On the evidence of the surviving copies, C7b (composed ca. 1771–1772) was one of Wanhal’s most popular and widelyknown symphonies. It was issued in at least six printed editions and significant number of manuscript copies survive. Not all of these attribute the work to Wanhal: Haydn is named as the composer in several of these editions and at one point it was planned to include in it the first Haydn Ausgabe until the weight of evidence persuaded Eusebius Mandyczewski that the work was probably b...