List of symphonies with names

While most symphonies have a number, many symphonies are known by their (nick)name.

This article lists symphonies that are numbered and have an additional nickname, and symphonies that are primarily known by their name and/or key. Also various compositions that contain "symphony" or "sinfonia" in their name are included, whether or not strictly speaking they adhere to the format of a classical symphony.

Sinfonia concertante is a different genre, and works of that genre are not included here, unless for those named works that are usually known as a symphony.

Composer	No.	Key	Original name	Translation	Date	Additional information
Alkan		C minor–E-flat minor	Symphonie pour piano seul	Symphony for solo piano	1857	Numbers 4–7 of Douze Études dans tous les tons mineurs, Op. 39, for solo piano
Andriessen			Symfonie voor losse snaren	Symphony for Open Strings	1978
Atterberg	3		Västkustbilder	West-Coast Images
Atterberg	4		Sinfonia piccola	Little Symphony
Atterberg	5		Sinfonia funèbre	Funereal Symphony
Atterberg	6		Dollar symphony
Atterberg	7		Sinfonia romantica	Romantic Symphony
Atterberg	9		Sinfonia visionaria	Visionary Symphony
Beethoven	3	E-flat major	Eroica	Heroic	1803–1804	Op. 55. Premiered 1805 see also List of works by Beethoven#Symphonies
Beethoven	5	C minor	Schicksalssinfonie	Fate Symphony	1804–1808	Op. 67. Premiered 1808
Beethoven	6	F major	Pastorale	Pastoral	1804–1808	Op. 68. Premiered 1808
Beethoven			Siegessinfonie full title: Wellingtons Sieg oder die Schlacht bei Vittoria	Battle Symphony full title: Wellington's Victory, or, the Battle of Vitoria	1813	Op. 91. Premiered 1813 piece for panharmonicon commissioned by the instrument's inventor, later arranged for orchestra see also List of works by Beethoven#Overtures and incidental music
Beethoven	9	D minor		Choral	1817–1824	Op. 125. Premiered 1824
Berlioz			Symphonie fantastique
Berlioz			Harold en Italie	Harold in Italy
Berlioz			Roméo et Juliette	Romeo and Juliet
Berlioz			Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale	Funereal and Triumphal Symphony
Bernstein	1		Jeremiah
Bernstein	2		The Age of Anxiety
Bernstein	3		Kaddish
Berwald	1		Sérieuse	Serious Symphony
Berwald	2		Capricieuse	Capricious Symphony
Berwald	3		Singulière	Singular Symphony
Berwald	4		Naïve
Bizet		C major		Symphony in C	1855
Bizet			Roma	Rome Symphony
Bliss			A Colour Symphony
Borodin	2			Bogatyrskaya		nickname first used by Vladimir Stasov
Brahms	1			Beethoven's Tenth		nickname first used by Hans von Bülow
Brahms	3					suggested to be called "Heroic", name rejected by Brahms
Brian	1		Gothic
Brian	2		Man in his Cosmic Loneliness
Brian	4		Das Siegeslied	The Song of Victory
Brian	5		Wine of Summer
Brian	6		Sinfonia Tragica	Tragic Symphony
Brian	22		Symphonia Brevis	Short Symphony
Britten			Simple Symphony
Britten			Sinfonia da Requiem	Requiem Symphony
Britten			Spring Symphony
Britten			Cello Symphony	Cello Symphony	1963	full title: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra Op. 68. Premiered 1964
Brown			The Northern Journey
Bruckner	00		00			student work written prior to No. 1
Bruckner	0		Nullte			written after No. 1 and before No. 2
Bruckner	2			Symphony of Pauses
Bruckner	3			Wagner Symphony
Bruckner	4			Romantic
Bruckner	8			Apocalyptic		the name is not used anymore
Chausson		B-flat major		Symphony in B-flat	1890
