This list is devoted to the top symphonies of all time as determined by their overall ranking in Dave’s Music Database. A symphony is generally large in scale, written for an orchestra, and made up of four individual movements.
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Composer Name of Work (year composition was finished)
1. Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 (1808)
2. Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (1824)
3. Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 (1812)
4. Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E-flat “Sinfonia Eroica” (1804)
5. Hector Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique (1830)
6. Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 6 “Pastorale” (1808)
7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G minor (1788)
8. Antonin Dvorák Symphony No. 9 in E minor (“From the New World”) (1893)
9. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter” (1788)
10. Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 4 (1885)
11. Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B minor (“Pathetique”) (1893)
12. Franz Schubert Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished”) (1822)
13. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 38 in D major (1787)
14. Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 2 in C minor “Resurrection” (1894)
15. Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor (1902)
16. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 35 in D major (1782)
17. Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 8 in F major (1812)
18. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 39 in E flat major (1788)
19. Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B flat major (1806)
20. Franz Josef Haydn Symphony No. 104 in D major (1795)
21. Franz Schubert Symphony No. 9 in C major (1828)
22. Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D major (“Titan”) (1884-88)
23. Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D minor (1937)
24. Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 9 in D major “Farewell” (1912)
25. Johannes Brahms Symphony NO. 1 in C minor (1876)
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