The Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler was written in 1901 and 1902 mostly during the summer months at Mahler's cottage at Maiernigg. It is arguably the most well known Mahler symphony. Among its most distinctive landmarks are the funereal trumpet solo that opens the work and the frequently performed F major Adagietto.
Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C Minor (Op. 67) was written in 1804–08. This symphony is one of the most popular and well-known compositions in all of European classical music, and one of the most often-played symphonies.Schauffler, Robert Haven. Beethoven: The Man Who Freed Music.
The Symphony No. 5 in D minor (Opus 47) by Dmitri Shostakovich was written between April and July of 1937 and first performed in Leningrad by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky, on 21 November that year. The work was a huge success, and is said to have received an ovation of half an hour (or a whole hour, according to Mstislav Rostropovich). It is still one of his most popular works.
Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major (Op. 100) in 1944.
Symphony No. 5 by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams was written between 1938 and 1943. In style it represents a shift away from the violent dissonance of the Fourth Symphony, and a return to the more romantic style of the earlier Pastoral Symphony.
The Symphony No. 5 in B-flat of Anton Bruckner was written in 1875–6, with a few minor changes over the next few years. It was not premiered until 1894 by Franz Schalk in Graz (Bruckner was sick and unable to attend: he never heard this symphony performed). It was dedicated to Karl von Stremayr, minister of education in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, op. 107, called the "Reformation" Symphony, was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1832 in honor of the 300th anniversary of Martin Luther’s Augsburg Confession which had established the founding doctrines of Lutheranism and was a momentous document of the Protestant Reformation. The symphony was written for a full orchestra and was the first extended symphony that Mendelssohn had written. The late opus number does not indicate a late work; although Mendelssohn composed the symphony in 1830 prior to his prior to his 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Symphonies, it was published, after his death, in 1868.
The Symphony No. 5 in E minor (Op. 64) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was composed between May and August 1888. It was first performed, under Tchaikovsky's own baton, in St Petersburg on November 6, 1888.
The Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, K. 22, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in The Hague in 1765, at the age of nine, while he was on his grand musical tour of Western Europe.
The Symphony No. 5 by Carl Nielsen was completed in 1922 and premiered in Copenhagen with the composer conducting in the same year.
Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, op. 82 is a major work for orchestra in three movements by Jean Sibelius. He was commissioned to write it by the Finnish government in honour of his 50th birthday, which had been pronounced a national holiday in Finland. It was originally composed in 1915 but revised in 1916 and again in 1919.
The Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, opus 55 (also known as The Heroic), was written by Alexander Glazunov from April to October of 1895. Although in this symphony Glazunov returned to his conventional four-movement layout (his Fourth Symphony had only three) he avoids theme transformation. Glazunov described it as "silenced sounds" and "an architectual poem".