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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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edcyn
1,876 posts
 
I’ll start with #39 -- Mozart
It doesn’t help that I’ve got a weakness for Fourths -- Brahms, Mahler, Tchaikovsky.
Fifths give me fits, too.
berner99
216 posts
 
Beethoven 9th Furtwangler
Sibelius 2nd
Alan Hovaness 22: symphony of light




jdane
183 posts
 
Nice.  I'm having trouble w/ 1, so I'll just toss in Dmitri S. (I don't know that symphony at all, but I'm sure it's fine).  Took some shuffling (e.g., the obvious Gorecki 3 changed to 4, which if you haven't heard it ROCKS!), moving Mahler and Brahms etc.  Of course the best list would include Mahler in all positions except 8!

1. Shostakovich
2. Brahms
3. Mahler
4. Gorecki
5. Schubert
6. Haydn
7. Beethoven
8. Bruckner
9. Dvorak
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