Chávez	1		Sinfonía de Antígona	Symphony of Antigone
Chávez	2		Sinfonía india	Indian Symphony
Chávez	4		Sinfonía romántica	Romantic Symphony
Chávez	5		Sinfonía para cuerdas	Symphony for Strings
Chávez			Caballos de vapor: sinfonía de baile	Horse Power: Dance Symphony	1926–1932
Chávez			Llamadas: sinfonía proletaria	Calls [to Arms]: Proletarian Symphony	1934
Clementi		B-flat major		Symphony in B-flat major		Opus 18 no. 1
Clementi		D major		Symphony in D major		Opus 18 no. 2
Clementi	3		The Great National
Copland			Organ Symphony			Copland's Symphony No. 1 is an arrangement of this symphony without the organ
Copland	2		Short		1934
Copland			Dance Symphony			arrangement of music from the ballet Grohg
Danielpour	3		Journey without Distance
Daugherty			Metropolis Symphony
Davies	8		Antarctic
Davies	10		Alla ricerca di Borromini
De Meij	1		The Lord of the Rings
De Meij	2		The Big Apple – A New York Symphony
De Meij	3		Planet Earth
Draeseke	3		Symphonia Tragica
Draeseke	4		Symphonia Comica
Dvořák	1		The Bells of Zlonice
Dvořák	9		Z nového světa	From the New World		A.k.a. New World Symphony; Previously listed as No. 8
Eisler			Deutsche Sinfonie	German Symphony
El-Dabh			Symphonies in Sonic Vibration: Spectrum No. 1		1957
Franck		D minor	Symphonie en ré mineur	Symphony in D minor
German	2		Norwich
Gillis	1		An American Symphony
Gillis	2		Symphony of Faith
Gillis	3		A Symphony for Free Men
Gillis	5		In Memoriam
Gillis	5½		A Symphony for Fun
Gillis	6		The Pioneers
Gillis	7		Saga of the Prairie School
Gillis	8		A Dance Symphony
Glass	1		Low
Glass	4		Heroes
Glass	5		Choral
Glass	6		Plutonian Ode
Glass	7		Toltec
Glazunov	1			Slavic
Glazunov	7			Pastoral
Glière	3		Ilya Muromets
Goldmark			Ländliche Hochzeit	Rustic Wedding Symphony		literally "Rural Wedding"
Górecki	2		Kopernikowska	Copernican	1972	Op. 31
Górecki	3		Symfonia pieśni żałosnych	Symphony of Sorrowful Songs	1976	Op. 36
Gottshalk	1		La Nuit des Tropiques	Night of the Tropics	1859
Guerra-Peixe	2		Brasília
Hanson	1		Nordic
Hanson	2		Romantic
Hanson	4		Requiem
Hanson	5		Sinfonia sacra
Hanson	7		Sea
Harris	1		Symphony 1933
Harris	4		Folksong
Harris	6		Gettysburg
Harris	8		San Francisco
Harrison			Symphony on G			The word "on" is a deliberate part of the composer's title
Hartmann	1		Miserae			later retitled simply as 'symphonic poem'
Hartmann	1		Versuch eines Requiem
Hartmann	1		Symphonie concertante
Haydn	6	D major	Le matin	Morning	1761	see also List of symphonies by Joseph Haydn
Haydn	7	C major	Le midi	Noon	1761
Haydn	8	G major	Le soir	Evening	1761
Haydn	22	E-flat major	Der Philosoph	Philosopher	1764
Haydn	26	D minor	Lamentatione		1768 (maybe 1769)
Haydn	30	C major	Alleluja	Alleluia	1765
Haydn	31	D major	Hornsignal	Hornsignal	1765
Haydn	38	C major		Echo	17681768c. 1768
Haydn	43	E-flat major	Merkur	Mercury	1770–1771
Haydn	44	E minor	Trauer-Sinfonie		1770–1771
Haydn	45	F-sharp minor	Abschiedssinfonie	Farewell	1772
Haydn	47	G major		The Palindrome	1772
Haydn	48	C major	Maria Theresia		1769
Haydn	49	F minor	La Passione		1768
Haydn	53	D major	L'Impériale		1778–1779
Haydn	55	E-flat major	Der Schulmeister	The Schoolmaster	1774
Haydn	59	A major	Feuer		1768
Haydn	60	C major	Il distratto		1774
Haydn	63	C major	La Roxelane		1779
Haydn	64	A major	Tempora mutantur		1773
Haydn	69	C major	Laudon		17741774c. 1774–1775
Haydn	73	D major	La Chasse		17811781c. 1781
Haydn	82	C major	L'Ours	The Bear	1786(?)
