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. 2 (Mozart) Symphony No. 2 (Mozart) The piece of music once known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 2 in B major, KV 17, is now considered to be not by him, but by possibly his father, Leopold Mozart. This symphony has been given the number Anhang C 11.02 in the sixth edition of Ludwig Ritter von Köchel's catalog of Mozart's music., and is now also catalogued as Eisen B 6 in Cliff Eisen's catalog of Leopold Mozart's symphonies. \relative c" { </score> The piece is in four movements in the usual quick-slow-minuet-quick pattern: The publication of this symphony in the Alte