List of symphonies in A major
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This is a list of symphonies in A major. It includes all symphonies
in the key of A major
written by notable composers.
Symphony
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, scored almost always for orchestra. A symphony usually contains at least one movement or episode composed according to the sonata principle...
in the key of A major
A major
A major is a major scale based on A, with the pitches A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Its key signature has three sharps.Its relative minor is F-sharp minor and its parallel minor is A minor...
written by notable composers.
| Composer | Symphony |
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| Carl Friedrich Abel | Symphony, Op. 10 No. 6, WKO 24 (published 1771) |
| Anton Arensky Anton Arensky Anton Stepanovich Arensky -Biography:Arensky was born in Novgorod, Russia. He was musically precocious and had composed a number of songs and piano pieces by the age of nine... |
Symphony No. 2, Op. 22 (1889) |
| 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 No. 4 for Strings "Hamburg", Wotquenne 182/4, H. 660 (commissioned 1773) |
| Franz Ignaz Beck Franz Ignaz Beck Franz Ignaz Beck was a German violinist, composer, conductor and music teacher who spent the greater part of his life in France, where he became director of the Bordeaux Grand Théâtre. Possibly the most talented pupil of Johann Stamitz, Beck is an important representative of the second generation... |
*Sinfonia, Op. 1, No. 3, Callen 3 (published 1758)
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| Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of... |
Symphony No. 7, Op. 92 Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven) Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92, in 1811, was the seventh of his nine symphonies. He worked on it while staying in the Bohemian spa town of Teplice in the hope of improving his health. It was completed in 1812, and was dedicated to Count Moritz von Fries.At its debut,... (1811-2) |
| Arthur Bird Arthur Bird Arthur Bird was an American composer, for many years resident in Germany. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he studied in Europe and spent a year at Weimar with Franz Liszt. He composed a symphony, Karnevalszene; three orchestral suites; some works for wind instruments alone; some music for the... |
Symphony, Op. 8 (1885?6?) |
| Luigi Boccherini Luigi Boccherini Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is most widely known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No... |
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| 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. 15 (1960) |
| Anton Bruckner Anton Bruckner Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, complex polyphony, and considerable length... |
Symphony No. 6 Symphony No. 6 (Bruckner) Symphony No. 6 in A major by Austrian composer Anton Bruckner is a work in four movements composed between September 24, 1879 and September 3, 1881 and dedicated to his landlord, Dr. Anton van Ölzelt-Newin. Though it possesses many characteristic features of a Bruckner symphony, it differs the... (1879–81) (WAB 106) |
| Fritz Brun Fritz Brun Fritz Brun was a Swiss conductor and composer of classical music.Brun was born in Lucerne. He was a student of Franz Wüllner at the conservatory at Köln, and studied piano and theory there until 1902. The following year he became a piano teacher at the music school in Bern... |
Symphony No. 8 (1938) |
| Christian Cannabich Christian Cannabich Johann Christian Innocenz Bonaventura Cannabich , was a German violinist, composer, and Kapellmeister of the Classical era... |
Symphony (after 1760) |
| Philip Greeley Clapp Philip Greeley Clapp Philip Greeley Clapp was an American educator, conductor, pianist, and composer of classical music.He served as Director of the School of Music at the University of Iowa for more than three decades , helping to establish that school’s strong reputation in music and in the arts overall... |
Symphony No. 3 |
| Leopold Damrosch Leopold Damrosch Leopold Damrosch was a German American orchestral conductor.- Biography :Damrosch was born in Posen , Kingdom of Prussia, and began his musical education at the age of nine, learning the violin against the wishes of his parents, who wanted him to become a doctor... |
Symphony (1878) |
