•
George Antheil (1900–1959), American composer of 10 symphonies, of which six are numbered (No. 1,
Zingareska, 1920–22, r. 1923; No. 2, 1931–38, r. 1943; No. 3,
American, 1936–41, r. 1946; No. 4,
1942, 1942; No. 5,
Joyous, 1947–48; and No. 6,
After Delacroix, 1947–48, r. 1949–50) and four are unnumbered (the
Symphony for Five Instruments, 1923, r. 1923; the
Jazz Symphony, for three pianos and orchestra, 1925, r. 1955; a Symphony in F major, 1925–26; and an alternative fifth symphony,
Tragic Symphony, 1943–46, which Antheil composed as a requiem to the World War II dead) •
Henry Barraud (1900–1997), French composer of 3 symphonies (the second for strings) and a
Symphonie concertante for trumpet and orchestra •
Nicolai Berezowsky (1900–1953), Russian–American violinist and composer of 4 symphonies •
Willy Burkhard (1900–1955), Swiss composer of 1 symphony (
Piccola sinfonia giocosa for small orchestra) •
Alan Bush (1900–1995), British composer of 4 symphonies •
Aaron Copland (1900–1990), American composer of 3 numbered symphonies, a Symphony for organ and orchestra (later arranged without organ as Symphony No. 1), and a
Dance Symphony for orchestra. The fourth movement of
No. 3 is based on his famous
Fanfare for the Common Man •
Pierre-Octave Ferroud (1900–1936), French composer of 1 symphony •
Isadore Freed (1900–1960), American composer of 2 symphonies •
Anis Fuleihan (1900–1970), Cypriot–American composer of 2 symphonies and a
Concertante Symphony for string quartet and orchestra •
Uuno Klami (1900–1961), Finnish composer of 2 numbered symphonies (
1938; and
1945), as well as a
Symphonie enfantine (1928) •
Paul Kletzki (1900–1973), Polish conductor and composer of 3 symphonies plus a sinfonietta for strings •
Ernst Krenek (1900–1991), Austrian composer of 5 symphonies •
Colin McPhee (1900–1964), Canadian composer of 2 symphonies •
Alexander Mosolov (1900–1973), Russian composer of 8 symphonies •
Hermann Reutter (1900–1985), German composer of 1 symphony for strings plus a
Hamlet–Sinfonie for soloists, narrator and orchestra •
Lucijan Marija Škerjanc (1900–1973), Slovene composer of 5 symphonies plus a sinfonietta for strings •
Carl Ueter (1900–1985), German composer of 2 symphonies •
Guy Warrack (1900–1986), Scottish composer of the Symphony in C minor (1932) •
Kurt Weill (1900–1950), German composer of 2 symphonies •
Kazimierz Wiłkomirski (1900–1995), Polish composer of 1 symphony and 1
Symphony concertante for cello and orchestra •
David Wynne (1900–1983), Welsh composer of 4 symphonies (the last incomplete) •
Karel Albert (1901–1987), Belgian composer of 4 symphonies plus 1 chamber symphony and 1 sinfonietta •
Blaž Arnič (1901–1970), Slovenian composer of 9 symphonies •
Julián Bautista (1901–1961), Spanish–Argentine composer of 1 symphony •
Conrad Beck (1901–1989), Swiss composer of 7 symphonies •
Werner Egk (1901–1983), German composer of 1 symphony (
Kleine Symphonie, 1926) •
Eivind Groven (1901–1977), Norwegian composer of 2 symphonies (No. 1,
Towards the Mountains, 1937, r. 1951; and No. 2,
The Midnight Hour, 1943) •
Victor Hely-Hutchinson (1901–1947), British composer of 2 symphonies (1927 and 1942) •
Emil Hlobil (1901–1987), Czech composer of 7 symphonies and 1 sinfonietta •
Hanns Jelinek (1901–1969), Austrian composer of 6 symphonies •
Ernst Pepping (1901–1981), German composer of 3 symphonies •
Marcel Poot (1901–1988), Belgian composer of 7 symphonies •
Edmund Rubbra (1901–1986), English composer of 11 symphonies •
Henri Sauguet (1901–1989), French composer of 4 symphonies •
Henri Tomasi (1901–1971), French composer of 2 symphonies •
Mark Brunswick (1902–1971), American composer of 1 symphony •
Alfonso de Elías (1902–1984), Mexican composer of 3 symphonies •
Helvi Leiviskä (1902–1982), Finnish composer of 3 symphonies and a
Sinfonia brevis •
Lino Liviabella (1902–1964), Italian composer of 1 symphony •
Stefan Bolesław Poradowski (1902–1967), Polish composer of 8 symphonies •
Vissarion Shebalin (1902–1963), Russian composer of 5 symphonies and 1 sinfonietta •
John Vincent (1902–1977), American composer of 2 numbered symphonies and 1 earlier symphony (lost) •
Arnold Walter (1902–1973), Austrian–Canadian composer of 1 symphony • Sir
William Walton (1902–1983), English composer of 2 symphonies •
Meredith Willson (1902–1984), American composer of 2 symphonies •
Stefan Wolpe (1902–1972), German-born composer of a Symphony (1955–56) • Sir
Lennox Berkeley (1903–1989), English composer of 4 symphonies •
Boris Blacher (1903–1975), German composer of 2 symphonies •
Vernon Duke (1903–1969), Russian–American composer of 3 symphonies •
Antiochos Evangelatos (1903–1981), Greek composer of 2 symphonies and 1 sinfonietta •
Jerzy Fitelberg (1903–1951), Polish–American composer of 2 symphonies, plus a symphony for strings and a sinfonietta •
Vittorio Giannini (1903–1966), American composer of 5 symphonies •
Pál Kadosa (1903–1983), Hungarian composer of 8 symphonies and 1 sinfonietta •
Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978), Armenian composer of 3 symphonies •
Mykola Kolessa (1903–2006), Ukrainian composer of 2 symphonies •
Saburō Moroi (1903–1977), Japanese composer of 5 symphonies •
Nicolas Nabokov (1903–1978), Russian–American composer of 3 symphonies •
Priaulx Rainier (1903–1986), South African–British composer of 1 chamber symphony for strings •
Günter Raphael (1903–1960), German composer of 5 symphonies plus a "Sinfonia breve" •
Luis Humberto Salgado (1903–1977), Ecuadorian composer of 9 symphonies •
John Antill (1904–1986), Australian composer of
Symphony on a City (1959) •
Victor Bruns (1904–1996), German composer of 6 symphonies, plus 1 chamber symphony for strings and 1 sinfonietta •
Erik Chisholm (1904–1965), Scottish composer of 2 symphonies •
Hubert Clifford (1904–1959), Australian–British composer of 1 symphony •
Balys Dvarionas (1904–1972), Lithuanian composer of 1 symphony •
Géza Frid (1904–1989), Hungarian–Dutch pianist and composer of 1 symphony and 1 sinfonietta for strings •
Kunihiko Hashimoto (1904–1949), Japanese composer of 2 symphonies •
Georges Hugon (1904–1980), French composer of 3 symphonies (the last unfinished) •
Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904–1987), Russian composer of 4 symphonies •
Iša Krejčí (1904–1968), Czech composer of 4 symphonies •
Richard Mohaupt (1904–1957), German-U.S. composer of 1 symphony •
Gavriil Popov (1904–1972), Russian composer of 7 symphonies (the last unfinished) •
Cemal Reşit Rey (1904–1985), Turkish composer of 2 symphonies •
Manuel Rosenthal (1904–2003), French composer of 2 symphonies •
Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling (1904–1985), German composer of 2 symphonies •
