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Encyclopedia > Symphony No. 2

Among the pieces of music with the title Symphony No. 2 are:

The piece known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 2 is spurious. 1820 portrait by Karl Stieler Ludwig van Beethoven (pronounced ) (baptized December 17, 1770[1] – March 26, 1827) was a German composer and pianist. ... Ludwig van Beethovens Symphony Number 2 in D Major, Opus 36 was written between 1801 and 1802 and is 36 minutes long. ... Johannes Brahms. ... The Symphony No. ... Anton Bruckner (portrait by Josef Büche) Anton Bruckner (4 September 1824 – 11 October 1896) was an Austrian composer who wrote the majority of his mature music near the end of the Romantic era. ... Anton Bruckners Symphony No. ... Aaron Copland Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer of concert and film music. ... Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer of Romantic music, who successfully employed the idioms and melodies of the folk-music of his native Bohemia in symphonic and chamber music. ... Sir Edward Elgar Sir Edward Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 â€“ 23 February 1934) was an English Romantic composer. ... The Symphony No. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Henryk MikoÅ‚aj Górecki (born December 6, 1933) is a Polish composer of classical music. ... The Symphony No. ... Franz Joseph Haydn[1] (March 31 or April 1, 1732 – May 31, 1809) was one of the most prominent composers of the Classical period, called the Father of the Symphony and Father of the String Quartet. A life-long resident of Austria, Haydn spent most of his career as a... This photo from around 1913 shows Ives in his day job: he was the director of a successful insurance agency. ... The Second Symphony was written by Charles Ives between 1897 and 1901. ... Witold LutosÅ‚awski at his home. ... Gustav Mahler in 1909 Gustav Mahler (July 7, 1860 – May 18, 1911) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and conductor. ... The Symphony No. ... Felix Mendelssohn at the age of thirty Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born and known generally as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 – November 4, 1847) was a German composer and conductor of the early Romantic period. ... The Symphony No. ... Carl Nielsen Carl August Nielsen (June 9, 1865, Sortelung – October 3, 1931, Copenhagen) was a conductor, violinist, and the most internationally known composer from Denmark. ... Krzysztof Penderecki. ... Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian: , Sergej Sergejevič Prokof’ev; 15/April 271, 1891–March 5, 1953) was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. ... Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. ... Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (Russian: , Sergej Vasil’evič Rahmaninov, April 1, 1873 (N.S.) or March 20, 1873 (O.S.) – March 28, 1943) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. ... Rachmaninoffs Symphony No. ... Einojuhani Rautavaara (born October 9, 1928) is a Finnish composer of classical music, probably the best known Finnish composer of his generation. ... George Rochberg, (July 5, 1918, Paterson, New Jersey – May 29, 2005, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) was an American composer. ... Franz Schubert. ... Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856) was a German composer and pianist. ... The Symphony in C major by German composer Robert Schumann was published in 1847 as his Symphony No. ... Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (Russian: , Dmitrij Dmitrievič Å ostakovič) (September 25 [O.S. September 12] 1906–August 9, 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period. ... The Symphony No. ... Sibelius redirects to this article. ... Jean Sibeliuss Symphony No. ... A young Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1874) Tchaikovsky redirects here. ... The Ukrainians are a Slavic people of central-eastern Europe. ... Ralph Vaughan Williams, OM (October 12, 1872 – August 26, 1958) was an influential British composer. ... A London Symphony is the second symphony composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams. ... Sir William Turner Walton, OM (March 29, 1902–March 8, 1983) was a British composer whose style was influenced by the works of Stravinsky, Sibelius and jazz. ... The Symphony No. ... Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950), born in Dessau, Germany and died in New York City, was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s until his death. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart; January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was a prolific and highly influential composer of Classical music. ... The piece of music once known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts Symphony No. ...

Symphonies by number, name, and key
No. 0 | No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3 | No. 4 | No. 5 | No. 6 | No. 7 | No. 8 | No. 9 | No. 10 | No. 11
No. 12 and higher: Haydn, Mozart, Shostakovich, Hovhaness,...
List of symphonies by name - List of symphonies by key - List of composers of symphonies
See also: Sinfonia | Sinfonia concertante | Unfinished symphony | Curse of the Ninth

 

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