List of symphonies in D minor

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This is a list of symphonies in D minor, to include all symphonies in the key of D minor written by notable composers, even when the particular symphony in question is one of the least performed by a famous composer.

Baroque and Classical symphonies in D minor usually used 2 horns in F (whereas for most other minor keys 2 or 4 horns were used, half in the tonic and half in the relative major). Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 29 in D minor is notable for using two trumpets in D (the horns are in F but change to D for the coda of the finale). In the Romantic era, D minor symphonies, like symphonies in almost any other key, used horns in F and trumpets in B-flat.

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

Composer Symphony
Kurt Atterberg Symphony No. 5 "Funebre", op. 20 (1917-22)[1]
Edgar Bainton Symphony No. 2 (1939-40)[2]
Mily Balakirev Symphony No. 2 (1900-8)
Franz Ignaz Beck Symphony, op. 3, no. 5
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9, op. 125 "Choral" (1824)
Adolphe Biarent Symphony (1908)[3]
Luigi Boccherini
  • Symphony No. 4, op. 12/4, G. 506 La casa del diavolo (1771)[4]
  • Symphony No. 15, op. 37/3, G. 517 (1787)[4]
  • Symphony No. 20 , op. 45, G. 522 (1792)[4]
Havergal Brian Symphony No. 1 "Gothic" (1927)
Anton Bruckner
Christian Cannabich Symphony No. 50 (1772?)
Albert Dietrich Symphony, op. 20 [5][6]
Ernő Dohnányi Symphony No. 1, op. 9 (1901)
Antonín Dvořák
John Lodge Ellerton Symphony No. 3 "Wald-Symphonie" op. 120 (about 1857)
Josef Bohuslav Foerster
  • Symphony No. 1, op. 9 (1887)[7]
  • Symphony No. 5, op. 141 (1929)
César Franck Symphony in D minor
Niels Wilhelm Gade Symphony No. 5, op. 25 (1852)
John Gardner Symphony No. 1, op. 12 (1946-7)[8]
Theodore Gouvy Symphony No. 4, op. 25.[9]
Henry Hadley Symphony No. 4, op. 64 (1911)
Joseph Haydn
Michael Haydn Symphony No. 29, MH 393, Perger 20 (1784)
Hans Huber
  • Symphony No. 1 "Tell-Symphonie" op. 63 (1882)
  • Symphony No. 7 "Swiss" (published 1922) [10]
Jānis Ivanovs Symphony No. 2 (1935)[11]
Charles Ives Symphony No. 1 (1898)
Jan Kalivoda Symphony No. 3, op. 32 (before 1831)
Manolis Kalomiris Symphony No. 3 (1955)[12]
Joseph Martin Kraus Sinfonia Da Chiesa, VB 147
Franz Lachner Symphony No. 3, op. 31 (published 1834) [13]
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 3 (1896)
Nina Makarova Symphony (1938, revised 1962)
Giuseppe Martucci Symphony No. 1, op. 75 (1888-95) [14]
Frank Merrick Symphony in D minor (1912)[15]
Ödön Mihalovich Symphony (published about 1883.)
Nikolai Myaskovsky Symphony No. 15, op. 38 (1933-4)
Ludvig Norman Symphony No. 3, op. 58 (published 1885) [16]
George Onslow Symphony No. 2 op. 42
Gottfried von Preyer Symphony No. 1, op. 16.[17]
Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No. 2, op. 40 (1925)
Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 1, op. 13 (1896)
Joachim Raff Symphony No. 6, op. 189 (1873) [18]
Ture Rangström
  • Symphony No. 2 "Mitt land" (1919)
  • Symphony No. 4 "Invocation" for Organ and Orchestra (1936)
Joseph Rheinberger Symphony No. 1 "Wallenstein", op. 10 (premiered 1866) [19]
Ferdinand Ries Symphony No. 5, op. 112 (1813)[20]
Albert Roussel Symphony No. 1 "Le Poème de la forêt", op. 7 (1904-6)
Anton Rubinstein Symphony No. 4 "Dramatic", op. 95 (1874)[21]
Vadim Salmanov Symphony No. 1 (1952)[22]
Philipp Scharwenka Symphony, op. 96 (published 1895)[23]
Martin Scherber Symphony No. 1 (1938)
Robert Schumann Symphony No. 4, op. 120 (1841)
Johanna Senfter Symphony No. 2, op. 27[24]
Dmitri Shostakovich
Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 6, op. 104 (1923)
Christian Sinding Symphony No. 1, op. 21 (1880-90)[25]
Louis Spohr Symphony No. 2, op. 49 (1820)[26]
Charles Villiers Stanford
  • Symphony No. 2 "Elegiac"(1880)[27]
  • Symphony No. 7, op. 124 (1911)[15]
Richard Strauss Symphony No. 1, AV 69 (1880)[28]
Hermann Suter Symphony, opus 17 (1914)[29]
Sergei Taneyev Symphony No. 3 (1884)[30]
Eduard Tubin Symphony No. 3 "Heroic" (1940-2, revised 1968)
Johann Baptist Vanhal Symphony, Bryan d1 (by 1773).[31]
Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 8 (1955)
Robert Volkmann Symphony No. 1, op. 44 (1863) [32]
Karl Weigl Symphony No. 2 (1922)[33]
Johann Wilhelm Wilms Symphony No. 6, op. 58
Richard Wüerst Symphony, op. 54 (published in 1869) [34]
Alexander von Zemlinsky Symphony No. 1 (1892-3)[35]

[edit] See also

For symphonies in D major, see List of symphonies in D major. For symphonies in other keys, see List of symphonies by key.

[edit] References

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  29. ^ Announcement of Recording of Suter's Symphony (German) (2004). Retrieved on 2008-06-10.
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  34. ^ Frisch, op. cit., page 9.
  35. ^ Notes to Recording of Zemlinsky Symphony 1 and Die Seejungfrau. Chandos Records. Retrieved on 2007-11-23.