9 symphonies, 9 composers

[Michael J Valinis]

Here's my list. It might have been different if I could have repeated some of
the composers, but I've added my alternate selections....

#1 - Brahms (Hey, there aren't that many great first symphonies out there)
#2 - Rachmaninoff (Brahms, Hovhaness)
#3 - Ives (Beethoven, Brahms)
#4 - Schumann (Brahms, Ives, Mendelssohn, Sibelius)
#5 - Mendelssohn (Prokofiev, Shostakovich)
#6 - Tchaikovsky (Beethoven, Sibelius)
#7 - Sibelius (Beethoven, Vaughan Williams)
#8 - Dvorak (Beethoven, Vaughan Williams)
#9 - Beethoven (Dvorak)

Sorry folks, but Mahler, Bruckner & I could never share the same desert
island... :-)
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[Robert Brooks]

Ok, here are mine (after much painstaking thought):

#1-Brahms (no contest here)
#2-Mahler
#3-Beethoven
#4-Sibelius
#5-Prokofiev
#6-Mahler
#7-Beethoven
#8-Bruckner (but Mahler a very close second)
#9-Beethoven

And if I could only have symphonies of one composer:

Mahler (that should ignite some flame throwers :-) )
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[Peter Herweijer]

Ok, I'll bite too:

#1 Webern (he's written only one... but still...)
#2 Schoenberg (Kammersinfonie)
#3 Beethoven
#4 Brahms
#5 Beethoven
#6 Mahler
#7 Schostakovich
#8 Schubert (Unf.)
#9 Bruckner

The question is biased not only against Mozart and Haydn,
but also against Monteverdi, Byrd, Bach, Berg, Varese...
oh well...

#10-- Haydn

Peter Herweijer
pie...@sci.kun.nl

[I. Neill Reid]

Just at the moment, I'd go for

1 - Berlioz (Fantastique)
2 - Elgar
3 - Nielsen
4 - Vaughan Williams
5 - Shostakovich
6 - Beethoven
7 - Sibelius
8 - Rubbra (or Dvorak)
9 - Schubert

(and 10-37, 42-104, Haydn; 38-41, Mozart)

If you disallow Berlioz (why?), 1 - Elgar, 2 - Rachmaninov

Neill Reid - i...@eccles.caltech.edu

[Don Pajerek]

In article <X39X...@cc.swarthmore.edu> rbro...@cc.swarthmore.edu (Robert Brooks) writes:
>Ok, here are mine (after much painstaking thought):
>
>#1-Brahms (no contest here)
>#2-Mahler
>#3-Beethoven
>#4-Sibelius
>#5-Prokofiev
>#6-Mahler
>#7-Beethoven
>#8-Bruckner (but Mahler a very close second)
>#9-Beethoven
>
>And if I could only have symphonies of one composer:
>
>Mahler (that should ignite some flame throwers :-) )
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>Rob Brooks | rbro...@cc.swarthmore.edu | (215) 328-8022

This list shows the difficulty of including just one Mahler
symphony!

How about:

#1 Walton
#2 Brahms
#3 Mahler
#4 Ives
#5 Nielsen
#6 Sibelius
#7 Beethoven
#8 Shostakovich
#9 Bruckner

Don Pajerek

Standard disclaimers apply.

[John Altinbay]

In article <16FEB199...@eccles.caltech.edu> i...@eccles.caltech.edu (I. Neill Reid) writes:
>
> (and 10-37, 42-104, Haydn; 38-41, Mozart)
>

Oh, I don't know, I think I'd prefer Mozart on 21-25.

[Ian R Jenkins]

Ok - to join in the fun, here's my top 9 - (with alternatives !)

#1 Brahms (Brian)
#2 Mahler (Vaughan Williams)
#3 Sibelius (Roussel)
#4 Schumann (Beethoven)
#5 Prokofiev (Mahler)
#6 Shostakovich (very underated work, Sibelius)
#7 Beethoven (Bruckner)
#8 Dvorak (Bruckner)
#9 Simpson (Beethoven - I prefer the Beethoven but my Beethoven allocation is up)

Ian J

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[Mike Hurben]

It looks like half of the responses have missed the point entirely - you
can only have one work per composer!!

Well, since that seems fairly unpopular, I will now revise my original list,
with the above condition relaxed.

#1 - Mahler
#2 - Mahler
#3 - Beethoven
#4 - Mahler
#5 - Prokofiev
#6 - Beethoven
#7 - Mahler
#8 - Shostakovich
#9 - Beethoven

Favorite "Fantastique" symphony - Berlioz

Favorite Alpine Symphony - Strauss

Favorite 35th symphony - Mozart

Mike Hurben Helft! Moerder!

