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    What composer took 21 years to finish his first symphony (in C minor)?

    Question #4314. Asked by Guy. (Jul 16 00 8:33 PM)


    JReid

    		Johannes Brahms.

    NOTE: I'm only finding reference to 15 years.

    The confidence to finish and present his First Symphony took Brahms 15 years for worries over not only his orchestral technique but the work's strongly Classical lines at a time when programmatic symphonies were becoming fashionable; his closely worked score led him to be hailed as Beethoven's true heir.

    http://www.sfsymphony.org/templates/composer.asp?nodeid=29

    [Link and Note added March 22, 2008 -- Zbeck]

    Jul 17 00, 2:01 PM

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