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The Symphony No. 6 in C major, D 589, [1] is a symphony by Franz Schubert composed between October 1817 and February 1818. [2] Its first public performance was in Vienna in 1828. It is nicknamed the "Little C major" to distinguish it from his later Ninth Symphony , in the same key, which is known as the "Great C major".
I must finish it as soon as possible, for I have to wind up a lot of affairs and I must soon go to London. I told you that I had completed a Symphony which suddenly displeased me, and I tore it up. Now I have composed a new symphony which I certainly shall not tear up. [9] The symphony was written in a small house in Klin and completed by ...
Ralph Vaughan Williams composed his Symphony in E minor, published as Symphony No. 6, in 1944–47, [1] during and immediately after World War II and revised in 1950. Dedicated to Michael Mullinar , [ 1 ] it was first performed, in its original version, by Sir Adrian Boult and the BBC Symphony Orchestra on 21 April 1948.
The Symphony No. 6 by the American composer William Schuman was commissioned by the Dallas Symphony League and was given its world premiere by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under the conductor Antal Doráti on February 27, 1949.
The Symphony No. 6 has been praised by music critics. John von Rhein of the Chicago Tribune called it "one of [Hanson's] most formally innovative" symphonies. [1] Andrew Achenbach of Gramophone similarly wrote, "it boasts a formidable thematic economy and intriguing formal scheme of which Hanson himself was justifiably proud."
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The Symphony No. 6 of Roger Sessions, a symphony written using the twelve-tone technique, was composed in 1966. It was commissioned by the state of New Jersey and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. [1] The score carries the dedication: "In celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the state of New Jersey". [2]
Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 6 in C major, Perger 4, Sherman 6, Sherman-adjusted 8, MH 64, was written in Salzburg, completed in 1764. It is the 31st symphony in C major attributed to Joseph Haydn in Anthony van Hoboken's catalog. Scored for 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, and strings, in three movements: Vivace; Andante in C minor; Tempo di Menuetto