[James Kahn]

In article <1993Feb17....@netcom.com> alti...@netcom.com (John Altinbay) writes:
>In article <16FEB199...@eccles.caltech.edu> i...@eccles.caltech.edu (I. Neill Reid) writes:
>> (and 10-37, 42-104, Haydn; 38-41, Mozart)
>>
>Oh, I don't know, I think I'd prefer Mozart on 21-25.

I'd take Mozart for 29 also, as well as 35-36.

Jim

[carl.w.muhlhausen]

In article <1993Feb16.0...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mval...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael J Valinis) writes:
>Here's my list. It might have been different if I could have repeated some of
>the composers, but I've added my alternate selections....
>
>#1 - Brahms (Hey, there aren't that many great first symphonies out there)
>#2 - Rachmaninoff (Brahms, Hovhaness)
>#3 - Ives (Beethoven, Brahms)
>#4 - Schumann (Brahms, Ives, Mendelssohn, Sibelius)
>#5 - Mendelssohn (Prokofiev, Shostakovich)
>#6 - Tchaikovsky (Beethoven, Sibelius)
>#7 - Sibelius (Beethoven, Vaughan Williams)
>#8 - Dvorak (Beethoven, Vaughan Williams)
>#9 - Beethoven (Dvorak)
>

How about:

#1 - Mahler
#2 - Mahler
#3 - Beethoven

#4 - Brahms
#5 - Beethoven
#6 - Beethoven
#7 - Beethoven
#8 - Beethoven
#9 - Beethoven

Ducking for cover...

Carl

Carl Muhlhausen "The midrange was the aural equivalent of
att!taz!ledzep a chocolate truffle"

[Robert Parson]

In article <13...@hardy.rl.ac.uk>, i...@tsuga.ac.uk (Ian R Jenkins) writes:
>
>
> #6 Shostakovich (very underated work, Sibelius)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Agree! I think the Shostakovich 6th is a fascinating piece. Though my
#6 would be Sibelius or Vaughan Williams.

[Robert Parson]

In article <Feb17.180...@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>,

hur...@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Mike Hurben) writes:
>
> Favorite "Fantastique" symphony - Berlioz
>
> Favorite Alpine Symphony - Strauss
>
> Favorite 35th symphony - Mozart
>

How about Favorite Antartica Symphony?

[Matthew McIntyre at the National University of Senegal]

rbro...@cc.swarthmore.edu (Robert Brooks) writes:
: Ok, here are mine (after much painstaking thought):

:
: #1-Brahms (no contest here)
: #2-Mahler
: #3-Beethoven
: #4-Sibelius
: #5-Prokofiev
: #6-Mahler
: #7-Beethoven
: #8-Bruckner (but Mahler a very close second)
: #9-Beethoven
:
: And if I could only have symphonies of one composer:
:
: Mahler (that should ignite some flame throwers :-) )
: --

Why should it? Surely scorning Mahler went out with Nixon?

[John Dooley]

Seems like a fun excercise ... so, I'll throw in ...

#1 Shostakovich
#2 Brahms
#3 Mendelssohn
#4 Nielsen
#5 Beethoven
#6 Haydn
#7 Dvorak
#8 Mahler
#9 Bruckner

John D.

[Steve Apter]

What are your favorite

10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90 minute symphonies?

Just trying to be fair to Brian and Myaskovski, Bill.

Steve

[car...@afit.af.mil]

In article <1993Feb17....@netcom.com> alti...@netcom.com (John Altinbay) writes:

>From: alti...@netcom.com (John Altinbay)
>Subject: Re: 9 symphonies, 9 composers
>Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 04:01:32 GMT

For those trying to work in higher numbered symphonies into their lists
might consider using modulo 9 arithmetic (if you recall your mathematics,
thats dividing by nine and just considering the number--thus, if you wish to
include Haydn's Symphony #102, that would be 102 mod 9 = 3). Using this
system, I come up with:

0 Bruckner #9
1 Shostakovich #10
2 Mahler #2
3 Mozart #39
4 Brahms #4
5 Prokofiev #5
6 Beethoven #6
7 Haydn #88
8 Dvorak #8

[Richard A. Muirden]

mval...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael J Valinis) writes:

>#1 - Brahms (Hey, there aren't that many great first symphonies out there)

Shostakovich's first is pure genius !!!!!!!!

>>+> Michael J. Valinis -=+<*>+=- mval...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu <+<
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>+>=>+>=>+>>*>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=<*<<+<=<+<=<+

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[Richard A. Muirden]

pars...@cubldr.colorado.edu (Robert Parson) writes:

> How about Favorite Antartica Symphony?

Vaughan Williams, of course!!!

