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 (Mahler) labelled as being in the key of C minor; the "New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians" labels the work's tonality as C minorE major. It was voted the fifth-greatest symphony of all time in a survey of conductors carried out by the BBC Music Magazine. Mahler completed what would become the first movement of the symphony in 1888 as a single-movement symphonic poem called "Totenfeier" (Funeral Rites). Some sketches for the second movement also date from that year. Mahler wavered five years on whether to make "Totenfeier" the opening movement of a symphony, although his manuscript does label it