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Joseph Haydn

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The above are the numbered symphonies from Mozart's early childhood. There are also a fair amount of unnumbered symphonies from this period.

Ludwig van Beethoven

  • Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21 (composed 1799-1800, premièred 1800)
  • Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36 (composed 1801-02, premièred 1803)
  • Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 Eroica (composed 1802-04, premièred 1805)
  • Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60 (composed 1806, premièred 1807)
  • Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 (composed 1804-08, premièred 1808)
  • Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 Pastoral (composed 1803-07, premièred 1808)
  • Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 (composed 1811-12, premièred 1813)
  • Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93 (composed 1811-12, premièred 1814)
  • Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 Choral (composed 1817-24, premièred 1824)

Franz Schubert

Hector Berlioz

  • Symphonie fantastique, An Episode in the Life of an Artist, Op. 14
  • Harold in Italy, Symphony with Viola obbligato, Op. 16

Felix Mendelssohn

  • Symphonies for string orchestra Nos. 1-12 (1821-3)

Mature symphonies (the numbers do not well reflect the order of composition):

Robert Schumann

César Franck

Anton Bruckner

Johannes Brahms

Alexander Borodin

Camille Saint-Saëns

Mily Balakirev

Georges Bizet

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Antonin Dvořák

Edward Elgar

Gustav Mahler

Carl Nielsen

Alexander Glazunov

Jean Sibelius

Alexander Scriabin

(The last two works are one-movement symphonies in sonata form; Scriabin continued to produce Sonatas showing the same kind of development.)

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Sergei Rachmaninov

Arnold Schoenberg

Igor Stravinsky

Arnold Bax

Sergei Prokofiev

Edmund Rubbra

Dmitri Shostakovich

Samuel Barber

Alfred Schnittke