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.

ComposerNo.KeyOriginal nameTranslationDateAdditional 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 snarenSymphony for Open Strings1978
Atterberg3 Västkustbilder West-Coast Images
Atterberg4 Sinfonia piccola Little Symphony
Atterberg5 Sinfonia funèbre Funereal Symphony
Atterberg6 Dollar symphony
Atterberg7 Sinfonia romantica Romantic Symphony
Atterberg9 Sinfonia visionaria Visionary Symphony
Beethoven3E-flat majorEroicaHeroic1803–1804Op. 55. Premiered 1805
see also List of works by Beethoven#Symphonies
Beethoven5C minorSchicksalssinfonieFate Symphony1804–1808Op. 67. Premiered 1808
Beethoven6F majorPastoralePastoral1804–1808Op. 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
1813Op. 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
Beethoven9D minor Choral1817–1824Op. 125. Premiered 1824
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
Berlioz Harold en ItalieHarold in Italy
Berlioz Roméo et Juliette Romeo and Juliet
Berlioz Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale Funereal and Triumphal Symphony
Bernstein1 Jeremiah
Bernstein2 The Age of Anxiety
Bernstein3 Kaddish
Berwald1 Sérieuse Serious Symphony
Berwald2 Capricieuse Capricious Symphony
Berwald3 Singulière Singular Symphony
Berwald4 Naïve
Bizet C major Symphony in C1855
Bizet Roma Rome Symphony
Bliss A Colour Symphony
Borodin2 Bogatyrskaya nickname first used by Vladimir Stasov
Brahms1 Beethoven's Tenth nickname first used by Hans von Bülow
Brahms3 suggested to be called "Heroic", name rejected by Brahms
Brian1 Gothic
Brian2 Man in his Cosmic Loneliness
Brian4 Das Siegeslied The Song of Victory
Brian5 Wine of Summer
Brian6 Sinfonia Tragica Tragic Symphony
Brian22 Symphonia Brevis Short Symphony
Britten Simple Symphony
Britten Sinfonia da Requiem Requiem Symphony
Britten Spring Symphony
Britten Cello SymphonyCello Symphony1963full title: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra
Op. 68. Premiered 1964
Brown The Northern Journey
Bruckner00 00 student work written prior to No. 1
Bruckner0 Nullte written after No. 1 and before No. 2
Bruckner2 Symphony of Pauses
Bruckner3 Wagner Symphony
Bruckner4 Romantic
Bruckner8 Apocalyptic the name is not used anymore
Chausson B-flat major Symphony in B-flat1890
Chávez1 Sinfonía de Antígona Symphony of Antigone
Chávez2 Sinfonía india Indian Symphony
Chávez4 Sinfonía romántica Romantic Symphony
Chávez5 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
Clementi3 The Great National
Copland Organ Symphony Copland's Symphony No. 1 is an arrangement of this symphony without the organ
Copland2 Short 1934
Copland Dance Symphony arrangement of music from the ballet Grohg
Danielpour3 Journey without Distance
Daugherty Metropolis Symphony
Davies8 Antarctic
Davies10 Alla ricerca di Borromini
De Meij1 The Lord of the Rings
De Meij2 The Big Apple – A New York Symphony
De Meij3 Planet Earth
Draeseke3 Symphonia Tragica
Draeseke4 Symphonia Comica
Dvořák1 Zlonické zvonyThe Bells of Zlonice
