List of choral symphonies

The following is a list of choral symphonies.

Symphonies for chorus and orchestra

Works are listed in chronological order. Works with an asterisk indicate that text is used throughout the entire composition.

19th century

Fantasy in C minor for Piano, Soloists and Orchestra, Op. 80, by Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 9, Op. 125, by Ludwig van Beethoven, the "Choral Symphony"
Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17, by Hector Berlioz Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale, Op. 15, by Hector Berlioz Lobgesang, Op. 52, by Felix Mendelssohn Faust Symphony, by Franz Liszt Dante Symphony, by Franz Liszt Kullervo, Op. 7, by Jean Sibelius ; text from the Kalevala
Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Resurrection, by Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 3 in D minor, by Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 7, Op. 40, Korsymfoni, by Asger Hamerik

1900–1949

Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 26, by Alexander Scriabin
Piano Concerto, in C major, Op. 39, by Ferruccio Busoni
Symphony No. 3, by Guy Ropartz
Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major, by Gustav Mahler *A Sea Symphony, by Ralph Vaughan Williams *Der 100. Psalm, by Max Reger *Natursymphonie, by Siegmund von Hausegger
Symphony No. 4 in E flat minor, Op. 55, by Joseph Ryelandt
The Bells, Op. 35, by Sergei Rachmaninoff *
Symphony No. 4, by Charles Ives
Symphony No. 3, Op. 27, Song of the Night, by Karol Szymanowski
Symphony No. 6, Op. 48, by Charles Tournemire A Symphony: New England Holidays, by Charles Ives
Symphony No. 1 "The Gothic", by Havergal Brian
Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 21, by George Enescu
Symphony No. 1, KSS30, by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
Symphony No. 6, The Revolutionary, by Nikolai Myaskovsky
First Choral Symphony, by Gustav Holst
Symphony No. 5, Der Schnitter Tod, by Julius Röntgen
Symphony No. 8, Minder ved Amalienborg, BVN. 193, by Rued Langgaard
Symphony No. 2 in B major, Op. 14, To October, by Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 6, Rijck God, wie sal ic claghen, by Julius Röntgen *
Symphony No. 2, O Holy Lord, by Jan Maklakiewicz
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 20, The First of May, by Dmitri Shostakovich Morning Heroes, by Arthur Bliss *Symphony of Psalms, by Igor Stravinsky *
Symphony No. 4, Das Siegeslied, by Havergal Brian *
Symphony No. 4, Poem for the Komsomol Fighters, by Lev Knipper
Symphony No. 3, The Muses, by Cyril Scott
Symphony No. 15, Sørstormen, BVN. 375, by Rued Langgaard
Symphony No. 4, Folksong Symphony, by Roy Harris
Symphony No. 4, The Revelation of Saint John, by Hilding Rosenberg *
Symphony No. 6, by Erwin Schulhoff
Symphony No. 9, Op. 93, Everlasting Times after J. Tuwim and V. Bronievsky, by Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Symphony No. 4, Op. 29, Sinfonia Sacra, by Vagn Holmboe *
Symphony No. 2, KSS72, Jāmī, by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
Symphony No. 1, Proti Simfonia, by Mikis Theodorakis The Airborne Symphony, by Marc Blitzstein Den judiska sången, by Moses Pergament
Symphony No. 6, In Memoriam, by Alexandre Tansman
Symphony No. 5, The Keeper of the Garden, by Hilding Rosenberg Odysseus, by Armstrong Gibbs
Symphony No. 3, Te Deum, by Darius Milhaud Spring Symphony, by Benjamin Britten *
Symphony No. 5, by Dimitrie Cuclin
Suite, Morgenen, BVN. 336, by Rued Langgaard
Symphony No. 4, The Cycle, by Peter Mennin
Symphony No. 10, by Dimitrie Cuclin

