# List of symphonies in D minor

This is a list of symphonies in D minor written by notable composers.
Baroque and Classical symphonies in D minor usually used 2 horns in F (whereas for most other minor keys 2 or 4 horns were used, half in the tonic and half in the relative major). Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 29 in D minor is notable for using two trumpets in D (the horns are in F but change to D for the coda of the finale). In the Romantic era, D minor symphonies, like symphonies in almost any other key, used horns in F and trumpets in B♭.
The first choice of clarinet for orchestral music in D minor is naturally the clarinet in B♭. This choice, however, becomes problematic for multi-movement works that begin in D minor and end in D major, as the clarinet in A would be preferable for the parallel major. One solution is to write the first movement for clarinet in B♭ and the last movement for clarinet in A, but this burdens the player with having to warm up the A instrument in time for the switch.

## List

| Composer | Symphony |
| Kurt Atterberg | Symphony No. 5 "Sinfonia Funebre" [nl], Op. 20 (1917–22) |
| Ernst Bacon | Symphony (1932) |
| Edgar Bainton | Symphony No. 2 (1939–40) |
| Mily Balakirev | Symphony No. 2 (1900–08) |
| Franz Ignaz Beck | Symphony, Op. 3, No. 5 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Symphony No. 9 "Choral", Op. 125 (1822–24) |
| Victor Bendix | Symphony No. 4 [nl], Op. 30 (1904–06, rev 1916) |
| Adolphe Biarent | Symphony (1908) |
| Vilém Blodek | Symphony (1858–59) |
| Luigi Boccherini | Symphony No. 4, Op. 12/4, G. 506 La casa del diavolo (1771) Symphony No. 15, Op. 37/3, G. 517 (1787) Symphony No. 20, Op. 45, G. 522 (1792) |
| Hjalmar Borgstrøm | Symphony No. 2 [nl], Op. 24 (1912) |
| Henry Brant | Symphony No. 2 (1942) |
| Havergal Brian | Symphony No. 1 "Gothic" (1919–27) |
| George Frederick Bristow | Symphony No. 2, Op. 24 "Jullien" (apparently written by 1854, premiered in 1856) |
| Anton Bruckner | Symphony No. 0 "Die Nullte" (1860s) Symphony No. 3 (1873) Symphony No. 9 (1896, inc.) |
| Fritz Brun | Symphony No. 3 |
| Oscar Byström | Symphony (1870–72, rev. 1895) |
| Christian Cannabich | Symphony No. 50 (1772?) |
| Albert Dietrich | Symphony, Op. 20 (completed February 1870 at latest, dedicated to Johannes Brahms) |
| Ernst von Dohnányi | Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 (1900–01) |
| Antonín Dvořák | Symphony No. 4, Op. 13, B. 41 (1874) Symphony No. 7, Op. 70, B. 141 (1885) |
| John Lodge Ellerton | Symphony No. 3 "Wald-Symphonie", Op. 120 (about 1857) |
| Pietro Floridia | Symphony (1888) |
| Josef Bohuslav Foerster | Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 (1887) Symphony No. 5, Op. 141 (1929) |
| César Franck | Symphony in D minor |
| Niels Gade | Symphony No. 5 [nl], Op. 25 (1852) |
| John Gardner | Symphony No. 1, Op. 12 (1946–47) |
| Jan van Gilse | Symphony No. 3 "Elevation" [nl] (1906–07) |
| Alexander Glazunov | Symphony No. 9 (begun in 1910 but left unfinished by Glazunov's death in 1936. First movement orchestrated by Gavril Yudin in 1947) |
| Mikhail Glinka | Symphony in D minor "On Two Russian Themes" (1833/1937) left unfinished and completed by Vissarion Shebalin |
| Théodore Gouvy | Symphony No. 4 [fr], Op. 25. (1855) |
| Paul Graener | Symphony, Op. 39 (published 1912) |
| Henry Kimball Hadley | Symphony No. 4, Op. 64 (1911) |
| Johan Halvorsen | Symphony No. 2 [nl] "Fate" (rev. 1928) |
| Joseph Haydn | Symphony No. 26 "Lamentatione" (1766) Symphony No. 34 (1767) Symphony No. 80 (1783–84) |
| Michael Haydn | Symphony No. 29, MH 393, Perger 20 (1784) |