Dvořák9 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
Giovanni Gabrieli Sacrae Symphoniae Sacred Symphonies 1597 (motets for voices and instruments)
Giovanni Gabrieli Symphoniae Sacrae II Sacred Symphonies II 1615 (motets for voices and instruments)
German2 Norwich
Gillis1 An American Symphony
Gillis2 Symphony of Faith
Gillis3 A Symphony for Free Men
Gillis5 In Memoriam
Gillis A Symphony for Fun
Gillis6 The Pioneers
Gillis7 Saga of the Prairie School
Gillis8 A Dance Symphony
Glass1 Low
Glass4 Heroes
Glass5 Choral
Glass6 Plutonian Ode
Glass7 Toltec
Glazunov1 Slavic
Glazunov7 Pastoral
Glière3 Ilya Muromets
Goldmark Ländliche HochzeitRustic Wedding Symphony literally "Rural Wedding"
Górecki2 KopernikowskaCopernican1972Op. 31
Górecki3 Symfonia pieśni żałosnychSymphony of Sorrowful Songs1976Op. 36
Gottschalk1 La Nuit des TropiquesNight of the Tropics1859 
Guerra-Peixe2 Brasília
Hanson1 Nordic
Hanson2 Romantic
Hanson4 Requiem
Hanson5 Sinfonia sacra
Hanson7 Sea
Harris1 Symphony 1933
Harris4 Folksong
Harris6 Gettysburg
Harris8 San Francisco
Harrison Symphony on G The word "on" is a deliberate part of the composer's title
Hartmann1 Miserae later retitled simply as 'symphonic poem'
Hartmann1 Versuch eines Requiem
Hartmann1 Symphonie concertante
Haydn6D majorLe matinMorning1761see also List of symphonies by Joseph Haydn
Haydn7C majorLe midiNoon1761
Haydn8G majorLe soirEvening1761
Haydn22E-flat majorDer PhilosophPhilosopher1764
Haydn26D minorLamentatione 1768
(maybe
1769)
Haydn30C majorAllelujaAlleluia1765
Haydn31D majorHornsignalHornsignal1765
Haydn38C major Echo17681768c. 1768
Haydn43E-flat majorMerkurMercury1770–1771
Haydn44E minorTrauer-Sinfonie 1770–1771
Haydn45F-sharp minorAbschiedssinfonieFarewell1772
Haydn47G major The Palindrome1772
Haydn48C majorMaria Theresia 1769
Haydn49F minorLa Passione 1768
Haydn53D majorL'Impériale 1778–1779
Haydn55E-flat majorDer SchulmeisterThe Schoolmaster1774
Haydn59A majorFeuer 1768
Haydn60C majorIl distratto 1774
Haydn63C majorLa Roxelane 1779
Haydn64A majorTempora mutantur 1773
Haydn69C majorLaudon 17741774c. 1774–1775
Haydn73D majorLa Chasse 17811781c. 1781
Haydn82C majorL'OursThe Bear1786(?)
Haydn83G minorLa PouleThe Hen1785
Haydn84E-flat majorIn nomine Domini 1786
Haydn85B-flat majorLa ReineThe Queen1785(?)
Haydn92G majorOxford 1789premiered 1789
Haydn94G majorMit dem PaukenschlagThe Surprise1791premiered 1791
Haydn96D majorLe MiracleThe Miracle1791premiered 1791
Haydn100G majorMilitärMilitary1794premiered 1794
Haydn101D majorDie UhrThe Clock1794premiered 1794
Haydn103E-flat majorMit dem PaukenwirbelDrumroll1795Premiered 1795
Haydn104D majorLondon 1795a.k.a. Salomon. Premiered 1795
Haydn107B-flat majorSinfonie AA1760–1761
Haydn108B-flat majorSinfonie BB1762
Hill1 Maori
Hill3 Australia
Hill4 The pursuit of happiness
Hill5 Carnival
Hill6 Celtic
Hill9 Melodious
Hill10 Short symphony
Hindemith Mathis der MalerThe painter Matthias a reference to Matthias Grünewald
see also Mathis der Maler (opera)
