The present symphony, one of Wanhal’s finest, is cast in the usual key of f minor, a tonality loaded with expressive significance to eighteenth-century composers. The origins of the work are unknown although its compositional finish and technical sophistication suggest that it was composed ca. 1773–1774 and is thus one of the composer’s later works. Its appearance in Supplement XI 1776–1777 of the Breitkopf Catalogue and the Quartbuch (ca. 1775) suggests that the work may have been reasonably we...