List of symphonies in G minor explained

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

ComposerSymphony
Kurt Atterberg "Sinfonia Piccola", Op. 14 (1918, rev 1943-5)[1] [2]
Johann Christian BachSymphony, Op. 6 No. 6, T. 264-1 (published c. 1770)
Franz Ignaz Beck
  • Symphony, Op. 1 No. 1 (Callen 1, published 1758)[3]
  • Symphony, Op. 2 No. 2 (Callen 8, published 1760)[4]
  • Symphony, Op. 3 No. 3 (Callen 15, published 1762)[5]
Julius BenedictSymphony, Op. 101 (1873)[6]
William Sterndale Bennett
  • Symphony No. 5 (WoO 31)
(1835-36)
  • Symphony No. 6 Op. 43 (1864, rev 1867)
Franz BerwaldSymphony No. 1 "Serieuse" (1842, rev 1844)[7]
Gaetano BrunettiSymphony No. 22 (1783)
Adam CarseSymphony No. 2
Carl CzernySymphony No. 6, Op. posth. (1854)[8]
Carl Ditters von DittersdorfSymphony Grave g1 (by 1768)[9]
Joachim Nicolas EggertSymphony No. 4
Ernst EichnerSymphony, Op. 6 No. 2 (1771–72)
Louise Farrenc, Op. 36 (1847)
Anton FilsSymphony (by 1760)[10]
Eduard FranckSymphony (1852-56 – lost)
Gaspard FritzSymphony, Op. 6 No. 6 (after 1770)
Symphony No. 2 (1944–45)
Johann Joseph FuxSymphony K.306 (1709)
Niels GadeSymphony No. 6, Op. 32 (1857)
Friedrich GernsheimSymphony No. 1, Op. 32 (1875)
Theodore Gouvy (pub. 1893)
Alexander GretchaninovSymphony No. 5, Op. 153 (1936)[11]
Asger HamerikSymphony No. 5, Op. 36 (1889–91)
Johan Peter Emilius HartmannSymphony No. 1, Op. 17 (1835)
Joseph HaydnSymphony No. 39 (by 1768)
Symphony No. 83 "La Poule" (1785)
Andrés Isasi y LinaresSymphony No. 2 (1918)
Vasily KalinnikovSymphony No. 1 (1894-5)[12]
Jan KalivodaSymphony No. 7, WoO/01 (1841)[13]
Paul KletzkiSymphony No. 2 (1928)
Leopold KoželuchSymphony, Op. 22 No. 3, PI: 5 (1787)
Franz KrommerSymphony No. 7[14]
F.L.Æ. KunzenSymphony (1795?)[15]
Franz LachnerSymphony No. 8, Op. 100 (1851)[16]
Édouard LaloSymphony (1886)[17]
Simon Le DucSymphony ("a tre"), Op. 2 No. 2 (1767)
Pierre van MaldereSymphony, Op. 4 No. 1 (pub. 1764)
Witold MaliszewskiSymphony No. 1, Op. 8 (1902)[18]
François MartinSymphony, Op. 4 No. 2 (pub. 1751)
Étienne MéhulSymphony No. 1 (1808–09)
Felix MendelssohnString Symphony No. 12
Ernest John MoeranSymphony (1924–37)[19]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Nikolai Myaskovsky, Op. 35 "Kolkhoze Symphony" (1931–32)[20]
Josef MyslivečekSymphony, Op. 1 No. 5, E10:g1 (pub. 1764)
Alberto NepomucenoSymphony (1893)
Carl NielsenSymphony No. 1, Op. 7 (1891)
Otto OlssonSymphony, Op. 11 (1902)[21]
Karl von Ordonez
  • Symphony in G minor, Brown G6 (lost)
  • Symphony in G minor, Brown G7[22]
  • Symphony in G minor, Brown G8 (c. 1775)[23]
Gavriil Nikolayevich PopovSymphony No. 3 "Heroic", . "Spanish", Op. 45 (1946)
Cipriani PotterSymphony No. 10 (1832)[24] [25]
Joachim RaffSymphony No. 4, Op. 167 (1871) [26]
Carl ReineckeSymphony No. 3, Op. 227 (premiered 1895)[27]
Franz Xaver Richter
  • Symphony, Riemann 27 (c. 1740)[28]
