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. 4 (Bruckner) Symphony No. 4 (Bruckner) Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major (WAB 104) is one of the composer's most popular works. It was written in 1874 and revised several times through 1888. It was dedicated to Prince Konstantin of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst. It was premiered in 1881 by Hans Richter in Vienna to great acclaim. The symphony's nickname of "Romantic" was used by the composer himself. This was at the height of the Romantic movement in the arts as depicted, inter alia, in the operas "Lohengrin" and "Siegfried" of Richard Wagner. The symphony has four movements. Bruckner revised the symphony multiple