The symphony is scored for 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings.
The music begins straightaway with a triadic theme and bass on the beat, offset by half-beat syncopation in the second violins and violas.
41, since he "often requested his father Leopold to send him the latest fugue that Haydn had written."
(Robbins Landon, 1967) Whether Mozart knew Haydn's later C major symphony has not been proven conclusively by historical means,[2] but Alfred Einstein ranks among the convinced, because of comparisons of the music.
According to Leopold Mozart, Michael Haydn considered continuo to be essential even for his most fully instrumented works.