William Alwyn (1905–1985), English composer of 5 symphonies •
Boris Arapov (1905–1992), Russian composer of 7 symphonies •
Vytautas Bacevičius (1905–1970), Lithuanian composer of 6 symphonies •
Theodor Berger (1905–1992), Austrian composer of 3 symphonies •
Marc Blitzstein (1905–1961), American composer of 1 symphony (
The Airborne Symphony, 1946, for narrator, vocal soloists, male chorus and orchestra) •
Eugène Bozza (1905–1991), French composer of 5 symphonies •
Yevgeny Brusilovsky (1905–1981), Russian composer of 8 symphonies •
Francis Chagrin (1905–1972), Romanian–British composer of 2 symphonies •
Christian Darnton (1905–1981), British composer of 4 symphonies •
Ferenc Farkas (1905–2000), Hungarian composer of 1 symphony •
Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905–1963), German composer of 8 symphonies •
André Hossein (1905–1983), Iranian–French composer of 3 symphonies •
André Jolivet (1905–1974), French composer of 3 numbered symphonies and a symphony for strings •
Jef Maes (1905–1996), Belgian composer of 3 symphonies •
Ernst Hermann Meyer (1905–1988), German composer of 3 symphonies (the first for strings) plus a concertante symphony for piano and orchestra and a sinfonietta •
Léon Orthel (1905–1985), Dutch composer of 6 symphonies •
Alan Rawsthorne (1905–1971), British composer of 3 symphonies •
Marcel Rubin (1905–1995), Austrian composer of 10 symphonies plus a sinfonietta for strings •
Verdina Shlonsky (1905–1990), Israeli composer of 1 symphony (1937) • Sir
Michael Tippett (1905–1998), English composer of 4 symphonies •
Eduard Tubin (1905–1982), Estonian composer of 11 symphonies, the last of which is incomplete. Also symphonic is the
Sinfonietta on Estonian Motifs (1940). •
Dag Wirén (1905–1986), Swedish composer of 5 numbered symphonies, Nos. 2–5 of which are extant (No. 2, 1939; No. 3, 1944; No. 4, 1952; and No. 5, 1964); the composer withdrew his First Symphony (1932) and it was never performed. Also symphonic is a
Sinfonietta (1934)—see
Category of Wirén symphonies •
Xian Xinghai (1905–1945), Chinese composer of 2 symphonies •
Kees van Baaren (1906–1970), Dutch composer of 1 symphony (1957) •
Yves Baudrier (1906–1988), French composer of 1 symphony •
Ivan Brkanović (1906–1987), Croatian composer of 5 symphonies •
Pierre Capdevielle (1906–1969), French composer of 3 symphonies •
Arnold Cooke (1906–2005), British composer of 6 symphonies •
Paul Creston (1906–1985), American composer of 6 symphonies •
Antal Doráti (1906–1988), American conductor and composer of Hungarian birth, who wrote 2 symphonies •
Klaus Egge (1906–1979), Norwegian composer of 5 symphonies •
Will Eisenmann (1906–1992), German–Swiss composer of 1 symphony for strings •
Ulvi Cemal Erkin (1906–1972), Turkish composer of 2 symphonies plus a
Sinfonietta for strings and a
Symphony concertante for piano and orchestra •
Ross Lee Finney (1906–1997), American composer of 4 symphonies •
Benjamin Frankel (1906–1973), English composer of 8 symphonies •
Janis Ivanovs (1906–1983), Latvian composer of 21 symphonies •
Ingemar Liljefors (1906–1981), Swedish composer of 1 symphony •
Fernando Lopes-Graça (1906–1994), Portuguese composer of 1 symphony and 1 sinfonietta •
Peter Mieg (1906–1990), Swiss composer of 1 symphony •
Alexander Moyzes (1906–1984), Slovak composer of 12 symphonies •
Boris Papandopulo (1906–1991), Croatian composer of 2 symphonies plus a sinfonietta for strings •
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975), Soviet composer of 15 symphonies, of which a number have vocal parts: the
second (
To October, 1927) and
third (
First of May, 1929) include mixed chorus; the
thirteenth (
Babi Yar, 1962) includes parts for bass soloist and male chorus, while the
fourteenth (1969) is for soprano and bass soloists—see
Category of Shostakovich symphonies. Additionally, five of Shostakovich's
String Quartets were arranged (with the composer's approval) for various combinations of instruments by
Rudolf Barshai and styled "Chamber Symphonies". •
Leopold Spinner (1906–1980), Austrian-born, British-domiciled composer of a Symphony for small orchestra (1932) and the Chamber Symphony (1977–1979) •
Johannes Paul Thilman (1906–1973), German composer of 7 symphonies •
David Van Vactor (1906–1994), American composer of 7 symphonies •
Grace Williams (1906–1977), Welsh composer of 2 symphonies plus a "Sinfonia Concertante" •
Konstantin Ivanov (1907–1984), Russian composer of 2 symphonies •
Tony Aubin (1907–1981), French composer of 2 symphonies •
Henk Badings (1907–1987), Dutch composer of 15 symphonies •
Günter Bialas (1907–1995), German composer of 1 symphony (
Sinfonia Piccola) •
Yvonne Desportes (1907–1993), French composer of 3 symphonies •
Wolfgang Fortner (1907–1987), German composer of 1 symphony plus a
Sinfonia concertante •
Camargo Guarnieri (1907–1993), Brazilian composer of 7 symphonies •
Karl Höller (1907–1987), German composer of 2 symphonies and 2 little symphonies (op. 32a and 32b, from the two piano four hands little sonatas op. 32) •
Dmitri Klebanov (1907–1987), Jewish Ukrainian composer of 9 symphonies •
Elizabeth Maconchy (1907–1994), English composer of 2 symphonies (both withdrawn) plus a symphony for double string orchestra, a sinfonietta and a
Little Symphony •
Zygmunt Mycielski (1907–1987), Polish composer of 6 symphonies •
Hisato Ōsawa (1907–1953), Japanese composer of at least 3 symphonies •
Willem van Otterloo (1907–1978), Dutch conductor and composer of 1 symphony and a
Symphonietta for winds •
Roman Palester (1907–1989), Polish composer of 5 symphonies plus a sinfonietta for chamber orchestra •
György Ránki (1907–1992), Hungarian composer of 2 symphonies •
Miklós Rózsa (1907–1995), Hungarian-American composer of 1 symphony •
Ahmet Adnan Saygun (1907–1991), Turkish composer of 5 symphonies •
Martin Scherber (1907–1974), German composer of 3 symphonies •
Menachem Avidom (1908–1995), Israeli composer of 10 symphonies •
Jan Zdeněk Bartoš (1908–1981), Czech composer of 7 symphonies •
Elliott Carter (1908–2012), American composer of 3 symphonies, including
A Symphony of Three Orchestras (1976) and
Symphonia: sum fluxae pretiam spei (1993–96) •
Jean Coulthard (1908–2000), Canadian composer of 4 symphonies •
Marin Goleminov (1908–2000), Bulgarian composer of 4 symphonies •
Kurt Hessenberg (1908–1994), German composer of 4 symphonies, plus 1 symphony and 2 sinfoniettas for strings •
Miloslav Kabeláč (1908–1979), Czech composer of 8 symphonies, including
Symphony No. 8 Antiphonies. •
Herman David Koppel (1908–1998), Danish composer of 7 symphonies •
Lars-Erik Larsson (1908–1986), Swedish composer of 3 symphonies (
No. 1, 1928;
No. 2, 1937; and
