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Which composer wrote 10 symphonies, the numbers of three of them, all in a minor key, adding up to one?

Bruckner and Mahler wrote ten each, as did Schubert if you include the lost one! The nearest I can get is that Bruckner wrote 3 in C minor (1,2 and 8- the Apocalytic), but he only wrote 10 if you exclude 9 (incomplete) and include 2 very early ones.
This is all according to my late husband's Oxford Companion to Music, published 1955.
Sorry not to be more helpful

My mind springs to Gustav Mahler who actually got to ten (many didn't) but I dont get the cryptic

mahler's tenth was "unfinished". louis spohr also did ten with the last "unfinished".

It could be that Bruckner wrote the Study symphony (in a minor key) which has no number, as well as a Symphony 0. (also minor) These plus the minor key symphony 1 would added together give 1. Sounds a bit far fetched though......


URL: http://able2know.org/topic/182228-1

As per above link, I'm no Bruckner expert...

Think you cracked it AB

Sounds a bit smart to me

bruck me, looks good.

This is a question from Great Fun Quiz and the setter has repeatedly asked that questions aren't asked on these sites (which I do believe is for Crosswords) as pastiche well knows. No reference is given to the question coming from the quiz but is under the headings of Mensa logic, flummoxed, pereplexed etc. GBQ folded and GFQ will go the same way if pastiche has anything to do with it.