List of symphonies in D minor

This is a list of symphonies in D minor written by notable composers.

Baroque and Classical symphonies in D minor usually used 2 horns in F (whereas for most other minor keys 2 or 4 horns were used, half in the tonic and half in the relative major). Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 29 in D minor is notable for using two trumpets in D (the horns are in F but change to D for the coda of the finale). In the Romantic era, D minor symphonies, like symphonies in almost any other key, used horns in F and trumpets in B.

The first choice of clarinet for orchestral music in D minor is naturally the clarinet in B. This choice, however, becomes problematic for multi-movement works that begin in D minor and end in D major, as the clarinet in A would be preferable for the parallel major. One solution is to write the first movement for clarinet in B and the last movement for clarinet in A, but this burdens the player with having to warm up the A instrument in time for the switch. __TOC__

List ComposerSymphonyKurt Atterberg, Op. 20 (1917–22)Ernst BaconSymphony (1932)Edgar BaintonSymphony No. 2 (1939–40)Mily BalakirevSymphony No. 2 (1900–08)Score at the International Music Score Library ProjectFranz Ignaz BeckSymphony, Op. 3, No. 5Ludwig van BeethovenSymphony No. 9 "Choral", Op. 125 (1822–24)Victor Bendix, Op. 30 (1904–06, rev 1916)Score at the International Music Score Library ProjectAdolphe BiarentSymphony (1908)Vilém BlodekSymphony (1858–59)Luigi BoccheriniSymphony No. 4, Op. 12/4, G. 506 La casa del diavolo (1771) Symphony No. 15, Op. 37/3, G. 517 (1787) Symphony No. 20, Op. 45, G. 522 (1792)Hjalmar Borgstrøm, Op. 24 (1912)Henry BrantSymphony No. 2 (1942)Havergal BrianSymphony No. 1 "Gothic" (1919–27)George Frederick BristowSymphony No. 2, Op. 24 "Jullien" (apparently written by 1854, premiered in 1856)Anton BrucknerSymphony No. 0 "Die Nullte" (1860s) Symphony No. 3 (1873) Symphony No. 9 (1896, inc.)Fritz BrunSymphony No. 3Fritz Brun: Symphony No. 3 Oscar ByströmSymphony (1870–72, rev. 1895)Christian CannabichSymphony No. 50 (1772?)Albert DietrichSymphony, Op. 20 (completed February 1870 at latest, dedicated to Johannes Brahms). Dietrich's is listed under 1870 (its date of publication, as Frisch explains in a note on p. 10).Ernst von DohnányiSymphony No. 1, Op. 9 (1900–01)Antonín DvořákSymphony No. 4, Op. 13, B. 41 (1874) Symphony No. 7, Op. 70, B. 141 (1885)John Lodge EllertonSymphony No. 3 "Wald-Symphonie", Op. 120 (about 1857)Pietro FloridiaSymphony (1888)Josef Bohuslav FoersterSymphony No. 1, Op. 9 (1887) Symphony No. 5, Op. 141 (1929)César FranckSymphony in D minorNiels Gade, Op. 25 (1852)Information at IMSLP.John GardnerSymphony No. 1, Op. 12 (1946–47)Jan van Gilse (1906–07)Alexander GlazunovSymphony No. 9 (begun in 1910 but left unfinished by Glazunov's death in 1936. First movement orchestrated by Gavril Yudin in 1947)Mikhail GlinkaSymphony in D minor "On Two Russian Themes" (1833/1937) left unfinished and completed by Vissarion ShebalinThéodore Gouvy, Op. 25. (1855) ; see also the website of the Institut Théodore Gouvy.Paul GraenerSymphony, Op. 39 (published 1912)Henry Kimball HadleySymphony No. 4, Op. 64 (1911)Johan Halvorsen "Fate" (rev. 1928)Joseph HaydnSymphony No. 26 "Lamentatione" (1766) Symphony No. 34 (1767) Symphony No. 80 (1783–84)Michael