2 in A major, subtitled Im Frühling or In Spring, is the second symphony by American composer John Knowles Paine.
The symphony was composed in 1879 and published in Boston in 1880,[1][2] at a time when few American composers were able to find publishers for symphonic works.
It was also premiered in Boston in 1880, and was extremely well received, prompting handkerchief-waving and shouting at the first performance.
[3] Historian Louis Elson compared its final movement to Robert Schumann's Symphony in B flat, which is also subtitled "Spring".
[3] The symphony is in four movements: The second and third movements were heard and shown performed at a concert in the fourth episode of the first season of the HBO television series The Gilded Age, depicting a performance in New York City in 1882.