Symphony No. 98 (Haydn) of material from two works by Mozart, the Coronation Mass and Symphony No. 41 ("Jupiter"), and it was possibly intended by Haydn as a tribute to his friend and fellow-composer, who died in December 1791: Haydn was composing the symphony when he heard, and was greatly distressed by, the news of his friend's death. The movement's principal theme, introduced by the strings and marked "cantabile", is an almost exact quotation from "Agnus Dei" from Mozart's "Coronation Mass"; a resemblance to "God Save the King" has also been noted. The second theme is in the dominant (C major). The exposition is
Symphony No. 3 (Haydn) later write a similar canon in the minuet of his twenty-third symphony and similar canons would be later be written into G major minuets by Michael Haydn and Mozart. Later still, Haydn himself would develop this technique into the "Canones in Diapason" of the minuet of his Trauer Symphony and the "Witches' Minuet" of his D minor string quartet from Op. 76. The Finale is also contrapuntal. It is a fugue with two subjects that also integrates elements of sonata form. Symphony No. 3 (Haydn) Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 3 in G major, Hoboken I/3, is believed to have been