List of symphonies in G minor - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a list of symphonies in G minor
G minor
G minor is a minor scale based on G, consisting of the pitches G, A, B, C, D, E, and F. For the harmonic minor scale, the F is raised to F. Its relative major is B-flat major, and its parallel major is G major....

written by notable composers.

Composer	Symphony
Kurt Atterberg Kurt Atterberg Kurt Magnus Atterberg was a Swedish composer. He is best known for his symphonies, operas and ballets. Atterberg once said that: "The Russians, Brahms, Reger were my ideals." His music combines their influences with Swedish folk tunes.-Biography:Atterberg was born in Gothenburg as the son of the...	Symphony No. 4 "Piccola", op. 14 (1918)
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...	Symphony, op. 6 no. 6, T. 264-1
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...	Symphony, op. 1 no. 1 (Callen 1, published 1758)Symphony, op. 2 no. 2 (Callen 8, published 1760)Symphony, op. 3 no. 3 (Callen 15, published 1762)
Julius Benedict Julius Benedict Sir Julius Benedict was a German-born composer and conductor, resident in England for most of his career.-Life:...	Symphony, op. 101 (published by 1873)
William Sterndale Bennett William Sterndale Bennett Sir William Sterndale Bennett was an English composer. He ranks as the most distinguished English composer of the Romantic school-Biography:...	Symphony op. 43 (1864, revised 1867)
Franz Berwald Franz Berwald Franz Adolf Berwald was a Swedish Romantic composer who was generally ignored during his lifetime. He made his living as an orthopedic surgeon and later as the manager of a saw mill and glass factory....	Symphony No. 1 "Serieuse" (1842, revised 1844)
Gaetano Brunetti Gaetano Brunetti Gaetano Brunetti was a prolific Italian composer active in Spain under kings Charles III and IV...	Symphony No. 22 (1783)
Carl Czerny Carl Czerny Carl Czerny was an Austrian pianist, composer and teacher. He is best remembered today for his books of études for the piano. Czerny's music was profoundly influenced by his teachers, Muzio Clementi, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Antonio Salieri and Ludwig van Beethoven.-Early life:Carl Czerny was born...	Symphony No. 6, op. posth. (1854)
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf ----August Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf was an Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist.-1739-1764:...	Symphony Grave g1 (by 1768)
Louise Farrenc Louise Farrenc Louise Farrenc was a French composer, virtuosa pianist and teacher. Born Jeanne-Louise Dumont in Paris, she was the daughter of Jacques-Edme Dumont, a successful sculptor, and sister to Auguste Dumont.-Biography:...	Symphony No. 3, op. 36 (1847)
Anton Fils Anton Fils Anton Fils was a German classical composer....	Symphony
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 (1852/1856 – lost)
Niels Gade	Symphony No. 6, op. 32 (1857)
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. 1, op. 32 (1875)
Theodore Gouvy Louis Théodore Gouvy Louis Théodore Gouvy was a French composer.- Biography :Gouvy was born into a French speaking family in the Alsatian village of Goffontaine, in the Sarre, a region on the France-Prussia border...	Symphony, op. 87
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. 5, op. 153 (1936)
Asger Hamerik Asger Hamerik Asger Hamerik , was a Danish composer of classical music.Born in Frederiksberg , he studied music with J.P.E. Hartmann and Niels Gade. He wrote his first pieces in his teens, including an unperformed symphony...	Symphony No. 5, op. 36 (1889–91)
Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann was a Danish composer.-Biography:Hartmann came from a musical family of German descent. Although he received his music lessons initially from his father, he taught himself as much as possible...	Symphony No. 1, op. 17 (1835)
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. 39 Symphony No. 39 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 39 is a symphony in G minor by Joseph Haydn in 1767 or 1768. It is the earliest of Haydn's minor key symphonies associated with his Sturm und Drang period works . The work was influential and inspired later G minor symphonies by Johann Baptist Vanhal, Johann Christian Bach and... (by 1768)Symphony No. 83 Symphony No. 83 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 83 in G minor, Hoboken I/83, is the second of the six so-called Paris Symphonies written by Joseph Haydn in 1785 and it was published by Artaria in Vienna in December 1787.... "La Poule" (1785)
