List of symphonies in B flat major
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This is a list of symphonies in B-flat major written by notable composers.
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| 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 for strings no. 2 (1773), Wq. 182/2, Helm 658 |
| Johann Christian Bach Johann Christian Bach Johann Christian Bach was a composer of the Classical era, the eleventh and youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is sometimes referred to as 'the London Bach' or 'the English Bach', due to his time spent living in the British capital... |
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| Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach , the ninth son of Johann Sebastian Bach, sometimes referred to as the "Bückeburg Bach"... |
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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. 4, op. 60 Symphony No. 4 (Beethoven) Symphony No. 4 in B Flat Major , is a symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, written in the summer of 1806. It was premiered in March of 1807 at a private concert of the home of Prince Franz Joseph von Lobkowitz... (1806) |
| Wilhelm Berger Wilhelm Berger Wilhelm Berger was a German composer, pianist and conductor.-Life:Berger's father, originally a merchant from Bremen, worked in Boston as a music shopkeeper and made a name for himself as an author after the family had returned to Bremen in 1862. Early on, his son showed signs of musical interest... |
Symphony No. 1, op. 71 (by 1899) |
| 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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| 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. 5 Symphony No. 5 (Bruckner) The Symphony No. 5 in B flat major of Anton Bruckner was written in 1875–1876, with a few minor changes over the next few years. It was first performed in public on two pianos by Joseph Schalk and Franz Zottmann on 20 April 1887 at the Bösendorfersaal in Vienna... (1876) |
| 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... |
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| George Whitefield Chadwick George Whitefield Chadwick George Whitefield Chadwick was an American composer. Along with Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Edward MacDowell, he was a representative composer of what can be called the New England School of American composers of the late 19th century—the generation before Charles Ives... |
Symphony No. 2, op. 21 (1886) |
| Ernest Chausson Ernest Chausson Amédée-Ernest Chausson was a French romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish.-Life:Ernest Chausson was born in Paris into a prosperous bourgeois family... |
Symphony in B-flat, op. 20 Symphony in B-flat (Chausson) Ernest Chausson's Symphony in B flat major , his only symphony, was written in the year 1890 and first performed on April 1891 at a concert of the Société Nationale de Musique conducted by the composer. It was dedicated to the French painter and art collector Henry Lerolle. As with César Franck's... (1890) |
| James Cohn James Cohn James Cohn is an American composer born in 1928 in Newark, New Jersey. After taking violin and piano lessons in his native town, he studied composition with Roy Harris, Wayne Barlow and Bernard Wagenaar, and majored in Composition at Juilliard, graduating in 1950.He has written solo, chamber,... |
Symphony No. 5 for chamber orchestra (1959) |
| Antonín Dvořák Antonín Dvorák Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many... |
Symphony No. 2, op. 4, B. 12 Symphony No. 2 (Dvorák) The Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 4, B. 12 was composed by Antonín Dvořák between August and October 1865. Dvořák sent the score to be bound, but could not pay the binder, who then kept the score... (1865) |
| 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 (1858 - lost)
Symphony No. 2, op. 52 (1883) |
| Niels Gade | Symphony No. 4, op. 20 (1850) |
| Florian Leopold Gassmann Florian Leopold Gassmann Florian Leopold Gassmann was a German-speaking Bohemian opera composer of the transitional period between the baroque and classical eras. He was one of the principal composers of dramma giocoso immediately before Mozart.... |
Symphonies Hill 15, 25, 41, 62, 113. There is also a symphony in B-flat which has been attributed to both Haydn and Gassmann. |
| Friedrich Gernsheim Friedrich Gernsheim Friedrich Gernsheim was a German composer, conductor and pianist.Gernsheim was born in Worms. He was given his first musical training at home under his mother's care, then starting from the age of seven under Worms' musical director, Louis Liebe, a former pupil of Louis Spohr... |
Symphony No. 4, op. 62 (1895) |
