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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1 Kalinnikov
2 Sibelius
3 Copland
4 Nielsen
5 Bax
6 Tchaikovsky
7 Mahler
8 Shostakovitch
9 Bruckner

I’m not well versed in classical enough to complete all nine but:
3. Saint-Saens
4. Brahms
5. Mahler
9. Beethoven

And yes, it is hard to leave out Dvorak’s 9th
Agreed.. that's my preferred Nielsen symphony as well but it's difficult for me to place it over the Copeland third.
Why do we stop at 9?  That is unfair to someone like Haydn, or Khovahness, or even Leif Segerstram.  So I’ll do 10-15.
10-Mahler, in the Deryck  Cooke completion.
11. C.P.E. Bach Wq182
12. Haydn
13. Mozart
14. Weinberg 
15. Shostakovich