Symphony No. 1

Symphony No. 1 is a simple designation for the first symphony published by a composer. The term applies to:

Formally titled

Works in the Public Domain

This list includes composers whose works have expired into Public Domain in most European Union and non-EU countries with a copyright term of life + 70+1 years. This only concerns compositions, not recordings. Sorted primarily by year written or year premiered. Note that this is not an authoritative list, and the copyright term in other countries may be shorter or longer.

• Symphony No. 1, by Michael Haydn, written in 1758.^[1]
• Symphony No. 1, by Joseph Haydn, written in 1759.
• Symphony No. 1, KV. 16, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1764.
• Symphony No. 1, Op. 21, by Ludwig van Beethoven, written in 1800.
• Symphony No. 1, by Franz Schubert in 1813.
• Symphony No. 1, Op. 11, by Felix Mendelssohn in 1824.
• Symphony No. 1, by Muzio Clementi, WoO 32
• Symphony No. 1 (Spring), Op. 38, by Robert Schumann in 1841.
• Symphony No. 1 (Sérieuse), Franz Berwald, premiered in 1843.
• Symphony No. 1 (La Nuit des Tropiques), by Louis Moreau Gottschalk, in 1859
• Symphony No. 1 (The Bells of Zlonice), Op. 3, by Antonín Dvořák, written in 1865.
• Symphony No. 1, Op. 4, by Johan Svendsen, composed 1865–1867.
• Symphony No. 1, by Anton Bruckner, written in 1868.
• Symphony No. 1, by Max Bruch, Op. 28, written in 1868.
• Symphony No. 1 (Winter Dreams), Op. 13, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1868.
• Symphony No. 1, Op. 68, by Johannes Brahms, written in 1876.
• Symphony No. 1 (Slavonian), Op. 5, by Alexander Glazunov, written in 1881.
• Symphony No. 1, Op. 7, by Carl Nielsen in 1892.
• Symphony No. 1, by Gustav Mahler in 1894.
• Symphony No. 1, Op. 13, by Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1895.
• Symphony No. 1, Op. 26, by Alexander Scriabin in 1900.
• Symphony No. 1, Op. 30 No. 1, by Erkki Melartin in 1902.
• Symphony No. 1, Op. 55, by Edward Elgar, written in 1908.

Works under copyright protection

Works are sorted by composer's year of death

• Symphony No. 1, Op. 3, by Nikolai Myaskovsky (d.1950), written in 1908 and revised in 1921.
• Symphony No. 1 (Classical), Op. 25, by Sergei Prokofiev (d.1953) in 1917.
• Symphony No. 1, by Arnold Bax (d. 1953) in 1922.
• Symphony No. 1, by Wilhelm Furtwängler (d.1954).
• Symphony No. 1, by Charles Ives (d.1954).
• Symphony No. 1, Op. 13, by George Enescu (d.1955), written in 1905.
• Symphony No. 1 (Rhythm and Variations), by Richard Mohaupt (d.1957), written in 1939–1940.
• Symphony No. 1, Op. 39, by Jean Sibelius (d.1957) in 1898.
• Symphony No. 1, by Bohuslav Martinů (d.1959).
• Symphony No. 1, by Heitor Villa-Lobos (d.1959), written in 1916.
• Symphony No. 1, by Karl Amadeus Hartmann (d.1963).
• Symphony No. 1 (Gothic), by Havergal Brian (d.1972), written in 1927.
• Symphony No. 1, through Martin Scherber (d.1974) in 1938.
• Symphony No. 1, Op. 210, by Darius Milhaud (d.1974) in 1939.
• Symphony No. 1, Op. 10, by Dmitri Shostakovich (d.1975) in 1925.
• Symphony No. 1, by Walter Piston (d.1976), completed in 1937.
• Symphony No. 1 (Chamber Symphony), Op. 20, by Jacobo Ficher (d.1978), written in 1932.
• Symphony No. 1, by William Walton (d.1983) in 1935.
• Symphony No. 1, by Paul Ben-Haim (d.1984) in 1939–1940.
• Symphony No. 1, by Roger Sessions (d.1985), composed in 1927.
• Symphony No. 1, by William Alwyn (d.1985), written in 1948–1949.
• Symphony No. 1, Op. 44, by Edmund Rubbra (d.1986).
• Symphony No. 1 (Jeremiah), by Leonard Bernstein (d.1990), written in 1942.
• Symphony No. 1, by Robert Simpson (d.1997), completed in 1951.
• Symphony No. 1, by Michael Tippett (d.1998) in 1945.
• Symphony No. 1, by Alfred Schnittke (d.1998), composed 1969–1974.
• Symphony No. 1, by Barney Childs (d.2000), written in 1954.
• Symphony No. 1 (Exile), Op. 17, No. 2, by Alan Hovhaness (d.2000) written in 1936, revised 1970.
• Symphony No. 1, by Douglas Lilburn (d.2001) in 1949.
• Symphony No. 1 (Elevamini), by Malcolm Williamson (d.2003), composed 1956–1957.
• Symphony No. 1, by Malcolm Arnold (d.2006), written in 1949.
• Symphony No. 1, by Hans Werner Henze (d.2012) in 1947.
• Symphony No. 1, by Peter Maxwell Davies (d.2016), composed (1973–1976).

Works by living composers

Works sorted by composer's year of birth

• Symphony No. 1, by Krzysztof Penderecki (b. 1933)
• Symphony No. 1, by Arvo Pärt (1935), written in 1963.
• Symphony No. 1 (Low), by Philip Glass (1937), written in 1993.
• Symphony No. 1, by John Corigliano (b. 1938)
• Symphony No. 1 (Three Movements for Orchestra), by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (b.1939) (1982).
• Symphony No. 1 (Tonal Plexus), by Glenn Branca (1948), composed in 1981.
• Symphony No. 1 (The Lord of the Rings), by Johan de Meij (b.1953), composed 1984–1987.

Related

• Symphony No. 1 (ballet) by Peter Martins.
• Symphony No. 1 (album) (1999) English singer-songwriter Joe Jackson.
• Symphony in One Movement (Barber), Op. 9, by Samuel Barber (1936).
• A Sea Symphony by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1909).
• Industrial Symphony No. 1, a play directed by David Lynch.
• Orca Symphony No. 1, a 2013 album by Serj Tankian.
• Symphony Number One, a Baltimore-based Chamber Orchestra.

Notes

1. M. Haydn wrote four additional pieces also designated as Symphony No. 1 by musicologists so as to not to have to disturb the Charles Sherman numbering. See List of compositions by Michael Haydn#Symphonies.