List of choral symphonies

Dress rehearsal for the world premiere of the Mahler Eighth Symphony.

Symphonies for chorus and orchestra

Works are listed in chronological order. Works with an asterisk (*) indicate that text is used throughout the entire composition.

• Fantasy in C minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 80, by Ludwig van Beethoven (1808) (not a symphony, but one of only two major concerted works to involve a chorus - see also Busoni (below))
• Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, by Ludwig van Beethoven (1824)
• Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17, by Hector Berlioz (1835)
• Lobgesang (also called Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major), Op. 52, by Felix Mendelssohn (1840)
• Faust Symphony, by Franz Liszt (1854)
• Dante Symphony, by Franz Liszt (1856)
• Kullervo, Op. 7, by Jean Sibelius (1892); text from the Kalevala
• Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Resurrection, by Gustav Mahler (1894)
• Symphony No. 3 in D minor, by Gustav Mahler (1896)
• Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 26, by Alexander Scriabin (1900)
• Piano Concerto, in C major, Op. 39, by Ferruccio Busoni (1904) (not a symphony, but one of only two major concerted works to involve a chorus - see also Beethoven (above))
• Symphony No. 3, by Guy Ropartz (1905)
• Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major, by Gustav Mahler (1907) *
• A Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1), by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1909) *
• The Bells, Op. 35, by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1913) *
• Symphony No. 4, by Charles Ives (1916)
• Symphony No. 3, Op. 27, Song of the Night, by Karol Szymanowski (1916)
• Symphony No. 6, Op. 48, by Charles Tournemire (1917-18)
• A Symphony: New England Holidays, by Charles Ives (1919)
• Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 21, by George Enescu (1921)
• First Choral Symphony, by Gustav Holst (1924)
• Symphony No. 1 "The Gothic", by Havergal Brian (1919-1927)
• Symphony No. 2 in B major, Op. 14, To October, by Dmitri Shostakovich (1927)
• Symphony No. 2, O Holy Lord, by Jan Maklakiewicz (1928)
• Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 20, The First of May, by Dmitri Shostakovich (1929)
• Morning Heroes, by Arthur Bliss (1930) *
• Symphony of Psalms, by Igor Stravinsky (1930) *
• Symphony No. 4, Das Siegeslied, by Havergal Brian (1933) *
• Symphony No. 3, The Muses, by Cyril Scott (1937)
• Symphony No. 4, Folksong Symphony, by Roy Harris (1940)
• Symphony No. 4, The Revelation of Saint John, by Hilding Rosenberg (1940) *
• Symphony No. 6, by Erwin Schulhoff (1940)
• The Airborne Symphony, by Marc Blitzstein (1943-46)
• Den judiska sången, by Moses Pergament (1944)
• Symphony No. 6, In Memoriam, by Alexandre Tansman (1944)
• Symphony No. 5, The Keeper of the Garden, by Hilding Rosenberg (1945)
• Odysseus (Symphony No. 2), by Armstrong Gibbs (first performed 1946)
• Symphony No. 3, Te Deum, by Darius Milhaud (1946)
• Spring Symphony, by Benjamin Britten (1947) *
• Symphony No. 5, by Dimitrie Cuclin (1947)
• Symphony No. 4, The Cycle, by Peter Mennin (1948)
• Symphony No. 10, by Dimitrie Cuclin (1949)
• Symphony No. 12, by Dimitrie Cuclin (1951)
• Symphony No. 9, Op. 54, Sinfonia Visionaria, by Kurt Atterberg (1956) *
