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
AlkanC minor–E-flat minorSymphonie pour piano seulSymphony for solo piano1857Numbers 4–7 of Douze Études dans tous les tons mineurs, Op. 39, for solo piano
AndriessenSymfonie voor losse snarenSymphony for Open Strings1978
Atterberg3VästkustbilderWest-Coast Images
Atterberg4Sinfonia piccolaLittle Symphony
Atterberg5Sinfonia funèbreFunereal Symphony
Atterberg6Dollar symphony
Atterberg7Sinfonia romanticaRomantic Symphony
Atterberg9Sinfonia visionariaVisionary 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
BeethovenSiegessinfonie
Wellingtons Sieg oder die Schlacht bei Vittoria
Battle Symphony
Wellington's Victory, or, the Battle of Vitoria
1813Op. 91. Premiered 1813
for panharmonicon commissioned by instrument's inventor, later arranged for orchestra
Beethoven9D minorChoral1817–1824Op. 125. Premiered 1824
Bentoiu6CuloriColours1985Op. 28
Bentoiu7VolumeVolumes1986Op. 29
Bentoiu8ImaginiImages1987Op. 30
BerliozSymphonie fantastique
BerliozHarold en ItalieHarold in Italy
BerliozRoméo et JulietteRomeo and Juliet
BerliozGrande symphonie funèbre et triomphaleFunereal and Triumphal Symphony
Bernstein1Jeremiah
Bernstein2The Age of Anxiety
Bernstein3Kaddish
Berwald1SérieuseSerious Symphony
Berwald2CapricieuseCapricious Symphony
Berwald3SingulièreSingular Symphony
Berwald4Naïve
BizetRomaRome Symphony
BlissA Colour Symphony
Borodin2Богатырская СимфонияSymphony of Heroesnickname first used by Vladimir Stasov
Brahms1Beethoven's Tenthnickname first used by Hans von Bülow
Brahms3suggested to be called "Heroic", name rejected by Brahms
Brian1D minorGothic
Brian2Man in his Cosmic Loneliness
Brian4Das SiegesliedThe Song of Victory
Brian5Wine of Summer
Brian6Sinfonia TragicaTragic Symphony
Brian22Symphonia BrevisShort Symphony
BrittenSimple Symphony
BrittenSinfonia da RequiemRequiem Symphony
BrittenSpring Symphony
BrittenCello Symphony1963full title: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra
Op. 68. Premiered 1964
BrownThe Northern Journey
Bruckner00F minor00student work written prior to No. 1
Bruckner0D minorNulltewritten after No. 1 and before No. 2
Bruckner2C minorSymphony of Pauses
Bruckner3D minorWagner Symphony
Bruckner4E-flat majorRomantic
Bruckner8C minorApocalypticthe name is not used anymore
Chávez1Sinfonía de AntígonaSymphony of Antigone
Chávez2Sinfonía indiaIndian Symphony
Chávez4Sinfonía románticaRomantic Symphony
ChávezCaballos de vapor: sinfonía de baileHorse Power: Dance Symphony1926–1932
ChávezLlamadas: sinfonía proletariaCalls [to Arms]: Proletarian Symphony1934
Clementi3The Great National
CoplandOrgan SymphonyCopland's Symphony No. 1 is an arrangement of this symphony without the organ
Copland2Short1934
