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Favorite Symphonies Quiz

Pick your favorite composer for each symphony. You can’t use a composer more than once.

Here are my answers (at least today’s answers):
Symphony No. 1: Copland
Symphony No. 2: Hanson
Symphony No. 3: Saint-Saëns
Symphony No. 4: Bruckner
Symphony No. 5: Shostakovich
Symphony No. 6: Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 7: Sibelius
Symphony No. 8: Mahler
Symphony No. 9: Beethoven

What are your picks? I’m looking forward to learning something.
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twoleftears
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Other than Haydn, how many other composers made it past Mozart's 41?
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phomchick OP
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Very few bettered Mozart. It may only be Haydn (104) and Hovhaness (67).
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phomchick OP
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I think I’m going to try making a list with my mod 10 numbering suggestion. It’s not going to be much different because other than Mozart, Haydn, and Hovhaness, I can’t think of many composers that will be added.

And.... it just occurred to me that we have to pick ten symphonies to allow numbers ending in zero. Make it so!
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mayoradamwest
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1: Mahler
2: Mahler
3: Mahler
4: Tchaikovsky
5: Mahler
6: Mahler
7: Mahler
8: Bruckner
9: Mahler

i don’t care about the use a composer more than once rule. Who can really pick their favorite Mahler? It’s usually either 2,3,5,6,9 - whichever I happened to have listened to or performed most recently. 
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mayoradamwest
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‘Very few bettered Mozart. ‘
Um, not to me. Mozart symphonies are a snooze. His operas slightly better. I would think most boring classical music listeners would contend Beethoven perfected the symphony. Regardless, I find them boring, especially to perform. Listen to Haydn 104 then Tchaikovsky 4, and I just can’t see how anyone who has any ability to emote would pick Haydn. 
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