'm'-favorite 'n-th'-symphonies

[EigenUser]

Let 'm' and 'n' be positive integers, not equal to zero*, and not necessarily equal.

*'n' is allowed to be zero in the case of Bruckner.

[RebLem]

I have no effin' idea what you mean.  Are you on drugs?

[Brian]

I have no effin' idea what you mean.  Are you on drugs?

It's like "6 favorite 4th symphonies," but you get to choose both of the numbers. So you could do 13 favorite 13th symphonies, or 796 favorite 3rd symphonies, or anything you want. EigenUser takes a lot of math classes.

[Dax]

Or without number? Faust, Dante, Manfred, Funebre et Triomphale, Marine, Serena, Webern,  Alkan et al?

[Ken B]

I have no effin' idea what you mean.  Are you on drugs?

You're too subtle for some Nate.

That, or you're stoned

[Pat B]

It's like "6 favorite 4th symphonies," but you get to choose both of the numbers. So you could do 13 favorite 13th symphonies, or 796 favorite 3rd symphonies, or anything you want. EigenUser takes a lot of math classes.

I'm surprised he didn't ask for a matrix.

[EigenUser]

Brian has the idea!

1 favorite 1st symphony:
Mahler

5 favorite 9th symphonies:
Bruckner
Mahler
Shostakovich
Dvorak
Beethoven (Yes! I've finally heard it -- a few times, now!).

I'm surprised he didn't ask for a matrix.

[The new erato]

I'm surprised he didn't ask for a matrix.

Or the corresponding Eigenvalues.

[Jo498]

The diagonal elements would be 1 1st symphony, 2 second symphonies and so on. Presumably it would get difficult past 10 10th symphonies...
I probably have heard 5 or so 10th symphonies: Haydn, Mozart, CPE Bach, Boccherini (the last two have >10 symphonies to their name but no authoritative numbering) Schostakovich.
Maybe Michael Haydn and Joh. Chr. Bach and a bunch of other mid/late 18th century composers. Then there is Raff, Mahler, if you count his 10th. Henze.
And the likes of Segerstam and Hovhaness...

[Sergeant Rock]

The diagonal elements would be 1 1st symphony, 2 second symphonies and so on. Presumably it would get difficult past 10 10th symphonies...
I probably have heard 5 or so 10th symphonies: Haydn, Mozart, CPE Bach, Boccherini (the last two have >10 symphonies to their name but no authoritative numbering) Schostakovich.
Maybe Michael Haydn and Joh. Chr. Bach and a bunch of other mid/late 18th century composers. Then there is Raff, Mahler, if you count his 10th. Henze.
And the likes of Segerstam and Hovhaness...

Langgaard, Pettersson, Havergal Brian...

Sarge

[Mr Bloom]

The diagonal elements would be 1 1st symphony, 2 second symphonies and so on. Presumably it would get difficult past 10 10th symphonies...

I gave it a try ;

One favorite first :
Schnittke

Two favorite second (that was hard !) :
Vermeulen
Lutoslawski

Three favorite third :
Szymanowski
Hartmann
Atterberg

Four favorite fourth :
Ives
Szymanowski
Lutoslawski
Meyer

Five favorite fifth :
Mahler
Terterian
Broadstock
Nielsen
Szabelski

Six favorite sixth :
Mahler
Hartmann
Bax
Vaughan Williams
Nielsen
Prokofiev

Seven favorite seventh :
Maxwell Davies
Sibelius
Terterian
Tischenko
Henze
Schuman
Wellesz

Eight favorite eighth :
Hartmann
Shostakovich
Tubin
Vaughan Williams
Tüür
Atterberg
Mennin
Aho

Nine favorite ninth :
Henze
Maxwell Davies
Mahler
Schuman
Panufnik

Can't get to 9 here.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Can't get to 9 here.

Not necessary according to the terms of the game. M and N must be positive numbers, but do not need to be equal. So if you can think of only 37 favorite 38th symphonies, you're fine.

[Christo]

Everytime, in no particular order:

1.   Havergal Brian

2.   Eugene Goossens
      Matthijs Vermeulen

3.   Ralph Vaughan Williams
      Herman D. Koppel
      Stanley Bate

4.   Dmitri Shostakovich
      Einar Englund
      Camargo Guarnieri
      Joly Braga Santos

5.   Carl Nielsen
      Malcolm Arnold
      Ralph Vaughan Williams
      Vagn Holmboe
      Arthur Honegger

6.   Ralph Vaughan Williams
      Eduard Tubin
      Piotr  Ilyich Tchaikovsky
      Gustav Mahler
      Bohuslav Martinů
      Dmitri Shostakovich

7.   John Kinsella
      Ralph Vaughan Williams
      Vagn Holmboe
      Eduard Tubin
      Einojuhani Rautavaara
      Gustav Mahler
      Kurt Atterberg

8.   Vagn Holmboe
      Eduard Tubin
      Ralph Vaughan Williams
      Havergal Brian
      Anton Bruckner
      Dmitri Shostakovich
      Einar Englund
      Ludwig van Beethoven

9.   Ralph Vaughan Williams
      Malcolm Arnold
      Anton Bruckner
      Robert Simpson
      Gustav Mahler
      Antonín Dvořák
      Edmund Rubbra
      John Kinsella
      Vagn Holmboe

10. Dmitri Shostakovich
      Eduard Tubin
      Havergal Brian
      Edmund Rubbra
      Vagn Holmboe
      John Kinsella
      Heitor Villa-Lobos
      Alan Petterson
      William Schuman
      Henk Badings
      Robert Simpson 

[Christo]

The diagonal elements would be 1 1st symphony, 2 second symphonies and so on. Presumably it would get difficult past 10 10th symphonies...

11.  Edmund Rubbra
       Vagn Holmboe
       Robert Simpson
       Alan Petterson
       Dmitri Shostakovich
       Havergal Brian
       Kalevi Aho
       Julius Röntgen 'Wirbel'
       Rued Langgaard 'Ixion'
       Nikolai Myaskovsky
       Anton Bruckner   

[Wanderer]

Everytime, in no particular order:

Ditto.

As previously, but inverted.

1.   Vaughan Williams
      Beethoven
      Elgar
      Brahms
      Schumann
      Schmidt
      Brian
      Sibelius
      Mahler
      Langgaard

2.  Mendelssohn
      Mahler
      Schumann
      Brahms
      Sibelius
      Elgar
      Schmidt
      Beethoven
      Bruckner

3.   Beethoven
      Schumann
      Bruckner
      Brahms
      Sibelius
      Mahler
      Schmidt
      Dvořák

4.   Beethoven
      Brahms
      Schumann
      Bruckner
      Sibelius
      Vaughan Williams
      Mahler

5.   Beethoven
      Mendelssohn
      Bruckner
      Sibelius
      Shostakovich
      Vaughan Williams

6.   Beethoven
      Bruckner
      Sibelius
      Mahler
      Vaughan Williams


7.   Beethoven
      Sibelius
      Vaughan Williams
       Bruckner
     
     

8.   Bruckner
      Mahler
      Dvořák



9.   Beethoven
      Bruckner
 

10. Shostakovich