• Deutsche Sinfonie, by Hanns Eisler (1957) *
• Symphony No. 12, Op. 188, Choral, by Alan Hovhaness (1960)
• Symphony No. 13 in B-flat minor, Op. 113, Babi Yar, by Dmitri Shostakovich (1962) *
• Symphony No. 3, Kaddish, by Leonard Bernstein (1963)
• Symphony No. 10, Abraham Lincoln, by Roy Harris (1965)
• Vocal Symphony, by Ivana Loudová (1965)
• Choral Symphony, by Jean Coulthard (1967)
• Sinfonia by Luciano Berio (1969)
• Symphony No. 2, Op. 31, Copernicus, by Henryk Górecki (1972) *
• Symphony No. 9 (Sinfonia Sacra), Op. 140, The Resurrection, by Edmund Rubbra (1972) *
• Symphony No. 3, The Icy Mirror, by Malcolm Williamson (1972) *
• Symphony No. 23, Op. 273, Majnun, by Alan Hovhaness (1973)
• Symphony No. 2, Sinfonia mistica, by Kenneth Leighton (1974)
• Symphony No. 13, Bicentennial Symphony, by Roy Harris (1976)
• Symphony No. 5, by Camargo Guarnieri (1977)
• Symphony No. 7, A Sea Symphony, by Howard Hanson (1977) *
• Sinfonia fidei, Op. 95, by Alun Hoddinott (1977)
• Symphony No. 2, Saint Florian, by Alfred Schnittke (1979)
• Harmonium, by John Adams (1981) *
• Symphony No. 3, Sinfonia da Requiem, by József Soproni (1983)
• Symphony No. 6, Aphorisms, by Einar Englund (1984)
• Symphony No. 4, by Alfred Schnittke (1984)
• Symphony No. 58, Sinfonia Sacra, Op. 389, by Alan Hovhaness (1985)
• Symphony No. 7, Pietas by Erkki-Sven Tüür (1987)
• The Dawn Is at Hand, by Malcolm Williamson (1987-89) *
• Symphony No. 3, Journey without Distance, by Richard Danielpour (1989) *
• Symphony No. 7, Op. 116, The Keys of the Kingdom, by Jan Hanuš (1990)
• Mythodea, by Vangelis (1993) *
• Symphony No. 2, by Philip Bračanin (1995/1997)
• Symphony No. 7, Seven Gates of Jerusalem, by Krzysztof Penderecki (1996)
• Symphony No. 6, Choral, by Carl Vine (1996) *
• Symphony No. 9, by Hans Werner Henze (1997) *
• Symphony 1997: Heaven - Earth - Mankind, by Tan Dun (1997)
• Symphony No. 5, Choral, by Philip Glass (1999) *
• Symphony No. 4, The Gardens, by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (1999)
• River Symphony, by Sean O'Boyle (1999)
• Symphony No. 2, by Lowell Liebermann (1999)
• Symphony No. 9, The Spirit of Time, by Robert Kyr (2000)
• Symphony No. 4, Star Chant, by Ross Edwards (2001)
• Symphony No. 7, Toltec, by Philip Glass (2005) *
• Symphony No. 8, Songs of Transitoriness, by Krzysztof Penderecki (2005)
• Symphony No. 2, Festinemus amare homines, by Pawel Lukaszewski (2005)
• Symphony No. 1, Symphony of Providence, by Pawel Lukaszewski (2008)
• Symphony No. 3, Poems and Prayers, by Mohammed Fairouz (2010)
• Symphony No. 3, Symphony of Angels, by Pawel Lukaszewski (2010)
• Unfinished Remembering by Paul Spicer (2014)* Choral Symphony for Baritone and Soprano soloists, orchestra semi-chorus and chorus. Text by Euan Tait.

Symphonies for unaccompanied chorus

Works are listed in chronological order. These works are scored without orchestra, but the composers nevertheless titled or sub-titled them as symphonies. ^[1]

• Atalanta in Calydon, by Granville Bantock (1911)
• Vanity of Vanities, by Granville Bantock (1913)
• A Pageant of Human Life, by Granville Bantock (1913)
• Symphony for Voices, by Roy Harris (1935)
• Symphony for Voices, by Malcolm Williamson (1962)

References

• Kennedy, Michael. The Oxford Dictionary of Music. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. ISBN 0-19-311333-3.

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