Title: Symphony No. 8 (Piston)
Content:  The Symphony No. 8 by Walter Piston is a symphony dating from 1965.
Title: Symphony No. 8 (Davies)
Content:  The Symphony No. 8 (also called the Antarctic Symphony) is an orchestral composition by Peter Maxwell Davies, completed on 15 December 2001.
Title: Symphony No. 8 (Haydn)
Content:  Joseph Haydn wrote his Symphony No. 8 in G major under the employ of Prince Paul II Anton Esterházy in Spring 1761, in the transition between the Baroque and Classical periods. It is the third part of a set of three symphonies that Prince Anton had commissioned him to write – Le matin ("Morning"; No. 6), Le midi ("Noon"; No. 7) and Le soir ("Evening"; No. 8). He had given him as inspiration the three times of Day.
Title: Symphony No. 8 (Glazunov)
Content: Allegro moderato ( = 100) ; Mesto ( = 50–54) ; Allegro ( = 120) ; Finale: Moderato sostenuto ( = 66) The Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major, Op. 83, was composed by Alexander Glazunov in 1905, and was published two years later. This four-movement symphony (his last one) was premiered on December 22, 1906 in Saint Petersburg, the composer conducting. It was an important influence on Igor Stravinsky's Symphony in E-flat. It is in four movements:
Title: Symphony No. 8 (Piston)
Content:  The Boston Symphony Orchestra commissioned the Eighth Symphony and gave its first performance on March 5, 1965, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf, to whom the score is dedicated. Initially, Piston had preferred to write a flute concerto for the Boston Symphony's principal flautist, Doriot Anthony Dwyer, but Leinsdorf preferred a symphony. The concerto was eventually composed in 1971. According to another account, however, it was Piston himself who expressed a preference for a symphony.
Title: Symphony No. 8 (Myaskovsky)
Content: 1) Andante - Allegro in F minor and A major ; 2) Allegro risoluto e con spirito in D major ; 3) Adagio in B minor ; 4) Allegro deciso in A major Nikolai Myaskovsky wrote his Symphony No. 8 in A major, his Opus 26, between 1924 and 1925. The symphony is his second in the major - the first is his fifth symphony - and the premiere was conducted by Konstantin Saradzhev, who had premiered the composer's fourth and seventh symphonies. It is dedicated to Sergei S. Popov. It is in four movements:
Title: Symphony No. 8 (Sessions)
Content: 1) Adagio e mesto ; 2) Allegro con brio The Symphony No. 8 of Roger Sessions was composed in 1968. It is a work in two movements lasting together about fourteen minutes: Noteworthy in the context of Sessions' symphonies is the use of maracas to accompany the theme in the first movement. Andrea Olmstead describes all of Sessions's symphonies as "serious" and "funereal", with No. 8 being one of four with, "quiet reflective endings." No. 8 combines the, "fearsome rhythmic and harmonic densities," of his maturity, "with the extended melodic phrases," which were always characteristic of Sessions. The symphony was premiered on May 2, 1968, by the New York Philharmonic conducted by William Steinberg.
Title: Symphony No. 8 (Villa-Lobos)
Content:  Symphony No. 8 is a composition by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, written in 1950. A performance lasts about 25 minutes
Title: Symphony No. 8 (Beethoven)
Content:  The Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93 is a symphony in four movements composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1812. Beethoven fondly referred to it as "my little Symphony in F", distinguishing it from his Sixth Symphony, a longer work also in F. The Eighth Symphony is generally light-hearted, though not lightweight, and in many places cheerfully loud, with many accented notes. Various passages in the symphony are heard by some listeners to be musical jokes. As with various other Beethoven works such as the Opus 27 piano sonatas and the later Ninth Symphony, the symphony deviates from Classical tradition in making the last movement the weightiest of the four.
Title: Symphony No. 8 (Shostakovich)
Content:  The Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65, by Dmitri Shostakovich was written in the summer of 1943, and first performed on November 4 of that year by the USSR Symphony Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky, to whom the work is dedicated. It was named the 'Stalingrad Symphony' by the USSR. The symphony does not appear on concert programs very often, yet many recent scholars have ranked it among the composer’s finest scores. Although some have argued that the work falls within the tradition of other C minor "tragedy to triumph" symphonies, such as Beethoven's Fifth, Brahms' First, Bruckner's Eighth, and Mahler's Second, there is considerable disagreement over the level of optimism present in the final pages. Shostakovich's friend Isaac Glikman called this symphony "his most tragic work". The work, like many of his symphonies, breaks some of the standard conventions of symphonic form and structure. Shostakovich clearly references themes, rhythms and harmonies from his previous symphonies, most notably Symphony No. 5 and Symphony No. 7.

Question: Who was the composer of Symphony No. 8?
Answer: Einojuhani Rautavaara.
Eino Juhani Rautavaara.
Eino-Juhani Rautavaara.