This is a list of symphonies in D minor written by notable composers.
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.
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.__TOC__
| Composer | Symphony |
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| Kurt Atterberg | (1917–22)[1] |
| Ernst Bacon | Symphony (1932)[2] |
| Edgar Bainton | Symphony No. 2 (1939–40)[3] |
| Mily Balakirev | Symphony No. 2 (1900–08) |
| Franz Ignaz Beck | Symphony, Op. 3, No. 5 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, Op. 125 "Choral" (1822–24) |
| Victor Bendix | , Op. 30 (1904–06?) |
| Adolphe Biarent | Symphony (1908)[4] |
| Vilém Blodek | Symphony (1858–59) |
| Luigi Boccherini |
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| Hjalmar Borgstrøm | , Op. 24 (1912) |
| Henry Brant | Symphony No. 2 (1942)[6] |
| Havergal Brian | Symphony No. 1 "Gothic" (1919–27) |
| George Frederick Bristow | Symphony No. 2, Op. 24 "Jullien" (apparently written by 1854, premiered in 1856)[7] [8] |
| Anton Bruckner |
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| Fritz Brun | Symphony No. 3[9] |
| Oscar Byström | Symphony (1870–72, rev. 1895) |
| Christian Cannabich | Symphony No. 50 (1772?) |
| Albert Dietrich | Symphony, Op. 20 (completed February 1870 at latest, dedicated to Johannes Brahms)[10] [11] |
| Ernst von Dohnányi | Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 (1900–01) |
| Antonín Dvořák |
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| John Lodge Ellerton | Symphony No. 3 "Wald-Symphonie", Op. 120 (about 1857) |
| Pietro Floridia | Symphony (1888) |
| Josef Bohuslav Foerster |
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| César Franck | Symphony in D minor |
| Niels Gade | , Op. 25 (1852)[13] |
| John Gardner | Symphony No. 1, Op. 12 (1946–47)[14] |
| Jan van Gilse | (1906–07) |
| Alexander Glazunov | Symphony No. 9 (begun in 1910 but left unfinished by Glazunov's death in 1936. First movement orchestrated by Gavril Yudin in 1947) |
| Mikhail Glinka | Symphony in D minor "On Two Russian Themes" (1833/1937) left unfinished and completed by Vissarion Shebalin |
| Théodore Gouvy | , Op. 25. (1855) [15] |
| Paul Graener | Symphony, Op. 39 (published 1912) |
| Henry Kimball Hadley | Symphony No. 4, Op. 64 (1911) |
| Johan Halvorsen | "Fate" (rev. 1928) |
| Joseph Haydn |
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| Michael Haydn | Symphony No. 29, MH 393, Perger 20 (1784) |
| Hans Huber | |
| Jānis Ivanovs | Symphony No. 2 (1935)[18] |
| Charles Ives | Symphony No. 1 (1898–1902) |
| Jan Kalivoda | Symphony No. 3, Op. 32 (premiered 1830) |
| Manolis Kalomiris | Symphony No. 3 (1955)[19] |
| Hugo Kaun | Symphony No. 1, Op. 22 (1895), An mein Vaterland. Dem Andenken meines Vaters |
| August Klughardt | Symphony No. 1 "Lenore", Op. 27 (1873) |
| Joseph Martin Kraus | Sinfonia Da Chiesa, VB 147 |
| Franz Lachner |
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| László Lajtha | Symphony No. 1, Op. 24 (1936) |
| Carl Loewe | Symphony in D minor |
| Gustav Mahler | Symphony No. 3 (1895–96) |
| Nina Makarova | Symphony (1938, revised 1962) |
| Otto Malling | Symphony, Op. 17 (by 1884)[20] |
| Giuseppe Martucci | , Op. 75 (1888–95)[21] |
| Felix Mendelssohn | Symphony No. 5, Op. 107 Reformation (1832) |
| Frank Merrick | Symphony in D minor (1912)[22] |
| Ödön Mihalovich | Symphony (published about 1883.) |
| Nikolai Myaskovsky | , Op. 38 (1933–34) |
| Ludvig Norman | Symphony No. 3, Op. 58 (published 1885) |
| George Onslow | Symphony No. 2, Op. 42 |
| Fredrik Pacius | Symphony (1850) |
| Gottfried von Preyer | Symphony No. 1, Op. 16 |
| Florence Price | Symphony No. 4 (1945) |
| Sergei Prokofiev | Symphony No. 2, Op. 40 (1925) |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff | Symphony No. 1, Op. 13 (1896) |
| Joachim Raff | Symphony No. 6, Op. 189 (1873)[23] |
| Ture Rangström |
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| Napoléon Henri Reber | Symphony No. 1 |
| Emil von Reznicek | Symphony No. 1 Tragic (1901) |
| Josef Rheinberger | Symphony No. 1 "Wallenstein", Op. 10 (premiered 1866)[24] |
| Ferdinand Ries | Symphony No. 5, Op. 112 (1813)[25] |
| Henri-Joseph Rigel | Symphony No. 10, Op. 21, No. 2[26] |
| Albert Roussel | (1904–06) |
| Anton Rubinstein | "Dramatic", Op. 95 (1874)[27] |
| Vadim Salmanov | Symphony No. 1 (1952)[28] |
| Adolphe Samuel |
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| Philipp Scharwenka | Symphony, Op. 96 (published 1895)[30] |
| Martin Scherber | Symphony No. 1 (1938) |
| Robert Schumann | Symphony No. 4, Op. 120 (1841) |
| Johanna Senfter | Symphony No. 2, Op. 27[31] |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | |
| Jean Sibelius | Symphony No. 6, Op. 104 (1918–23) |
| Christian Sinding | (1880–89)[32] |
| Arthur Somervell | Symphony Thalassa |
| Louis Spohr | Symphony No. 2, Op. 49 (1820)[33] |
| Charles Villiers Stanford |
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| Richard Strauss | Symphony No. 1, AV 69 (1880)[35] |
| Hermann Suter | Symphony, Op. 17 (1914)[36] |
| Sergei Taneyev | (1884)[37] |
| Eduard Tubin | "Heroic" (1940–42, revised 1968) |
| Johann Baptist Wanhal | |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Symphony No. 8 (1955) |
| Louis Vierne | |
| Robert Volkmann | Symphony No. 1, Op. 44 (published 1863)[40] |
| Karl Weigl | Symphony No. 2 (1922)[41] |
| Johann Wilhelm Wilms | Symphony No. 6, Op. 58 |
| Richard Wüerst | Symphony, Op. 54 (published in 1869) |
| Alexander von Zemlinsky | Symphony No. 1 (1892)[42] |
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