| Cecil Armstrong Gibbs Cecil Armstrong Gibbs Cecil Armstrong Gibbs was an English composer. A monument on the north chancel wall of the church of St John the Baptist, Danbury, Essex states that "He lived, worked and is buried in Danbury".He studied with Edward Dent at Trinity College, Cambridge, and with Charles Wood and Ralph Vaughan Williams... |
Symphony No. 3 Westmoreland, op. 104 (1944) |
| Alexander Glazunov Alexander Glazunov Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor... |
Symphony No. 5 Symphony No. 5 (Glazunov) The Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 55 , was written by Alexander Glazunov from April to October of 1895. Although in this symphony Glazunov returned to his conventional four-movement layout he avoids theme transformation... , op. 55 (1896) |
| 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... |
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| Michael Haydn Michael Haydn Johann Michael Haydn was an Austrian composer of the classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.-Life:... |
Symphony No. 11 (Michael Haydn) Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 11 in B-flat major, Perger 9, Sherman 11, MH 82 and 184, was written in Salzburg in 1766. Hans Gál attributed this work to Joseph Haydn, but he was not the first to do so .Scored for 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, and strings... , MH 37, Perger 2 (1761) Symphony No. 27 (Michael Haydn) Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 27 in B-flat major, Opus 1 No. 1, Perger 18, Sherman 27, MH 358, written in Salzburg in 1784, is the first of the B-flat major symphonies attributed to Joseph Haydn in Hoboken's catalog.... , Opus 1 No. 2, Perger 18, MH 358 Symphony No. 33 (Michael Haydn) Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 33 in B-flat major, Perger 24, Sherman 33, MH 425/652, was mostly written in Salzburg in 1786. Eight years after he stopped writing symphonies, Haydn re-examined this work and decided to add a Minuet to it... , MH 425, Perger 22 (1786) Symphony No. 36 (Michael Haydn) Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 36 in B-flat major, Perger 28, Sherman 36, MH 475, written in Salzburg in 1788, is the last B-flat major symphony he wrote, the third of his final set of six symphonies.... , MH 475, Perger 28 (1788) |
| Heinrich von Herzogenberg Heinrich von Herzogenberg Heinrich Picot de Peccaduc, Freiherr von Herzogenberg was an Austrian composer and conductor descended from a French aristocratic family.... |
Symphony No. 2, op. 70 (1890) |
| Alfred Hill Alfred Hill Alfred Francis Hill CMG OBE was an Australian/New Zealand composer, conductor and teacher.-Biography:Alfred Hill was born in Melbourne in 1869. His year of birth is shown in many sources as 1870, but this has now been disproven. He spent most of his early life in New Zealand... |
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| Paul Hindemith Paul Hindemith Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child... |
Symphony in B flat for Concert Band (1951) |
| Leopold Hofmann Leopold Hofmann Leopold Hofmann was an Austrian composer of classical music.-Biography:... |
Symphony (Badley Bb1) (by 1763) |
| Richard Hol Richard Hol Richard Hol was a Dutch composer and conductor, based for most of his career at Utrecht. His conservative music showed the influence of Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann and the Leipzig school, though as a conductor he offered Dutch audiences the modern music of Hector Berlioz and Richard... |
Symphony No. 3, op. 101 (1867/84) |
| 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. 2, op. 57 (1902-3) |
| George Macfarren George Macfarren George Macfarren was a playwright and the father of composer George Alexander Macfarren. Macfarren's first play, Ah! What a Pity, or, The Dark Knight and the Fair Lady, was produced on 28 September 1818 at the English Opera House; for the next several decades, a Macfarren play was produced... |
Symphony No. 6 (1836) |
| 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. 2, op. 52 "Lobgesang" Symphony No. 2 (Mendelssohn) The Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, op. 52, called the "Lobgesang" Symphony, was composed by Felix Mendelssohn. It was written in 1840 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the invention of printing, along with the less-known Festgesang "Gutenberg Cantata".The composer's description of the work... (1840) |
