Gauk
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« Reply #15 on: March 19, 2013, 05:38:30 pm » |
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The list is only "symphonies that changed music" - it doesn't say by how much! Writing a piece that is not performed is still a change, if a very small one.
If we rewrite the topic as "influential symphonies", then the list is still not a very good one. The influence of Haydn is from his whole opus, not just one work, and I would be hard put to say whether Beethoven's 3rd, 5th, 7th or 9th was more influential.
In the case of Shostakovich, the 7th symphony was politically influential in east-west relations at the time, but in terms of musical influence, at least in the USSR, I think the 8th was more influential. Though one could point to Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra and Antheil's 4th in the west. But really, the Shostakovich symphony that casts the longest musical shadow is the 1st.
Surely, though, the most influential 20th C symphony is Sibelius 7?
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