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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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Other than Haydn, how many other composers made it past Mozart's 41?
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1. Elgar
2. Mahler
3. Scriabin
4. Beethoven
5. Sibelius
6. Tchaikovsky
7. Atterberg
8. Dvorak
9. Bruckner
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Good, Hovhaness, anyone else?

Another way to think about Mahler is which ones could you possibly do without.  For me that would be 8, then 7, then 1.  And that would be it.

@mayoradamwest I can't do without the lovely last movement of the 4th.
My favorite is Felicity Lott with Franz Welzer-Most, which isn't particularly well known.
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