HaydnSymphony No. 29, MH 393, Perger 20 (1784)Hans HuberSymphony No. 1 "Tell-Symphonie" Op. 63 (1880–01)Hans Huber: "Symphony No. 1 in D minor Op. 63 ‘Tell Symphony’, Musikproducktion Juergen Hoeflich. Symphony No. 7 "Swiss" (premiered September 1917)Hans Huber: Symphony No. 7 "Swiss" RISM]Jānis IvanovsSymphony No. 2 (1935)Charles IvesSymphony No. 1 (1898–1902)Jan KalivodaSymphony No. 3, Op. 32 (premiered 1830)Manolis KalomirisSymphony No. 3 (1955)Hugo KaunSymphony No. 1, Op. 22 (1895), An mein Vaterland. Dem Andenken meines VatersAugust KlughardtSymphony No. 1 "Lenore", Op. 27 (1873)Joseph Martin KrausSinfonia Da Chiesa, VB 147Franz LachnerSymphony No. 3, Op. 41 (1833–34) Symphony No. 7, Op. 58 (1839)László LajthaSymphony No. 1, Op. 24 (1936)Carl LoeweSymphony in D minorGustav MahlerSymphony No. 3 (1895–96)Nina MakarovaSymphony (1938, revised 1962)Otto MallingSymphony, Op. 17 (by 1884)Giuseppe Martucci, Op. 75 (1888–95)Felix MendelssohnSymphony No. 5, Op. 107 Reformation (1832)Frank MerrickSymphony in D minor (1912)Ödön MihalovichSymphony (published about 1883.)Nikolai Myaskovsky, Op. 38 (1933–34)Ludvig NormanSymphony No. 3, Op. 58 (published 1885)George OnslowSymphony No. 2, Op. 42Fredrik PaciusSymphony (1850)Gottfried von PreyerSymphony No. 1, Op. 16Florence PriceSymphony No. 4 (1945)Sergei ProkofievSymphony No. 2, Op. 40 (1925)Sergei RachmaninoffSymphony No. 1, Op. 13 (1896)Joachim RaffSymphony No. 6, Op. 189 (1873)Ture RangströmSymphony No. 2 "Mitt land" (1919) for Organ and Orchestra (1936)Napoléon Henri ReberSymphony No. 1Emil von ReznicekSymphony No. 1 Tragic (1901)Josef RheinbergerSymphony No. 1 "Wallenstein", Op. 10 (premiered 1866)Ferdinand RiesSymphony No. 5, Op. 112 (1813)Henri-Joseph RigelSymphony No. 10, Op. 21, No. 2Albert Roussel (1904–06)Anton Rubinstein "Dramatic", Op. 95 (1874)Vadim SalmanovSymphony No. 1 (1952)Adolphe SamuelSymphony No. 4, Op. 33 (1863)Bergmans, Charles (1901). . Gand: G. Beyer. . Page 379. Symphony No. 6, Op. 44 (1891)Philipp ScharwenkaSymphony, Op. 96 (published 1895).Martin ScherberSymphony No. 1 (1938)Robert SchumannSymphony No. 4, Op. 120 (1841)Johanna SenfterSymphony No. 2, Op. 27Dmitri ShostakovichSymphony No. 5, Op. 47 (1937) Symphony No. 12, Op. 112 "The Year 1917" (1961)Jean SibeliusSymphony No. 6, Op. 104 (1918–23)Christian Sinding (1880–89)Arthur SomervellSymphony ThalassaLouis SpohrSymphony No. 2, Op. 49 (1820)Charles Villiers StanfordSymphony No. 2 "Elegiac"(1880) Symphony No. 7, Op. 124 (1911)Richard StraussSymphony No. 1, AV 69 (1880)Hermann SuterSymphony, Op. 17 (1914)Sergei Taneyev (1884)Eduard Tubin "Heroic" (1940–42, revised 1968)Johann Baptist WanhalSymphony, Bryan d1 (by 1773)., page xvi. Symphony, Bryan d2 (with five horn parts)Ralph Vaughan WilliamsSymphony No. 8 (1955)Louis VierneRobert VolkmannSymphony No. 1, Op. 44 (published 1863)Karl WeiglSymphony No. 2 (1922)Johann Wilhelm WilmsSymphony No. 6, Op. 58Richard WüerstSymphony, Op. 54 (published in 1869)Alexander von ZemlinskySymphony No. 1 (1892)Johann Christoph Friedrich BachSymphony in D minor, BR-JCFB C 4 / Wf I/3 (ca. 1768)"Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach" in Nolte, Ewald V., ed., . Dates based on early copies by Johann Friedrich Peter. Madison, Wis.: A-R Editions, 1982. Preface page xi. . .

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