List of symphonies by name

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While most symphonies have a number, many symphonies are known by their (nick)name.

For lists of symphonies by numbering, see following articles: No. 0 - No. 1 - No. 2 - No. 3 - No. 4 - No. 5 - No. 6 - No. 7 - No. 8 - No. 9 - No. 10 - No. 11 (and List of symphonies by Joseph Haydn, Musical works of Mozart#The symphonies, List of compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich,... and other composers that wrote a higher number of symphonies)

The present article lists both symphonies that are numbered and have an additional nickname as well as symphonies that are known exclusively by their name or key.

Contents 1 Numbered symphonies with a nickname 2 Symphonies referred to by their key exclusively 3 Symphonies known by their name only 4 Works named symphony that are not technically symphonies 5 Classical Symphonies based on Ancient works 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] Numbered symphonies with a nickname

• Kurt Atterberg
  • Symphony No. 6 Dollar symphony
• Ludwig van Beethoven (see also List of works by Beethoven#Symphonies)
  • Symphony No. 3 Eroica ("Heroic")
  • Symphony No. 5 Schicksal ("Fate")
  • Symphony No. 6 Pastorale
  • Symphony No. 9 Choral
• Leonard Bernstein
  • Symphony No. 1 Jeremiah
  • Symphony No. 2 The Age of Anxiety
  • Symphony No. 3 Kaddish
• Franz Berwald
  • Symphony No. 1 Serieuse
  • Symphony No. 2 Capricieuse
  • Symphony No. 3 Singulière
  • Symphony No. 4 Naïve
• Johannes Brahms
  • Symphony No. 1 — "Beethoven's Tenth" (a nickname first used by Hans von Bülow)
• Havergal Brian
  • Symphony No. 1 The Gothic
  • Symphony No. 4 Das Siegeslied
  • Symphony No. 5 Wine of Summer
  • Symphony No. 6 Sinfonia Tragica
  • Symphony No. 22 Symphonia Brevis
• Anton Bruckner
  • Symphony No. 0 Nullte (written after No. 1 and before No. 2)
  • Symphony No. 00 00 ("Student" work written prior to No. 1)
  • Symphony No. 4 Romantische
• Aaron Copland
  • Symphony No. 2 Short (1934)
• Vincent d'Indy
  • Symphony No. 1 Italienne ("Italian" - never published)
  • Symphony No. 3 Sinfonia brevis de bello Gallico ("Brief sinfonia of the war in Gaul")
• Antonín Dvořák
  • Symphony No. 1 The Bells of Zlonice
  • Symphony No. 9 From the new world (older editions list this symphony as No. 5)
• Don Gillis
  • Symphony No. 5½, A Symphony for Fun
• Philip Glass
  • Symphony No. 1 Low
  • Symphony No. 4 Heroes
  • Symphony No. 5 Choral
  • Symphony No. 6 Plutonian Ode
  • Symphony No. 7 Toltec
• Alexander Glazunov
  • Symphony No. 1 Slavic
  • Symphony No. 7 Pastoral
• Henryk Górecki
  • Symphony No. 2 Copernican
  • Symphony No. 3 Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
• Howard Hanson
  • Symphony No. 1 Nordic
  • Symphony No. 2 Romantic
  • Symphony No. 4 Requiem
  • Symphony No. 5 Sinfonia sacra
  • Symphony No. 7 Sea
• Joseph Haydn (see also List of symphonies by Joseph Haydn):
  • Symphony No. 6 Le Matin
  • Symphony No. 7 Le Midi
  • Symphony No. 8 Le Soir
  • Symphony No. 22 Philosopher
  • Symphony No. 26 Lamentatione
  • Symphony No. 30 Alleluia
  • Symphony No. 31 Hornsignal
  • Symphony No. 38 Echo
  • Symphony No. 43 Mercury
  • Symphony No. 44 Trauer
  • Symphony No. 45 Farewell
  • Symphony No. 47 The Palindrome
  • Symphony No. 48 Maria Theresa