No. 3, 1945), as well as a
Sinfonietta (1932) •
Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur (1908–2002), French composer of 2 symphonies •
Nina Makarova (1908–1976), Russian composer of 1 symphony •
Franco Margola (1908–1992), Italian composer of 3 symphonies and a symphony for strings •
Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992), composer of
Turangalîla-Symphonie (1946–48) in ten movements, with solo parts for piano and
Ondes Martenot •
Vano Muradeli (1908–1970), Georgian composer of 2 symphonies •
Nikolai Rakov (1908–1990), Russian composer of 4 symphonies plus a sinfonietta for strings •
Halsey Stevens (1908–1989), American composer of 2 symphonies •
Geirr Tveitt (1908–1981), Norwegian composer of 2 symphonies plus a sinfonietta •
John Verrall (1908–2001), American composer of 4 symphonies •
William Wordsworth (1908–1988), English composer of 8 symphonies •
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909–1969), Polish composer of 4 numbered symphonies plus a symphony and a sinfonietta, both for strings •
Bruno Bjelinski (1909–1992), Croatian composer of 15 symphonies and 6 sinfoniettas •
Paul Constantinescu (1909–1963), Romanian composer of 2 symphonies and 1 sinfonietta •
Václav Dobiáš (1909–1978), Czech composer of 2 symphonies and 1 sinfonietta •
Erwin Dressel (1909–1972), German composer of 4 symphonies •
Norman Fulton (1909–1980), English composer of 3 symphonies (1950, 1955, 19713197) •
Harald Genzmer (1909–2007), German composer of 5 numbered symphonies, 1 chamber symphony and 3 sinfoniettas for strings plus a
Sinfonia per giovani for orchestra and a
Bremer Sinfonie •
Vagn Holmboe (1909–1996), Danish composer of 13 numbered symphonies, the fourth of which (
Sinfonia sacra, Op. 29, 1941) includes mixed chorus. Also symphonic is the
Sinfonia in memoriam (Op. 65, 1955; originally presented as Holmboe's Ninth Symphony); four sinfonie for strings (Op. 72a–d, 1957–62), which can be played together as a unified piece,
Kairos; three chamber symphonies (Op. 53, 1951; Op. 100, 1968; Op. 103a, 1970); four symphonic metamorphoses (the third,
Epilog, Op. 80, 1962, too was originally presented as the Ninth Symphony); and, three 'lettered' youth symphonies (mostly incomplete). •
Arwel Hughes (1909–1988), Welsh composer of 1 symphony •
Hanoch Jacoby (1909–1990), Israeli composer of 3 symphonies •
Minna Keal (1909–1999), British composer of 1 symphony •
Robin Orr (1909–2006), Scottish composer of 3 symphonies and a
Sinfonietta Helvetica •
Elie Siegmeister (1909–1991), American composer of 8 symphonies •
Ādolfs Skulte (1909–2000), Latvian composer of 9 symphonies •
Samuel Barber (1910–1981), American composer of 2 symphonies •
Elsa Barraine (1910–1999), French composer of 2 symphonies •
Miguel Bernal Jiménez (1910–1956), Mexican composer of 2 symphonies (
Mexico and
Hidalgo) •
Ronald Binge, English composer of the
Saturday Symphony (1966–1968) •
Henri Challan (1910–1977), French composer of 1 symphony •
Aloys Fleischmann (1910–1992), Irish composer of 1 symphony •
Werner Wolf Glaser (1910–2006), German–Swedish composer of 13 symphonies •
Evgeny Golubev (1910–1988), Russian composer of 7 symphonies •
Charles Jones (1910–1997), Canadian–American composer of 4 symphonies •
Erland von Koch (1910–2009), Swedish composer of 6 symphonies (No. 1, 1938; No. 2,
Sinfonia Dalecarlica, 1945; No. 3, 1948; No. 4,
Sinfonia seria, 1953, r. 1962; No. 5,
Lapponica, 1977; and No. 6,
Salva la terra, 1992); also symphonic is the
Sinfonietta (1949) •
Rolf Liebermann (1910–1999), Swiss composer of 1 symphony •
Marijan Lipovšek (1910–1995), Slovenian composer of 1 symphony •
Jean Martinon (1910–1976), French conductor and composer of 4 numbered symphonies plus a sinfonietta and a
Symphonie de voyages •
Alfred Mendelsohn (1910–1966), Romanian composer of 9 symphonies •
Alex North (1910–1991), American composer of 2 symphonies •
H. Owen Reed (1910–2014), American composer of 1 symphony •
Yiannis Papaioannou (1910–1989), Greek composer of 5 symphonies •
Ennio Porrino (1910–1959), Italian composer of 1 symphony •
William Schuman (1910–1992), American composer of 10 symphonies •
Robert Still (1910–1971), English composer of 4 symphonies •
Josef Tal (1910–2008), Israeli composer of 6 symphonies •
José Ardévol (1911–1981), Cuban composer of 3 symphonies •
Stanley Bate (1911–1959), English composer of 4 symphonies and 2 sinfoniettas •
Ján Cikker (1911–1989), Slovak composer of 3 symphonies and 1 sinfonietta •
Helmut Degen (1911–1995), German composer of 1 chamber symphony •
Bernard Herrmann (1911–1975), American composer of 1 symphony (1940) •
Alan Hovhaness (1911–2000), American composer of 67 symphonies •
Stefan Kisielewski (1911–1991), Polish composer of 3 symphonies (the last for 15 players) •
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911–2007), Italian–American composer of 1 symphony (
The Halcyon, 1976) •
Anne-Marie Ørbeck (1911–1996), Norwegian composer of 1 symphony •
Allan Pettersson (1911–1980), Swedish composer of 17 symphonies, his No.1 and No.17 were left in a fragmentary state, being completed by
Christian Lindberg •
Nino Rota (1911–1979), Italian composer of 3 symphonies and "Sinfonia sopra una Canzone d'Amore" •
Mukhtar Ashrafi (1912–1975), Uzbek composer of 2 symphonies •
Wayne Barlow (1912–1996), American composer of 1 chamber symphony •
Roger Sacheverell Coke (1912–1972), English composer of 3 symphonies •
Ingolf Dahl (1912–1970), German–American composer of 1 concertante symphony for two clarinets and orchestra and 1 sinfonietta for concert band •
Don Gillis (1912–1978), American composer of 10 symphonies, plus a "
Symphony No. 5" •
Rudolf Escher (1912–1980), Dutch composer of 2 numbered symphonies, an unfinished Symphony
in memoriam Maurice Ravel, and a Symphony for 10 instruments •
Jean Françaix (1912–1997), French composer of 1 symphony •
Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912–1990), Australian composer of a Sinfonietta (1935) •
Robert Hughes (1912–2007), Scottish–Australian composer of 1 symphony and 1 sinfonietta •
Daniel Jones (1912–1993), Welsh composer of 13 symphonies and 2 sinfoniettas •
Jean-Louis Martinet (1912–2010), French composer of 1 symphony •
Tauno Marttinen (1912–2008), Finnish composer of 10 symphonies •
Xavier Montsalvatge (1912–2002), Catalan composer of "Sinfonía Mediterránea" (1948) and "Sinfonía de réquiem" (1985) •
José Pablo Moncayo (1912–1958), Mexican composer of 2 symphonies (1944 and 1958, the latter unfinished), and a Sinfonietta (1945) •
Vadim Salmanov (1912–1978), Russian composer of 4 symphonies plus a
Little Symphony for strings and a
Toy Symphony •
Ma Sicong (1912–1987), Chinese composer of 2 symphonies •
