diff --git a/core/core.services.yml b/core/core.services.yml
index 5e2c9e3781..4bd0472b17 100644
--- a/core/core.services.yml
+++ b/core/core.services.yml
@@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ services:
      class: Drupal\Core\Routing\CurrentRouteMatch
      arguments: ['@request_stack']
   event_dispatcher:
-    class: Drupal\Component\EventDispatcher\ContainerAwareEventDispatcher
+    class: Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\ContainerAwareEventDispatcher
     arguments: ['@service_container']
   app.root:
     class: SplString
diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Component/EventDispatcher/ContainerAwareEventDispatcher.php b/core/lib/Drupal/Component/EventDispatcher/ContainerAwareEventDispatcher.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 1fd808c17f..0000000000
--- a/core/lib/Drupal/Component/EventDispatcher/ContainerAwareEventDispatcher.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,290 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-namespace Drupal\Component\EventDispatcher;
-
-use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;
-use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\Event;
-use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventDispatcherInterface;
-use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventSubscriberInterface;
-
-/**
- * A performance optimized container aware event dispatcher.
- *
- * This version of the event dispatcher contains the following optimizations
- * in comparison to the Symfony event dispatcher component:
- *
- * <dl>
- *   <dt>Faster instantiation of the event dispatcher service</dt>
- *   <dd>
- *     Instead of calling <code>addSubscriberService</code> once for each
- *     subscriber, a precompiled array of listener definitions is passed
- *     directly to the constructor. This is faster by roughly an order of
- *     magnitude. The listeners are collected and prepared using a compiler
- *     pass.
- *   </dd>
- *   <dt>Lazy instantiation of listeners</dt>
- *   <dd>
- *     Services are only retrieved from the container just before invocation.
- *     Especially when dispatching the KernelEvents::REQUEST event, this leads
- *     to a more timely invocation of the first listener. Overall dispatch
- *     runtime is not affected by this change though.
- *   </dd>
- * </dl>
- */
-class ContainerAwareEventDispatcher implements EventDispatcherInterface {
-
-  /**
-   * The service container.
-   *
-   * @var \Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;
-   */
-  protected $container;
-
-  /**
-   * Listener definitions.
-   *
-   * A nested array of listener definitions keyed by event name and priority.
-   * A listener definition is an associative array with one of the following key
-   * value pairs:
-   * - callable: A callable listener
-   * - service: An array of the form [service id, method]
-   *
-   * A service entry will be resolved to a callable only just before its
-   * invocation.
-   *
-   * @var array
-   */
-  protected $listeners;
-
-  /**
-   * Whether listeners need to be sorted prior to dispatch, keyed by event name.
-   *
-   * @var TRUE[]
-   */
-  protected $unsorted;
-
-  /**
-   * Constructs a container aware event dispatcher.
-   *
-   * @param \Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface $container
-   *   The service container.
-   * @param array $listeners
-   *   A nested array of listener definitions keyed by event name and priority.
-   *   The array is expected to be ordered by priority. A listener definition is
-   *   an associative array with one of the following key value pairs:
-   *   - callable: A callable listener
-   *   - service: An array of the form [service id, method]
-   *   A service entry will be resolved to a callable only just before its
-   *   invocation.
-   */
-  public function __construct(ContainerInterface $container, array $listeners = []) {
-    $this->container = $container;
-    $this->listeners = $listeners;
-    $this->unsorted = [];
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * {@inheritdoc}
-   */
-  public function dispatch($event_name, Event $event = NULL) {
-    if ($event === NULL) {
-      $event = new Event();
-    }
-
-    if (isset($this->listeners[$event_name])) {
-      // Sort listeners if necessary.
-      if (isset($this->unsorted[$event_name])) {
-        krsort($this->listeners[$event_name]);
-        unset($this->unsorted[$event_name]);
-      }
-
-      // Invoke listeners and resolve callables if necessary.
