Richard Pennycuick writes:
>Steve Schwartz mentioned a symphony by Hadley which sent me to check
>in Grove as I knew the English Patrick Hadley mainly as a composer of
>vocal music. Thus I discovered the American Henry Hadley, presumably
>the composer Steve referred to, but Grove says nothing of a symphony.
>If the book's handy, Steve, some more information would be interesting.
I'll do better and list the symphonies the compilers thought worthy of the
canon. This book was published in 1942, and it seems a faithful record of
its time. You might find some of the inclusions surprising and some of the
omissions a bit shocking. My memory played tricks on me, as usual, in my
earlier post. I am now typing directly from the table of contents.
Bax: Symphony No. 3 in C
Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9
Bennett: Abraham Lincoln Symphony
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Bloch: Symphony {sic} "America"
Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in b
Brahms: Symphonies 1-4
Bruckner: Symphonies 4, 7, 9
Chausson: Symphony in Bb
Copland: Dance Symphony
Dvorak: Symphonies 8 and 9
Elgar: Symphonies 1-2
Franck: Symphony in d
Glazunov: Symphony No. 5 in Bb
Goldmark: Symphony in Eb "Rustic Wedding"
Hadley: Symphony No. 4 "North, East, South, West"
Hanson: Symphonies 1-3
Haydn: Symphonies 18, 86, 93-95, 97-104
Hill: Symphonies 2-3
Honegger: Symphony No. 1
d'Indy: Symphony No. 2 in Bb
Mahler: Symphonies 2-5
Mason: Symphony No. 3 in Bb "Lincoln"
Mendelssohn: Symphonies 3-5
Mozart: Symphonies 1, 12, 35-41
Prokofieff: Classical Symphony
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in e
Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 in c "Organ"
Schubert: Symphonies 6-9
Schumann: Symphonies 1-4
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1
Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7
Sowerby: Symphony No. 2
Strauss: Alpensinfonie, Aus Italien
Stringham: Symphony No. 1 in bb
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 3-6
Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 2-4
Steve Schwartz
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