CoplandDance Symphonyarrangement of music from the ballet Grohg
Danielpour3Journey without Distance
DaughertyMetropolis Symphony
Davies8Antarctic2001Op. 215
Davies10Alla ricerca di BorrominiLooking for Borromini2013Op. 327
De Meij1The Lord of the Rings
De Meij2The Big Apple – A New York Symphony
De Meij3Planet Earth
Draeseke3Symphonia Tragica
Draeseke4Symphonia Comica
Dvořák1Zlonické zvonyThe Bells of Zlonice
Dvořák9Z nového světaFrom the New WorldA.k.a. New World Symphony; Previously listed as No. 8
EislerDeutsche SinfonieGerman Symphony
El-DabhSymphonies in Sonic Vibration: Spectrum No. 11957
Giovanni GabrieliSacrae SymphoniaeSacred Symphonies1597 (motets for voices and instruments)
Giovanni GabrieliSymphoniae Sacrae IISacred Symphonies II1615 (motets for voices and instruments)
German2Norwich
Gillis1An American Symphony
Gillis2Symphony of Faith
Gillis3A Symphony for Free Men
Gillis5In Memoriam
GillisA Symphony for Fun
Gillis6The Pioneers
Gillis7Saga of the Prairie School
Gillis8A Dance Symphony
Glass1Low
Glass4Heroes
Glass5Choral
Glass6Plutonian Ode
Glass7Toltec
Glass12Lodger
Glazunov1E majorSlavonian
Glazunov7F majorPastoral
Glière3Ilya Muromets
GoldmarkLändliche HochzeitRustic Wedding Symphonyliterally "Rural Wedding"
Górecki2KopernikowskaCopernican1972Op. 31
Górecki3Symfonia pieśni żałosnychSymphony of Sorrowful Songs1976Op. 36
Gottschalk1La Nuit des TropiquesNight of the Tropics1859 
Guerra-Peixe2Brasília
Hanson1Nordic
Hanson2Romantic
Hanson4Requiem
Hanson5Sinfonia sacra
Hanson7Sea
Harris1Symphony 1933
Harris4Folksong
Harris6Gettysburg
Harris8San Francisco
HarrisonSymphony on GThe word "on" is a deliberate part of the composer's title
Hartmann1Miseraelater retitled simply as 'symphonic poem'
Hartmann1Versuch eines Requiem
Hartmann5Symphonie concertante
Haydn6D majorLe matinMorning1761see also List of symphonies by Joseph Haydn
Haydn7C majorLe midiNoon1761
Haydn8G majorLe soirEvening1761
Haydn22E-flat majorDer PhilosophPhilosopher1764
Haydn26D minorLamentatione1768
(maybe
1769)
Haydn30C majorAllelujaAlleluia1765
Haydn31D majorHornsignalHornsignal1765
Haydn38C majorEchoc. 1768
Haydn43E-flat majorMerkurMercury1770–1771
Haydn44E minorTrauerMourning1770–1771
Haydn45F-sharp minorAbschiedssinfonieFarewell1772
Haydn47G majorThe Palindrome1772
Haydn48C majorMaria Theresia1769
Haydn49F minorLa Passione1768
Haydn53D majorL'Impériale1778–1779
Haydn55E-flat majorDer SchulmeisterThe Schoolmaster1774
Haydn59A majorFeuer1768
Haydn60C majorIl distratto1774
Haydn63C majorLa Roxelane1779
Haydn64A majorTempora mutantur1773
Haydn69C majorLaudonc. 1774–1775
Haydn73D majorLa Chassec. 1781
Haydn82C majorL'OursThe Bear1786(?)
Haydn83G minorLa PouleThe Hen1785
Haydn84E-flat majorIn nomine Domini1786
Haydn85B-flat majorLa ReineThe Queen1785(?)
