Standard Symphonies

[John H White]

I gather that all those symphonies on the list had actually been published and printed copies of either full scores or parts were then freely available. If so, I'd like to know if and where the sheet music can be found for the ones that have never been performed in recent times or consequently recorded. In particular, I'm interested in finding the whereabouts of copies of the "missing" Lachner symphonies, namely, Nos. 2, 3, 4 & 7.

[eschiss1]

Not all of them, not even all that are specifically listed as unpublished. (Florio's symphonies were unpublished also, and Hiller's except for his E minor of 1847 (published much later) Op.67, e.g., to the best of my knowledge.) Manuscript copies might have circulated somewhat, yes, but I doubt printed copies did.

[Gauk]

Cowen's Scandinavian symphony was favourably reviewed by Hanslick in Der Neue Frei Presse (Vienna), who commented that it was not often the English wrote symphonies, and even less common that they wrote good ones.