A Beginner's First Symphony

I was not into music for the first 14 years of my life, but 4 years ago, i became infatuated with classical music, and espeically orchestral, i can say that there isn't a major symphonic work in the classical music that i haven't heard of, but only recently did i begin to actually compose music, due to the fact that to complete my highschool graduation i need "creativity" hours, as stupid as it sounds, i took up the challenge of writing orchestral music in the Classical Form, so, during the summer i briefly taught myself about theory, and sat infront of my keyboard and made My Symphony In C major, for those of you who are experts in music, you probably would laugh at my attempt, because even in my own opinion, it is not up to par with most other works that i have heard in this forum, but never the less, it will only help me to get feedbacks/suggestions from experts.
THis is symphony is scored for a full strings, woodwinds, partial Brass(2Horns, 2trumpets) a timpani, and that's it, i'd like to keep it simple in my first attempt, so without further delay, here it is, laugh it all you want, and all i care is that you give me suggestions for improvments. Thanks!

This music is pretty good. It sounds like you are doing a lot of it by ear which works great once you have a really strong theory backround. I would go to google.com and do a search for instrument ranges. The 1st website is a huge thoery website and it has all of the ranges for instruments. I couldnt tell you if some of the instrument parts are out of thier ranges because i couldnt actually see the notes. The ranges on the site are not exactly right, but for your pourposes they will work great.

I personally would not like to listen to this music at a concert, but my little nephews and nices would love to dance around to it. The peices kindof lack emotion which is due to your inexperience in music and they midi sound. The songs sound kinda random like they are not realy going anywhere. In the seccond song I dont think there was a tempo, or atleast i couldnt feel one.

Keep on workin your doin very well for your 1st peice composed. You just need to listen to a lot of different styles of music, and maybe start learning a band instrument if you havent already to get a grasp on what instruments are capable of playing

1st mov - good job! very sophisticated and fun to listen! full of very neat expressions too. you didn't put a single tone extra, and you acheved a full tone. some parts i felt needed a little more backround music, like the violin solo near the ending. but still very nice !

2nd mov - melody isn't as interesting as the 1st movements', but it has a nice dose of emotion in it and the orchestarization shows it really well, sepecialy in the second part. however the string are way to repetitive... i would advise you to change their accompamnient in the first part, or just a couple of measures, so that sort of goes in to be more complex later and in that way get effect. but then again, maybe it would sound better and more sofisticated in real performanceim not sure. but still enjoyable to listen.

3rd mov - fun to listen to, inovative, and has a neat ending! too short for me to say much, but i like it the way it is dont change a thing!

4th mov - my favoriteof all 4! It's sound is richer then the first 3 ( exception the end of 3rd), it also has a variating mood, so i it amused me much more then the 1st and 2nd. I loved the melodies in the middle and the changing of the lead and harmony between woodwinds and strings. Orchestration is very rich and the ending is energetic, yet not overdone! Really a classical ending, loved this mov.

Overall - this is a really nice way to start! remarks - the first movement isn't a very effective start, and even though it's good, i found it to be more scherzy then masteroso. Personaly i would fancy a more effective start to get me interested, but as the piece progresses it gets neater and neater so i guess this way is ok too. and somehow i expected a more mahler-like symphony from a guy that nicknamed himself "Mahlertitan" .

Well - all in all a good start! keep it up!