List of symphonies in D minor

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

Baroque and Classical symphonies in D minor usually used 2 horns in F (whereas for most other minor keys 2 or 4 horns were used, half in the tonic and half in the relative major). Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 29 in D minor is notable for using two trumpets in D (the horns are in F but change to D for the coda of the finale). In the Romantic era, D minor symphonies, like symphonies in almost any other key, used horns in F and trumpets in B♭.

The first choice of clarinet for orchestral music in D minor is naturally the clarinet in B♭. This choice, however, becomes problematic for multi-movement works that begin in D minor and end in D major, as the clarinet in A would be preferable for the parallel major. One solution is to write the first movement for clarinet in B♭ and the last movement for clarinet in A, but this burdens the player with having to warm up the A instrument in time for the switch.

List

Composer Symphony
Kurt Atterberg Symphony No. 5 "Sinfonia Funebre" [nl], Op. 20 (1917–22)[1]
Ernst Bacon Symphony (1932)[2]
Edgar Bainton Symphony No. 2 (1939–40)[3]
Mily Balakirev Symphony No. 2 (1900–08)[4]
Franz Ignaz Beck Symphony, Op. 3, No. 5
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 "Choral", Op. 125 (1822–24)
Victor Bendix Symphony No. 4 [nl], Op. 30 (1904–06, rev 1916)[5]
Adolphe Biarent Symphony (1908)[6]
Vilém Blodek Symphony (1858–59)
Luigi Boccherini
  • Symphony No. 4, Op. 12/4, G. 506 La casa del diavolo (1771)[7]
  • Symphony No. 15, Op. 37/3, G. 517 (1787)[7]
  • Symphony No. 20, Op. 45, G. 522 (1792)[7]
Hjalmar Borgstrøm Symphony No. 2 [nl], Op. 24 (1912)
Henry Brant Symphony No. 2 (1942)[8]
Havergal Brian Symphony No. 1 "Gothic" (1919–27)
George Frederick Bristow Symphony No. 2, Op. 24 "Jullien" (apparently written by 1854, premiered in 1856)[9][10]
Anton Bruckner
Fritz Brun Symphony No. 3[11]
Oscar Byström Symphony (1870–72, rev. 1895)
Christian Cannabich Symphony No. 50 (1772?)
Albert Dietrich Symphony, Op. 20 (completed February 1870 at latest, dedicated to Johannes Brahms)[12][13]
Ernst von Dohnányi Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 (1900–01)
Antonín Dvořák
John Lodge Ellerton Symphony No. 3 "Wald-Symphonie", Op. 120 (about 1857)
Pietro Floridia Symphony (1888)
Josef Bohuslav Foerster
  • Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 (1887)[14]
  • Symphony No. 5, Op. 141 (1929)
César Franck Symphony in D minor
Niels Gade Symphony No. 5 [nl], Op. 25 (1852)[15]
John Gardner Symphony No. 1, Op. 12 (1946–47)[16]
Jan van Gilse Symphony No. 3 "Elevation" [nl] (1906–07)
Alexander Glazunov Symphony No. 9 (begun in 1910 but left unfinished by Glazunov's death in 1936. First movement orchestrated by Gavril Yudin in 1947)
Mikhail Glinka Symphony in D minor "On Two Russian Themes" (1833/1937) left unfinished and completed by Vissarion Shebalin
Théodore Gouvy Symphony No. 4 [fr], Op. 25. (1855) [17]
Paul Graener Symphony, Op. 39 (published 1912)
Henry Kimball Hadley Symphony No. 4, Op. 64 (1911)
Johan Halvorsen Symphony No. 2 [nl] "Fate" (rev. 1928)
Joseph Haydn
Michael Haydn Symphony No. 29, MH 393, Perger 20 (1784)
Hans Huber
  • Symphony No. 1 "Tell-Symphonie" Op. 63 (1880–01)[18]
  • Symphony No. 7 "Swiss" (premiered September 1917)[19]
Jānis Ivanovs Symphony No. 2 (1935)[20]
Charles Ives Symphony No. 1 (1898–1902)
Jan Kalivoda Symphony No. 3, Op. 32 (premiered 1830)
Manolis Kalomiris Symphony No. 3 (1955)[21]
Hugo Kaun Symphony No. 1, Op. 22 (1895), An mein Vaterland. Dem Andenken meines Vaters
