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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".
1763 portrait of Mozart. Symphony No. 6 in F major, K. 43, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1767. According to Alfred Einstein in his 1937 revision of the Köchel catalogue, the symphony was probably begun in Vienna and completed in Olomouc, a Moravian city to which the Mozart family fled to escape a Viennese smallpox epidemic; [1] see Mozart and smallpox.
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 in F major, Op. 68, also known as the Pastoral Symphony (German: Pastorale [1]), is a symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven and completed in 1808. One of Beethoven's few works containing explicitly programmatic content, [2] the symphony was first performed alongside his fifth symphony in the Theater an der Wien on 22 December 1808 in a four-hour concert.
German-language publication of the Unfinished Symphony score as No. 7. Schubert, Franz (2008). Symphony No. 7 in B minor D 759 Unfinished Symphony. Eulenburg Audio+Score Series. Eulenburg. ISBN 978-3-7957-6529-3. English-language publication of the Unfinished Symphony score as No. 7. Schubert, Franz; Reichenberger, Teresa (1986).
The first drafts of a new symphony were started in the spring of 1891. [8] However, some or all of the symphony was not pleasing to Tchaikovsky, who tore up the manuscript "in one of his frequent moods of depression and doubt over his alleged inability to create". [8] In 1892, Tchaikovsky wrote the following to his nephew Vladimir "Bob" Davydov:
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Symphony No. 6: F major: 14:16 1767 Vienna/Olomouc Symphony No. 6: Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe; 45 45 Symphony No. 7: D major: 11:08 1768 Vienna January 16 Symphony No. 7: Score and critical report (in German) in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe; 48 48 Symphony No. 8: D major: 12:01 1768 Vienna December 13