Bruno Bettinelli (1913–2004), Italian composer of 7 symphonies •
Henry Brant (1913–2008), American composer of 5 unnumbered symphonies •
Cesar Bresgen (1913–1988), Austrian composer of 1 symphony •
Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), British composer of several symphonies, including
A Simple Symphony for strings (1933–34),
Sinfonia da Requiem (1939–40), a
Spring Symphony (1948–49), and the
Cello Symphony (1963), as well as a
Sinfonietta (1932) •
Cedric Thorpe Davie (1913–1983), Scottish composers of the Symphony in C major,
In Honour of My Brother (1945) •
Norman Dello Joio (1913–2008), American composer of 1 symphony •
Alvin Etler (1913–1973), American composer of 1 symphony •
Morton Gould (1913–1996), American composer of 4 numbered symphonies (the last for band), plus 4
Symphonettes •
Hans Henkemans (1913–1995), Dutch composer of 1 symphony (1934, subsequently withdrawn) •
Tikhon Khrennikov (1913–2007), Russian composer of 3 symphonies •
René Leibowitz (1913–1972), Polish–French composer of 1 symphony and 1 chamber sinfonietta •
George Lloyd (1913–1998), English composer of 12 symphonies •
Witold Lutosławski (1913–1994), Polish composer of 4 symphonies •
Aleksandre Machavariani (1913–1995), Georgian composer of 7 symphonies •
Jerome Moross (1913–1983), American composer of 1 symphony •
Gardner Read (1913–2005), American composer of 4 symphonies •
John Weinzweig (1913–2006), Canadian composer of 1 symphony •
Walter Beckett (1914–1996), Irish composer of 1 symphony (
Dublin Symphony for narrator, chorus and orchestra, 1989) •
Norman Cazden (1914–1980), American composer of 2 symphonies •
Natko Devčić (1914–1997), Croatian composer of 1 symphony •
Cecil Effinger (1914–1990), American composer of 5 numbered symphonies and 2 "Little Symphonies" •
Irving Fine (1914–1962), American composer of 1 symphony •
Roger Goeb (1914–1997), American composer of 6 symphonies and 2 "sinfonias" •
Cor de Groot (1914–1993), Dutch composer of 1 symphony •
César Guerra-Peixe (1914–1993), Brazilian composer of 2 symphonies •
Alexei Haieff (1914–1994), American composer of 3 symphonies •
Hermann Haller (1914–2002), Swiss composer of 1 symphony •
Akira Ifukube (1914–2006), Japanese composer of 1 symphony plus a
Symphony Concertante for piano and orchestra •
Jan Kapr (1914–1988), Czech composer of 10 symphonies •
Dezider Kardoš (1914–1991), Slovak composer of 7 symphonies and 2 sinfoniettas •
Rafael Kubelík (1914–1996), Czech–Swiss conductor and composer of 3 symphonies •
Gail Kubik (1914–1984), American composer of 2 symphonies and a Sinfonia Concertante for piano, viola, trumpet, and orchestra •
Riccardo Malipiero (1914–2003), Italian composer of 3 symphonies • Sir
Andrzej Panufnik (1914–1991), Polish composer of 10 symphonies •
Stjepan Šulek (1914–1986), Croatian composer of 8 symphonies •
Harold Truscott (1914–1992), British composer of a Symphony in E major (1949–50), as well as a now-lost
Grasmere Symphony (1938) •
David Diamond (1915–2005), American composer of 11 symphonies •
Grigory Frid (1915–2012), Russian composer of 3 symphonies •
Kurt Graunke (1915–2005), German composer of 9 symphonies •
Marcel Landowski (1915–1999), French composer of 5 symphonies •
Dorian Le Gallienne (1915–1963), Australian composer of a Symphony (1953) and a Sinfonietta (1956) •
Douglas Lilburn (1915–2001), New Zealand composer of 3 symphonies •
Robert Moffat Palmer (1915–2010), American composer of 2 symphonies •
George Perle (1915–2009), American composer of a
Short Symphony (1980) and 2 sinfoniettas •
Vincent Persichetti (1915–1987), American composer of 9 symphonies •
Humphrey Searle (1915–1982), British composer of 5 symphonies •
Carlos Surinach (1915–1997), American composer of Catalan origin, he wrote 3 symphonies •
Denis ApIvor (1916–2004), British composer of 5 symphonies •
Karl-Birger Blomdahl (1916–1968), Swedish composer of 3 symphonies •
Houston Bright (1916–1970), American composer of 1 symphony •
Peter Crossley-Holland (1916–2001), British composer of 1 symphony •
Henri Dutilleux (1916–2013), French composer of 2 symphonies •
Einar Englund (1916–1999), Finnish composer of 7 symphonies •
Ellis Kohs (1916–2000), American composer of 2 symphonies •
Tolia Nikiprowetzky (1916–1997), Russian–French composer of 1 symphony and 1 sinfonietta •
Roh Ogura (1916–1990), Japanese composer of 1 symphony •
Nikolay Peyko (1916–1995), Russian composer of 10 symphonies plus a sinfonietta and a
Concerto–Symphony •
Bernard Stevens (1916–1983), British composer of 2 symphonies •
Richard Arnell (1917–2009), English composer of 6 symphonies •
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993), British novelist and composer of 3 symphonies, of which only No.3 remains. He also wrote a
Petite symphonie pour Strasbourg (1988), and a
Sinfonietta for Liana (1990) •
Edward T. Cone (1917–2004), American composer of 1 symphony •
Roque Cordero (1917–2008), Panamanian composer of 4 symphonies •
Robert Farnon (1917–2005), Canadian composer of 3 symphonies •
John Gardner (1917–2011), English composer of 3 symphonies •
Jovdat Hajiyev (1917–2002), Azerbaijani composer of 6 symphonies •
Lou Harrison (1917–2003), American composer of 4 symphonies •
Francis Jackson (1917–2022), British composer of 1 symphony •
Ulysses Kay (1917–1995), American composer of 1 symphony and 1 sinfonietta •
Reginald Smith Brindle (1917–2003), British composer of 2 symphonies (1955 and 1989) •
Robert Ward (1917–2013), American composer of 6 symphonies •
Richard Yardumian (1917–1985), American composer of 2 symphonies •
Isang Yun (1917–1995), Korean composer of 7 symphonies •
Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990), American composer and conductor, composed 3 symphonies •
Lorne Betts (1918–1985), Canadian composer of 2 symphonies •
Harold Gramatges (1918–2008), Cuban composer of 1 symphony and a Sinfonietta •
Argeliers León (1918–1991), Cuban composer of 2 numbered symphonies, as well as an unnumbered Symphony for Strings •
A. J. Potter (1918–1980), Irish composer of 2 symphonies •
Tauno Pylkkänen (1918–1980), Finnish composer of 1 symphony and 1 sinfonietta •
George Rochberg (1918–2005), American composer of 6 symphonies •
Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918–1970), German composer of a
Sinfonia prosodica (1945), as well as a Symphony in 1 movement (1947–51/53) •
Jacob Avshalomov (1919–2013), American composer of 2 symphonies and 1 sinfonietta •
Sven-Erik Bäck (1919–1994), Swedish composer of 2 string symphonies and 1 chamber symphony •
Niels Viggo Bentzon (1919–2000), Danish composer of 24 symphonies •
Lex van Delden (1919–1988), Dutch composer of 8 symphonies •
