Symphony No. 41 (Mozart) Reportedly, from the very first chords, Mozart's Symphony No. 41, in C Major reminded Cramer of Jupiter and his thunderbolts. The celebrated finale of the symphony is a re-working, albeit a majestic one, of the opening movement of Carl Ditters's symphony in D, "Der Sturz Phaëtons" (The Fall of Phaëton) of 1785. In those days of classical education, members of the Philharmonic Society, of which Salomon was a founding member, will have known that the planet that the ancient Greeks called "Phaët(h)on" is the same planet that the ancient Romans called "Jupiter." Thus the majestic nickname is also a humorous
Symphony No. 16 (Myaskovsky) written by Myaskovsky, "The Aeroplanes are Flying". Symphony No. 16 (Myaskovsky) Nikolai Myaskovsky's Symphony No. 16 in F major, op. 39, was composed in 1935-6 and has the nickname "Aviation Symphony". The Symphony is in four movements: The symphony was said to be inspired by the crash of the Tupolev ANT-20 "Maksim Gorky". The premiere was on 24 October 1936, in Moscow with the Moscow Philharmonic conducted by E. Szenkar. The first movement begins with a triplet accompaniment and a chromatic main theme. The second movement is a dance-like intermezzo. This is followed by a funeral march, and following without