Haydn	83	G minor	La Poule	The Hen	1785
Haydn	84	E-flat major	In nomine Domini		1786
Haydn	85	B-flat major	La Reine	The Queen	1785(?)
Haydn	92	G major	Oxford		1789	premiered 1789
Haydn	94	G major	Mit dem Paukenschlag	The Surprise	1791	premiered 1791
Haydn	96	D major	Le Miracle	The Miracle	1791	premiered 1791
Haydn	100	G major	Militär	Military	1794	premiered 1794
Haydn	101	D major	Die Uhr	The Clock	1794	premiered 1794
Haydn	103	E-flat major	Mit dem Paukenwirbel	Drumroll	1795	Premiered 1795
Haydn	104	D major	London		1795	a.k.a. Salomon. Premiered 1795
Haydn	107	B-flat major	Sinfonie A	A	1760–1761
Haydn	108	B-flat major	Sinfonie B	B	1762
Hill	1		Maori
Hill	3		Australia
Hill	4		The pursuit of happiness
Hill	5		Carnival
Hill	6		Celtic
Hill	9		Melodious
Hill	10		Short symphony
Hindemith		E-flat		Symphony in E-flat
Hindemith		B-flat		Symphony in B-flat for Band		for Concert Band
Hindemith			Mathis der Maler	The painter Matthias		a reference to Matthias Grünewald see also Mathis der Maler (opera)
Hindemith			Pittsburgh Symphony
Hindemith			Symphony Serena
Holmboe	3		Sinfonia rustica
Holmboe	4		Sinfonia sacra
Holmboe	8		Sinfonia boreale
Honegger	3		Symphonie Liturgique
Honegger	4		Deliciae basiliensis
Honegger	5		Di tre re
Hovhaness	1		Exile
Hovhaness	2		Mysterious Mountain
Hovhaness	6		Celestial Gate
Hovhaness	7		Nanga Parvat
Hovhaness	8		Arjuna
Hovhaness	9		Saint Vartan
Hovhaness	10		Vahaken
Hovhaness	11		All Men are Brothers
Hovhaness	12		Choral
Hovhaness	13		Ardent Song			re-arrangement of music composed for the Martha Graham ballet Ardent Song
Hovhaness	14		Ararat
Hovhaness	15		Silver Pilgrimage
Hovhaness	16		Kayagum
Hovhaness	17		Symphony for Metal Orchestra
Hovhaness	18		Circe			re-arrangement of music composed for the 1963 Martha Graham ballet Circe
Hovhaness	19		Vishnu
Hovhaness	20		Three Journeys to a Holy Mountain
Hovhaness	21		Etchmiadzin
Hovhaness	22		City of Light
Hovhaness	23		Ani
Hovhaness	24		Majnun
Hovhaness	25		Odysseus
Hovhaness	32		The Broken Wings
Hovhaness	46		To the Green Mountains
Hovhaness	47		Walla Walla, Land of Many Waters
Hovhaness	48		Vision of Andromeda
Hovhaness	49		Christmas Symphony
Hovhaness	50		Mount St. Helens
Hovhaness	52		Journey to Vega
Hovhaness	53		Star Dawn
Hovhaness	57		Cold Mountain
Hovhaness	58		Symphony Sacra
Hovhaness	60		To the Appalachian Mountains
Hovhaness	62		Oh Let Man Not Forget These Words Divine
Hovhaness	63		Loon Lake
Hovhaness	64		Agiochook
Hovhaness	65		Artstakh
Hovhaness	66		Hymn to Glacier Peak
Hovhaness	67		Hymn to the Mountains
Hovhaness			Mountains and Rivers Without End		1968	Chamber Symphony for 10 Players
Hummel	2		Reverenza
Hummel	3		Jeremiah
d'Indy	1		Italienne	Italian		never published
d'Indy	3		Sinfonia brevis de bello Gallico	Brief sinfonia of the war in Gaul
d'Indy			Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français a.k.a.Symphonie Cévenole	Symphony on a French Mountain Air ("Cévennes Symphony")
