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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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rvpiano
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Very hard to compose a list given this limitation.  Had to repeat. Leaves a good many great symphonies out. Not really fair.

1.Brahms
2. Rachmaninoff 
3. Beethoven
4. Schumann
5. Prokofiev 
6. Tchaikovsky 
7. Beethoven
8. Shostakovich 
9. Mahler
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rvpiano
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Phomchick,

I don’t quite understand your question.
Unless I’m wrong, you wanted to know who wrote the best 1st symphony, best second symphony, etc.
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rvpiano
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When you speak of emotion in Mozart, it cannot be measured by 19th century standards.  He was, to me, the most “human” of all composers.  The entire gamut of human feelings are expressed by him, but you must know his was a different musical language, having  its unique aesthetic symbols of expression.
Beethoven started off using the same language, but evolved to a language taken up by the entire 19th century. 
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rvpiano
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“we’re the others part cyborg?”

Yes, I guess there are cyborgs out there.
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