  • Symphony No. 49 La Passione
  • Symphony No. 53 L'impériale
  • Symphony No. 55 The Schoolmaster
  • Symphony No. 59 Feuer
  • Symphony No. 60 Il distratto
  • Symphony No. 63 La Roxelane
  • Symphony No. 64 Tempora Mutantur
  • Symphony No. 69 Laudon
  • Symphony No. 73 La Chasse
  • Symphony No. 82 The Bear
  • Symphony No. 83 The Hen
  • Symphony No. 84 In Nomine Domini
  • Symphony No. 85 La Reine ("The queen")
  • Symphony No. 92 Oxford
  • Symphony No. 94 The Surprise
  • Symphony No. 96 The Miracle
  • Symphony No. 100 Military
  • Symphony No. 101 The Clock
  • Symphony No. 103 Drumroll
  • Symphony No. 104 London
  • A (No. 107 according to the numbering by Hoboken)
  • B (No. 108 according to the numbering by Hoboken)
• Arthur Honegger
  • Symphony No. 3 Liturgique
  • Symphony No. 4 Deliciae basiliensis
  • Symphony No. 5 Di tre re
• Alan Hovhaness
  • Symphony No. 1 Exile
  • Symphony No. 2 Mysterious Mountain
  • Symphony No. 6 Celestial Gate
  • Symphony No. 7 Nanga Parvat
  • Symphony No. 8 Arjuna
  • Symphony No. 9 Saint Vartan
  • Symphony No. 10 Vahaken
  • Symphony No. 11 All Men are Brothers
  • Symphony No. 12 Choral
  • Symphony No. 13 Ardent Song
  • Symphony No. 14 Ararat
  • Symphony No. 15 Silver Pilgrimage
  • Symphony No. 16 Kayagum
  • Symphony No. 17 Symphony for Metal Orchestra
  • Symphony No. 18 Circe
  • Symphony No. 19 Vishnu
  • Symphony No. 20 Three Journeys to a Holy Mountain
  • Symphony No. 21 Symphony Etchmiadzin
  • Symphony No. 22 City of Light
  • Symphony No. 23 Ani
  • Symphony No. 24 Majnun
  • Symphony No. 25 Odysseus
  • Symphony No. 32 The Broken Wings
  • Symphony No. 46 To the Green Mountains
  • Symphony No. 47 Walla Walla, Land of Many Waters
  • Symphony No. 48 Vision of Andromeda
  • Symphony No. 49 Christmas Symphony
  • Symphony No. 50 Mount St. Helens
  • Symphony No. 52 Journey to Vega
  • Symphony No. 53 Star Dawn
  • Symphony No. 57 Cold Mountain
  • Symphony No. 58 Symphony Sacra
  • Symphony No. 60 To the Appalachian Mountains
  • Symphony No. 62 Oh Let Man Not Forget These Words Divine
  • Symphony No. 63 Loon Lake
  • Symphony No. 64 Agiochook
  • Symphony No. 65 Artstakh
  • Symphony No. 66 Hymn to Glacier Peak
  • Symphony No. 67 Hymn to the Mountains
• Charles Ives
  • Symphony No. 3 The Camp Meeting
• Mieczyslaw Karlowicz
  • Symphony in e minor Op.7 Rebirth
• Gustav Mahler
  • Symphony No. 1 Der Titan ("The Titan")
  • Symphony No. 2 Auferstehung ("Resurrection")
  • Symphony No. 6 Tragic
  • Symphony No. 8 Sinfonie der Tausend ("Symphony of a Thousand")
• Bohuslav Martinů
  • Fantaisies Symphoniques - the composer's 6th symphony
• Felix Mendelssohn
  • Symphony No. 2 Lobgesang ("Hymn of Praise")
  • Symphony No. 3 Scottish
  • Symphony No. 4 Italian
  • Symphony No. 5 Reformation
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (see also List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart#Symphonies):
  • Symphony No. 25 Little G minor
  • Symphony No. 31 Paris
  • Symphony No. 32 Overture in the Italian style
  • Symphony No. 35 Haffner
  • Symphony No. 36 Linz
  • Symphony No. 38 Prague
  • Symphony No. 40 Great G minor, or simply The Fortieth as the number started to work as a nickname, making the mentioning of it being actually a symphony redundant.
  • Symphony No. 41 Jupiter
• Carl Nielsen
  • Symphony No. 2 The Four Temperaments