Ivanovs	4		Atlantis
Ivanovs	6		Latvian
Ivanovs	12		Sinfonia energica
Ivanovs	13		Symphonia humana
Ivanovs	15		Sinfonia Ipsa
Ives	3		The Camp Meeting
Ives			New England Holidays			a.k.a. Holidays Symphony
Ives			Universe Symphony
Kaelin			Symphonie des deux mondes	Symphony of the Two Worlds		on a text by Helder Camara
Karłowicz		E minor	Rebirth			Op. 7
Kashif			The Queen Symphony			based on the music of the pop group Queen
Koechlin			Seven Stars Symphony
Koppel			Symfoni for gadens børn	Symphony for children in the streets
Lalo			Symphonie espagnole			for violin and orchestra
Liszt				Dante Symphony		full name: A symphony to Dante's Divina Commedia
Liszt			Eine Faust-Symphonie	Faust Symphony
Lange-Müller	1	D minor	Efterår	Autumn		Op. 17
Mahler	1		Der Titan	Titan	1892
Mahler	2		Auferstehung	Resurrection
Mahler	6			Tragic
Mahler	7			Song of the Night
Mahler	8			Symphony of a Thousand
Mahler			Das Lied von der Erde	The Song of the Earth		a symphony in the guise of a song cycle see Curse of the ninth
Martinů	6		Fantaisies Symphoniques	Symphonic Fantasies
McCabe			Six-minute Symphony
Melartin	4		Kesäsinfonia	Summer Symphony
Melartin	5		Sinfonia brevis	Short Symphony
Melartin	7		Sinfonia gaia	Joyous Symphony		unfinished
Mendelssohn	2		Lobgesang	Hymn of Praise
Mendelssohn	3		Schottische	Scottish
Mendelssohn	4		Italienische	Italian
Mendelssohn	5		Reformation
Menezes			Sinfonias	Symphonies	1997–1998	8-channel electronic work using snippets from hundreds of symphonies in the classical repertoire
Messiaen			Turangalîla-Symphonie	Turangalîla Symphony	1946–1948	Premiered 1949. Revised 1990.
Mignone			Sinfonia do Trabalho	Labour Symphony	1939
Mignone			Sinfonia tropical	Tropical Symphony	1958
Mignone			Sinfonia transamazônica	Transamazonic Symphony	1972
Milhaud	3		Te Deum
Milhaud	8		Rhôdanienne	Rhone Symphony
Milhaud	11		Romantique	Romantic Symphony
Milhaud	12		La Rurale	Rural Symphony
Mohaupt	1		Rhythm and Variations		1939–1940	premiered 1942
Mozart, L.		G major		Toy Symphony		Cassation for toys, 2 oboes, 2 horns, strings and continuo
Mozart		A minor		Odense Symphony		K. Anh 220 (16a) – spurious
Mozart		G major		Old Lambach Symphony	1766(?)	45a
Mozart	25	G minor		Little G minor		see also List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart#Symphonies
Mozart	31			Paris
Mozart	32			Overture in the Italian style
Mozart	35		Haffner
Mozart	36		Linz
Mozart	38			Prague
Mozart	40	G minor		Great G minor		Also: The Fortieth (number as nickname)
Mozart	41		Jupiter
Myaskovsky	16	F Major		Aviation
Nielsen	2		The Four Temperaments
Nielsen	3		Sinfonia Espansiva	Expansive Symphony
Nielsen	4		The Inextinguishable
Nielsen	6		Sinfonia Semplice	Simple Symphony
Nystroem			Sinfonia breve	Short Symphony
Panufnik	1		Sinfonia rustica
Panufnik	2		Sinfonia elegiaca	Elegiac Symphony