Leif Kayser (1919–2001), Danish composer of 4 symphonies •
Tālivaldis Ķeniņš (1919–2008), Latvian-born Canadian composer of 8 symphonies •
Leon Kirchner (1919–2009), American composer of 1 symphony •
Juan Orrego-Salas (1919–2019), Chilean composer of 5 numbered symphonies, plus a Symphony in One Movement "Semper reditus" (1997) •
Cláudio Santoro (1919–1989), Brazilian composer of 14 symphonies •
Galina Ustvolskaya (1919–2006), Russian composer of 5 symphonies •
Mieczysław Weinberg (1919–1996), Polish composer who emigrated to the Soviet Union, composed 22 symphonies for full orchestra and 4 chamber symphonies. His No.22 was orchestrated by Kirill Umansky after the death of the composer. •
Alexander Arutiunian (1920–2012), Armenian composer of 2 symphonies •
Geoffrey Bush (1920–1998), British composer of 2 symphonies •
Peter Racine Fricker (1920–1990), British composer of 5 symphonies •
Karen Khachaturian (1920–2011), Armenian composer of 4 symphonies •
John La Montaine (1920–2013), American composer of 2 symphonies •
Aleksandr Lokshin (1920–1987), Russian composer of 11 symphonies plus 2 "Symphonietta" •
Ravi Shankar (1920–2012), Indian composer of 1 symphony •
Harold Shapero (1920–2013), American composer of 1 symphony •
Heikki Suolahti (1920–1936), Finnish composer of 1 symphony (
Sinfonia piccola) •
Douglas Allanbrook (1921–2003), American composer of 7 symphonies •
Malcolm Arnold (1921–2006), British composer of 9 numbered symphonies, an unnumbered
Symphony for Strings, Symphony for Brass, and
Toy Symphony as well as three Sinfoniette. •
Jack Beeson (1921–2010), American composer of 1 symphony •
William Bergsma (1921–1994), American composer of 2 symphonies •
Andrzej Dobrowolski (1921–1990), Polish composer of 1 symphony •
Johannes Driessler (1921–1998), German composer of 3 symphonies •
Hans Ulrich Engelmann (1921–2011), German composer of 1 symphony and 1 chamber symphony •
Fritz Geißler (1921–1984), German composer, wrote 11 symphonies •
Ruth Gipps (1921–1999), British composer of 5 symphonies •
Karel Husa (1921–2016), American composer of Czech birth, composer of 2 symphonies •
Andrew Imbrie (1921–2007), American composer of 3 symphonies •
Joonas Kokkonen (1921–1996), Finnish composer of 5 symphonies (the last unfinished) •
Robert Kurka (1921–1957), American composer of 2 symphonies •
Edvard Mik'aeli Mirzoian (1921–2012), Armenian composer of 1 symphony •
Ástor Piazzolla (1921–1992), Argentine composer of a
Sinfonía Buenos Aires •
Yves Ramette (1921–2012), French composer of 6 symphonies •
Alfred Reed (1921–2005), American composer and conductor of Austrian descent, composed 5 symphonies, all for wind band •
Leonard Salzedo (1921–2000), English composer of 2 symphonies and 2 sinfoniettas •
Robert Simpson (1921–1997), British composer, wrote 11 symphonies •
İlhan Usmanbaş (1921–2025), Turkish composer of 3 symphonies •
Peter Wishart (1921–1984), English composer of two symphonies (1952, 1973) •
Gerard Victory (1921–1995), Irish composer of 4 symphonies •
Irwin Bazelon (1922–1995), American composer of 9 symphonies •
Lukas Foss (1922–2009), German–American composer of 4 symphonies •
Iain Hamilton (1922–2000), Scottish composer of 4 symphonies plus a symphony for two orchestras and a sinfonia concertante for violin, viola and chamber orchestra •
Ester Mägi (1922–2021), Estonian composer of 1 symphony •
Finn Mortensen (1922–1983), Norwegian composer of 1 symphony •
Kazimierz Serocki (1922–1981), Polish composer of 2 symphonies plus a sinfonietta for 2 string orchestras •
John Veale (1922–2006), English composer of 3 symphonies •
George Walker (1922–2018), American composer of 4 symphonies •
Felix Werder (1922–2012), Australian composer of German origin, wrote 7 numbered symphonies (1943–92), a
Sinfonia for viola, piano, and orchestra (1986), and a
Wind Symphony (1990) •
Raymond Wilding-White (1922–2001), British–American composer of 3 numbered symphonies plus a symphony for swing orchestra and a
Symphony of Symphonies •
James Wilson (1922–2005), Irish composer of 3 symphonies •
Mario Zafred (1922–1987), Italian composer of 7 symphonies and a
Sinfonietta, plus a
Sinfonietta breve for strings •
Zhu Jian'er (1922–2017), Chinese composer of 10 symphonies •
Arthur Butterworth (1923–2014), English composer of 7 symphonies •
Frank William Erickson (1923–1996), American composer of 3 symphonies •
Viktor Kalabis (1923–2006), Czech composer of 5 symphonies •
William Kraft (1923–2022), American composer of 1 symphony •
Peter Mennin (1923–1983), American composer, wrote 9 symphonies •
Vasilije Mokranjac (1923–1984), Serbian composer of 5 symphonies and a Sinfonietta for strings •
Daniel Pinkham (1923–2006), American composer of 4 symphonies •
Ned Rorem (1923–2022), American composer of 3 numbered orchestral symphonies, a symphony for winds and a symphony for strings •
James Stevens (1923–2012), English composer of 4 symphonies •
Lester Trimble (1923–1986), American composer of 3 symphonies •
Warren Benson (1924–2005), American composer of 2 symphonies •
Ikuma Dan (1924–2001), Japanese composer of 6 symphonies, 7th unfinished •
Heimo Erbse (1924–2005), German composer of 5 symphonies plus a
Sinfonietta giocosa •
Egil Hovland (1924–2013), Norwegian composer of 3 symphonies (the third for reciter, choir and orchestra) •
Benjamin Lees (1924–2010), American composer of 5 symphonies •
Franco Mannino (1924–2005), Italian composer of 12 symphonies •
Sergiu Natra (1924–2021), Romanian–Israeli composer of 3 symphonies and 1 symphony for strings •
Serge Nigg (1924–2008), French composer of 1 symphony (
Jérôme Bosch, 1960) •
Mikhaïl Nosyrev (1924–1981), Russian composer of 4 symphonies •
Else Marie Pade (1924–2016), Danish composer of 2 symphonies •
Joly Braga Santos (1924–1988), Portuguese composer of 6 symphonies •
Ernest Tomlinson (1924–2015), English composer of 2 symphonies •
Yasushi Akutagawa (1925–1989), Japanese composer of 1 numbered symphony (1954), plus a Symphony "Twin Stars", for children (1957) and the
Ellora Symphony (1958) •
Jurriaan Andriessen (1925–1996), Dutch composer of 8 numbered symphonies, plus a
Symphonietta concertante, for four trumpets and orchestra (1947), and a Sinfonia "Il fiume" for winds (1984) •
Mikis Theodorakis (1925–2021), Greek composer of 5 symphonies; No.1 (1953), No.2
The Song of the Earth (1981), No.3 (1981), No.7
Spring-Symphony(1983) and No.4
Of the Choral Odes (1986–1987). He also wrote a sinfonietta (1995) •
Robert Beadell (1925–1994), American composer of 2 symphonies •
Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt (1925–2010), Chilean composer of 3 symphonies •
Luciano Berio (1925–2003), Italian composer of the famous
Sinfonia (1968–69) •