-      foreach ($this->listeners[$event_name] as $priority => &$definitions) {
-        foreach ($definitions as $key => &$definition) {
-          if (!isset($definition['callable'])) {
-            $definition['callable'] = [$this->container->get($definition['service'][0]), $definition['service'][1]];
-          }
-          if (is_array($definition['callable']) && isset($definition['callable'][0]) && $definition['callable'][0] instanceof \Closure) {
-            $definition['callable'][0] = $definition['callable'][0]();
-          }
-
-          call_user_func($definition['callable'], $event, $event_name, $this);
-          if ($event->isPropagationStopped()) {
-            return $event;
-          }
-        }
-      }
-    }
-
-    return $event;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * {@inheritdoc}
-   */
-  public function getListeners($event_name = NULL) {
-    $result = [];
-
-    if ($event_name === NULL) {
-      // If event name was omitted, collect all listeners of all events.
-      foreach (array_keys($this->listeners) as $event_name) {
-        $listeners = $this->getListeners($event_name);
-        if (!empty($listeners)) {
-          $result[$event_name] = $listeners;
-        }
-      }
-    }
-    elseif (isset($this->listeners[$event_name])) {
-      // Sort listeners if necessary.
-      if (isset($this->unsorted[$event_name])) {
-        krsort($this->listeners[$event_name]);
-        unset($this->unsorted[$event_name]);
-      }
-
-      // Collect listeners and resolve callables if necessary.
-      foreach ($this->listeners[$event_name] as $priority => &$definitions) {
-        foreach ($definitions as $key => &$definition) {
-          if (!isset($definition['callable'])) {
-            $definition['callable'] = [$this->container->get($definition['service'][0]), $definition['service'][1]];
-          }
-          if (is_array($definition['callable']) && isset($definition['callable'][0]) && $definition['callable'][0] instanceof \Closure) {
-            $definition['callable'][0] = $definition['callable'][0]();
-          }
-
-          $result[] = $definition['callable'];
-        }
-      }
-    }
-
-    return $result;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * {@inheritdoc}
-   */
-  public function getListenerPriority($event_name, $listener) {
-    if (!isset($this->listeners[$event_name])) {
-      return;
-    }
-    if (is_array($listener) && isset($listener[0]) && $listener[0] instanceof \Closure) {
-      $listener[0] = $listener[0]();
-    }
-    // Resolve service definitions if the listener has not been found so far.
-    foreach ($this->listeners[$event_name] as $priority => &$definitions) {
-      foreach ($definitions as $key => &$definition) {
-        if (!isset($definition['callable'])) {
-          // Once the callable is retrieved we keep it for subsequent method
-          // invocations on this class.
-          $definition['callable'] = [
-            $this->container->get($definition['service'][0]),
-            $definition['service'][1],
-          ];
-        }
-        if (is_array($definition['callable']) && isset($definition['callable'][0]) && $definition['callable'][0] instanceof \Closure) {
-          $definition['callable'][0] = $definition['callable'][0]();
-        }
-        if ($definition['callable'] === $listener) {
-          return $priority;
-        }
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * {@inheritdoc}
-   */
-  public function hasListeners($event_name = NULL) {
-    if ($event_name !== NULL) {
-      return !empty($this->listeners[$event_name]);
-    }
-
-    foreach ($this->listeners as $event_listeners) {
-      if ($event_listeners) {
-        return TRUE;
-      }
-    }
-
-    return FALSE;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * {@inheritdoc}
-   */
-  public function addListener($event_name, $listener, $priority = 0) {
-    $this->listeners[$event_name][$priority][] = ['callable' => $listener];
-    $this->unsorted[$event_name] = TRUE;
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * {@inheritdoc}
-   */
-  public function removeListener($event_name, $listener) {
-    if (!isset($this->listeners[$event_name])) {
-      return;
-    }
-
-    foreach ($this->listeners[$event_name] as $priority => $definitions) {
-      foreach ($definitions as $key => $definition) {
-        if (!isset($definition['callable'])) {
-          if (!$this->container->initialized($definition['service'][0])) {
-            continue;
-          }
-          $definition['callable'] = [$this->container->get($definition['service'][0]), $definition['service'][1]];
-        }
-
