Which is your favourite Beethoven symphony?

[kishnevi]

As it happens, 4 and 8 are my favorites, with 4 a bit ahead.  But I must lodge a protest on behalf of 7.  3,5,6, and 9 are famous enough they can fight their own battle.

[Heck148]

Personally my second choice would have been no. 2 (my first choice being 4)

same here.

[springrite]

4 and 8 are neck and neck! Personally my second choice would have been no. 2 (my first choice being 4)

1 and 2 are also neck and neck!

Wait, maybe I should say ankle and ankle...

[vandermolen]

My favourites are not on the list.

[SharpEleventh]

I thought Beethoven only wrote a third, fifth, sixth, seventh and ninth symphony.

[Wanderer]

1 and 2 are also neck and neck!

[Cato]

Stravinsky was a great advocate for the Fourth Symphony, as I recall.

[Holden]

Of the choices offered the Fourth is my pick. But if you add the rest of the oeuvre it comes in sixth place after 6, 3, 7, 9 and 5.