| Georg Druschetzky Georg Druschetzky Jiří Družecký was a Bohemian composer, oboist, and timpanist.He studied oboe with the noted oboist and composer Carlo Besozzi in Dresden. He then joined the band of an infantry regiment in Eger, with which he was later stationed in Vienna, Enns, Linz, and Branau. In 1777 he was certified as a... |
Symphony in A major |
| František Xaver Dušek František Xaver Dušek František Xaver Dušek , was a Czech composer and one of the most important harpsichordists and pianists of his time.... |
Sinfonia, Altner A3 |
| George Enescu George Enescu George Enescu was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher.-Biography:Enescu was born in the village of Liveni , Dorohoi County at the time, today Botoşani County. He showed musical talent from early in his childhood. A child prodigy, Enescu created his first musical... |
Symphony No. 2, Op. 17 (1912-4) |
| Pierre-Octave Ferroud Pierre-Octave Ferroud Pierre-Octave Ferroud was a French composer of classical music.He was born in Chasselay, Rhône, near Lyon. He went to Lyon, to Strasbourg where he studied with Guy Ropartz, and again to Lyon where he was for a time an associate and "disciple" of Florent Schmitt, and a pupil of Georges Martin... |
Symphony (1930) |
| Eduard Franck Eduard Franck Eduard Franck was born in Breslau, the capital of the Prussian province of Silesia. He was the fourth child of a wealthy and cultivated banker who exposed his children to the best and brightest that Germany had to offer. Frequenters to the Franck home included such luminaries as Heine, Humboldt,... |
Symphony ("Sinfonie") No. 1, Op. 47 (about 1850-1860, printed 1892) |
| Johann Gottlieb Graun Johann Gottlieb Graun Johann Gottlieb Graun was a German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist.Graun was born in Wahrenbrück. His brother Carl Heinrich was also a composer and singer. He studied with J.G. Pisendel in Dresden, and Giuseppe Tartini in Padua. Appointed Konzertmeister in Merseburg in 1726, he taught... |
Sinfonia Graun WV Cv:XII:86 |
| Christoph Graupner Christoph Graupner Christoph Graupner was a German harpsichordist and composer of high Baroque music who lived and worked at the same time as Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and George Frideric Handel.-Graupner's life:Born in Hartmannsdorf near Kirchberg in Saxony, Graupner received his first musical... |
Symphony, GWV 612 |
| Alexander Gretchaninov Alexander Gretchaninov Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov was a Russian Romantic composer.-His life:Gretchaninov started his musical studies rather late because his father, a businessman, had expected the boy to take over the family firm... |
Symphony No. 2, Op. 27 "Pastoral" (1908) |
| 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. 5 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 5 in A major, Hoboken I/5, by Joseph Haydn, is believed to have been written between 1760 and 1762.It is scored for 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns, strings and continuo... (by 1762) Symphony No. 14 (Haydn) Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 14 in A major, Hoboken I/14, may have been written between 1761 and 1763.Symphony No. 14 is scored for 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns, strings and continuo... (by 1764) Symphony No. 21 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 21 in A major, Hoboken 1/21, was composed by Joseph Haydn around the year 1764. The symphony’s movements have unusual structures that make their form hard to identify... (1764) Symphony No. 28 (Haydn) Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 28 in A major, Hoboken I/28, was written in 1765.The work is scored for 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns, and strings with continuo.The work is in four movements:#Allegro di molto, 3/4#Poco adagio, 2/4#Menuetto e Trio, 3/4... (1765) Symphony No. 59 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 59 in A major is a relatively early work by Joseph Haydn that is known popularly as the Fire Symphony.-Date of composition:... , "Feuer" (by 1769) Symphony No. 64 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 64 in A major is a symphony by Joseph Haydn dated between 1773 and 1775. The likely date of composition puts it at the tail end of the Sturm und Drang period that produced masterpieces such as symphonies 44 to 48. It is often known by the nickname Tempora mutantur.- Nickname ... , "Tempora Mutantur" (by 1775) Symphony No. 65 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 65 in A major, Hoboken I/65, is a symphony by Joseph Haydn which was composed by 1778.-Movements:The symphony is scored for two oboes, two horns and strings... (by 1778) Symphony No. 87 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 87 in A major, Hoboken 1/87, is the last of the six so-called Paris Symphonies written by Joseph Haydn. It was written in 1786.-Movements:... (1785) |