-        if (is_array($definition['callable']) && isset($definition['callable'][0]) && $definition['callable'][0] instanceof \Closure && !$listener instanceof \Closure) {
-          $definition['callable'][0] = $definition['callable'][0]();
-        }
-
-        if (is_array($definition['callable']) && isset($definition['callable'][0]) && !$definition['callable'][0] instanceof \Closure && is_array($listener) && isset($listener[0]) && $listener[0] instanceof \Closure) {
-          $listener[0] = $listener[0]();
-        }
-        if ($definition['callable'] === $listener) {
-          unset($definitions[$key]);
-        }
-      }
-      if ($definitions) {
-        $this->listeners[$event_name][$priority] = $definitions;
-      }
-      else {
-        unset($this->listeners[$event_name][$priority]);
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * {@inheritdoc}
-   */
-  public function addSubscriber(EventSubscriberInterface $subscriber) {
-    foreach ($subscriber->getSubscribedEvents() as $event_name => $params) {
-      if (is_string($params)) {
-        $this->addListener($event_name, [$subscriber, $params]);
-      }
-      elseif (is_string($params[0])) {
-        $this->addListener($event_name, [$subscriber, $params[0]], isset($params[1]) ? $params[1] : 0);
-      }
-      else {
-        foreach ($params as $listener) {
-          $this->addListener($event_name, [$subscriber, $listener[0]], isset($listener[1]) ? $listener[1] : 0);
-        }
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * {@inheritdoc}
-   */
-  public function removeSubscriber(EventSubscriberInterface $subscriber) {
-    foreach ($subscriber->getSubscribedEvents() as $event_name => $params) {
-      if (is_array($params) && is_array($params[0])) {
-        foreach ($params as $listener) {
-          $this->removeListener($event_name, [$subscriber, $listener[0]]);
-        }
-      }
-      else {
-        $this->removeListener($event_name, [$subscriber, is_string($params) ? $params : $params[0]]);
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Component/EventDispatcher/LICENSE.txt b/core/lib/Drupal/Component/EventDispatcher/LICENSE.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 94fb84639c..0000000000
--- a/core/lib/Drupal/Component/EventDispatcher/LICENSE.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,339 +0,0 @@
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-    This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
-    under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
-
-The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
-parts of the General Public License.  Of course, the commands you use may
-be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
-mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.
-
-You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
-school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if
-necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:
-
-  Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
-  `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
-
-  <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
-  Ty Coon, President of Vice
-
-This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
-proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you may
-consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
-library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General
-Public License instead of this License.
diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Component/EventDispatcher/README.txt b/core/lib/Drupal/Component/EventDispatcher/README.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 27a049bffd..0000000000
--- a/core/lib/Drupal/Component/EventDispatcher/README.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-The Drupal EventDispatcher Component
-
-Thanks for using this Drupal component.
-
-You can participate in its development on Drupal.org, through our issue system:
-https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/drupal
-
-You can get the full Drupal repo here:
-https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/git-instructions
-
-You can browse the full Drupal repo here:
-http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal
diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Component/EventDispatcher/TESTING.txt b/core/lib/Drupal/Component/EventDispatcher/TESTING.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 6ea7b34627..0000000000
--- a/core/lib/Drupal/Component/EventDispatcher/TESTING.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-HOW-TO: Test this Drupal component
-
-In order to test this component, you'll need to get the entire Drupal repo and
-run the tests there.
-
-You'll find the tests under core/tests/Drupal/Tests/Component.
