Which is the First Big Late Romantic Symphony?

[kyjo]

What was the first neoromantic symphony?

Barber's First?

[springrite]

I don't think even the Gottschalk family, then or now, would vote for his symphony as the First Big Romantic Symphony.

For me, Mahler. Anything before Mahler is early music.

[Karl Henning]

For me, Mahler. Anything before Mahler is early music.

(* chortle *)

[Cato]

What was the first neoromantic symphony?

I almost thought that was necromantic symphony!

Hey!  A whole new genre!

[Daverz]

  Late Romanticism is the time in which composers really pushed chromaticism to its limits just prior to Schoenberg et al ushering in Modernism.

I buy your reasoning, but think I'd go with Bruckner 5.

[jochanaan]

Barber's First?

Nope.  Howard Hanson's Second, called "Romantic."

[jochanaan]

I guess I think differently. I think of Romanticism as having 2 different time period.  Approximately 1820-1860 as being the early Romantic part. 1860-1910 approximately being the late Romantic Part.

I wouldn't call Arvo Part a Romantic, either early or late.

[mszczuj]

I agree with concept that there was some important turn in the symphonic style about 1860 and must say that I consider Raff No. 1 was the turning point. This is symphony which was - I suppose - model of symphonic thinking for Bruckner and Mahler. Liszt symphonies are great but standing alone masterpieces, Raff was the real beginining of all these great canvases of universe.