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. 1 (1895)
Jan Kalivoda Jan Kalivoda Jan Křtitel Václav Kalivoda , was a composer, conductor and violinist of Bohemian birth.-Life:...	Symphony no. 7 (WoO/01) (1841)
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:...	Symphony op. 22 no. 3, PI: 5
Franz Krommer Franz Krommer Franz Krommer was a Czech composer of classical music, whose seventy-year life began the year of the death of George Frideric Handel and ended a few years after that of Ludwig van Beethoven.-Life:The main events of his life were somewhat as follows:* From 1773 to 1776,...	Symphony No. 7
F.L.Æ. Kunzen F.L.Æ. Kunzen Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen was a German composer and conductor who lived and worked for much of his life in Denmark.-Life:...	Symphony
Franz Lachner Franz Lachner Franz Paul Lachner was a German composer and conductor.Lachner was born in Rain am Lech to a musical family . He studied music with Simon Sechter and Maximilian, the Abbé Stadler. He conducted at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna. In 1834, he became Kapellmeister at Mannheim...	Symphony No. 8, op. 100 (1851)
Édouard Lalo Édouard Lalo Édouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo was a French composer.-Biography:Lalo was born in Lille , in northernmost France. He attended that city's music conservatory in his youth. Then, beginning at age 16, Lalo studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Berlioz's old enemy François Antoine Habeneck...	Symphony (1886)
Étienne Méhul Étienne Méhul Etienne Nicolas Méhul was a French composer, "the most important opera composer in France during the Revolution." He was also the first composer to be called a "Romantic".-Life:...	Symphony No. 1 (1808–1809)
Ernest John Moeran Ernest John Moeran Ernest John Moeran was an English composer who had strong associations with Ireland .-Early life:...	Symphony Symphony in G minor (Moeran) The Symphony in G minor was the only completed symphony written by Ernest John Moeran. He wrote it in 1934-37. It is in four movements.In 1926, the conductor of the Hallé Orchestra, Sir Hamilton Harty, commissioned a symphony from Moeran. He had already been working on a symphony since 1924, and... (1924–37)
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. 25 Symphony No. 25 (Mozart) The Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183/173dB, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in October 1773, shortly after the success of his opera seria Lucio Silla. It was supposedly completed October 5, a mere two days after the completion of his Symphony No. 24, although this remains unsubstantiated... , K. 183 (1773)Symphony No. 40 Symphony No. 40 (Mozart) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his Symphony No. 40 in G minor, KV. 550, in 1788. It is sometimes referred to as the "Great G minor symphony," to distinguish it from the "Little G minor symphony," No. 25. The two are the only minor key symphonies Mozart wrote.... , K. 550 (1788)
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. 12, op. 35 "October" (or "Collective Farm") (1931–32)
Josef Mysliveček Josef Myslivecek Josef Mysliveček was a Czech composer who contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music...	Symphony, Op. 1 No. 5 (E10:g1)
Alberto Nepomuceno Alberto Nepomuceno Alberto Nepomuceno was a Brazilian composer and conductorAlberto Nepomuceno was born in city of Fortaleza, capital of the state of Ceará in northeastern Brazil. He was the son of Vitor Augusto Nepomuceno and Maria Virginia de Oliveira Paiva...	Symphony (1893)
Carl Nielsen Carl Nielsen Carl August Nielsen , , widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age...	Symphony No. 1, op. 7 Symphony No. 1 (Nielsen) Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 7, FS 16 is the first symphony of Danish composer Carl Nielsen. Written between 1891 and 1892, it was dedicated to his wife, Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen. The work's première, on 14 March 1894 was performed by Johan Svendsen conducting the Chapel Royal Orchestra , with... (1891)
Otto Olsson Otto Olsson Otto Olsson was a Swedish composer of classical music.Otto Olsson was one of the greatest organ virtuosos of his time. He studied organ with Lagergren and composition with Dente at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and then joined the faculty there, where he taught harmony and then organ...	Symphony, op. 11 (1902)
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...	*Symphony in G minor, Brown G6 (lost)Symphony in G minor, Brown G7 (date of composition unknown)Symphony in G minor, Brown G8 (ca. 1775)