-
-You can get the full Drupal repo here:
-https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/git-instructions
-
-You can find more information about running PHPUnit tests with Drupal here:
-https://www.drupal.org/node/2116263
-
-Each component in the Drupal\Component namespace has its own annotated test
-group. You can use this group to run only the tests for this component. Like
-this:
-
-$ ./vendor/bin/phpunit -c core --group EventDispatcher
diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Component/EventDispatcher/composer.json b/core/lib/Drupal/Component/EventDispatcher/composer.json
deleted file mode 100644
index a4db6fafa4..0000000000
--- a/core/lib/Drupal/Component/EventDispatcher/composer.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "name": "drupal/core-event-dispatcher",
-  "description": "EventDispatcher.",
-  "keywords": ["drupal"],
-  "homepage": "https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal",
-  "license": "GPL-2.0+",
-  "require": {
-    "php": ">=5.5.9",
-    "symfony/dependency-injection": "^2.8",
-    "symfony/event-dispatcher": "^2.7"
-  },
-  "autoload": {
-    "psr-4": {
-      "Drupal\\Component\\EventDispatcher\\": ""
-    }
-  }
-}
diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Composer/Composer.php b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Composer/Composer.php
index 5f3a4a92ab..794bf29f61 100644
--- a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Composer/Composer.php
+++ b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Composer/Composer.php
@@ -53,8 +53,7 @@ class Composer {
     'symfony/debug' => ['Tests'],
     'symfony/dependency-injection' => ['Tests'],
     'symfony/dom-crawler' => ['Tests'],
-    // @see \Drupal\Tests\Component\EventDispatcher\ContainerAwareEventDispatcherTest
-    // 'symfony/event-dispatcher' => ['Tests'],
+    'symfony/event-dispatcher' => ['Tests'],
     'symfony/http-foundation' => ['Tests'],
     'symfony/http-kernel' => ['Tests'],
     'symfony/process' => ['Tests'],
diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/CoreServiceProvider.php b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/CoreServiceProvider.php
index e07046ae0a..b8f329e899 100644
--- a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/CoreServiceProvider.php
+++ b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/CoreServiceProvider.php
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@
 use Drupal\Core\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder;
 use Drupal\Core\DependencyInjection\Compiler\ModifyServiceDefinitionsPass;
 use Drupal\Core\DependencyInjection\Compiler\TaggedHandlersPass;
-use Drupal\Core\DependencyInjection\Compiler\RegisterEventSubscribersPass;
 use Drupal\Core\DependencyInjection\Compiler\RegisterAccessChecksPass;
 use Drupal\Core\DependencyInjection\Compiler\RegisterServicesForDestructionPass;
 use Drupal\Core\Plugin\PluginManagerPass;
 use Drupal\Core\Render\MainContent\MainContentRenderersPass;
 use Drupal\Core\Site\Settings;
 use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Compiler\PassConfig;
+use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\DependencyInjection\RegisterListenersPass;
 
 /**
  * ServiceProvider class for mandatory core services.
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ public function register(ContainerBuilder $container) {
     $container->addCompilerPass(new TwigExtensionPass());
 
     // Add a compiler pass for registering event subscribers.
-    $container->addCompilerPass(new RegisterEventSubscribersPass(), PassConfig::TYPE_AFTER_REMOVING);
+    $container->addCompilerPass(new RegisterListenersPass('event_dispatcher', 'event_listener', 'event_subscriber'), PassConfig::TYPE_AFTER_REMOVING);
 
     $container->addCompilerPass(new RegisterAccessChecksPass());
 
diff --git a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/DependencyInjection/Compiler/RegisterEventSubscribersPass.php b/core/lib/Drupal/Core/DependencyInjection/Compiler/RegisterEventSubscribersPass.php
deleted file mode 100644
index aa943c7246..0000000000
--- a/core/lib/Drupal/Core/DependencyInjection/Compiler/RegisterEventSubscribersPass.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-namespace Drupal\Core\DependencyInjection\Compiler;
-
-use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder;
-use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Compiler\CompilerPassInterface;
-
-/**
- * Registers all event subscribers to the event dispatcher.
