Symphony No. 8
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Symphony No. 8 is a commonly used designation for several composers’ eighth symphonies, most famously Franz Schubert’s unfinished Symphony in B minor.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| Sinfonie Nr. 8 in h-Moll | 1 |
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
musical work designation
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symphony number ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Eighth Symphony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| correspondsTo | VIII in Roman numerals ⓘ |
| field | classical music ⓘ |
| hasKeyVariant |
B minor (Schubert)
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C minor (Bruckner) NERFINISHED ⓘ C minor (Shostakovich) NERFINISHED ⓘ C minor (Villa-Lobos) ⓘ D minor (Vaughan Williams) NERFINISHED ⓘ E minor (Prokofiev) NERFINISHED ⓘ E-flat major (Glazunov) NERFINISHED ⓘ E-flat major (Mahler) NERFINISHED ⓘ F major (Beethoven) ⓘ G major (Dvořák) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfDesignation | English ⓘ |
| mostFamousAssociation | Schubert’s "Unfinished" Symphony in B minor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namingConvention | numbering of symphonies by composition order or publication order ⓘ |
| notableExample | Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in B minor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ordinalPosition | 8 ⓘ |
| refersTo |
Alexander Glazunov’s Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major
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Allan Pettersson’s Symphony No. 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8 in C minor NERFINISHED ⓘ Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 in G major NERFINISHED ⓘ Aulis Sallinen’s Symphony No. 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ David Maslanka’s Symphony No. 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8 in C minor NERFINISHED ⓘ Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Symphony No. 8 "The Journey" NERFINISHED ⓘ Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in B minor NERFINISHED ⓘ Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major NERFINISHED ⓘ Hans Werner Henze’s Symphony No. 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ Havergal Brian’s Symphony No. 8 in B-flat minor NERFINISHED ⓘ Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Symphony No. 8 in C minor NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 8 (unfinished, lost) NERFINISHED ⓘ Krzysztof Penderecki’s Symphony No. 8 "Lieder der Vergänglichkeit" NERFINISHED ⓘ Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 in F major NERFINISHED ⓘ Malcolm Arnold’s Symphony No. 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ Nikolai Miaskovsky’s Symphony No. 8 in A major NERFINISHED ⓘ Nikolai Myaskovsky’s Symphony No. 8 in A major NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No. 8 in D minor NERFINISHED ⓘ Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 8 in E minor NERFINISHED ⓘ William Schuman’s Symphony No. 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typicalInstrumentation | orchestra ⓘ |
| usedBy | multiple composers ⓘ |
| workType | multi-movement orchestral composition ⓘ |
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this entity surface form:
Sinfonie Nr. 8 in h-Moll