Haydn92G majorOxford1789premiered 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 majorLondon1795a.k.a. Salomon. Premiered 1795
Haydn107B-flat majorSinfonie AA1760–1761
Haydn108B-flat majorSinfonie BB1762
Hill1Maori
Hill3Australia
Hill4The pursuit of happiness
Hill5Carnival
Hill6Celtic
Hill9Melodious
Hill10Short symphony
HindemithMathis der MalerThe painter Matthiasa reference to Matthias Grünewald
see also Mathis der Maler (opera)
HindemithPittsburgh Symphony
HindemithSymphonia Serena1946
Holmboe3Sinfonia rustica
Holmboe4Sinfonia sacra
Holmboe8Sinfonia boreale
Honegger3Symphonie Liturgique
Honegger4Deliciae basiliensis
Honegger5Di tre re
Hovhaness1Exile
Hovhaness2Mysterious Mountain
Hovhaness6Celestial Gate
Hovhaness7Nanga Parvat
Hovhaness8Arjuna
Hovhaness9Saint Vartan
Hovhaness10Vahaken
Hovhaness11All Men are Brothers
Hovhaness12Choral
Hovhaness13Ardent Songre-arrangement of music composed for the Martha Graham ballet Ardent Song
Hovhaness14Ararat
Hovhaness15Silver Pilgrimage
Hovhaness16Kayagum
Hovhaness17Symphony for Metal Orchestra
Hovhaness18Circere-arrangement of music composed for the 1963 Martha Graham ballet Circe
Hovhaness19Vishnu
Hovhaness20Three Journeys to a Holy Mountain
Hovhaness21Etchmiadzin
Hovhaness22City of Light
Hovhaness23Ani
Hovhaness24Majnun
Hovhaness25Odysseus
Hovhaness32The Broken Wings
Hovhaness46To the Green Mountains
Hovhaness47Walla Walla, Land of Many Waters
Hovhaness48Vision of Andromeda
Hovhaness49Christmas Symphony
Hovhaness50Mount St. Helens
Hovhaness52Journey to Vega
Hovhaness53Star Dawn
Hovhaness57Cold Mountain
Hovhaness58Symphony Sacra
Hovhaness60To the Appalachian Mountains
Hovhaness62Oh Let Man Not Forget These Words Divine
Hovhaness63Loon Lake
Hovhaness64Agiochook
Hovhaness65Artstakh
Hovhaness66Hymn to Glacier Peak
Hovhaness67Hymn to the Mountains
HovhanessMountains and Rivers Without End1968Chamber Symphony for 10 Players
Hummel2Reverenza
Hummel3Jeremiah
d'Indy1ItalienneItaliannever published
d'Indy3Sinfonia brevis de bello GallicoBrief sinfonia of the war in Gaul
d'IndySymphonie sur un chant montagnard français
a.k.a.Symphonie Cévenole
Symphony on a French Mountain Air
("Cévennes Symphony")
Ivanovs4Atlantis
Ivanovs6Latvian
Ivanovs12Sinfonia energica
Ivanovs13Symphonia humana
Ivanovs15Sinfonia Ipsa
Ives3The Camp Meeting
IvesNew England Holidaysa.k.a. Holidays Symphony
IvesUniverse Symphony
KaelinSymphonie des deux mondesSymphony of the Two Worldson a text by Helder Camara
KarłowiczE minorRebirthOp. 7
KashifThe Queen Symphonybased on the music of the pop group Queen
KoechlinSeven Stars Symphony
KoppelSymfoni for gadens børnSymphony for children in the streets
LaloSymphonie espagnolefor violin and orchestra
Lehnhoff1Sinfonia poeticaPoetic Symphony1975
Lehnhoff2Sinfonia festivaFestive Symphony1990
Lehnhoff3Sinfonia CaribeCaribe Symphony2014Drawn from the opera "Caribe"
LisztDante Symphonyfull name: A symphony to Dante's Divina Commedia
LisztEine Faust-SymphonieFaust Symphony
Lange-Müller1D minorEfterårAutumnOp. 17
Mahler1Der TitanTitan1892
Mahler2AuferstehungResurrection
Mahler6Tragic
Mahler7Song of the Night
Mahler8Symphony of a Thousand
MahlerDas Lied von der ErdeThe Song of the Eartha symphony in the guise of a song cycle
see Curse of the ninth
Martinů6Fantaisies SymphoniquesSymphonic Fantasies
McCabeSix-minute Symphony
Melartin4KesäsinfoniaSummer Symphony
Melartin5Sinfonia brevisShort Symphony
Melartin7Sinfonia gaiaJoyous Symphonyunfinished
Mendelssohn2LobgesangHymn of Praise
Mendelssohn3SchottischeScottish
Mendelssohn4ItalienischeItalian
Mendelssohn5Reformation
MenezesSinfoniasSymphonies1997–19988-channel electronic work using snippets from hundreds of symphonies in the classical repertoire
MessiaenTurangalîla-SymphonieTurangalîla Symphony1946–1948Premiered 1949. Revised 1990.
