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. 60 (Haydn) Symphony No. 60 (Haydn) The Symphony No. 60 in C major, Hoboken I/60, was written by Joseph Haydn. It is sometimes given the nickname "Il Distratto" (The Distracted), or in German, "Der Zerstreute". It was completed in or by 1775 (most likely November 1774). The symphony makes use of music Haydn wrote for a play, "Le Distrait", by Jean-François Regnard, given a German revival in 1774 by Karl Wahr under the German title "Der Zerstreute" ("Il Distratto" is the title that appears on Haydn's incidental music, however). Symphony no. 60 contains the overture, four entr'actes and finale from the music