Mendelssohn Symphonies

I've recently entered a Mendelssohn phase, and I wanted to know which of his symphonies is everyone's favorite.

I dislike Mendy. Too conservative for my tastes.

Meh. You should see the piano transcriptions... they're really not that complex at all.

I picked his third symphony because it is, I believe, the most complex of them all.

I actually like 4. Partly because it begins in major and ends in minor....no wait, that's probably most of the reason. Anyway the last movement is nice and to the point.

I'm going with the majority and the Italian. I love it!

I really adore a lot of Mendelssohn, but his later stuff (Midsummer Night's Dream etc.), really doesn't do much for me. Pity really, since there's quite some exciting and progressive things in his youth works.

Midsummer Night's Dream is GODLY!!

You are all sad peasants who should be impaled on a bee-covered Lindsay Lohan and slowly dipped in boiling tar.

what is this doing in the Off-Topic ?

I don't know all symphonies, I'm not a "fan" of Mendelssohn but I know the 4th "Italian" ...

I like the main "reverse" structure... the classical way to sort the movements would be the "serious" minor at the begining and the "happy" major at the end. But Mendelssohn putted the "happy" at the begining and ends with the "serious" minor one....

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Please shove a vial of nitroglicerine up your sphincter and breakdance. Thank you.

Kinda irritable man ? just like the real Hector Berlioz

The spread is interesting. For those of you that don't know, he did not write the symphonies in the order they are numbered; the actual ordering is (if I recall correctly) 1, 5, 4, 2, 3. Scottish is his most mature (although it doesn't sound Scottish at all - in fact, Schumann once saw a performance of it that mislabeled it "Italian" and wrote a review the next day about how it evoked beautiful Italian scenery) but I'm personally quite fond of the second as well, since it's the only symphony of his that uses a chorus (and boy, does he use it).