Favorite Symphonies Quiz


Pick your favorite composer for each symphony. You can’t use a composer more than once.

Here are my answers (at least today’s answers):
Symphony No. 1: Copland
Symphony No. 2: Hanson
Symphony No. 3: Saint-Saëns
Symphony No. 4: Bruckner
Symphony No. 5: Shostakovich
Symphony No. 6: Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 7: Sibelius
Symphony No. 8: Mahler
Symphony No. 9: Beethoven

What are your picks? I’m looking forward to learning something.
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Showing 3 responses by jdane

Nice.  I'm having trouble w/ 1, so I'll just toss in Dmitri S. (I don't know that symphony at all, but I'm sure it's fine).  Took some shuffling (e.g., the obvious Gorecki 3 changed to 4, which if you haven't heard it ROCKS!), moving Mahler and Brahms etc.  Of course the best list would include Mahler in all positions except 8!

1. Shostakovich
2. Brahms
3. Mahler
4. Gorecki
5. Schubert
6. Haydn
7. Beethoven
8. Bruckner
9. Dvorak
PC--  I realize I'm in the minority on M8.  I've never liked it, and I only heard it live once.  LAPhil (forget who was conducting--prob. Dudamel during one of the Mahler cycles here) in the cavernous Shrine, easily the worst music venue in the world.  Now I love both the LAPhil and the LAChorale, but all that went through my mind the entire night was PLEASE! Get on with The Eternal Feminine so we can get the f. out of here!   (And meanwhile, let me put in another plug for the Gorecki 4th!)
Cool.  Several choices here I've never heard or even heard OF.  Working now to correct that.  (I'm giving myself extra points if I actually own a recording of one of these.).    Atterberg??!!   And I thought Scriabin never moved from the piano bench.