Symphony No. 6 (Penderecki)

Symphony No. 6 may refer to: * Symphony No. 6 (Arnold) (Op. 95) by Malcolm Arnold, 1967 *

Symphony No. 6 (Bax) The Symphony No. 6 by Arnold Bax was completed on February 10, 1935. The symphony is dedicated to Sir Adrian Boult. It is, according to David Parlett, " ax's/nowiki> own favourite and widely regarded as his greatest ... powerful and tightly contr ...

(Parlett 331) by Arnold Bax, 1935 *

Symphony No. 6 (Beethoven) The Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, also known as the ''Pastoral Symphony'' (German: ''Pastorale''), is a symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven and completed in 1808. One of Beethoven's few works containing explicitly programmatic cont ...

in F major (Op. 68, ''Pastoral'') by Ludwig van Beethoven, 1802–08 * Symphony No. 6 (Bentoiu) (Op. 28, ''Culori'') by

Pascal Bentoiu Pascal Bentoiu (22 April 1927 – 21 February 2016) was a Romanian modernist composer. Life and career Bentoiu studied harmony, counterpoint and composition with Mihail Jora and piano with Theophil Demetriescu. He spent three years res ...

, 1985 * Symphony No. 6 (Branca) (Op. 95, ''Devil Choirs at the Gates of Heaven'') by

Glenn Branca Glenn may refer to: Name or surname * Glenn (name) * John Glenn, U.S. astronaut Cultivars * Glenn (mango) * a 6-row barley variety Places In the United States: * Glenn, California * Glenn County, California * Glenn, Georgia, a settlement ...

, 1989 * Symphony No. 6 (Brian) (''Sinfonia Tragica'') by

Havergal Brian Havergal Brian (born William Brian; 29 January 187628 November 1972) was an English composer. He is best known for having composed 32 symphonies (an unusually high total for a 20th-century composer), most of them late in his life. His best-know ...

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Symphony No. 6 (Bruckner) The Symphony No. 6 in A major, WAB 106, by Austrian composer Anton Bruckner (1824–1896) is a work in four movements composed between September 24, 1879 and September 3, 1881 and dedicated to his landlord, Anton van Ölzelt-Newin. Only two mov ...

in A major (WAB 106) by Anton Bruckner, 1879–81 * Symphony No. 6 (Chávez) by Carlos Chávez, 1961–62 * Symphony No. 6 (Davies) by Peter Maxwell Davies, 1996 * Symphony No. 6 (Diamond) by David Diamond, 1951 *

Symphony No. 6 (Dvořák) Antonín Dvořák composed his Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 60, B. 112, in 1880. It was premiered on 25 March 1881. It was originally published as Symphony No. 1 and is dedicated to Hans Richter, who was the conductor of the Vienna Philharmon ...

in D major (Op. 60, B. 112) by Antonín Dvořák, 1880 * Symphony No. 6 (Ficher) (Op. 86) by

Jacobo Ficher Jacobo Ficher (russian: Яков (Хакобо) Фишер; 15 January 1896 – 9 September 1978) was an Argentine composer, violinist, conductor, and music educator of Russian birth. Life Ficher was born in Odessa, Russia, to Alexander Ficher, ...

, 1956 *

Symphony No. 6 (Glass) ''Symphony No. 6'', also known as the ''Plutonian Ode Symphony'', is a symphony composed by Philip Glass. It is based on the poem '' Plutonian Ode'' by Allen Ginsberg, parts of which are sung by the soprano soloist in the work. The symphony was c ...

(''Plutonian Ode'') by Philip Glass, 2002 * Symphony No. 6 (Glazunov) in C minor (Op. 58) by Alexander Glazunov, 1896 * Symphony No. 6 (Hanson) by Howard Hanson, 1967 *

Symphony No. 6 (Harbison) The Symphony No. 6 is a composition for mezzo-soprano solo and orchestra by the American composer John Harbison. The work was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the conductor James Levine. It was composed in 2011 and was given i ...

by John Harbison, 2011 * Symphony No. 6 (Harris) (''Gettysburg Address) by

Roy Harris Roy Ellsworth Harris (February 12, 1898 – October 1, 1979) was an American composer. He wrote music on American subjects, and is best known for his Symphony No. 3. Life Harris was born in Chandler, Oklahoma on February 12, 1898. His ancestry ...

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Symphony No. 6 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 6 in D major (Hoboken 1/6) is an early symphony written in 1761 by Joseph Haydn and the first written after Haydn had joined the Esterházy court. It is the first of three that are characterised by unusual virtuoso writing across ...

in D major (Hoboken 1/6, ''Le matin'') by Joseph Haydn, 1761 * Symphony No. 6 (Michael Haydn) in C major (Perger 4, Sherman 6, MH 64) by Michael Haydn, 1764 *

Symphony No. 6 (Henze) Symphony No. 6 for two chamber orchestras by Hans Werner Henze was written in 1969. It was written while the composer was living in Cuba and marks a departure in the composer's symphonic output: whilst the previous five symphonies were more straig ...

by Hans Werner Henze, 1969 * Symphony No. 6 (Hovhaness) (Op. 173, ''Celestial Gate'') by

Alan Hovhaness Alan Hovhaness (; March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American-Armenian composer. He was one of the most prolific 20th-century composers, with his official catalog comprising 67 numbered symphonies (surviving manuscripts indicate over 70) and ...

, 1959 * Symphony No. 6 (Mahler) in A minor (''Tragic'') by Gustav Mahler, 1903–04 *

Symphony No. 6 (Martinů) The Symphony No. 6 ("Fantaisies symphoniques"), H. 343, by Bohuslav Martinů was begun in New York City in 1951, after a hiatus of four years since its predecessor, and was tentatively completed three years later on 23 April 1953. In Paris, in th ...

