There is no point in discussing which is the best first symphony in music history. The answer to that is as simple as asking which mountain is the highest. "The Titan". Apart from Brahms there is no serious challenger, but even his first symphony pales in comparison to this work, which not only changed the history of music but the entire occidental culture juxtaposing the sublime, antique ideal of art with the profane. This universal idea of ambivalence as an artistic ideal that inspired the greatest art works of the 20th century, also encourages millions of doctors to hang Gustav Klimt's otherworldly women in their sober medical practices.