Symphony No. 41 (Mozart) written only a few weeks before Mozart's, also has a fugato in the finale, the theme of which begins with two whole notes. Sherman has pointed out other similarities between the two almost perfectly contemporaneous works. The four-note motif is also the main theme of the contrapuntal finale of Michael's elder brother Joseph's Symphony No. 13 in D major (1764). According to Franz Mozart, Wolfgang's younger son, the symphony was given the name "Jupiter" by Johann Peter Salomon, who had settled in London in around 1781. The name has also been attributed to Johann Baptist Cramer, an English music publisher.
Symphony No. 8 (Davies) Symphony No. 8 (Davies) The Symphony No. 8 (also called the "Antarctic" Symphony) is an orchestral composition by Peter Maxwell Davies, completed on 15 December 2001. Davies had announced prior to its premiere that his Seventh Symphony was to be his last work in the form . Less than six months later, Davies amended his statement to say that it was only the last of a seven-symphony "cycle": "No. 8, next year, will be a musical account of my visit to Antarctica, with very different aims and preoccupations" . Advance publicity for the Eighth proved to be more than that