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| | *[[Antonin Dvořák|Dvořák's]] Symphony No. 9, "From the New World," with themes that have the flavor of black spirituals to them.<ref>Dvořák was not a musicologist, and, oddly, believed that "Negro" and "Indian" music were similar. He himself regarded the music as Indian-themed, with connections to ''The Song of Hiawatha.''</ref> | | *[[Antonin Dvořák|Dvořák's]] Symphony No. 9, "From the New World," with themes that have the flavor of black spirituals to them.<ref>Dvořák was not a musicologist, and, oddly, believed that "Negro" and "Indian" music were similar. He himself regarded the music as Indian-themed, with connections to ''The Song of Hiawatha.''</ref> |
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| − | Other composers known for their symphonies include [[Joseph Haydn]], [[Franz Schubert]], [[Jean Sibelius]], [[Gustav Mahler]], [[Anton Bruckner]], [[Sergei Prokofiev]], and [[Dmitri Shostakovich]]. | + | Other composers known for their symphonies include [[Joseph Haydn]], [[Franz Schubert]], [[Jean Sibelius]], [[Gustav Mahler]], [[Anton Bruckner]], [[Sergei Prokofiev]], and [[Dmitri Shostakovitch]]. |
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| | The twentieth-century vogue for atonal music has to some extent obscured the continuing composition of "traditional" symphonies. Some twentieth-century symphonies written in a tonal idiom, more or less in a traditional symphonic mould, and enjoyable to non-expert listeners include: | | The twentieth-century vogue for atonal music has to some extent obscured the continuing composition of "traditional" symphonies. Some twentieth-century symphonies written in a tonal idiom, more or less in a traditional symphonic mould, and enjoyable to non-expert listeners include: |
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| | *[[Henryk Górecki]], 1976, Symphony No. 3, "A Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" | | *[[Henryk Górecki]], 1976, Symphony No. 3, "A Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" |
| | *[[John Corigliano]], 1990, Symphony No. 1 | | *[[John Corigliano]], 1990, Symphony No. 1 |
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| | ==Notes and references== | | ==Notes and references== |