Panufnik	3		Sinfonia sacra	Sacred Symphony
Panufnik	4		Sinfonia concertante	Concertant Symphony
Panufnik	5		Sinfonia di sfere	Symphony of the Spheres
Panufnik	6		Sinfonia mistica	Mystic Symphony
Panufnik	7		Metasinfonia	Metasymphony
Panufnik	8		Sinfonia votiva	Votive Symphony
Panufnik	9		Sinfonia di speranza	Symphony of Hope
Parry	2		Cambridge
Parry	3		English
Parry	5		Symphonic fantasia
Pärt	1		Polyphonic
Pärt	4		Los Angeles
Penderecki	2		Christmas
Penderecki	4		Adagio
Penderecki	5		Korean
Penderecki	7		The Seven Gates of Jerusalem
Penderecki	8		Lieder der Vergänglichkeit	Songs of Transience
Persichetti	5		Symphony for Strings
Persichetti	7		Liturgical
Persichetti	9		Sinfonia Janiculum	Symphony of the Janiculum
Prokofiev	1		Classical
del Puerto	1		Boreas
del Puerto	2		Nusantara
del Puerto	3		En la melancolía de tu recuerdo, Soria	In the Melancholy of your Memory, Soria
Rautavaara	4		Arabescata
Rautavaara	6		Vincentiana			based on themes of his opera Vincent
Rautavaara	7		Angel of Light
Rautavaara	8		The Journey
Rimsky-Korsakov	2		Antar
Röntgen	5		Der Schnitter Tod	The Grim Reaper
Röntgen	10		Walzersymphonie	Waltz Symphony
Röntgen	11		Wirbelsymphonie	Vortex Symphony
Röntgen			Bitonal Symphony
Röntgen			Symphonietta Humoristica	Humouristic Sinfonietta
Rubinstein	2		Ocean
Rubinstein	4		Dramatic
Rubbra	8		Hommage à Teilhard de Chardin
Rubbra	9		Resurrection			a.k.a. Sinfonia Sacra
Rubbra	10		da Camera	Chamber Symphony
Rubbra	11		à Colette
Saint-Saëns			Urbs Roma
Saint-Saëns	3			Organ
Sallinen	2		Symphonic Dialogue
Sallinen	5		Washington Mosaics
Sallinen	6		From a New Zealand Diary
Sallinen	7		The Dreams of Gandalf
Sallinen	8		Autumnal Fragments
Santoro	4		Sinfonia da Paz	Symphony of Peace
Santoro	7		Sinfonia Brasília	Brasilia Symphony
Schaeffer and Henry			Symphonie pour un homme seul	Symphony for One Man Alone	1949–1950	multi-movement musique concrète composition, premiered 1950 several revisions including a 1966 one by Henry
Schubert	4	C minor	Tragische	Tragic	1816	D 417 See also List of compositions by Schubert#Symphonies
Schubert	6	C major	Kleine Sinfonie C-Dur	Little C major	1817–18	D 589
Schubert	8	B minor	Unvollendete	Unfinished	1822	D 759. Occasionally listed as No. 7
Schubert	9	C major	Große Sinfonie C-Dur	Great C major	1825–1828	D 944. Also listed as No. 7 or No. 8 Identified as the elusive Gmunden-Gasteiner Sinfonie (Gastein Symphony)
Schubert	10	D major	The Last		1828	D 936a. Reconstruction based on sketches
Schumann	1		Frühling	Spring
Schumann	3		Rheinische	Rhenish
Scriabin	3		The Divine Poem
Shapero			Symphony for Classical Orchestra		1947
Shapiro	1		Pomes Penyeach
Shostakovich	2		To October
Shostakovich	3		The First of May
Shostakovich	7		Leningrad
Shostakovich	11		The Year 1905
Shostakovich	12		The Year 1917
Shostakovich	13		Babi Yar
Smith	1		The Divine Comedy
Smith	2		The Odyssey