  • Symphony No. 29 "with fugue"
Henri-Joseph RigelSymphony "No. 8" (pub. 1783)
Julius RöntgenSymphony (1930 July)[29]
Antonio RosettiSymphony, Murray A42 (1787)
Albert Roussel, Op. 42 (1929–30)
Anton RubinsteinSymphony No. 5, Op. 107 (1880)[30]
Ernst RudorffSymphony No. 2, Op. 40 (published 1890)
Giovanni Battista Sammartini
  • Sinfonia, J.-C. 56
  • Sinfonia, J.-C. 57
  • Sinfonia, J.-C. 59 (incomplete)
Robert SchumannSymphony "Zwickau", WoO29 (1832–33? Incomplete)
Dmitri ShostakovichSymphony No. 11 "The Year 1905", Op. 103 (1957)
Johann StamitzSymphony ("Orchestral Trio"), Op. 4 No. 5 (pub. 1758)
Wilhelm StenhammarSymphony No. 2, Op. 34 (1911–15)
William Grant StillSymphony No. 2 "Song of a New Race" (1936-7)[31]
George Templeton StrongSymphony No. 2 "Sintram", Op. 50 (premiered 1893)
Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskySymphony No. 1 "Winter Daydreams", Op. 13 (1866)
Sergei VasilenkoSymphony No. 1, Op. 10 (1904–06)[32]
Louis Vierne, Op. 32 (1914)
Georg Christoph WagenseilSymphony, WV 418 (early 1760s)
Johann Baptist Wanhal
  • Symphony, Bryan Gm1 (c. 1771)[33] [34]
  • Symphony, Bryan Gm2
Mieczysław Weinberg, Op. 10 (1942)[35]
Christoph Ernst Friedrich WeyseSymphony No. 1, DF 117 (1805)[36]
Joseph WölflSymphony, Op. 40 (pub. 1803)

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lace. Ian. Review of Recording of Atterberg Symphonies 1 and 4. MusicWeb International. April 2000. 28 November 2007.
  2. Finkel, C (2015). "The Revised Versions of Kurt Atterberg's Symphonies". Musikforskning.se. The revision was undertaken in part because the publisher of the 4th, Leuckart, was destroyed in the bombings of WW2 along with all unsold printed copies of the 1918 version; as Atterberg put it, "so that amongst others my Sinfonia Piccola undertook an Ascension".
  3. Web site: Beck, Franz: Symphony in G minor, Op. 1, No. 1. Beck. Franz Ignaz. 1997. Artaria Editions. Badley, Allan. 10 April 2018.
  4. Web site: Beck, Franz: Symphony in G minor, Op. 2, No. 2 . Beck. Franz Ignaz. 1998. Artaria Editions. Badley, Allan. 10 April 2018.
  5. Web site: Beck. Franz Ignaz. Badley, Allan . Beck, Franz: Symphony in G minor, Op. 3, No. 3 . Artaria Editions. 1998. 10 April 2018.
  6. composition date of Benedict: see autograph, RCM.
  7. Web site: McCormick. Ewan. Review of Recording of Berwald Symphonies by Ulf Björlin. MusicWeb International. November 2007. 28 November 2007.
  8. Web site: Announcement of Recording of Czerny 6th Symphony. Records International. July 2006. 28 November 2007.
  9. Web site: Dittersdorf. Carl Ditters von. Badley, Allan . Symphony in G minor . 1996. Artaria Editions. 19 May 2008.
  10. Web site: Review of cpo recording of Fils Symphonies. 18 March 2009.
  11. Web site: Announcement and Description of Recording of Gretchaninov Fifth Symphony. Records International. November 2000. 13 December 2007.
