composer

[suequiz]

Can anyone help with this question please

'Of which composer was it said that he spent his life rewriting the same symphony, giving it a different number each time'
Many thanks Sue

[vehelpfulguy]

I have searched the web but cannot find the answer.

It could be a number of composers.

I think it could be someone who wrote a lot of symphones.

Haydn wrote over a 100 symphonies and unless you were an expert could all sound very similar.

Mozart wrote over 40, but I am not sure anyone could accuse him of rewriting the same symphony.

Some lesser known early composers (1700s) wrote a large number of symphones (in the days when they were very short and just used as background music at parties)

Bruckner only wrote a few symphones, but he did keep rewriting them and republishing them in different forms during his life.

My guess is that it is a fairly obscure composer of the 1700s who wrote 50 or more symphones. Your guess is as good as mine.

If not then, and I have nothing to base this on, but would say Haydn as he is the most famous composer to write over 100 symphonies.

[atoach]

I would have said Bruckner, and this person agrees

http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/classical /2006/09/bruckner-pleasant-surprise.asp

[reinganum]

Funny thing this, before looking at the existing answers, I thought of Bruckner, too...

[Ctrak]

Oasis do that with their albums...

Bruckner apparently wrote several versions of each of his symphonies...not sure if they're all from the same root though.

[suequiz]

Thanks to you all for your helpful suggestions
Sue