Smith	3		Don Quixote
Smith			Symphony of Souls
Stanford	2		Elegiac
Stanford	3		Irish
Stanford	5		L'Allegro ed il Penseroso
Stanford	6		In Memoriam G F Watts
Still	1		Afro-American
Still	2		Song of A New Race
Still	3		Sunday Symphony
Still	4		Autochthonous
Still	5		Western Hemisphere
Strauss, R.			Eine Alpensinfonie	An Alpine Symphony
Strauss, R.			Symphonia Domestica	Domestic Symphony
Stravinsky		E-flat		Symphony in E-flat	1907	sometimes indicated as "Opus 1"
Stravinsky		C		Symphony in C	1940
Stravinsky			Symphony of Psalms
Stravinsky			Symphonies d'instruments à vent	Symphonies of Wind Instruments		single-movement work for wind ensemble, not actually a symphony
Suk	2		Asrael	Azrael
Tchaikovsky	1			Winter Daydreams
Tchaikovsky	2			Little Russian
Tchaikovsky	3			Polish
Tchaikovsky			Ма́нфред	Manfred Symphony	1885	Op. 58. Premiered 1886
Tchaikovsky	6		Pathétique	Pathetic Symphony
Ter-T'at'evosian	2		Sud'ba cheloveka	The Fate of a Man
Ter-T'at'evosian	5		Paganini
Toch	5		Jephtha, Rhapsodic Poem
Tournemire			Symphonie sacrée	Sacred Symphony		for organ
Tubin	2		Legendary
Tubin	3		Heroic
Tubin	4		Lyrical
Tubin	9		Sinfonia semplice	Simple Symphony
Vaughan Williams	1		A Sea Symphony
Vaughan Williams	2		A London Symphony
Vaughan Williams	3		A Pastoral Symphony
Vaughan Williams	7		Sinfonia antartica
Villa-Lobos	1		O Imprevisto	The Unforeseen
Villa-Lobos	2		Ascenção	The Ascension
Villa-Lobos	3		A Guerra	The War
Villa-Lobos	4		A Vitória	The Victory
Villa-Lobos	5		A Paz	The Peace		lost
Villa-Lobos	6		Montanhas do Brasil	The Mountains of Brasil
Villa-Lobos	10		Sumé Pater Patrium, Amerindia
Vivaldi		B minor	Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro	Symphony for the Holy Sepulcher		sonata for 2 violins, viola & continuo, RV 169
Wagner		C major		Symphony in C	1831	premiered 1832
Wagner		E-flat		Symphony in E-flat		unfinished
Whear	1		Stonehenge Symphony
Widor	9			Gothic		for organ
Widor	10			Roman		for organ
Widor			Sinfonia sacra	Sacred Symphony	1908	for organ and orchestra
Widor			Symphonie antique	Ancient Symphony	1911	for organ and orchestra, with choral finale
Williamson	1		Elevamini
Williamson	2		Pilgrim på Havet
Williamson	3		The Icy Mirror
Williamson	4		Jubilee
Williamson	5		Aquerò
Williamson	6		Liturgy of Homage			full title: Liturgy of Homage to the Australian Broadcasting Commission in its Fiftieth Year as University to the Australian Nation
Williamson	7		Symphony for Strings
Willson	1		A Symphony of San Francisco
Willson	2		Missions of California
Wingate	2		Kleetüden
Witt			Jenaer Sinfonie	Jena Symphony		Upon its discovery (1909) attributed to Beethoven, later more probable attribution to Witt
Zwilich	1		Three Movements for Orchestra

See also

• List of classical music sub-titles, nicknames and non-numeric titles

External links

• Many more named symphonies in this Chronological list of symphonies