MignoneSinfonia do TrabalhoLabour Symphony1939
MignoneSinfonia tropicalTropical Symphony1958
MignoneSinfonia transamazônicaTransamazonic Symphony1972
Milhaud3Te Deum
Milhaud8RhôdanienneRhone Symphony
Milhaud11RomantiqueRomantic Symphony
Milhaud12La RuraleRural Symphony
Mohaupt1Rhythm and Variations1939–1940premiered 1942
Mozart, L.G majorToy SymphonyCassation for toys, 2 oboes, 2 horns, strings and continuo
MozartA minorOdense SymphonyK. Anh 220 (16a) – spurious
MozartG majorOld Lambach Symphony1766(?)45a
Mozart25G minorLittle G minorsee also List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart#Symphonies
Mozart31Paris
Mozart32Overture in the Italian style
Mozart35Haffner
Mozart36Linz
Mozart38Prague
Mozart40G minorGreat G minorAlso: The Fortieth (number as nickname)
Mozart41Jupiter
Myaskovsky16F majorAviation
Nielsen2The Four Temperaments
Nielsen3Sinfonia EspansivaExpansive Symphony
Nielsen4The Inextinguishable
Nielsen6Sinfonia SempliceSimple Symphony
NystroemSinfonia breveShort Symphony
Panufnik1Sinfonia rustica
Panufnik2Sinfonia elegiacaElegiac Symphony
Panufnik3Sinfonia sacraSacred Symphony
Panufnik4Sinfonia concertanteConcertant Symphony
Panufnik5Sinfonia di sfereSymphony of the Spheres
Panufnik6Sinfonia misticaMystic Symphony
Panufnik7MetasinfoniaMetasymphony
Panufnik8Sinfonia votivaVotive Symphony
Panufnik9Sinfonia di speranzaSymphony of Hope
Parry2Cambridge
Parry3English
Parry5Symphonic fantasia
Pärt1Polyphonic
Pärt4Los Angeles
Penderecki2Christmas
Penderecki4Adagio
Penderecki5Korean
Penderecki7The Seven Gates of Jerusalem
Penderecki8Lieder der VergänglichkeitSongs of Transience
Persichetti7Liturgical
Persichetti9Sinfonia JaniculumSymphony of the Janiculum
Prokofiev1Classical
del Puerto1Boreas
del Puerto2Nusantara
del Puerto3En la melancolía de tu recuerdo, SoriaIn the Melancholy of your Memory, Soria
Raff1An das VaterlandTo the Father Land
Raff3Im WaldeIn the Forest
Raff5Lenore
Raff7In den AlpenIn the Alps
Raff8FrühlingsklängeSounds of Spring
Raff9Im SommerIn Summer
Raff10Zur HerbstzeitTo Autumn Time
Raff11Der WinterThe Winter
Rautavaara4Arabescata
Rautavaara6Vincentianabased on themes of his opera Vincent
Rautavaara7Angel of Light
Rautavaara8The Journey
Rimsky-Korsakov2Antar
Röntgen5Der Schnitter TodThe Grim Reaper
Röntgen10WalzersymphonieWaltz Symphony
Röntgen11WirbelsymphonieVortex Symphony
RöntgenBitonal Symphony
RöntgenSymphonietta HumoristicaHumouristic Sinfonietta
Rubinstein2Ocean
Rubinstein4Dramatic
Rubbra8Hommage à Teilhard de Chardin
Rubbra9Resurrectiona.k.a. Sinfonia Sacra
Rubbra10da CameraChamber Symphony
Rubbra11à Colette
Saint-SaënsUrbs Roma
Saint-Saëns3Organ
Sallinen2Symphonic Dialogue(All his symphonies listed here)
Sallinen5Washington Mosaics
Sallinen6From a New Zealand Diary
Sallinen7The Dreams of Gandalf
Sallinen8Autumnal Fragments
Santoro4Sinfonia da PazSymphony of Peace
Santoro7Sinfonia BrasíliaBrasilia Symphony
Schaeffer and
Henry
Symphonie pour un homme seulSymphony for One Man Alone1949–1950multi-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 Last1828D 936a. Reconstruction based on sketches
Schumann1FrühlingSpring
Schumann3RheinischeRhenish