| 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. 2 (Mozart) The piece of music once known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, KV 17, is now considered to be not by him, but by possibly his father, Leopold Mozart... , K. 17 (spurious) Symphony No. 24 (Mozart) Symphony No. 24 in B flat major, K. 182/173dA, is a symphony composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on October 3, 1773. The symphony has the scoring of two oboes, two horns, and strings.He wrote the symphony in three movements:#Allegro spiritoso, 4/4... , K. 182 (1773) Symphony No. 33 (Mozart) The Symphony No. 33 in B flat major, K. 319, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and dated on 9 July 1779.-Structure:The symphony has four movements:#Allegro assai, 3/4#Andante moderato, 2/4#Menuetto, 3/4#Finale: Allegro assai, 2/4... , K. 319 (1779) |
| Wilhelm Peterson-Berger Wilhelm Peterson-Berger Olof Wilhelm Peterson-Berger was a Swedish composer and music critic... |
Symphony No. 1, Baneret (1889–1903/1932-3) |
| Wenzel Pichl Wenzel Pichl Wenzel Pichl was a classical Czech composer of the 18th Century. He was also a violinist, music director and writer.... |
Symphony Melpomene (Zakin 14) (1768/9) |
| Ignaz Pleyel Ignaz Pleyel Ignace Joseph Pleyel , ; was an Austrian-born French composer and piano builder of the Classical period.-Early years:... |
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| Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century... |
Symphony No. 5, op. 100 Symphony No. 5 (Prokofiev) Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major in Soviet Russia in one month in the summer of 1944.-Background:Fourteen years had passed since Prokofiev's last symphony.... (1944) |
| 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. 7, op. 201 "In den Alpen" (1875) |
| Emil von Reznicek Emil von Reznicek Emil Nikolaus Freiherr von Reznicek was an Austrian late Romantic composer of Czech ancestry.-Life:... |
Symphony No. 2 (1904) |
| 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. 2, op. 23 (1919–21) |
| Franz Schubert Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music... |
Symphony No. 2 (Schubert) The Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, D. 125, is a symphony by Franz Schubert composed between 1814 and 1815.There are four movements:*I. Largo - Allegro vivace*II. Andante in E flat major*III. Menuetto: Allegro vivace in C minor - Trio in E flat major*IV... Symphony No. 5 (Schubert) The Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, D.485, written in 1816 by Franz Schubert is a work in four movements:#Allegro in B, in divided cut time.#Andante con moto in E, in 6:8 time.#Menuetto... (1816) |
| Robert Schumann Robert Schumann Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era.... |
Symphony No. 1, op. 38 "Spring" Symphony No. 1 (Schumann) Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 38 was the first symphonic work composed by Robert Schumann. Although Schumann made some "symphonic attempts" in the autumn of 1840 soon after he married his beloved Clara Wieck, he did not compose his First Symphony until early 1841... (1841) |
| Harold Shapero Harold Shapero Harold Samuel Shapero is an American composer.-Early years:Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, Shapero and his family later moved to nearby Newton. He learned to play the piano as a child, and for some years was a pianist in dance orchestras. With a friend, he founded the Hal Kenny Orchestra, a swing-era... |
Symphony for Classical Orchestra (1947) |
| Charles Villiers Stanford Charles Villiers Stanford Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer who was particularly notable for his choral music. He was professor at the Royal College of Music and University of Cambridge.- Life :... |
Symphony No. 1 (by 1875) |
| Johan Svendsen Johan Svendsen Johan Severin Svendsen was a Norwegian composer, conductor and violinist. Born in Christiania , Norway, he lived most his life in Copenhagen, Denmark.... |
Symphony No. 2, op. 15 (1874) |
| Karol Szymanowski Karol Szymanowski Karol Maciej Szymanowski was a Polish composer and pianist.-Life:Szymanowski was born into a wealthy land-owning Polish gentry family in Tymoszówka, then in the Russian Empire, now in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. He studied music privately with his father before going to Gustav Neuhaus'... |
Symphony No. 2, op. 19 (1909/10) |
| 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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| Robert Volkmann Robert Volkmann Friedrich Robert Volkmann was a German composer.-Life:He was born in Lommatzsch, Saxony, Germany. His father was a music director for a church, so he trained his son in music to prepare him as a successor... |
Symphony No. 2, op. 53 (1864-5) |
| 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:... |
Symphony (1802) |
| Alexander von Zemlinsky Alexander von Zemlinsky Alexander Zemlinsky or Alexander von Zemlinsky was an Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher.-Early life:... |
Symphony No. 2 (1897) |