Favorite Symphonies Quiz

Mod 10 symphony list:

Symphony No. (4)0 Mozart
Symphony No. 1: Copland
Symphony No. 2: Hovaness (although I still like 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

“we’re the others part cyborg?”

Yes, I guess there are cyborgs out there.

1. Brahms 2.Haydn 3.Mozart 4.Schubert 5.Beethoven 6.Schumann 7.Dvorak. 8. Sibelius 9. Vaughan Williams
Hard to live Tchaikovsky out but Vaughan Williams (or Elgar) wrote the best of modern English Symphonies .

IMO he wrote the most just plain beautiful piece ever written .

https://youtu.be/-mHgucSz1hs?t=1

It seems not possible to me to make such a marriage of pure love
between a violin and the sublime winds .
In the over 8,000 recordings I owned and 2,000 live Classic concerts I’ve been to in the last 60 years this is the Zenith for me .

I’ve heard it live 3 times and many tears flew in all .Listen to it every day and will in the little time I have left.God Willing
.Vaughan Williams started this just before WW I started and though he was to old to be a soldier , he spent the entire war as a ambulance man and saw many thousands of wounded and dead British and Canadian soldiers.
He finished it when he came back and as a combat soldier myself I am sure was not the same man.
A lark takes off in a long , high spiral , I think of the piece as the soul of a soldier wending his way to heaven .

@rvpiano1, you are correct,  the request was for your choice as to the best 1st symphony, the best 2nd symphony ... the best 9th symphony, while using nine composers. I was only commenting on the irony of your complaining about having to leave out some composers while giving two slots to one composer.

@schubert , yours is a very nice list, but do you really think Haydn wrote the best Symphony #2, and Mozart wrote the best Symphony #3?