- */
-class RegisterEventSubscribersPass implements CompilerPassInterface {
-
-  /**
-   * {@inheritdoc}
-   */
-  public function process(ContainerBuilder $container) {
-    if (!$container->hasDefinition('event_dispatcher')) {
-      return;
-    }
-
-    $definition = $container->getDefinition('event_dispatcher');
-
-    $event_subscriber_info = [];
-    foreach ($container->findTaggedServiceIds('event_subscriber') as $id => $attributes) {
-
-      // We must assume that the class value has been correctly filled, even if
-      // the service is created by a factory.
-      $class = $container->getDefinition($id)->getClass();
-
-      $refClass = new \ReflectionClass($class);
-      $interface = 'Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\EventSubscriberInterface';
-      if (!$refClass->implementsInterface($interface)) {
-        throw new \InvalidArgumentException(sprintf('Service "%s" must implement interface "%s".', $id, $interface));
-      }
-
-      // Get all subscribed events.
-      foreach ($class::getSubscribedEvents() as $event_name => $params) {
-        if (is_string($params)) {
-          $priority = 0;
-          $event_subscriber_info[$event_name][$priority][] = ['service' => [$id, $params]];
-        }
-        elseif (is_string($params[0])) {
-          $priority = isset($params[1]) ? $params[1] : 0;
-          $event_subscriber_info[$event_name][$priority][] = ['service' => [$id, $params[0]]];
-        }
-        else {
-          foreach ($params as $listener) {
-            $priority = isset($listener[1]) ? $listener[1] : 0;
-            $event_subscriber_info[$event_name][$priority][] = ['service' => [$id, $listener[0]]];
-          }
-        }
-      }
-    }
-
-    foreach (array_keys($event_subscriber_info) as $event_name) {
-      krsort($event_subscriber_info[$event_name]);
-    }
-
-    $definition->addArgument($event_subscriber_info);
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/core/tests/Drupal/Tests/Component/EventDispatcher/ContainerAwareEventDispatcherTest.php b/core/tests/Drupal/Tests/Component/EventDispatcher/ContainerAwareEventDispatcherTest.php
deleted file mode 100644
index baafcd594b..0000000000
--- a/core/tests/Drupal/Tests/Component/EventDispatcher/ContainerAwareEventDispatcherTest.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,251 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-// @codingStandardsIgnoreFile
-
-namespace Drupal\Tests\Component\EventDispatcher;
-
-use Drupal\Component\EventDispatcher\ContainerAwareEventDispatcher;
-use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Container;
-use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder;
-use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;
-use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\Tests\CallableClass;
-use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\Tests\ContainerAwareEventDispatcherTest as SymfonyContainerAwareEventDispatcherTest;
-use Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\Tests\TestEventListener;
-
-/**
- * Unit tests for the ContainerAwareEventDispatcher.
- *
- * NOTE: 98% of this code is a literal copy of Symfony's emerging
- * CompiledEventDispatcherTest.
- *
- * This file does NOT follow Drupal coding standards, so as to simplify future
- * synchronizations.
- *
- * @see https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/12521
- *
- * @group EventDispatcher
- */
-class ContainerAwareEventDispatcherTest extends SymfonyContainerAwareEventDispatcherTest
-{
-    protected function createEventDispatcher()
-    {
-        $container = new Container();
-
-        return new ContainerAwareEventDispatcher($container);
-    }
-
-    public function testGetListenersWithCallables()
-    {
-        // When passing in callables exclusively as listeners into the event
-        // dispatcher constructor, the event dispatcher must not attempt to
-        // resolve any services.
