Hans Huber - Early Works for Orchestra, Two Serenades

[Alan Howe]

It should be on the shortlist!

[adcsound]

https://www.musicwebinternational.com/2023/06/huber-orchestral-works-schweizer-fonogramm/

[eschiss1]

"went on to write seven more"... eight more but it's not the reviewer's fault that symphony, erm, "1 1/2" is mostly forgotten.
I wonder if that was Huber's own solution to the 9 symphony problem? That, and writing an "eighth " symphony that was actually just an arrangement of his string quartet, so I guess you could say he only wrote _7_ symphonies...

[Ilja]

Being based on an earlier work doesn't make something less of a "real" symphony, of course (particularly if that work is a string quartet). If so, we'd have to toss Atterberg's 7th and Reznicek's 5th as well, and quite a few others probably.

[eschiss1]

As I recall, all of Koechlin's as well (they fall out of our bounds, but his wartime 2nd, though most of its movements are arrangements and of different works, feels like a coherent symphony to me. A powerful one, even.)

Agreed; I was not actually being serious or trying to think of a "real" reason why only 8 symphonies were mentioned (instead of the, well, obvious).