:)

-richard

[Richard A. Muirden]

My nine:

#1 : Shostakovich (SNO/Jarvi)
#2 : Vaughan-Williams (LPO/Haitink)
#3 : Nielson (SNO/Thomson)
#4 : Tchaikovsky
#5 : Prokofiev (SNO/Jarvi)
#6 : Miaskovsky
#7 : Beethoven (Karajan)
#8 : Shubert
#9 : Mahler (PO/Sinipoli)

[Rob Conklin]

I'm going with the liberalized rules that allow
duplication of composers:

#1 Brahms
#2 Brahms

#3 Beethoven
#4 Brahms
#5 Beethoven

#6 Beethoveen
#7 Beethoven
#8 Shubert
#9 not easy, but...Bruckner (sorry Beethoven)

-- Rob Conklin (CWI)
Internet Address: con...@lilypond.win.net

[Don Pajerek]

In article <1993Feb19.1...@fid.morgan.com> ap...@fid.morgan.com (Steve Apter) writes:
>What are your favorite
>

10 Webern
20 Copland 'Short' (actually 15")
30
40 Shostakovich 10
50
60 Mahler 4
70
80 Bruckner 9
90 Mahler 3

>
>Steve

[Jonathan A. Cook <jac2y>]

My rather limited perspective:

1) Brahms
2) Mahler
3) Beethoven
4(0) Mozart [it HAD to be done!]
5) Shostakovich
6) Beethoven
7) Beethoven
8) Prokofiev
9) Beethoven OR Schubert

Jon.
ja...@virginia.edu

[Deryk Barker]

ja...@Virginia.EDU (Jonathan A. Cook <jac2y>) writes:
: My rather limited perspective:

:
: 1) Brahms
: 2) Mahler
: 3) Beethoven
: 4(0) Mozart [it HAD to be done!]
: 5) Shostakovich
: 6) Beethoven
: 7) Beethoven
: 8) Prokofiev

Pardon? I thought he only wrote 7.

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[Steve Apter]

In article <1m9bo3...@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> rae...@kittyhawk.aero.rmit.OZ.AU (Richard A. Muirden) writes:
>My nine:
>
>#1 : Shostakovich (SNO/Jarvi)
>#2 : Vaughan-Williams (LPO/Haitink)
>#3 : Nielson (SNO/Thomson)
>#4 : Tchaikovsky
>#5 : Prokofiev (SNO/Jarvi)
>#6 : Miaskovsky
>#7 : Beethoven (Karajan)
>#8 : Shubert
>#9 : Mahler (PO/Sinipoli)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Huh? When was this issued?

[ede...@pearl.tufts.edu]

RE: 9 composers, 9 symphonies

Hmmm...interesting question. It reminds me of a poster I once saw for the
Birmingham (Eng.) Symphony Orchestra 1991 season.

#1-Mahler
#2-Mahler (Sibelius is a good option, also Bernstein)
#3-Copland (Beethoven was reeeeeal close)
#4-Brahms
#5-Mahler (again- sorry)
#6-Beethoven (I guess- that one was hard)
#7-Beethoven
#8-Dvorak (actually, another close one for Beethoven)
#9-Shostakovich

#10-Schuman (one more for good measure)

That's the best that I can do this morning. Later.

Eric Dewar - Tufts University (Medford, MA)
ede...@pearl.tufts.edu

[Jonathan A. Cook <jac2y>]

dba...@spang.Camosun.BC.CA writes:
> ja...@Virginia.EDU (Jonathan A. Cook <jac2y>) writes:
> : 8) Prokofiev
>
> Pardon? I thought he only wrote 7.

Silly me. Right of course. I think I must meant Shostakovich,
though I'm not quite sure now. Prokofiev's 5th, I believe I
meant.

Jon.

[Richard A. Muirden]

ap...@fid.morgan.com (Steve Apter) writes:

>In article <1m9bo3...@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> rae...@kittyhawk.aero.rmit.OZ.AU (Richard A. Muirden) writes:
>>My nine:
>>
>>#1 : Shostakovich (SNO/Jarvi)
>>#2 : Vaughan-Williams (LPO/Haitink)
>>#3 : Nielson (SNO/Thomson)
>>#4 : Tchaikovsky
>>#5 : Prokofiev (SNO/Jarvi)
>>#6 : Miaskovsky
>>#7 : Beethoven (Karajan)
>>#8 : Shubert
>>#9 : Mahler (PO/Sinipoli)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Huh? When was this issued?

oops! my mistake I was thinking of the 5th!!!

>>
>>-richard

sorry!!

[C D I Bertram]

Sorry, I can only manage this under the relaxed rules!

#1 Walton

#2 Brahms
#3 Beethoven
#4 Brahms

#5 Mahler
#6 Beethoven
#7 Beethoven
#8 Mahler
#9 Beethoven (hard one this, I might have gone for
Mahler, how anyone could prefer Bruckner I'll never
comprehend.

... and not forgetting
#10 Shostakovich