| Hans Huber | Symphony No. 1 "Tell-Symphonie" Op. 63 (1880–01) Symphony No. 7 "Swiss" (premiered September 1917) |
| Jānis Ivanovs | Symphony No. 2 (1935) |
| Charles Ives | Symphony No. 1 (1898–1902) |
| Jan Kalivoda | Symphony No. 3, Op. 32 (premiered 1830) |
| Manolis Kalomiris | Symphony No. 3 (1955) |
| Hugo Kaun | Symphony No. 1, Op. 22 (1895), An mein Vaterland. Dem Andenken meines Vaters |
| August Klughardt | Symphony No. 1 "Lenore", Op. 27 (1873) |
| Joseph Martin Kraus | Sinfonia Da Chiesa, VB 147 |
| Franz Lachner | Symphony No. 3, Op. 41 (1833–34) Symphony No. 7, Op. 58 (1839) |
| László Lajtha | Symphony No. 1, Op. 24 (1936) |
| Carl Loewe | Symphony in D minor |
| Gustav Mahler | Symphony No. 3 (1895–96) |
| Nina Makarova | Symphony (1938, revised 1962) |
| Otto Malling | Symphony, Op. 17 (by 1884) |
| Giuseppe Martucci | Symphony No. 1 [it], Op. 75 (1888–95) |
| Felix Mendelssohn | Symphony No. 5, Op. 107 Reformation (1832) |
| Frank Merrick | Symphony in D minor (1912) |
| Ödön Mihalovich | Symphony (published about 1883.) |
| Nikolai Myaskovsky | Symphony No. 15 [de], Op. 38 (1933–34) |
| Ludvig Norman | Symphony No. 3, Op. 58 (published 1885) |
| George Onslow | Symphony No. 2, Op. 42 |
| Fredrik Pacius | Symphony (1850) |
| Gottfried von Preyer | Symphony No. 1, Op. 16 |
| Florence Price | Symphony No. 4 (1945) |
| Sergei Prokofiev | Symphony No. 2, Op. 40 (1925) |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff | Symphony No. 1, Op. 13 (1896) |
| Joachim Raff | Symphony No. 6, Op. 189 (1873) |
| Ture Rangström | Symphony No. 2 "Mitt land" (1919) Symphony No. 4 "Invocation" [nl] for Organ and Orchestra (1936) |
| Napoléon Henri Reber | Symphony No. 1 |
| Emil von Reznicek | Symphony No. 1 Tragic (1901) |
| Josef Rheinberger | Symphony No. 1 "Wallenstein", Op. 10 (premiered 1866) |
| Ferdinand Ries | Symphony No. 5, Op. 112 (1813) |
| Henri-Joseph Rigel | Symphony No. 10, Op. 21, No. 2 |
| Albert Roussel | Symphony No. 1 "Le Poème de la forêt", Op. 7 [fr] (1904–06) |
| Anton Rubinstein | Symphony No. 4 [it] "Dramatic", Op. 95 (1874) |
| Vadim Salmanov | Symphony No. 1 (1952) |
| Adolphe Samuel | Symphony No. 4, Op. 33 (1863) Symphony No. 6, Op. 44 (1891) |
| Philipp Scharwenka | Symphony, Op. 96 (published 1895) |
| Martin Scherber | Symphony No. 1 (1938) |
| Robert Schumann | Symphony No. 4, Op. 120 (1841) |
| Johanna Senfter | Symphony No. 2, Op. 27 |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | Symphony No. 5, Op. 47 (1937) Symphony No. 12, Op. 112 "The Year 1917" (1961) |
| Jean Sibelius | Symphony No. 6, Op. 104 (1918–23) |
| Christian Sinding | Symphony No. 1, Op. 21 [nl] (1880–89) |
| Arthur Somervell | Symphony Thalassa |
| Louis Spohr | Symphony No. 2, Op. 49 (1820) |
| Charles Villiers Stanford | Symphony No. 2 "Elegiac"(1880) Symphony No. 7, Op. 124 (1911) |
| Richard Strauss | Symphony No. 1, AV 69 (1880) |
| Hermann Suter | Symphony, Op. 17 (1914) |
| Sergei Taneyev | Symphony No. 3 [fr] (1884) |
| Eduard Tubin | Symphony No. 3 [ca] "Heroic" (1940–42, revised 1968) |
| Johann Baptist Wanhal | Symphony, Bryan d1 (by 1773). Symphony, Bryan d2 (with five horn parts) |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Symphony No. 8 (1955) |
| Louis Vierne | Organ Symphony No. 1 [fr] |
| Robert Volkmann | Symphony No. 1, Op. 44 (published 1863) |
| Karl Weigl | Symphony No. 2 (1922) |
| Johann Wilhelm Wilms | Symphony No. 6, Op. 58 |
| Richard Wüerst | Symphony, Op. 54 (published in 1869) |
| Alexander von Zemlinsky | Symphony No. 1 (1892) |
| Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach | Symphony in D minor, BR-JCFB C 4 / Wf I/3 (ca. 1768) |