  12. Web site: German. Kalinnikov Worklist. 28 November 2007.
  13. Web site: Barker. David J. Review of Recording of Kalivoda Symphonies 5 and 7. September 2006. MusicWeb International. 28 November 2007.
  14. Book: Jones, David Wyn. The Symphony in Beethoven's Vienna. 2006. Cambridge University Press. 29 November 2007. 0-521-86261-2.
  15. Web site: Kunzen – Symphonie g-moll. German. October 2005. 18 March 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20120218065154/http://www.klassika.info/Komponisten/Kunzen/Symphonie/g/index.html. 18 February 2012. dead.
  16. Web site: Franz Lachner Worklist. Maurice Abravanel's Website. 2004. 28 November 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20071012173219/http://www.maurice-abravanel.com/lachner_franz_works.html. 12 October 2007. dead.
  17. Web site: Robinson. Bradford. 2006. Musikproduktion Juergen Hoeflich. Online Publication of Preface to Score of Lalo's Symphony. August 23, 2020.
  18. See score at IMSLP for evidence of key.
  19. Web site: Moeran:Symphony in G minor. E. J. Moeran site. 2006. 28 November 2007.
  20. Web site: Compositions by Nikolai Miaskovsky . 28 November 2007 . October 12, 2007 . Rijen . Onno van . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071210025510/http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/miasopus.htm . 10 December 2007 .
  21. Book: Hall, Charles J.. Chronology of Western Classical Music. 624–5. 2002. 0-415-94217-9. Taylor&Francis/Routledge. New York. 13 December 2007.
  22. Web site: Ordonez Symphony Gm7. d'Ordonez. Carlo. Badley, Allan. 1997. Artaria Editions. 10 April 2018.
  23. Web site: Ordonez Symphony Gm8. d'Ordonez. Carlo. Badley, Allan. 1996. Artaria Editions. 10 April 2018.
  24. Book: Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter. Julian Rushton. Julian Rushton. Symphony in G minor (Musica Britannica Series no. 77). 0-85249-864-0. 2001. Stainer and Bell. London.
  25. Web site: Description of Rushton Edition of Potter Symphony . 28 November 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071112111538/http://www.kings-music.co.uk/musica_britannica.htm . 12 November 2007 . dead .
  26. Web site: Detailed Description of Raff Symphony No. 4. Krueck. Alan. raff.org. August 23, 2020.
  27. Web site: Reinecke opus 221–230. 28 November 2007.
  28. Web site: Richter. Franz Xaver. Badley, Allan . Symphony No. 27 in G minor . 1997. Artaria Editions. 10 April 2018.
  29. Manuscript of Röntgen symphony @ IMSLP
  30. Web site: Robinson. Bradford. 2005. Online Publication of Preface to Score of Rubinstein G minor Symphony. Musikproduktion Juergen Hoeflich. August 23, 2020.
  31. Web site: William Grant Still, musician from Woodsville, Mississippi. Starkville High School. 28 November 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20080124143633/http://www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/musicians/WGStill.html. 24 January 2008. dead.
  32. Web site: Vasilenko Worklist . Rijen . Onno van . 19 May 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090521191844/http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/vasilen.htm . 21 May 2009 .
  33. James Hepokoski og Warren Darcy, Elements of Sonata Theory (Oxford University Press: 2006) p. 328
  34. Bryan, Paul.: "Thematic Index" in The Symphony 1720–1840 Series B – Volume X, ed. Barry S. Brooks (New York & London, 1981) pp. lxxi – lxxii
  35. Web site: Vainberg Chronology. 28 November 2007.
  36. Web site: Review of Recording of Weyse Symphonies 1–3. Classical Net. 1997. Godell. Tom. 13 December 2007.

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