Symphony No. 41 (Mozart) below, the Symphony garnered approbation from critics, theorists, composers and biographers and came to be viewed as a canonized masterwork, known for its fugue and its overall structure which exuded clarity. The first known recording of the Jupiter Symphony is from 1913, at the dawn of the recording era, making it one of the very first symphonies to be recorded using the earliest recording technology. The 1913 Jupiter Symphony recording lists Victor Concert Orchestra as the performers conducted by Walter B. Rogers. Symphony No. 41 (Mozart) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed his Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551, on
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