1950–1999

Symphony No. 12, by Dimitrie Cuclin
Symphony No. 8, by Henry Cowell *
Symphony No. 10, Amerindia, by Heitor Villa-Lobos
Symphony No. 4, da Paz, by Cláudio Santoro
Symphony No. 9, Op. 54, Sinfonia Visionaria, by Kurt Atterberg *Deutsche Sinfonie, by Hanns Eisler *Nirvana Symphony, by Toshiro Mayuzumi
Symphony No. 12, Op. 188, Choral, by Alan Hovhaness
Symphony No. 13 in B-flat minor, Op. 113, Babi Yar, by Dmitri Shostakovich *
Symphony No. 6, Op. 79, after Leib Kvitko, Shmuel Halkin and M. Lukonin, by Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Symphony No. 3, Kaddish, by Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 8, Op. 83, Flowers of Poland after J. Tuwim, by Mieczyslaw Weinberg *
Symphony No. 2, Op. 28, Marina, after Marina Tsvetaeva by Boris Tishchenko *
Symphony No. 10, Abraham Lincoln, by Roy Harris
Vocal Symphony, by Ivana Loudová Choral Symphony, by Jean Coulthard
Sinfonia by Luciano Berio
Symphony No. 1, Die Heimat, by Kurt Graunke
Symphony No. 11, Op. 101, Festive Symphony after various revolutionary poets, by Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Symphony No. 2, Op. 31, Copernicus, by Henryk Górecki *
Symphony No. 9, Sinfonia Sacra, Op. 140, The Resurrection, by Edmund Rubbra *
Symphony No. 3, The Icy Mirror, by Malcolm Williamson *
Symphony No. 2, by Avet Terterian
Symphony No. 24, Op. 273, Majnun, by Alan Hovhaness
Symphony No. 12 De döda på torget, by Allan Pettersson *
Symphony No. 2, Sinfonia mistica, by Kenneth Leighton
Symphony No. 13, Bicentennial Symphony, by Roy Harris
Symphony No. 3, by Wolfgang Rihm
Symphony No. 5, by Camargo Guarnieri
Symphony No. 7, A Sea Symphony, by Howard Hanson *Sinfonia fidei, Op. 95, by Alun Hoddinott
Symphony No. 15, Op. 119, I Believe in This Earth after M. Dudin, by Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Symphony No. 2, Saint Florian, by Alfred Schnittke
Symphony No. 2, The Song of the Earth, by Mikis Theodorakis
Symphony No. 3, by Mikis Theodorakis *
Harmonium, by John Adams *
Symphony No. 6, by Avet Terterian *
Symphony No. 7, Spring-Symphony, by Mikis Theodorakis *
Symphony No. 3, Sinfonia da Requiem, by József Soproni
Symphony No. 6, Aphorisms, by Einar Englund
Symphony No. 4, by Alfred Schnittke
Symphony No. 5, by Anatol Vieru *
Symphony No. 58, Sinfonia Sacra, Op. 389, by Alan Hovhaness
Symphony No. 18, Op. 138, War, there is no word more cruel after S. Orlov and A. Tvardovsky, by Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Symphony No. 4, Symphony of Choirs, by Mikis Theodorakis *
Symphony No. 7, Pietas by Erkki-Sven Tüür
The Dawn Is at Hand, by Malcolm Williamson *
Symphony No. 3, Journey without Distance, by Richard Danielpour *
Symphony No. 7, Op. 116, The Keys of the Kingdom, by Jan Hanuš Leaves of Grass: A Choral Symphony, by Robert Strassburg Mythodea, by Vangelis *
Lili'uokalani Symphony by Lalo Schifrin
Symphony No. 2, by Philip Bračanin
Symphony No. 7, Seven Gates of Jerusalem, by Krzysztof Penderecki
Symphony No. 6, Choral, by Carl Vine *
Symphony No. 9, by Hans Werner Henze *Symphony 1997: Heaven - Earth - Mankind, by Tan Dun
Symphony No. 5, Choral, by Philip Glass *
Symphony No. 4, The Gardens, by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich River Symphony, by Sean O'Boyle
Symphony No. 2, by Lowell Liebermann 2000 Today: A World Symphony for the Millenium, by Tan Dun *

21st century

Symphony No. 9, The Spirit of Time, by Robert Kyr
Symphony No. 4, Star Chant, by Ross Edwards
Dante Symphony No. 4, Purgatory, from choreo-symphonic cycle Beatrice, by Boris Tishchenko
Symphony No. 7, Toltec, by Philip Glass *
Symphony No. 8, Songs of Transitoriness, by Krzysztof Penderecki
Symphony No. 2, Festinemus amare homines, by Pawel Lukaszewski
Symphony No. 3, Planet Earth, by Johan de Meij
Symphony No. 1, Symphony of Providence, by Pawel Lukaszewski
Symphony No. 3, Poems and Prayers, by Mohammed Fairouz
Symphony No. 3, Symphony of Angels, by Pawel Lukaszewski Dreams of the Fallen, by Jake Runestad, a choral symphony-concerto for solo piano, chorus, and orchestra set to texts of the poet Brian Turner
Symphony No. 10, Alla ricerca di Borromini, Op. 327, by Peter Maxwell Davies Unfinished Remembering by Paul Spicer, a choral symphony for baritone and soprano soloists, orchestra, semi-chorus, and chorus set to a text by Euan Tait.
Symphony No. 11, Hillsborough Memorial, by Michael Nyman The Legend of Bijan and Manijeh by Farhad Poupel, a choral symphony-concerto for solo piano, chorus, and orchestra. The Joyful Mysteries by Daniel Knaggs, a choral symphony for soloists, orchestra, and chorus. TEARFLOODS by Robin Haigh

Symphonies for unaccompanied chorus

Works are listed in chronological order. These works are scored without orchestra, but the composers nevertheless titled or sub-titled them as symphonies.Atalanta in Calydon, by Granville Bantock Vanity of Vanities, by Granville Bantock A Pageant of Human Life, by Granville Bantock

Symphony for Voices, by Roy Harris
Symphony for Voices, by Malcolm Williamson Know Yourself - Symphony for Mixed Choir a cappella, by Alexander Shchetynsky