Symphony No. 48 (Haydn)

48 in C major, Hoboken I/48, is a symphony by Joseph Haydn written in 1768 or 1769.

[1][2] H. C. Robbins Landon has described this symphony as a "great and indeed germinal work."

It was one of the very few Haydn symphonies of this period to survive throughout the nineteenth century in various editions.

[4] Some copies of the Eulenburg edition include two different timpani parts on the same staff, the more doubtful version differentiated by stems down and written in a facsimile of handwriting.

[5] Haydn later quoted the opening of the first movement in his "Laudon" Symphony (no.