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. 3 (Lilburn) Symphony No. 3 (Lilburn) The Symphony No. 3 of Douglas Lilburn was completed in 1961, in response to a sabbatical from Victoria University of Wellington. It was given its premiere the following year, and published by Faber Music (and co-published by Schirmer) around 1968. The symphony was described by Lilburn as "a harsh, didactic personalised piece of searching rhetoric", and, indeed, of all his compositions, this is the one with the greatest twelve-tone influence. It is a one-movement work in five sections, marked "Moderato-Vivace-Allegro-Andante-Allegro", and is shorter than his other symphonies, typically lasting some fifteen minutes in performance. Unlike with