Aldo Clementi (1925–2011), Italian composer of 1 chamber symphony •
Marius Constant (1925–2004), Romanian–French composer of 3 symphonies (the first is scored for wind instruments) •
Georges Delerue (1925–1992), French composer of 1 concertante symphony for piano and orchestra •
Andrei Eshpai (1925–2015), Russian composer of 9 symphonies •
Bertold Hummel (1925–2002), German composer of 3 symphonies •
Giselher Klebe (1925–2009), German composer of 8 symphonies plus a
Ballettsinfonie (
Das Testament op. 61, 1971) •
Włodzimierz Kotoński (1925–2014), Polish composer of 2 symphonies •
Ivo Malec (1925–2019), Croatian–French composer of 1 symphony •
Kirke Mechem (born 1925), American composer of 2 symphonies •
Anthony Milner (1925–2002), British composer of 3 orchestral symphonies and a symphony for organ •
Julián Orbón (1925–1991), Spanish composer of 1 symphony •
Boris Parsadanian (1925–1997), Armenian–Estonian composer of 11 symphonies •
Gunther Schuller (1925–2015), American composer of 3 symphonies, a Symphony for Organ, and a Chamber Symphony (1989) •
Boris Tchaikovsky (1925–1996), Soviet composer of 3 symphonies and a
Symphony with Harp •
Paul W. Whear (1925–2021), American composer of 4 symphonies •
Čestmír Gregor (1926–2011), Czech composer of 5 symphonies, he also wrote two sinfoniettas •
Louis Calabro (1926–1991), American composer of 3 symphonies •
Edwin Carr (1926–2003), New Zealand composer of 4 symphonies and 1 sinfonietta •
Jacques Castérède (1926–2014), French composer of 2 symphonies (the first for strings) •
Barney Childs (1926–2000), American composer of 2 symphonies •
Hans Werner Henze (1926–2012), German composer of 10 symphonies •
Ben Johnston (1926–2019), American composer of a Symphony in A (1987) and a Chamber Symphony (1990) •
François Morel (1926–2018), Canadian composer of 1 symphony for brass •
Clermont Pépin (1926–2006), Canadian composer of 5 symphonies •
Anatol Vieru (1926–1998), Romanian composer of 7 symphonies •
Paul Angerer (1927–2017), Austrian composer of 4 symphonies •
Pascal Bentoiu (1927–2016), Romanian composer of 8 symphonies •
Gunnar Bucht (born 1927), Swedish composer of 16 symphonies •
Franco Donatoni (1927–2000), Italian composer of 2 symphonies (the first for strings, the second for chamber orchestra). Another work,
Souvenir (1967), is subtitled
Kammersymphonie •
Donald Erb (1927–2008), American composer of a
Symphony of Overtures (1964) •
Walter S. Hartley (1927–2016), American composer of 21 symphonies for different ensembles (from small wind ensembles to full orchestra) plus 2
Sinfonia concertante for wind and percussion, 2 sinfoniettas and 1 chamber symphony •
Wilfred Josephs (1927–1997), British composer of 12 symphonies •
John Joubert (1927–2019), British composer of 2 symphonies •
Wilhelm Killmayer (1927–2017), German composer of 3 symphonies •
Richard Nanes (1927–2009), American composer of 4 symphonies •
Francis Routh (1927–2021), English composer of 3 symphonies (1973, 2003, 2010–2012) •
Graham Whettam (1927–2007), English composer of 9 symphonies plus a sinfonietta for strings •
Thomas Wilson (1927–2001), Scottish composer of American birth, composed 5 symphonies between 1955 and 1998 and a Chamber Symphony (1990) •
Samuel Adler (born 1928), German-born American composer of 6 symphonies •
Tadeusz Baird (1928–1981), Polish composer of 3 symphonies (1950, 1952, 1969), a Sinfonietta (1949) and a Sinfonia Breve (1968) •
James Cohn (1928–2021), American composer of 8 symphonies •
Jean-Michel Damase (1928–2013), French composer of 1 symphony •
George Dreyfus (born 1928), Australian composer of 2 symphonies (1967 and 1976), and a
Symphonie Concertante for bassoon, violin, viola, cello, and string orchestra (1978) •
Nicolas Flagello (1928–1994), American composer of 2 symphonies •
Robert Helps (1928–2001), American pianist and composer of 2 symphonies •
Guo Zurong (born 1928), Chinese composer of 33 symphonies •
Zdeněk Lukáš (1928–2007), Czech composer of 7 symphonies •
Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928–2016), Finnish composer of 8 symphonies, the first having up to 3 different versions •
William Russo (1928–2003), American composer of 2 symphonies •
Yevgeny Svetlanov (1928–2002), Russian conductor and composer of a Symphony (1956) •
Raymond Warren (1928–2025), British composer of 3 symphonies (1965, 1969, 1995) •
Carmelo Bernaola (1929–2002), Spanish composer of 3 symphonies •
Philip Cannon (1929–2016), British composer of 1 symphony and 1 sinfonietta •
Edison Denisov (1929–1996), Russian composer of 2 symphonies •
Alun Hoddinott (1929–2008), Welsh composer of 10 numbered symphonies (the first withdrawn), 3 sinfoniettas, a
Sinfonia for Strings and
Sinfonia Fidei for Soprano, Tenor, Chorus and Orchestra. •
Donald Keats (1929–2018), American composer of 2 symphonies •
Kenneth Leighton (1929–1988), British composer of 3 symphonies plus a "Symphony for Strings" •
Teizo Matsumura (1929–2007), Japanese composer of 2 symphonies •
Toshiro Mayuzumi (1929–1997), Japanese composer of a "Nirvana Symphony" (1958) and a "Mandala Symphony" (1960) •
Robert Muczynski (1929–2010), American composer of 2 symphonies •
Bogusław Schaeffer (1929–2019), Polish composer of 4 symphonies •
Hans Stadlmair (1929–2019), Austrian composer of a
Sinfonia serena for strings •
Avet Terterian (1929–1994), Armenian composer of 9 symphonies, the last unfinished •
Akio Yashiro (1929–1976), Japanese composer of 1 symphony •
Friedrich Gulda (1930–2000), Austrian composer of a
Jazz Symphony •
David Amram (born 1930), American composer of 1 symphony •
John Davison (1930–1999), American composer of 6 symphonies •
Richard Felciano (born 1930), American composer of 1 symphony for strings •
Jean Guillou (1930–2019), French composer of 3 symphonies •
Nikolai Karetnikov (1930–1994), Russian composer of 4 symphonies and 2 chamber symphonies •
Günter Kochan (1930–2009), German composer of 6 symphonies •
Dieter Schnebel (1930–2018), German composer of 1 symphony (
Sinfonie X) •
Eino Tamberg (1930–2010), Estonian composer of 4 symphonies •
Gil Trythall (1930–2023), American composer of 1 symphony plus a
Sinfonia concertante •
Donald Harris (1931–2016), American composer of 2 symphonies •
Anthony Hedges (1931–2019), English composer of 2 symphonies and 1 concertante symphony •
Ib Nørholm (1931–2019), Danish composer of 13 symphonies •
Malcolm Williamson (1931–2003), Australian composer of 7 numbered symphonies, as well as a Symphony for Organ (1960), a
Sinfonia Concertante for three trumpets, piano and strings (1960–62), a Symphony for Voices (1962), and a Choral Symphony "The Dawn is at Hand" (1989) •
John Barnes Chance (1932–1972), American composer of 2 symphonies •