Hindemith Pittsburgh Symphony
Hindemith Symphonia Serena 1946
Holmboe3 Sinfonia rustica
Holmboe4 Sinfonia sacra
Holmboe8 Sinfonia boreale
Honegger3 Symphonie Liturgique
Honegger4 Deliciae basiliensis
Honegger5 Di tre re
Hovhaness1 Exile
Hovhaness2 Mysterious Mountain
Hovhaness6 Celestial Gate
Hovhaness7 Nanga Parvat
Hovhaness8 Arjuna
Hovhaness9 Saint Vartan
Hovhaness10 Vahaken
Hovhaness11 All Men are Brothers
Hovhaness12 Choral
Hovhaness13 Ardent Song re-arrangement of music composed for the Martha Graham ballet Ardent Song
Hovhaness14 Ararat
Hovhaness15 Silver Pilgrimage
Hovhaness16 Kayagum
Hovhaness17 Symphony for Metal Orchestra
Hovhaness18 Circe re-arrangement of music composed for the 1963 Martha Graham ballet Circe
Hovhaness19 Vishnu
Hovhaness20 Three Journeys to a Holy Mountain
Hovhaness21 Etchmiadzin
Hovhaness22 City of Light
Hovhaness23 Ani
Hovhaness24 Majnun
Hovhaness25 Odysseus
Hovhaness32 The Broken Wings
Hovhaness46 To the Green Mountains
Hovhaness47 Walla Walla, Land of Many Waters
Hovhaness48 Vision of Andromeda
Hovhaness49 Christmas Symphony
Hovhaness50 Mount St. Helens
Hovhaness52 Journey to Vega
Hovhaness53 Star Dawn
Hovhaness57 Cold Mountain
Hovhaness58 Symphony Sacra
Hovhaness60 To the Appalachian Mountains
Hovhaness62 Oh Let Man Not Forget These Words Divine
Hovhaness63 Loon Lake
Hovhaness64 Agiochook
Hovhaness65 Artstakh
Hovhaness66 Hymn to Glacier Peak
Hovhaness67 Hymn to the Mountains
Hovhaness Mountains and Rivers Without End 1968Chamber Symphony for 10 Players
Hummel2 Reverenza
Hummel3 Jeremiah
d'Indy1 ItalienneItalian never published
d'Indy3 Sinfonia brevis de bello GallicoBrief 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")
Ivanovs4 Atlantis
Ivanovs6 Latvian
Ivanovs12 Sinfonia energica
Ivanovs13 Symphonia humana
Ivanovs15 Sinfonia Ipsa
Ives3 The Camp Meeting
Ives New England Holidays a.k.a. Holidays Symphony
Ives Universe Symphony
Kaelin Symphonie des deux mondesSymphony of the Two Worlds on a text by Helder Camara
Karłowicz E minorRebirth Op. 7
Kashif The Queen Symphony based on the music of the pop group Queen
Koechlin Seven Stars Symphony
Koppel Symfoni for gadens børnSymphony 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-SymphonieFaust Symphony
Lange-Müller1D minorEfterårAutumn Op. 17
Mahler1 Der Titan Titan 1892
Mahler2 AuferstehungResurrection
Mahler6 Tragic
Mahler7 Song of the Night
Mahler8 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
Martinů6 Fantaisies Symphoniques Symphonic Fantasies
McCabe Six-minute Symphony
Melartin4 KesäsinfoniaSummer Symphony
Melartin5 Sinfonia brevis Short Symphony
Melartin7 Sinfonia gaia Joyous Symphony unfinished
Mendelssohn2 Lobgesang Hymn of Praise
Mendelssohn3 Schottische Scottish
Mendelssohn4 Italienische Italian
Mendelssohn5 Reformation
Menezes Sinfonias Symphonies 1997–19988-channel electronic work using snippets from hundreds of symphonies in the classical repertoire
Messiaen Turangalîla-Symphonie Turangalîla Symphony 1946–1948Premiered 1949. Revised 1990.