-        $container = $this->getMockBuilder(ContainerInterface::class)->getMock();
-        $container->expects($this->never())->method($this->anything());
-
-        $firstListener = new CallableClass();
-        $secondListener = function () {};
-        $thirdListener = array(new TestEventListener(), 'preFoo');
-        $listeners = array(
-            'test_event' => array(
-                0 => array(
-                    array('callable' => $firstListener),
-                    array('callable' => $secondListener),
-                    array('callable' => $thirdListener),
-                ),
-            ),
-        );
-
-        $dispatcher = new ContainerAwareEventDispatcher($container, $listeners);
-        $actualListeners = $dispatcher->getListeners();
-
-        $expectedListeners = array(
-            'test_event' => array(
-                $firstListener,
-                $secondListener,
-                $thirdListener,
-            ),
-        );
-
-        $this->assertSame($expectedListeners, $actualListeners);
-    }
-
-    public function testDispatchWithCallables()
-    {
-        // When passing in callables exclusively as listeners into the event
-        // dispatcher constructor, the event dispatcher must not attempt to
-        // resolve any services.
-        $container = $this->getMockBuilder(ContainerInterface::class)->getMock();
-        $container->expects($this->never())->method($this->anything());
-
-        $firstListener = new CallableClass();
-        $secondListener = function () {};
-        $thirdListener = array(new TestEventListener(), 'preFoo');
-        $listeners = array(
-            'test_event' => array(
-                0 => array(
-                    array('callable' => $firstListener),
-                    array('callable' => $secondListener),
-                    array('callable' => $thirdListener),
-                ),
-            ),
-        );
-
-        $dispatcher = new ContainerAwareEventDispatcher($container, $listeners);
-        $dispatcher->dispatch('test_event');
-
-        $this->assertTrue($thirdListener[0]->preFooInvoked);
-    }
-
-    public function testGetListenersWithServices()
-    {
-        $container = new ContainerBuilder();
-        $container->register('listener_service', 'Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\Tests\TestEventListener');
-
-        $listeners = array(
-            'test_event' => array(
-                0 => array(
-                    array('service' => array('listener_service', 'preFoo')),
-                ),
-            ),
-        );
-
-        $dispatcher = new ContainerAwareEventDispatcher($container, $listeners);
-        $actualListeners = $dispatcher->getListeners();
-
-        $listenerService = $container->get('listener_service');
-        $expectedListeners = array(
-            'test_event' => array(
-                array($listenerService, 'preFoo'),
-            ),
-        );
-
-        $this->assertSame($expectedListeners, $actualListeners);
-    }
-
-    public function testDispatchWithServices()
-    {
-        $container = new ContainerBuilder();
-        $container->register('listener_service', 'Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\Tests\TestEventListener');
-
-        $listeners = array(
-            'test_event' => array(
-                0 => array(
-                    array('service' => array('listener_service', 'preFoo')),
-                ),
-            ),
-        );
-
-        $dispatcher = new ContainerAwareEventDispatcher($container, $listeners);
-
-        $dispatcher->dispatch('test_event');
-
-        $listenerService = $container->get('listener_service');
-        $this->assertTrue($listenerService->preFooInvoked);
-    }
-
-    public function testRemoveService()
-    {
-        $container = new ContainerBuilder();
-        $container->register('listener_service', 'Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\Tests\TestEventListener');
-        $container->register('other_listener_service', 'Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\Tests\TestEventListener');
-
-        $listeners = array(
-            'test_event' => array(
-                0 => array(
-                    array('service' => array('listener_service', 'preFoo')),
-                    array('service' => array('other_listener_service', 'preFoo')),
-                ),
-            ),
-        );
-
-        $dispatcher = new ContainerAwareEventDispatcher($container, $listeners);
-
-        $listenerService = $container->get('listener_service');
-        $dispatcher->removeListener('test_event', array($listenerService, 'preFoo'));
-
-        // Ensure that other service was not initialized during removal of the
-        // listener service.