(H. 343, ''Fantaisies symphoniques'') by Bohuslav Martinů, 1951–53 * Symphony No. 6 (Melartin) (Op. 100) by

Erkki Melartin Erkki Gustaf Melartin (7 February 1875, Käkisalmi – 14 February 1937, Helsinki) was a Finnish composer, conductor, and teacher of the late-Romantic and early-modern periods. Melartin is generally considered to be one of Finland's most signif ...

, 1918–24 * Symphony No. 6 (Mennin) by

Peter Mennin Peter Mennin (born Mennini) (May 17, 1923 in Erie, Pennsylvania – June 17, 1983 in New York City) was a prominent American composer, teacher and administrator. In 1958, he was named Director of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and in ...

, 1953 * Symphony No. 6 (Milhaud) (Op. 343) by Darius Milhaud, 1955 * Symphony No. 6 (Mozart) in F major (K. 43) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1767 *

Symphony No. 6 (Myaskovsky) The Symphony No. 6 in E-flat minor, Op. 23 by Nikolai Myaskovsky was composed between 1921 and 1923. It is the largest and most ambitious of his 27 symphonies, and uses a chorus in the finale. It has been described as "probably the most significan ...

in E flat minor (Op. 23) by Nikolai Myaskovsky, 1921–23 *

Symphony No. 6 (Nielsen) Symphony No. 6 "Sinfonia semplice", (no opus number), FS 116. In August 1924 Danish composer Carl Nielsen began working on a Sixth Symphony, which turned out to be his last. By the end of October he wrote to Carl Johan Michaelsen: The first mov ...

(FS 116, ''Sinfonia semplice'') by Carl Nielsen, 1924–25 * Symphony No. 6 (Penderecki) (''Chinese Poems'') by

Krzysztof Penderecki Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (; 23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor. His best known works include ''Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima'', Symphony No. 3, his '' St Luke Passion'', ''Polish Requiem'', ''A ...

, 2008–17 * Symphony No. 6 (Piston) by Walter Piston, 1955 * Symphony No. 6 (Prokofiev) in E-flat minor (Op. 111) by Sergei Prokofiev, 1947 * Symphony No. 6 (Raff) in D minor (Op. 189, ''Gelebt, Gestrebt, Gelitten, Gestritten, Gestorben, Umworben'') by

Joachim Raff Joseph Joachim Raff (27 May 182224 or 25 June 1882) was a German-Swiss composer, pedagogue and pianist. Biography Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. His father, a teacher, had fled there from Württemberg in 1810 to escape forced recruitme ...

* Symphony No. 6 (Rautavaara) (''Vincentiana'') by Einojuhani Rautavaara, 1986–87 * Symphony No. 6 (Rochberg) by

George Rochberg George Rochberg (July 5, 1918May 29, 2005) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. Long a serial composer, Rochberg abandoned the practice following the death of his teenage son in 1964; he claimed this compositional technique ...

, 1986–87 * Symphony No. 6 (Rouse) by Christopher Rouse, 2019 * Symphony No. 6 (Rubbra) (Op. 80) by

Edmund Rubbra Edmund Rubbra (; 23 May 190114 February 1986) was a British composer. He composed both instrumental and vocal works for soloists, chamber groups and full choruses and orchestras. He was greatly esteemed by fellow musicians and was at the peak o ...

* Symphony No. 6 (Sallinen) (Op. 65) by Aulis Sallinen, 1990 * Symphony No. 6 (Schnittke) by Alfred Schnittke, 1992 * Symphony No. 6 (Schubert) in C major (D. 589, ''Little C major'') by Franz Schubert, 1817–18 *

Symphony No. 6 (Schuman) The Symphony No. 6 by the American composer William Schuman was commissioned by the Dallas Symphony League and was given its world premiere by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under the conductor Antal Doráti on February 27, 1949. Composition The sy ...

by William Schuman, 1949 * Symphony No. 6 (Sessions) by Roger Sessions, 1966 * Symphony No. 6 (Shostakovich) in B minor (Op. 54) by Dmitri Shostakovich, 1939 *

Symphony No. 6 (Sibelius) The Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Op. 104, was a work of long gestation completed by Jean Sibelius in 1923. Although the score does not contain a key attribution, the symphony is usually described as being in D minor; much of it is in fact in the (m ...

in D minor (Op. 104) by Jean Sibelius, 1918–23 * Symphony No. 6 (Simpson) by Robert Simpson, 1977 *

Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky) The Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, also known as the ''Pathétique Symphony'', is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's final completed symphony, written between February and the end of August 1893. The composer entitled the work "The Passionate Sympho ...

in B minor (Op. 74, ''Pathetique'') by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1893 *

Symphony No. 6 (Vaughan Williams) Ralph Vaughan Williams's Symphony in E minor, published as Symphony No. 6, was composed in 1944–47, during and immediately after World War II and revised in 1950. Dedicated to Michael Mullinar, it was first performed, in its original version, b ...

by Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1946–47 * Symphony No. 6 (Vieru) (''Exodus'') by

Anatol Vieru Anatol Vieru (; 8 June 1926 – 8 October 1998) was a Romanian-Jewish music theoretician, pedagogue, and composer. A pupil of Aram Khachaturian, he composed seven symphonies, eight string quartets, concertos, and chamber music. He also wrote t ...

, 1989 * Symphony No. 6 (Villa-Lobos) (''Sobre a linha das montanhas do Brasil'') by Heitor Villa-Lobos, 1944 * Symphony No. 6 (Williamson) (''A Liturgy of Homage'') by

Malcolm Williamson Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson, (21 November 19312 March 2003) was an Australian composer. He was the Master of the Queen's Music from 1975 until his death. Biography Williamson was born in Sydney in 1931; his father was an A ...

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