August Klughardt Symphony No. 1 "Lenore", Op. 27 (1873)
Joseph Martin Kraus Sinfonia Da Chiesa, VB 147
Franz Lachner
  • Symphony No. 3, Op. 41 (1833–34)[22]
  • Symphony No. 7, Op. 58 (1839)
László Lajtha Symphony No. 1, Op. 24 (1936)
Carl Loewe Symphony in D minor
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 3 (1895–96)
Nina Makarova Symphony (1938, revised 1962)
Otto Malling Symphony, Op. 17 (by 1884)[23]
Giuseppe Martucci Symphony No. 1 [it], Op. 75 (1888–95)[24]
Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5, Op. 107 Reformation (1832)
Frank Merrick Symphony in D minor (1912)[25]
Ödön Mihalovich Symphony (published about 1883.)
Nikolai Myaskovsky Symphony No. 15 [de], Op. 38 (1933–34)
Ludvig Norman Symphony No. 3, Op. 58 (published 1885)[26]
George Onslow Symphony No. 2, Op. 42
Fredrik Pacius Symphony (1850)
Gottfried von Preyer Symphony No. 1, Op. 16[27]
Florence Price Symphony No. 4 (1945)
Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No. 2, Op. 40 (1925)
Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 1, Op. 13 (1896)
Joachim Raff Symphony No. 6, Op. 189 (1873)[28]
Ture Rangström
Napoléon Henri Reber Symphony No. 1
Emil von Reznicek Symphony No. 1 Tragic (1901)
Josef Rheinberger Symphony No. 1 "Wallenstein", Op. 10 (premiered 1866)[29]
Ferdinand Ries Symphony No. 5, Op. 112 (1813)[30]
Henri-Joseph Rigel Symphony No. 10, Op. 21, No. 2[31]
Albert Roussel Symphony No. 1 "Le Poème de la forêt", Op. 7 [fr] (1904–06)
Anton Rubinstein Symphony No. 4 [it] "Dramatic", Op. 95 (1874)[32]
Vadim Salmanov Symphony No. 1 (1952)[33]
Adolphe Samuel
  • Symphony No. 4, Op. 33 (1863)[34]
  • Symphony No. 6, Op. 44 (1891)
Philipp Scharwenka Symphony, Op. 96 (published 1895)[35][36]
Martin Scherber Symphony No. 1 (1938)
Robert Schumann Symphony No. 4, Op. 120 (1841)
Johanna Senfter Symphony No. 2, Op. 27[37]
Dmitri Shostakovich
Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 6, Op. 104 (1918–23)
Christian Sinding Symphony No. 1, Op. 21 [nl] (1880–89)[38]
Arthur Somervell Symphony Thalassa
Louis Spohr Symphony No. 2, Op. 49 (1820)[39]
Charles Villiers Stanford
  • Symphony No. 2 "Elegiac"(1880)[40]
  • Symphony No. 7, Op. 124 (1911)[25]
Richard Strauss Symphony No. 1, AV 69 (1880)[41]
Hermann Suter Symphony, Op. 17 (1914)[42]
Sergei Taneyev Symphony No. 3 [fr] (1884)[43]
Eduard Tubin Symphony No. 3 [ca] "Heroic" (1940–42, revised 1968)
Johann Baptist Wanhal
  • Symphony, Bryan d1 (by 1773).[44]
  • Symphony, Bryan d2 (with five horn parts)[45]
Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 8 (1955)
Louis Vierne Organ Symphony No. 1 [fr]
Robert Volkmann Symphony No. 1, Op. 44 (published 1863)[46]
Karl Weigl Symphony No. 2 (1922)[47]
Johann Wilhelm Wilms Symphony No. 6, Op. 58
Richard Wüerst Symphony, Op. 54 (published in 1869)[48]
Alexander von Zemlinsky Symphony No. 1 (1892)[49]
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach Symphony in D minor, BR-JCFB C 4 / Wf I/3 (ca. 1768)[50]

Notes

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  11. ^ Fritz Brun: Symphony No. 3 OCLC 637915150
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  36. ^ Sonneck 1912, p. 409.
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  38. ^ "Sinding Werkverzeichnis" (in German). Klassika.info. Retrieved 22 December 2007.
  39. ^ Barnett, Rob (August 2007). "Review of Hyperion Recording of Spohr Symphonies 1 and 2". MusicWeb International. Retrieved 10 February 2008.
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  42. ^ "Announcement of Recording of Suter's Symphony" (in German). 2004. Retrieved 10 June 2008.
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