Symphony No. 41 (Mozart) fourth movement. But there are fugal sections throughout the movement either by developing one specific theme or by combining two or more themes together, as seen in the interplay between the woodwinds. The main theme consists of four notes: Four additional themes are heard in the "Jupiter's" finale, which is in sonata form, and all five motifs are combined in the fugal coda. In an article about the Jupiter Symphony, Sir George Grove wrote that "it is for the finale that Mozart has reserved all the resources of his science, and all the power, which no one seems to have
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