  • Symphony No. 3 Sinfonia Espansiva
  • Symphony No. 4 The Inextinguishable
  • Symphony No. 6 Sinfonia Semplice
• Hubert Parry
  • Symphony No. 2 Cambridge
  • Symphony No. 3 The English
  • Symphony No. 5 Symphonic fantasia
• Arvo Pärt
  • Symphony No. 1 Polyphonic
• Krzysztof Penderecki
  • Symphony No. 2 Christmas
  • Symphony No. 4 Adagio
  • Symphony No. 5 Korean
  • Symphony No. 7 The Seven Gates of Jerusalem
  • Symphony No. 8 Lieder der Vergänglichkeit
• Sergei Prokofiev
  • Symphony No. 1 Classical
  • Symphony No. 2 Iron and Steel
• Einojuhani Rautavaara
  • Symphony No. 4 Arabescata
  • Symphony No. 6 Vincentiana (based on themes of his opera Vincent)
  • Symphony No. 7 Angel of Light
  • Symphony No. 8 The Journey
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Symphony No. 2 Antar
• Anton Rubinstein
  • Symphony No. 2 Ocean
  • Symphony No. 4 Dramatic
• Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Symphony No. 3 Symphony "With Organ"
• Franz Schubert (See also List of compositions by Schubert#Symphonies):
  • Symphony No. 4 The Tragic
  • Symphony No. 8 Unfinished Symphony (occasionally listed as No. 7)
  • Symphony No. 9 The Great (usually appears as No.9 in modern editions [this numbering was based on the supposition that the Gmunden-Gastein symphony had been lost; it has now been established that the Great C-major is, in fact, it], older references may list the work as No.7 or rarely as No.8 [Neue Schubert-Ausgabe])
  • Symphony No. 10 The Last (reconstruction based on sketches)
• Robert Schumann
  • Symphony No. 1 Frühlingssinfonie ("Spring")
  • Symphony No. 3 Rheinische ("Rhenish")
• Alexander Scriabin
  • Symphony No. 3 The Divine Poem
• Dmitri Shostakovich
  • Symphony No. 2 To October
  • Symphony No. 3 The First of May
  • Symphony No. 7 Leningrad
  • Symphony No. 11 The Year 1905
  • Symphony No. 12 The Year 1917, To the Memory of Lenin
  • Symphony No. 13 Babi Yar
• Charles Villiers Stanford
  • Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major Symphony No. 1 (Stanford)
  • Symphony No. 2 in d minor Elegiac
  • Symphony No. 3 in f minor Irish
  • Symphony No. 4 in F major Symphony No. 4 (Stanford)
  • Symphony No. 5 in D major L'Allegro ed il Penseroso
  • Symphony No. 6 in E flat major In Memoriam G F Watts
  • Symphony No. 7 in D minor Symphony No.7 (Stanford)
• William Grant Still
  • Symphony No. 1 Afro-American
• Peter Tchaikovsky
  • Symphony No. 1 Winter Dreams
  • Symphony No. 2 Little Russian
  • Symphony No. 3 Polish
  • Symphony No. 6 Pathétique
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Symphony No. 1 A Sea Symphony
  • Symphony No. 2 A London Symphony
  • Symphony No. 3 Pastoral Symphony
    • Vaughan Williams' first three symphonies were not known by number until after the fourth was written
  • Symphony No. 7 Sinfonia Antartica
• Heitor Villa-Lobos
  • Symphony No. 1 O Imprevisto ("The Unforseen")
  • Symphony No. 2 Ascenção ("The Ascension")
  • Symphony No. 3 A Guerra ("The War")
  • Symphony No. 4 A Vitória ("The Victory")
  • Symphony No. 5 A Paz ("The Peace") - LOST
  • Symphony No. 6 Montanhas do Brasil ("The Mountains of Brasil")
  • Symphony No. 10 Sumé Pater Patrium, Amerindia
• Charles-Marie Widor
  • Symphony for Organ No. 9 Gothique ("Gothic" - for Organ)
  • Symphony for Organ No. 10 Romane ("Roman" - for Organ)

