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A 7th symphony for the ages

A 7th symphony for the ages

A tweeter posted this list of ‘top’ 7th symphonies:

1. Beethoven
2. Bruckner
3. Mahler
4. Dvorak
5. Sibelius
6. Arnold
7. Shostakovich
8. Rubbra
9. Prokofiev
10. Glazunov

I’d replace half of them.

1 Beethoven
2 Shostakovich


3 Mahler
4 Sibelius
5 Bruckner
6 Henze
7 Schubert
8 Karl Amadeus Hartmann
9 Panufnik ‘Metasinfinia’
10 Vaughan Williams ‘Antarctica’

And out 10 more on the subs bench:
11 Dvorak
12 Malcolm Arnold
13 Rautavaara (pic)
14 William Schuman
15 Darius Milhaud
16 Haydn ‘Le Midi’
17 Silvestrov
18 Mozart K45
19 Villa Lobos ‘Odisséia da paz’
20 Myaskovsky

Any major opus I’ve forgotten?

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