James Douglas (1932–2022), Scottish composer of 15 symphonies •
Alexander Goehr (1932–2024), British composer of German birth, wrote
Little Symphony (1963), Symphony in One Movement (1969/81), a
Sinfonia for chamber orchestra (1979), and
Symphony with Chaconne (1985–86) •
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (1932–2016), Danish composer of 1 symphony
Symfoni, Antifoni (1977) •
John Kinsella (1932–2021), Irish composer of 11 symphonies •
Henri Lazarof (1932–2013), Bulgarian composer of 7 symphonies •
Malcolm Lipkin (1932–2017), English composer of 3 symphonies •
Martin Mailman (1932–2000), American composer of 3 symphonies and 1 sinfonietta •
Richard Meale (1932–2009), Australian composer of 1 symphony (1994) •
Per Nørgård (1932–2025), Danish composer of 8 symphonies •
Rodion Shchedrin (1932–2025), Russian composer of 3 symphonies •
Robert Sherlaw Johnson (1932–2000), British composer of 1 symphony •
Sergei Slonimsky (1932–2020), Russian composer of 34 symphonies •
Claude Thomas Smith (1932–1987), American composer of 1 symphony •
Alan Stout (1932–2018), American composer of 4 symphonies •
John Williams (born 1932), American composer and conductor. He wrote a "Symphony" (1966) and a "Sinfonietta for Wind Ensemble" (1968) •
Hugh Wood (1932–2021), British composer of 1 symphony (1982) •
Iosif Andriasov (1933–2000), Armenian-Russian composer of 2 symphonies •
Leonardo Balada (born 1933), American composer of Spanish birth, has written 6 symphonies •
Easley Blackwood (1933–2023), American composer of 5 symphonies •
Seóirse Bodley (1933–2023), Irish composer of 5 symphonies and a Chamber Symphony •
Gloria Coates (1933–2023), American composer of 16 symphonies •
Ramiro Cortés (1933–1984), American composer of a
Sinfonia Sacra (1954/59) •
David Ellis (1933–2023), English composer of 3 symphonies •
Pozzi Escot (born 1933), American composer of 6 symphonies •
Henryk Górecki (1933–2010), Polish composer of 4 symphonies •
Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933–2022), Japanese composer of 6 symphonies and 2 chamber symphonies •
W. Francis McBeth (1933–2012), American composer of 4 symphonies •
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–2020), Polish composer of 8 symphonies •
Vladimir Dashkevich (born 1934), Russian composer of 5 symphonies •
Anthony Gilbert (1934–2023), British composer of 1 symphony (1973) •
Alemdar Karamanov (1934–2007), Ukrainian composer of 24 symphonies •
William Mathias (1934–1992), Welsh composer of 3 symphonies •
Siegfried Matthus (1934–2021), German composer of 3 symphonies • Sir
Peter Maxwell Davies (1934–2016), British Composer of a
Sinfonia (1962), a
Sinfonia Concertante (1982), a
Sinfonietta (1983) and 10 numbered symphonies (1976–2013), the last of which includes a chorus and baritone soloist •
Claudio Prieto (1934–2015), Spanish composer of 4 symphonies •
Bernard Rands (born 1934), British–American composer of 1 symphony •
Alan Ridout (1934–1996), British composer of 8 symphonies and 1 sinfonietta •
Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998), Russian composer of 10 symphonies (including symphony No."0"). No.9 was left unfinished and completed by
Alexander Raskatov •
Richard Wernick (1934–2025), American composer of 2 symphonies •
Nigel Butterley (1935–2022), Australian composer of 1 symphony (1980) •
Jerry Amper Dadap (born 1935), Filipino composer of 5 symphonies •
Samuel Jones (born 1935), American composer of 3 symphonies •
Giya Kancheli (1935–2019), Georgian composer of 7 symphonies •
Carlo Martelli (born 1935), English composer of 2 symphonies (No. 1 lost) •
Nicholas Maw (1935–2009), British composer of 1 symphony for chamber orchestra •
Arvo Pärt (born 1935), Estonian composer of 4 symphonies •
Aulis Sallinen (born 1935), Finnish composer of
8 symphonies •
Kurt Schwertsik (born 1935), Austrian composer of 3 symphonies •
Josep Soler i Sardà (1935–2022), Spanish composer of 8 symphonies •
David Blake (born 1936), English composer of 1 chamber symphony •
Iván Erőd (1936–2019), Hungarian–Austrian pianist and composer of 2 symphonies •
Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1936–2019), Russian composer of 4 symphonies •
Richard Rodney Bennett (1936–2012), English composer of 3 symphonies and a sinfonietta •
Erich Urbanner (born 1936), Austrian composer of 1 symphony plus a concertante symphony and a sinfonietta (both for chamber orchestra) •
John White (1936–2024), English composer of 26 symphonies, none of them for conventional forces •
Osvaldas Balakauskas (1937–2026), Lithuanian composer of 5 symphonies •
David Bedford (1937–2011), English composer of 2 symphonies plus a
Symphony for 12 musicians •
Gordon Crosse (1937–2021), English composer of 2 symphonies •
Philip Glass (born 1937), American composer of 14 symphonies (as of 2023) •
Milcho Leviev (1937–2019), Bulgarian composer of 1 symphony •
Valentyn Silvestrov (born 1937), Ukrainian composer of 7 symphonies •
Loris Tjeknavorian (born 1937), Iranian-Armenian conductor and composer of 5 symphonies •
Wang Xilin (born 1937), Chinese composer of at 7 symphonies •
Elizabeth R. Austin (born 1938), American composer of 2 symphonies •
Howard Blake (born 1938), English composer of 2 symphonies •
William Bolcom (born 1938), American pianist and composer of 6 symphonies •
Youri Boutsko (1938–2015), Russian composer of 13 symphonies •
John Corigliano (born 1938), American composer of 3 symphonies •
John Harbison (born 1938), American composer of 6 symphonies •
Paavo Heininen (1938–2022), Finnish composer of 6 symphonies •
Frederic Rzewski (1938–2021), American composer of a
Scratch Symphony (1997) •
José Serebrier (born 1938), Uruguayan composer of 3 symphonies •
Christopher Steel (1938–1991), British composer of 7 symphonies •
Charles Wuorinen (1938–2020), American composer of 8 numbered symphonies and a
Microsymphony (1992) •
Louis Andriessen (1939–2021), Dutch composer of
De negen symfonieën van Beethoven, for orchestra and ice-cream vendor's bell (1970),
Symfonieën der Nederlanden, for two or more wind bands (1974), and
Symphony for Open Strings for 12 solo strings (1978) •
Trevor Hold (1939–2004), English composer of 2 symphonies (1974–77 and 1993–5) •
Robert Jager (born 1939), American composer of 2 symphonies and a sinfonietta •
Jaroslav Krček (born 1939), Czech composer of 6 symphonies •
Robert Matthew-Walker (born 1939), English composer of 8 symphonies and 1 sinfonietta •
John McCabe (1939–2015), English composer of 5 numbered symphonies, plus a
Six-minute Symphony for strings •
Patric Standford (1939–2014), English composer of 5 symphonies •
Tomáš Svoboda (1939–2022), Czech-American composer of 6 symphonies •