| Michael Haydn Michael Haydn Johann Michael Haydn was an Austrian composer of the classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.-Life:... |
Symphony No. 5 (Michael Haydn) Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 5 in A major, Perger 3, Sherman 5, MH 63, written in Salzburg in 1763, is the third of twelve symphonies in the key to be mistaken for a symphony by Joseph Haydn Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 5 in A major, Perger 3, Sherman 5, MH 63, written in Salzburg in 1763, is the... , MH 63, Perger 3 (1763) Symphony No. 16 (Michael Haydn) Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 16 in A major, Perger 6, Sherman 16, Sherman-adjusted 17, MH 152, was written in Salzburg in 1771. This work was at one time attributed to Joseph Haydn, the ninth work in A major so attributed in Anthony van Hoboken's catalog.... , MH 152, Perger 6 (1771) Symphony No. 24 (Michael Haydn) Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 24 in A major, Perger 15, Sherman 24, MH 302, was written in Salzburg in 1781.Scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, posthorn." and strings. In three movements:# Allegro con brio# Andante cantabile, in D major... , MH 302, Perger 15 Symphony No. 41 (Michael Haydn) Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 41 in A major, Perger 33, Sherman 41, MH 508, written in Salzburg in 1789, is the last symphony he wrote .The symphony is scored for 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, and strings. It is in three movements:... , MH 508, Perger 33 (1789) |
| Johann Wilhelm Hertel Johann Wilhelm Hertel Johann Wilhelm Hertel was a German composer, harpsichord and violin player.He was born in Eisenach, into a family of musicians. His father, Johann Christian Hertel was Konzertmeister and director of music at the Eisenach court, while his grandfather, Jakob Christian Hertel Johann Wilhelm Hertel... |
*two of his symphonies (not published during his lifetime) are in A major. |
| Leopold Hofmann Leopold Hofmann Leopold Hofmann was an Austrian composer of classical music.-Biography:... |
nine symphonies in this key (2 lost) |
| Ignaz Holzbauer Ignaz Holzbauer Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer was a composer of symphonies, concertos, operas, and chamber music, and a member of the Mannheim school. His aesthetic style is in line with that of the Sturm und Drang "movement" of German art and literature.Holzbauer was born in Vienna... |
Symphony, Op. 2, No. 4 (published 1757) |
| 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... |
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| Vincent d'Indy Vincent d'Indy Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher.-Life:Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and... |
Symphony No. 1 Symphonie italienne (1870-2) |
| Salomon Jadassohn Salomon Jadassohn Salomon Jadassohn was a German composer and a renowned teacher of piano and composition at the Leipzig Conservatory.-Life:... |
Symphony No. 2, Op. 28 (1863?) |
| Paul Juon Paul Juon Paul Juon was a Germanised Russian composerHe was born in Moscow, where his father was an insurance official. His mother was German, and he went to a German school in Moscow. He entered the Moscow Conservatory in 1889, where he studied violin with Jan Hřímalý and composition with Anton Arensky... |
Symphony No. 2, Op. 23 (1903) |
| Vasily Kalinnikov Vasily Kalinnikov Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov was a Russian composer of two symphonies, several additional orchestral works and numerous songs, all of them imbued with characteristics of folksong... |
Symphony No. 2 (1897) |
| Leopold Kozeluch Leopold Kozeluch Leopold Kozeluch was a Czech composer and teacher of classical music. He was born in the town of Velvary, in Bohemia .-Life:... |
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| 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, VB128 |
