Whose symphony has the most notes?

Question

Tchaikovsky or Beethoven

Answer 1

Tchaikovsky is the instinctive answer. Being later in music history, his use of chromaticism would be more frequent. That would lead him to change keys and modulate more often than Beethoven, which causes more pitch names (G#, Bb, E-natural) to be used in a single piece of music like a symphony.

But keep in mind that for his time, Tchaikovsky tended toward the diatonic (notes already in the key) more frequently than his contemporaries.

Answer 2

Neither, for the symphony of life is still playing