The odd one out round

[Gauk]

To lighten your Monday, here is a little puzzle not unrelated to the topic of this site:

Musically speaking, which is the odd one out?

• London
• Oxford
• Cambridge
• Norwich

Answer at the weekend if no-one guesses, but I'm sure someone will work it out quickly.

[Alan Howe]

Oxford is the odd one out: Symphony No.92 by Haydn.
The three others are titles of symphonies by British composers: VW2 (London); Parry 2 (Cambridge), Edward German 2 (Norwich).

Or: Haydn's is the only symphony which is not his no.2.

[TerraEpon]

Haydn also wrote one nicknamed London, however (No. 104).

[Alan Howe]

True enough. Any more possibilities?

[Gauk]

Between Alan and eschiss1 (by message) it is solved. To be complete:

London, Cambridge and Norwich all have romantic 2nd symphonies by British composers named after them. Oxford has a classical 92nd symphony by an Austrian!

[Gauk]

Postscript: how many other places in Britain have symphonies named after them? Röntgen's Edinburgh symphony has recently been mentioned. What others?

[eschiss1]

Cotswolds (Holst) ; Scotland as a whole (Mendelssohn) ; Ireland (several composers) ...

[petershott@btinternet.com]

Nottingham (Alan Bush in 1949), but never, so far as I am aware, either Ipswich or Stoke-on-Trent.

[eschiss1]

Again somewhat later on there is indeed a "Cheltenham symphony" for youth orchestra, by Henry Williams.

[Ilja]

Cotswolds (Holst) ; Scotland as a whole (Mendelssohn) ; Ireland (several composers) ...

Cornelis Dopper's Second Symphony is also nicknamed the 'Scottish'.

[semloh]

Gosh, this has got me thinking.

One of my old favourites is the Symphony No.3 'Westmorland' by Armstrong Gibbs - unless you mean cities/towns, in which case how about Daniel Mason's Symphony No.3 - 'Lincoln'? 

[eschiss1]

I think that's not meant to refer to the city/town, judging from the subtitles.

[Gauk]

I think that's not meant to refer to the city/town, judging from the subtitles.

LOL, as they say ...

The above posts include all the ones I was thinking of. But we have two "Scottish" symphonies, several "Irish", and there is an "English" by Parry. Is there no "Welsh" symphony by anyone? What an indictment!

Also - it occurs to me that quite often symphonies are named after cities, but not often concertos. So perhaps Howard Blake's "Leeds" VC should also be mentioned here.

[eschiss1]

perhaps less recent than the Blake, I'd think Rodrigo's best known work, which is named after a town, also comes to mind

Didn't Cowen write a Welsh symphony? Trying to recall.

[eschiss1]

Easy question btw  - (at a guess) what city in the USA (in the 20th century) (probably) has had the most symphonies and concertos dedicated to it/mention it in its title?