List of symphonies with names

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While most symphonies have a number, many symphonies are known by their (nick)name.

For lists of symphonies by numbering, see following articles: No. 0 - No. 1 - No. 2 - No. 3 - No. 4 - No. 5 - No. 6 - No. 7 - No. 8 - No. 9 - No. 10 - No. 11; plus lists of symphonies by Haydn, Mozart, Shostakovitch...

The present article lists both symphonies that are numbered and have an additional nickname as well as symphonies that are known exclusively by their name or key.

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Numbered symphonies with a nickname [edit]

  • Don Gillis
    • Symphony No. 1 - An American Symphony
    • Symphony No. 2 - Symphony of Faith
    • Symphony No. 3 - A Symphony for Free Men
    • Symphony No. 5 - In Memoriam
    • Symphony No. 5½ - A Symphony for Fun
    • Symphony No. 6 - The Pioneers
    • Symphony No. 7 - Saga of the Prairie School
    • Symphony No. 8 - A Dance Symphony
  • Aulis Sallinen
    • Symphony No. 2 - Symphonic Dialogue
    • Symphony No. 5 - Washington Mosaics
    • Symphony No. 6 - From a New Zealand Diary
    • Symphony No. 7 - The Dreams of Gandalf
    • Symphony No. 8 - Autumnal Fragments
  • Franz Schubert (See also List of compositions by Schubert#Symphonies):
    • Symphony No. 4 - Tragic
    • Symphony No. 6 - Little C major
    • Symphony No. 8 - Unfinished (occasionally listed as No. 7)
    • Symphony No. 9 - Great C major (usually appears as No. 9 in modern editions [this numbering was based on the supposition that the Gmunden-Gastein symphony had been lost; it has now been established that the Great C major is in fact that work], older references may list the work as No. 7 or rarely as No. 8 [Neue Schubert-Ausgabe])
    • Symphony No. 10 - The Last (reconstruction based on sketches)
  • William Grant Still
    • Symphony No. 1 - Afro-American
    • Symphony No. 2 - Song of A New Race
    • Symphony No. 3 - Sunday Symphony
    • Symphony No. 4 - Autochthonous
    • Symphony No. 5 - Western Hemisphere
  • Ernst Toch
    • Symphony No. 5 - Jephtha, Rhapsodic Poem
  • Eduard Tubin
    • Symphony No. 2 - Legendary
    • Symphony No. 3 - Heroic
    • Symphony No. 4 - Lyrical
    • Symphony No. 9 - Sinfonia semplice

Symphonies referred to by their key exclusively [edit]

Symphonies known by their name only [edit]

Works with "symphony" in their title that are not technically symphonies [edit]

See also [edit]

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