Boris Tishchenko (1939–2010), Russian composer of 7 symphonies plus a "French Symphony", "Sinfonia Robusta", the Choreo-symphonic cycle of "Beatrice" (5 symphonies), and a "Pushkin Symphony" •
Margaret Lucy Wilkins (born 1939), English composer of 1 symphony •
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (born 1939), American composer of 5 symphonies •
Alireza Mashayekhi (born 1940), Iranian composer of 9 symphonies •
Tilo Medek (1940–2006), German composer of 3 symphonies •
Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (Born 1940), Indian Composer Of 1 Symphony (‘Om Shivam’ #1 & #2) •
Stephen Albert (1941–1992), American composer of 2 symphonies (the second with orchestration completed by
Sebastian Currier) •
Judith Margaret Bailey (1941–2025), English composer of 2 symphonies •
Derek Bourgeois (1941–2017), British composer of 116 symphonies •
Sebastian Forbes (born 1941), British composer of 1 symphony •
Friedrich Goldmann (1941–2009), German composer of 4 numbered symphonies and 4 unnumbered symphonies plus a sinfonietta and
Quasi una sinfonia •
Adolphus Hailstork (born 1941), American composer of 3 symphonies •
John Melby (born 1941), American composer of 2 symphonies •
Gillian Whitehead (born 1941), New Zealand–born Australian composer of 1 symphony •
Richard Edward Wilson (born 1941), American composer of 3 symphonies •
Philip Bračanin (born 1942), Australian composer of 6 symphonies •
Volker David Kirchner (1942–2020), German composer of 2 symphonies •
Tomás Marco (born 1942), Spanish composer of 9 symphonies •
Philip Spratley (born 1942), English composer of 3 symphonies •
Edward Cowie (born 1943), English composer of 2 symphonies •
Ross Edwards (born 1943), Australian composer of 4 symphonies •
Robin Holloway (born 1943), English composer of 2 symphony (the first,
Clarissa Symphony, for soprano, tenor and orchestra) •
Shin'ichirō Ikebe (born 1943), Japanese composer of 7 symphonies •
Ilaiyaraaja (born 1943), Indian composer of 1 symphony •
David Maslanka (1943–2017), American composer of 10 symphonies •
David Matthews (born 1943), English composer of 11 symphonies •
Krzysztof Meyer (born 1943), Polish composer of 9 symphonies plus an unnumbered
Symphony in Mozartean style •
Joseph Schwantner (born 1943), American composer of 1 symphony •
Roger Smalley (1943–2015), English composer of 1 symphony (1979–81) •
William Albright (1944–1998), American composer of a Symphony for Organ and Percussion •
Frank Corcoran (born 1944), Irish composer of 4 symphonies •
Michael Garrett (1944–2023), British composer of 13 symphonies and 13 concertante symphonies •
Christopher Gunning (1944–2023), British composer of 13 symphonies •
Pehr Henrik Nordgren (1944–2008), Finnish composer of 8 symphonies plus a symphony for strings and a chamber symphony •
Rhian Samuel (born 1944), Welsh composer of an "Elegy-Symphony" •
Leif Segerstam (1944–2024), Finnish composer of 354 symphonies, the all-time record as of 2015 •
Jerome de Bromhead (born 1945), Irish composer of 2 symphonies •
Gerd Domhardt (1945–1997), German composer of 2 symphonies and 2 chamber symphonies •
Edward Gregson (born 1945), English composer of 1 symphony for brass band •
Judith Lang Zaimont (born 1945), American composer of 2 numbered symphonies, plus a "dance symphony" titled
Hidden Heritage and a Symphony for wind orchestra in three scenes (2003) •
Thomas Pasatieri (born 1945), American composer of 3 symphonies •
Arnold Rosner (1945–2013), American composer of 6 symphonies •
Alexey Rybnikov (born 1945), Russian composer of 6 symphonies •
Ragnar Søderlind (born 1945), Norwegian composer of 8 symphonies •
Martin Bresnick (born 1946), American composer of 1 symphony •
Tsippi Fleischer (born 1946), Israeli composer of 5 symphonies •
Tristan Keuris (1946–1996), Dutch composer of a "Sinfonia" (1972–1974), and "Symphony in D" (1995) •
Ladislav Kubík (1946–2017), Czech-American composer of 3 sinfoniettas •
Ulrich Leyendecker (1946–2018), German composer of 5 symphonies •
Richard St. Clair (born 1946), American composer of 1 symphony •
Giles Swayne (born 1946), British composer of 2 symphonies •
Pēteris Vasks (born 1946), Latvian composer of 3 symphonies •
Heinz Winbeck (1946–2019), German composer of 5 symphonies, the first premiered in 1984, the fifth in 2010, the third including text of
Georg Trakl for alto and speaker •
John Adams (born 1947), American composer who has used the term 'Symphony' to describe a number of works, including the
Chamber Symphony (1992) and its sequel
Son of Chamber Symphony (2007), the
Dr. Atomic Symphony (2007), drawn from his opera of the same name, and
Scheherazade.2, a "dramatic symphony" for violin and orchestra. •
Jack Gallagher (born 1947), American composer of 2 symphonies and 1 sinfonietta •
Nikolai Korndorf (1947–2001), Russian–Canadian composer of 4 symphonies •
Paul Patterson (born 1947), British composer of 1 symphony for strings •
Emil Tabakov (born 1947), Bulgarian composer of 10 symphonies •
Claude Baker (born 1948), American composer of 1 symphony •
Ioseb Bardanashvili (born 1948), Georgian–Israeli composer of 3 symphonies •
Glenn Branca (1948–2018), American composer and guitarist, who composed 12 symphonies, 9 of them for ensembles of electric guitars and percussion •
Stephen Brown (born 1948), Canadian composer of 3 symphonies:
The Northern Journey (1986–2019),
Fear and Loathing (2019),
Combustion (2020) •
Diana Burrell (born 1948), English composer of 1 symphony (
Symphonies of Flocks, Herds and Shoals, 1995–96) •
Carlos Franzetti (born 1948), Argentinian composer of 2 symphonies •
Mikko Heiniö (born 1948), Finnish composer of 2 symphonies •
Jonathan Lloyd (born 1948), British composer of 5 symphonies •
Edward McGuire (born 1948), Scottish composer of 3 symphonies •
Julia Tsenova (1948–2010), Bulgarian composer of
Sinfonia con piano concertante (1974) •
Dan Welcher (born 1948), American conductor and composer of 5 symphonies •
Kalevi Aho (born 1949), Finnish composer of 18 symphonies and 3 chamber symphonies •
James Barnes (born 1949), American composer of 5 symphonies •
Hiro Fujikake (born 1949), Japanese composer of 3 symphonies •
Eduard Hayrapetyan (born 1949), Armenian composer of 3 symphonies •
Richard Mills (born 1949), Australian composer of 2 symphonies •
Stephen Paulus (1949–2014), American composer of 2 symphonies (the second for strings) and 2 sinfoniettas •
Shulamit Ran (born 1949), Israeli–American composer of 1 symphony •
Christopher Rouse (1949–2019), American composer of 6 symphonies •
Poul Ruders (born 1949), Danish composer of 5 symphonies •
Manfred Trojahn (born 1949), German composer of 5 symphonies == 1950–present ==