Mignone Sinfonia do Trabalho Labour Symphony 1939
Mignone Sinfonia tropical Tropical Symphony 1958
Mignone Sinfonia transamazônica Transamazonic Symphony 1972
Milhaud3 Te Deum
Milhaud8 Rhôdanienne Rhone Symphony
Milhaud11 Romantique Romantic Symphony
Milhaud12 La Rurale Rural Symphony
Mohaupt1 Rhythm and Variations 1939–1940premiered 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 Symphony1766(?)45a
Mozart25G minor Little G minor see also List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart#Symphonies
Mozart31 Paris
Mozart32 Overture in the Italian style
Mozart35 Haffner
Mozart36 Linz
Mozart38 Prague
Mozart40G minor Great G minor Also: The Fortieth (number as nickname)
Mozart41 Jupiter
Myaskovsky16F Major Aviation
Nielsen2 The Four Temperaments
Nielsen3 Sinfonia Espansiva Expansive Symphony
Nielsen4 The Inextinguishable
Nielsen6 Sinfonia Semplice Simple Symphony
Nystroem Sinfonia breve Short Symphony
Panufnik1 Sinfonia rustica
Panufnik2 Sinfonia elegiaca Elegiac Symphony
Panufnik3 Sinfonia sacra Sacred Symphony
Panufnik4 Sinfonia concertante Concertant Symphony
Panufnik5 Sinfonia di sfere Symphony of the Spheres
Panufnik6 Sinfonia mistica Mystic Symphony
Panufnik7 Metasinfonia Metasymphony
Panufnik8 Sinfonia votiva Votive Symphony
Panufnik9 Sinfonia di speranza Symphony of Hope
Parry2 Cambridge
Parry3 English
Parry5 Symphonic fantasia
Pärt1 Polyphonic
Pärt4 Los Angeles
Penderecki2 Christmas
Penderecki4 Adagio
Penderecki5 Korean
Penderecki7 The Seven Gates of Jerusalem
Penderecki8 Lieder der Vergänglichkeit Songs of Transience
Persichetti5 Symphony for Strings
Persichetti7 Liturgical
Persichetti9 Sinfonia Janiculum Symphony of the Janiculum
Prokofiev1 Classical
del Puerto1 Boreas
del Puerto2 Nusantara
del Puerto3 En la melancolía de tu recuerdo, Soria In the Melancholy of your Memory, Soria
Rautavaara4 Arabescata
Rautavaara6 Vincentiana based on themes of his opera Vincent
Rautavaara7 Angel of Light
Rautavaara8 The Journey
Rimsky-Korsakov2 Antar
Röntgen5 Der Schnitter Tod The Grim Reaper
Röntgen10 Walzersymphonie Waltz Symphony
Röntgen11 Wirbelsymphonie Vortex Symphony
Röntgen Bitonal Symphony
Röntgen Symphonietta Humoristica Humouristic Sinfonietta
Rubinstein2 Ocean
Rubinstein4 Dramatic
Rubbra8 Hommage à Teilhard de Chardin
Rubbra9 Resurrection a.k.a. Sinfonia Sacra
Rubbra10 da Camera Chamber Symphony
Rubbra11 à Colette
Saint-Saëns Urbs Roma
Saint-Saëns3 Organ
Sallinen2 Symphonic Dialogue
Sallinen5 Washington Mosaics
Sallinen6 From a New Zealand Diary
Sallinen7 The Dreams of Gandalf
Sallinen8 Autumnal Fragments
Santoro4 Sinfonia da Paz Symphony of Peace
Santoro7 Sinfonia Brasília Brasilia Symphony
Schaeffer and
Henry
Symphonie pour un homme seul Symphony for One Man Alone 1949–1950multi-movement musique concrète composition, premiered 1950
several revisions including a 1966 one by Henry
Schubert4C minorTragischeTragic1816D 417
See also List of compositions by Schubert#Symphonies
Schubert6C majorKleine Sinfonie C-DurLittle C major1817–18D 589
Schubert8B minorUnvollendeteUnfinished1822D 759. Occasionally listed as No. 7