Scriabin3The Divine Poem
ShaperoSymphony for Classical Orchestra1947
Shapiro1Pomes Penyeach
Shostakovich2B majorTo October
Shostakovich3E-flat majorThe First of May
Shostakovich7C majorLeningrad
Shostakovich11G minorThe Year 1905
Shostakovich12D minorThe Year 1917
Shostakovich13B-flat minorBabi Yar
Smith1The Divine Comedy
Smith2The Odyssey
Smith3Don Quixote
SmithSymphony of Souls
Sorabji1Tāntrik Symphony for Piano Alone1938–39for piano
Sorabji2Jāmī1942–51for orchestra, chorus and baritone
Sorabji5Symphonia brevis for PianoBrief Symphony for Piano1973for piano
Sorabji6Symphonia claviensisSymphony for Piano1975–76for piano
Stanford2Elegiac
Stanford3Irish
Stanford5L'Allegro ed il Penseroso
Stanford6In Memoriam G. F. Watts
Still1Afro-American
Still2Song of A New Race
Still3Sunday Symphony
Still4Autochthonous
Still5Western Hemisphere
Strauss, R.Eine AlpensinfonieAn Alpine Symphony
Strauss, R.Symphonia DomesticaDomestic Symphony
StravinskySymphony of Psalms
StravinskySymphonies d'instruments à ventSymphonies of Wind Instrumentssingle-movement work for wind ensemble, not actually a symphony
Suk2AsraelAzrael
Tchaikovsky1Winter Daydreams
Tchaikovsky2Little Russian
Tchaikovsky3Polish
TchaikovskyМа́нфредManfred Symphony1885Op. 58. Premiered 1886
Tchaikovsky6PathétiquePathetic Symphony
Ter-T'at'evosian2Sud'ba chelovekaThe Fate of a Man
Ter-T'at'evosian5Paganini
Toch5Jephtha, Rhapsodic Poem
TournemireSymphonie sacréeSacred Symphonyfor organ
Tubin2Legendary
Tubin3Heroic
Tubin4Lyrical
Tubin9Sinfonia sempliceSimple Symphony
Vaughan Williams1A Sea Symphony
Vaughan Williams2A London Symphony
Vaughan Williams3A Pastoral Symphony
Vaughan Williams7Sinfonia antartica
Vieru1Oda taceriiOde to Silence1967
Vieru3La un cutremurAt an Earthquake1978
Vieru6Exodus1989
Vieru7Anul soarelui calmThe Year of the Tranquil Sun1992–93
Villa-Lobos1O ImprevistoThe Unforeseen
Villa-Lobos2AscençãoThe Ascension
Villa-Lobos3A GuerraThe War
Villa-Lobos4A VitóriaThe Victory
Villa-Lobos5A PazThe Peacelost
Villa-Lobos6Sobre a linha das montanhas do BrasilOn the Outline of the Mountains of Brasil
Villa-Lobos7Odisséia da pazPeace Odyssey
Villa-Lobos10Sumé Pater Patrium: Sinfonia AmerindiaSumé, Father of Fathers: Amerindian Symphony
VivaldiB minorSinfonia al Santo SepolcroSymphony for the Holy Sepulchersonata for 2 violins, viola & continuo, RV 169
Whear1Stonehenge Symphony
Widor9Gothicfor organ
Widor10Romanfor organ
WidorSinfonia sacraSacred Symphony1908for organ and orchestra
WidorSymphonie antiqueAncient Symphony1911for organ and orchestra, with choral finale
Williamson1Elevamini
Williamson2Pilgrim på Havet
Williamson3The Icy Mirror
Williamson4Jubilee
Williamson5Aquerò
Williamson6Liturgy of Homagefull title: Liturgy of Homage to the Australian Broadcasting Commission in its Fiftieth Year as University to the Australian Nation
Willson1A Symphony of San Francisco
Willson2Missions of California
Wingate2Kleetüden
WittJenaer SinfonieJena SymphonyUpon its discovery (1909) attributed to Beethoven, later more probable attribution to Witt
Zwilich1Three Movements for Orchestra

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