Gavriil Nikolayevich Popov	Symphony No. 2, op. 39 (in G minor/A minor) "Homeland" (1943)
Cipriani Potter Cipriani Potter Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter was a British composer, pianist and educator.-Life and career:Born in London, the son of a piano teacher named Richard Huddleston Potter, Cipriani was named after his godmother...	Symphony No. 10 (1832)
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. 4, op. 167 (1871)
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. 3, op. 227 (premiered 1895)
Franz Xaver Richter Franz Xaver Richter Franz Xaver Richter, known as François Xavier Richter in France was an Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theoretician who spent most of his life first in Austria and later in Mannheim and in Strasbourg, where he was music director of the cathedral...	Symphony Riemann 27 (ca. 1740)Symphony No. 29 "with fugue"
Antonio Rosetti Antonio Rosetti Antonio Rosetti was a classical era composer and double bass player, and was a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart....	Symphony, Murray A42
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. 3, op. 42 (1929–30)
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. 5, op. 107 (1880)
Ernst Rudorff Ernst Rudorff Ernst Friedrich Karl Rudorff was a German composer and music teacher.Born in Berlin, Rudorff studied piano under Woldemar Bargiel from 1852 to 1857, before enrolling at the Leipzig Conservatory in 1859, where he studied under Ignaz Moscheles, Louis Plaidy, and Julius Rietz. He was also a private...	Symphony No. 2, op. 40 (published 1890)
Giovanni Battista Sammartini Giovanni Battista Sammartini Giovanni Battista Sammartini was an Italian composer, organist, choirmaster and teacher. He counted Gluck among his students, and was highly regarded by younger composers including Johann Christian Bach...	Sinfonia, J.-C. 56Sinfonia, J.-C. 57Sinfonia, J.-C. 59 (incomplete)
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 Zwickauer, WoO29 (1832–33? Incomplete. )
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. 11, op. 103 Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich) The Symphony No. 11 in G minor by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in 1957 and premiered by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Natan Rakhlin on 30 October 1957... "The Year 1905" (1957)
Wilhelm Stenhammar Wilhelm Stenhammar Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar was a Swedish composer, conductor and pianist.-Biography:Stenhammar was born in Stockholm, where he received his first musical education. He then went to Berlin to further his studies in music. He became a glowing admirer of German music, particularly that of Richard...	Symphony No. 2, op. 34 (1911–15)
William Grant Still William Grant Still William Grant Still was an African-American classical composer who wrote more than 150 compositions. He was the first African American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra, the first to have a symphony performed by a leading orchestra, the first to have an opera performed by a major...	Symphony No. 2 "The Song of a New Race" (1937)
George Templeton Strong George Strong (composer) George Templeton Strong was an American composer of classical music. His work has been described as Romantic. He moved to Vevey, Switzerland in 1897 and lived there and in Geneva for the remainder of his life...	Symphony No. 2, op. 50, Sintram (premiered 1893)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...	Symphony No. 1, op. 13 Symphony No. 1 (Tchaikovsky) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote his Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Winter Daydreams , Op. 13, in 1866, just after he accepted a professorship at the Moscow Conservatory: it is the composer's earliest notable work. The composer's brother Modest claimed this work cost Tchaikovsky more labor and suffering... "Winter Daydreams" (1866)
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 :...	Symphony, Bryan catalog Gm1 (ca. 1771)Symphony, Bryan catalog Gm2 (date not known)
Sergei Vasilenko	Symphony No. 1, op. 10 (1904–1906)
Mieczysław Weinberg	Symphony No. 1, op. 10 (1942)
Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse	Symphony No. 1, DF 117 (1805)
Joseph Wölfl Joseph Wölfl Joseph Wölfl was an Austrian pianist and composer.-Biography:Wölfl was born at Salzburg, where he studied music under Leopold Mozart and Michael Haydn....	Symphony, Op. 40

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