Schubert9C majorGroße Sinfonie C-DurGreat C major1825–1828D 944. Also listed as No. 7 or No. 8
Identified as the elusive Gmunden-Gasteiner Sinfonie (Gastein Symphony)
Schubert10D majorThe Last 1828D 936a. Reconstruction based on sketches
Schumann1 FrühlingSpring
Schumann3 RheinischeRhenish
Scriabin3 The Divine Poem
Shapero Symphony for Classical Orchestra 1947
Shapiro1 Pomes Penyeach
Shostakovich2 To October
Shostakovich3 The First of May
Shostakovich7 Leningrad
Shostakovich11 The Year 1905
Shostakovich12 The Year 1917
Shostakovich13 Babi Yar
Smith1 The Divine Comedy
Smith2 The Odyssey
Smith3 Don Quixote
Smith Symphony of Souls
Stanford2 Elegiac
Stanford3 Irish
Stanford5 L'Allegro ed il Penseroso
Stanford6 In Memoriam G F Watts
Still1 Afro-American
Still2 Song of A New Race
Still3 Sunday Symphony
Still4 Autochthonous
Still5 Western Hemisphere
Strauss, R. Eine AlpensinfonieAn Alpine Symphony
Strauss, R. Symphonia Domestica Domestic Symphony
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms
Stravinsky Symphonies d'instruments à vent Symphonies of Wind Instruments single-movement work for wind ensemble, not actually a symphony
Suk2 Asrael Azrael
Tchaikovsky1 Winter Daydreams
Tchaikovsky2 Little Russian
Tchaikovsky3 Polish
Tchaikovsky Ма́нфредManfred Symphony1885Op. 58. Premiered 1886
Tchaikovsky6 Pathétique Pathetic Symphony
Ter-T'at'evosian2 Sud'ba chelovekaThe Fate of a Man
Ter-T'at'evosian5 Paganini
Toch5 Jephtha, Rhapsodic Poem
Tournemire Symphonie sacrée Sacred Symphony for organ
Tubin2 Legendary
Tubin3 Heroic
Tubin4 Lyrical
Tubin9 Sinfonia semplice Simple Symphony
Vaughan Williams1 A Sea Symphony
Vaughan Williams2 A London Symphony
Vaughan Williams3 A Pastoral Symphony
Vaughan Williams7 Sinfonia antartica
Villa-Lobos1 O Imprevisto The Unforeseen
Villa-Lobos2 AscençãoThe Ascension
Villa-Lobos3 A GuerraThe War
Villa-Lobos4 A VitóriaThe Victory
Villa-Lobos5 A PazThe Peace lost
Villa-Lobos6 Sobre a linha das montanhas do Brasil On the Outline of the Mountains of Brasil
Villa-Lobos7 Odisséia da paz Peace Odyssey
Villa-Lobos10 Sumé Pater Patrium: Sinfonia AmerindiaSumé, Father of Fathers: Amerindian Symphony
Vivaldi B minorSinfonia al Santo Sepolcro Symphony for the Holy Sepulcher sonata for 2 violins, viola & continuo, RV 169
Whear1 Stonehenge Symphony
Widor9 Gothic for organ
Widor10 Roman for organ
Widor Sinfonia sacra Sacred Symphony 1908for organ and orchestra
Widor Symphonie antique Ancient Symphony 1911for organ and orchestra, with choral finale
Williamson1 Elevamini
Williamson2 Pilgrim på Havet
Williamson3 The Icy Mirror
Williamson4 Jubilee
Williamson5 Aquerò
Williamson6 Liturgy of Homage full title: Liturgy of Homage to the Australian Broadcasting Commission in its Fiftieth Year as University to the Australian Nation
Williamson7 Symphony for Strings
Willson1 A Symphony of San Francisco
Willson2 Missions of California
Wingate2 Kleetüden
Witt Jenaer SinfonieJena Symphony Upon its discovery (1909) attributed to Beethoven, later more probable attribution to Witt
Zwilich1 Three Movements for Orchestra

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