-        $this->assertFalse($container->initialized('other_listener_service'));
-
-        $dispatcher->dispatch('test_event');
-
-        $this->assertFalse($listenerService->preFooInvoked);
-        $otherService = $container->get('other_listener_service');
-        $this->assertTrue($otherService->preFooInvoked);
-    }
-
-    public function testGetListenerPriorityWithServices()
-    {
-        $container = new ContainerBuilder();
-        $container->register('listener_service', TestEventListener::class);
-
-        $listeners = array(
-            'test_event' => array(
-                5 => array(
-                    array('service' => array('listener_service', 'preFoo')),
-                ),
-            ),
-        );
-
-        $dispatcher = new ContainerAwareEventDispatcher($container, $listeners);
-        $listenerService = $container->get('listener_service');
-        $actualPriority = $dispatcher->getListenerPriority('test_event', [$listenerService, 'preFoo']);
-
-        $this->assertSame(5, $actualPriority);
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * @expectedDeprecation The Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\ContainerAwareEventDispatcher class is deprecated since Symfony 3.3 and will be removed in 4.0. Use EventDispatcher with closure factories instead.
-     * @group legacy
-     */
-    public function testAddAListenerService() {
-      parent::testAddAListenerService();
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * @expectedDeprecation The Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\ContainerAwareEventDispatcher class is deprecated since Symfony 3.3 and will be removed in 4.0. Use EventDispatcher with closure factories instead.
-     * @group legacy
-     */
-    public function testPreventDuplicateListenerService() {
-      parent::testPreventDuplicateListenerService();
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * @expectedDeprecation The Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\ContainerAwareEventDispatcher class is deprecated since Symfony 3.3 and will be removed in 4.0. Use EventDispatcher with closure factories instead.
-     * @group legacy
-     */
-    public function testAddASubscriberService() {
-      parent::testAddASubscriberService();
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * @expectedDeprecation The Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\ContainerAwareEventDispatcher class is deprecated since Symfony 3.3 and will be removed in 4.0. Use EventDispatcher with closure factories instead.
-     * @group legacy
-     */
-    public function testHasListenersOnLazyLoad() {
-      parent::testHasListenersOnLazyLoad();
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * @expectedDeprecation The Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\ContainerAwareEventDispatcher class is deprecated since Symfony 3.3 and will be removed in 4.0. Use EventDispatcher with closure factories instead.
-     * @group legacy
-     */
-    public function testGetListenersOnLazyLoad() {
-      parent::testGetListenersOnLazyLoad();
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * @expectedDeprecation The Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\ContainerAwareEventDispatcher class is deprecated since Symfony 3.3 and will be removed in 4.0. Use EventDispatcher with closure factories instead.
-     * @group legacy
-     */
-    public function testRemoveAfterDispatch() {
-      parent::testRemoveAfterDispatch();
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * @expectedDeprecation The Symfony\Component\EventDispatcher\ContainerAwareEventDispatcher class is deprecated since Symfony 3.3 and will be removed in 4.0. Use EventDispatcher with closure factories instead.
-     * @group legacy
-     */
-    public function testRemoveBeforeDispatch() {
-      parent::testRemoveBeforeDispatch();
-    }
- }
diff --git a/core/tests/Drupal/Tests/ComposerIntegrationTest.php b/core/tests/Drupal/Tests/ComposerIntegrationTest.php
index b56849d863..9669872a37 100644
--- a/core/tests/Drupal/Tests/ComposerIntegrationTest.php
+++ b/core/tests/Drupal/Tests/ComposerIntegrationTest.php
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ protected function getPaths() {
       $this->root . '/core/lib/Drupal/Component/DependencyInjection',
       $this->root . '/core/lib/Drupal/Component/Diff',
       $this->root . '/core/lib/Drupal/Component/Discovery',
-      $this->root . '/core/lib/Drupal/Component/EventDispatcher',
       $this->root . '/core/lib/Drupal/Component/FileCache',
       $this->root . '/core/lib/Drupal/Component/FileSystem',
       $this->root . '/core/lib/Drupal/Component/Gettext',
