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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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mahler123
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Why do we stop at 9?  That is unfair to someone like Haydn, or Khovahness, or even Leif Segerstram.  So I’ll do 10-15.
10-Mahler, in the Deryck  Cooke completion.
11. C.P.E. Bach Wq182
12. Haydn
13. Mozart
14. Weinberg 
15. Shostakovich 
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phomchick OP
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How about we keep it at nine symphonies, but open it up to the last digit only? Thus #2, #72, and #102 would all be allowed picks for #2. That gives you more symphonies to choose from, but you still have make choices to come with a list of nine. 
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twoleftears
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Other than Haydn, how many other composers made it past Mozart's 41?
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phomchick OP
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Very few bettered Mozart. It may only be Haydn (104) and Hovhaness (67).
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phomchick OP
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I think I’m going to try making a list with my mod 10 numbering suggestion. It’s not going to be much different because other than Mozart, Haydn, and Hovhaness, I can’t think of many composers that will be added.

And.... it just occurred to me that we have to pick ten symphonies to allow numbers ending in zero. Make it so!
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