Sinfonia (ca. 1740, published 1744)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...	Symphony No. 1, Op. 1 Symphony No. 1 (Rimsky-Korsakov) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote 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... (revised version of 1884)
Joseph Ryelandt Joseph Ryelandt Joseph Ryelandt was a Belgian classical composer.-Life:Joseph Victor Marie Ryelandt was born in Bruges, into a wealthy bourgeois family, for whom culture, tradition, and the Roman Catholic religion mattered. So did music, which the family practiced a lot...	Symphony No. 3, Op. 47 (1908)
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. 3, Op. 28 (1858)
Joly Braga Santos Joly Braga Santos José Manuel Joly Braga Santos, ComSE was a Portuguese composer and conductor, who was born and died in Lisbon. He wrote six symphonies.-Biography:...	Symphony No. 4, Op. 16 (1949)
Roger Sessions Roger Sessions Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, critic, and teacher of music.-Life:Sessions was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution. His mother, Ruth Huntington Sessions, was a direct descendent of Samuel Huntington, a signer of...	Symphony No. 1 Symphony No. 1 (Sessions) The Symphony No. 1 of Roger Sessions is a symphony in three movements, in E minor.The three movements are as follows:#Giusto#Largo#Allegro vivace... (1927)
Yuri Shaporin	Symphony (1932-3)
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. 10, Op. 93 Symphony No. 10 (Shostakovich) The Symphony No. 10 in E minor by Dmitri Shostakovich was premiered by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky on 17 December 1953, following the death of Joseph Stalin in March that year... (1948)
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. 1, Op. 39 Symphony No. 1 (Sibelius) Jean Sibelius's Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39 was written in 1898, when Sibelius was 33. The work was first performed on 26 April 1899 by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by the composer, in an original version which has not survived. After the premiere, Sibelius made some... (1898)
Sergei Taneyev Sergei Taneyev Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev , was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author.-Life:...	Symphony No. 1 (1874)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...	Symphony No. 5, Op. 64 Symphony No. 5 (Tchaikovsky) The Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was composed between May and August 1888 and was first performed in St Petersburg at the Hall of Nobility on November 6 of that year with Tchaikovsky conducting. It is dedicated to Theodore Avé-Lallemant.-Structure:A typical... (1888)
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 e1" Symphony "Bryan e3" (possibly 1760-2)
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. 6 Symphony No. 6 (Vaughan Williams) Ralph Vaughan Williams's Symphony in E minor, published as Symphony No. 6, was composed in 1946–47, during and immediately after World War II. Dedicated to Michael Mullinar, it was first performed by Sir Adrian Boult and the BBC Symphony Orchestra on April 21, 1948. Within a year it had received... (1948), Symphony No. 9 Symphony No. 9 (Vaughan Williams) The Symphony No. 9 in E minor was the last symphony written by the British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. He composed it from 1956 to 1957 and it was given its premiere performance in London by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent on 2 April 1958, in the composer's... (1957)
Johannes Verhulst Johannes Verhulst Johannes Joseph Hermann Verhulst was a Dutch composer and conductor. As a composer mainly of songs and as administrator of Dutch musical life, his influence during his lifetime was considerable.-Life:As a boy, Verhulst sang in a catholic choir; here he distinguished himself by his gift for music...	Symphony, Op. 46
Christopher Ernst Friedrich Weyse Christopher Ernst Friedrich Weyse Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse was a Danish composer.Weyse was born at Altona, now in German territory, but Danish at the time the composer was born. He studied music with Johann Abraham Peter Schulz in Copenhagen...	Symphony No. 4, DF 120 (1795)

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