[edit] Symphonies referred to by their key exclusively

• Georges Bizet
  • Symphony in C (composed 1855)
• César Franck
  • Symphonie en ré mineur ("Symphony in D minor")
• Paul Hindemith
  • Symphony in E flat
  • Symphony in B flat (for Concert Band)
• Igor Stravinsky
  • Symphony in E flat (1907) - sometimes indicated as "Opus 1"
  • Symphony in C (1940)
• Richard Wagner
  • Symphony in C (composed 1831, premiered 1832)
  • Symphony in E flat (unfinished)

[edit] Symphonies known by their name only

• Hector Berlioz
  • Symphonie Fantastique
  • Harold en Italie ("Harold in Italy")
  • Roméo et Juliette
  • Grande Symphonie funèbre et triomphale
• Georges Bizet
  • Roma (unfinished, composed 1860-1871)
• Arthur Bliss
  • A Colour Symphony
• Benjamin Britten
  • A simple symphony
  • Sinfonia da Requiem ("Requiem Symphony")
  • Spring Symphony
• Aaron Copland
  • Organ Symphony (Copland's Symphony No. 1 is an arrangement of this symphony without the organ)
• Michael Daugherty
  • Metropolis Symphony
• Vincent d'Indy
  • Symphonie Cévenole ("Cévennes Symphony"), a.k.a. Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français ("Symphony on a French Mountain Air")
• Paul Hindemith
  • Mathis der Maler ("The painter Matthias", which is Matthias Grünewald) — see also Mathis der Maler (opera).
• Charles Ives
  • Holidays Symphony (A Symphony: New England Holidays)
  • Universe Symphony
• Pierre Kaelin
  • Symphonie des deux mondes ("Symphony of the Two Worlds", on a text by Helder Camara)
• Tolga Kashif
  • A Queen Symphony (based on the music of the pop group Queen
• Charles Koechlin
  • Seven Stars' Symphony
• Édouard Lalo
  • Symphonie Espagnole (considered by many to be more of a violin concerto)
• Franz Liszt
  • Dante Symphony, full name: A symphony to Dante's Divina Commedia
  • Faust Symphony, in German: Eine Faust-Symphonie
• Gustav Mahler
  • Das Lied von der Erde (a symphony in the disguise of a song cycle - see Curse of the ninth)
• Olivier Messiaen
  • Turangalîla-Symphonie
• Jean Sibelius
  • Kullervo Symphony
• Richard Strauss
  • Eine Alpensinfonie
  • Symphonia Domestica
• Igor Stravinsky
  • Symphonie des Psaumes ("Symphony of Psalms")
  • Symphony in Three Movements
• Peter Tchaikovsky
  • Manfred Symphony
• Charles-Marie Widor
  • Sinfonia sacra (1908 - for organ and orchestra)
  • Symphonie antique (1911 - for organ and orchestra, with choral finale)

[edit] Works named symphony that are not technically symphonies

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Battle Symphony (a piece for panharmonicon commissioned by the instrument's inventor and later arranged for orchestra)
• Aaron Copland
  • Dance Symphony (an arrangement of music from the ballet Grohg)
• Igor Stravinsky
  • Symphonies of Wind Instruments (a single-movement work for wind ensemble)

[edit] Classical Symphonies based on Ancient works

• Ilayaraaja
  • Thiruvasagam in Symphony (2005 - for Classical hymns on Lord Shiva written by Manikkavasagar(8 A.D.))

[edit] See also

Symphonies by number, name, and key
No. 0 | No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3 | No. 4 | No. 5 | No. 6 | No. 7 | No. 8 | No. 9 | No. 10 | No. 11
No. 12 and higher: Haydn, Mozart, Shostakovich, Hovhaness,...
List of symphonies by name - List of symphonies by key - List of composers of symphonies
See also: Sinfonia | Sinfonia concertante | Unfinished symphony | Curse of the Ninth

[edit] External links

• Many more named symphonies in this Chronological list of symphonies