A timeline of symphonies from 1900-1945

Updated Thursday 17th November 2011

A timeline of the major symphonic works produced in the first half of the 20th Century

For a discussion of the symphony between 1900-45, see Musical landscapes: The symphony after 1900. You can also explore the connections between some of the 20th century's most important composers.

Date	Composer	Symphony
1901-02	Sibelius	Symphony no. 2
1901-02	Nielsen	Symphony no. 2 'The Four Temperaments
1901-02	Mahler	Symphony no. 5
1903-05	Debussy	La Mer 'Symphonic Sketches'
1903-09	Vaughan Williams	A Sea Symphony
1904	Strauss	Sinfonia Domestica
1906	Schoenberg	Chamber Symphony no. 1
1906	Mahler	Symphony no. 8
1907-08	Elgar	Symphony no. 1
1908-11	Ives	Symphony no. 3 'The Camp Meeting'
1912-13	Vaughan Williams	A London Symphony
1914-16	Nielsen	Symphony no. 4 'The Inextinguishable'
1914-16	Szymanowski	Symphony no. 3 'The song of the night'
1915	Strauss	Alpine Symphony
1915	Sibelius	Symphony no. 5
1915-28	Ives	Universe Symphony (unfinished)
1916-17	Prokofiev	Symphony no. 1 'Classical'
1917-19	Ives	A Symphony: New England Holidays
1921	Vaughan Williams	Pastoral Symphony
1922	Milhaud	Symphonie de chambre no. 5
1923	Honegger	Mouvement symphonique no. 1 'Pacific 231'
1924	Sibelius	Symphony no. 7
1926	Janácek	Sinfonietta
1927	Shostakovich	Symphony no. 2 'To October'
1929	Bax	Symphony no. 3
1930	Stravinsky	Symphony of Psalms
1933-34	Britten	Simple Symphony
1934	Hindemith	Mathis der Maler
1934-37	Moeran	Symphony in G minor
1939-40	Casella	Symphony no. 3
1940	Britten	Sinfonia da Requiem
1941	Shostakovich	Symphony no. 7 'Leningrad'
1942-45	Stravinsky	Symphony in Three Movements
1944-46	Copland	Symphony no. 2
1945	Benjamin	Symphony
1945	Klami	Symphony no. 2
1945	Shostakovich	Symphony no. 9
1945-46	Honegger	Symphony no. 3 'Liturgique'