| Frederic Lamond | Symphony, Op. 3 (begun 1885, premiered? 1890) |
| Leevi Madetoja Leevi Madetoja Leevi Antti Madetoja was a Finnish composer.-Life and career:Born in Oulu, he was the son of Antti Madetoja and Anna Hyttinen... |
Symphony No. 3 (1925-6) |
| Jef Maes Jef Maes Jef "Joseph" Maes was a Belgian composer and violist.Encouraged by his friend, André Cluytens, he completed his study at the Flämi conservatory in Antwerp... |
Symphony No. 2 (1965) |
| Pierre van Maldere Pierre van Maldere Pieter van Maldere was a violinist and composer from the Southern Low Countries .-Life:... |
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| Felix Mendelssohn Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text... |
Symphony No. 4, Op. 90 Symphony No. 4 (Mendelssohn) The Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90, commonly known as the Italian, is an orchestral symphony written by German composer Felix Mendelssohn .... "Italian" (1829–33) |
| Douglas Moore | Symphony No. 2 Symphony No. 2 (Moore) Symphony No. 2 in A major is a classical composition by American composer Douglas Moore. It was composed in 1945 and received its premiere in Paris on May 5, 1946 directed by Robert Lawrence... (1945) |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music... |
Symphony No. 14 (Mozart) Symphony No. 14 in A major, K. 114, is a symphony composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on December 30, 1771, when Mozart was fifteen years old, and a fortnight after the death of the Archbishop Sigismund von Schrattenbach.-Movements:... , K. 114 (1771) Symphony No. 21 (Mozart) Symphony No. 21 in A major, K. 134, was a symphony composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in August, 1772.-Structure:The symphony has the scoring of two flutes, two horns, and strings.There are four movements:#Allegro, 3/4#Andante, 2/4... , K. 134 (1772) Symphony No. 29 (Mozart) The Symphony No. 29 in A major, K. 201/186a, was completed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on 6 April 1774. It is, along with Symphony No. 25, one of his better known early symphonies. Stanley Sadie characterizes it as "a landmark ..... , K. 201 (1774) |
| 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. 8 Symphony No. 8 (Myaskovsky) Nikolai Myaskovsky wrote his Symphony No. 8 in A Major, his Opus 26, between 1924 and 1925.The symphony is his second in the major - the first is his fifth symphony - and the premiere was conducted by Konstantin Saradzhev, who had premiered the composer's fourth and seventh symphonies. It is... , Op. 26 (1924–25) |
| Josef Mysliveček Josef Myslivecek Josef Mysliveček was a Czech composer who contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music... |
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| George Onslow | Symphony No. 1 Op. 41 (1830) |
| Karl von Ordóñez Karl von Ordóñez Karl von Ordoñez was one of a number of composers working in Vienna during the second half of the Eighteenth century. Ordonez was not a full-time professional musician... |
11 symphonies in this key |
| Otakar Ostrčil Otakar Ostrcil Otakar Ostrčil was a Czech composer and conductor. He is noted for symphonic works Impromptu, Suite in C Minor, and Symfonietta, and in his opera compositions Poupě and Honzovo království.-Compositional career:Ostrčil was born in Prague, where he spent his entire life, as it was the center of the... |
Symphony (1906) |
| John Knowles Paine John Knowles Paine John Knowles Paine , was the first American-born composer to achieve fame for large-scale orchestral music.-Life:He studied organ, orchestration, and composition in Germany and toured in Europe for three years... |
Symphony No. 2 "Spring", Op. 34 |
| Gavriil Popov | Symphony No. 5 "Pastoral", Op. 77 (1956) |
| 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. 8 "Voices of Spring", Op. 205 (1876) |
| Carl Reinecke Carl Reinecke Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke was a German composer, conductor, and pianist.-Biography:Reinecke was born in Altona, Hamburg, Germany; until 1864 the town was under Danish rule. He studied with his father, Johann Peter Rudolph Reinecke, a music teacher... |
Symphony No. 1, Op. 79 (1858) |
| Heinrich XXIV, Prince of Reuss-Köstritz Heinrich XXIV, Prince of Reuss-Köstritz Prince Heinrich XXIV Reuss of Köstritz, also Prince Heinrich XXIV Reuss, Younger Line Prince Heinrich XXIV Reuss of Köstritz, also Prince Heinrich XXIV Reuss, Younger Line Prince Heinrich XXIV Reuss of Köstritz, also Prince Heinrich XXIV Reuss, Younger Line (German: Heinrich XXIV. Prinz Reuß zu... |
