With his 41st symphony - also called the Jupiter Symphony - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart put his last symphony on paper.

He would never hear the work live himself, nor did the nickname 'Jupiter' come from his pen - the reference to the Olympic god was given later. And rightly so: because like Jupiter, the supreme god who rules the heavens, Mozart towers high above the symphonic world with this 41st.

In real life, Mozart was miles away from that divine mountain: sick and destitute, he sat compulsorily at home, and it was precisely this that made for a very productive period. New works poured out of his pen, and in a few months he also wrote his last three symphonies. Some regard the three as a unity, a symphonic trio that crowned the dizzying peak of his oeuvre. In his darkest hour, Mozart thus reached the summits of his symphonic Olympus.