Symphony No. 2 |
| Julius Röntgen Julius Röntgen Julius Engelbert Röntgen was a German-Dutch composer of classical music.-Life:Julius Röntgen was born in Leipzig, Germany, to a family of musicians. His father, Engelbert Röntgen, was first violinist in the Gewandhaus orchestra in Leipzig; his mother, Pauline Klengel, was a pianist, the aunt of... |
Symphony (No. 15) (1931) |
| Albert Roussel Albert Roussel Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period... |
Symphony No. 4, Op. 53 (1934) |
| Anton Rubinstein Anton Rubinstein Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian-Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos... |
Symphony No. 3, Op. 56 (finished in 1855) |
| 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. 5, Op. 108 (1933) |
| Camille Saint-Saëns Camille Saint-Saëns Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony... |
Symphony in A (1850) |
| Franz Schmidt Franz Schmidt Franz Schmidt was an Austrian composer, cellist and pianist of Hungarian descent and origin.- Life :Schmidt was born in Pozsony , in the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire . His father was half Hungarian and his mother entirely Hungarian... |
Symphony No. 3 (1927/8) |
| Bertram Shapleigh Bertram Shapleigh Bertram Shapleigh was an American composer, heavily interested in the culture of Asia.He studied composition with G.E. Whiting and George Whitefield Chadwick at the New England Conservatory; graduating in 1891. He continued his studies with Edward MacDowell in the United States and spent sume time... |
Symphony No. 2, Op. 68 |
| 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. 15, Op. 141 Symphony No. 15 (Shostakovich) The Symphony No. 15 in A major , Dmitri Shostakovich's last, was written in a little over a month during the summer of 1971 in Repino. It was first performed in Moscow on 8 January 1972 by the All-Union Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra under Maxim Shostakovich.-Form:The work has four... (1971) |
| Johann Stamitz Johann Stamitz Jan Václav Antonín Stamic was a Czech composer and violinist. Johann was the father of Carl Stamitz and Anton Stamitz, also composers... |
Symphony "Mannheim" Symphony in A major ("Mannheim No. 2") The Symphony in A major is a Mannheim symphony by Johann Stamitz, probably written sometime from 1741 to 1746. It could be Stamitz' first symphony, but maybe not. It is formed in the standard 3-movement symphonic scheme of the time:... (probably written between 1741-6) |
| Max Trapp Max Trapp Hermann Emil Alfred Max Trapp was a German composer and teacher. A prestigious figure in the Berlin cultural scene during the 1930s, Trapp, amongst others in the Nazi influenced scene, was regularly invited to contribute to concert programs and competitions.Trapp was born in Berlin and attended... |
Symphony No. 7, Op. 55 |
| Eduard Tubin Eduard Tubin -Life:Tubin was born in Torila, Governorate of Livonia, Estonia. Both his parents were music lovers, and his father played trumpet and trombone in the village band. His first taste of music came at school where he learned flute and balalaika. Later, his father swapped a cow for a piano, and the... |
Symphony No. 4 (1943, revised 1978) |
| 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 :... |
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| Sergei Vasilenko | Symphony No. 3, Op. 81 (1934. for domra, balalaika orchestra and wind orchestra) |
| José Vianna da Motta José Vianna da Motta José Vianna da Motta was a distinguished Portuguese pianist, teacher, and composer. He was one of the last pupils of Franz Liszt... |
Symphony (1895) |
| Samuel Wesley Samuel Wesley Samuel Wesley was an English organist and composer in the late Georgian period. Wesley was a contemporary of Mozart and was called by some "the English Mozart."-Personal life:... |
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| Richard Wetz Richard Wetz Richard Wetz was a German late Romantic composer best known for his three symphonies. In these works, he "seems to have aimed to be an immediate continuation of Bruckner, as a result of which he actually ended up on the margin of music history".-1875-1906: Youth:Richard Wetz was born to a merchant... |
Symphony No. 2, Op. 47 (about 1918/9) |