composer of more than 70 symphonies Franz Benda (1709–1786), Bohemian composer of 17 symphonies Franz Xaver Richter (1709–1789), Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor, music theoretician, and composer of at least 69 symphonies Christoph Schaffrath (1709–1763), German composer of many symphonies Thomas Arne (1710–1778), British composer of roughly a dozen symphonies originally written as overtures to stage works Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710–1784), Eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach, and a German composer of 8 symphonies Giuseppe Bonno (1711–1788), Austrian composer of at least 3 symphonies William Boyce (1711–1779), English composer whose Op. 2 is a set of 8 "symphonies", although they started life as overtures to other works Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville (1711–1772), French composer of 6 symphonies Ignaz Holzbauer (1711–1783), Austro-German composer of 69 symphonies Frederick the Great (1712–1786) King of Prussia, composer of 4 symphonies Antoine Dauvergne (1713–1797), French composer of 4 symphonies Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713–1780), German composer of 2 symphonies Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788), German composer of 17 symphonies, with several more being also attributed to him Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787), German opera reformer of at least several symphonies Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715–1777), Austrian composer of several symphonies Georg Matthias Monn (1717–1750), composer of the first symphony (1740) with a minuet as the third movement Johann Stamitz (1717–1757), Czech composer of 58 symphonies, and the first composer to regularly include a minuet as the third movement Wenzel Raimund Birck (1718–1763), Austrian composer of pre-Classical "sinfonie", as well as a few symphonies of the evolved form Leopold Mozart (1719–1787), Austrian violinist and composer who wrote symphonies in which he included (natural) French horns Georg Benda (1722–1795), Czech composer of about 30 symphonies Carl Friedrich Abel (1723–1787), German viola da gamba virtuoso and composer, later active in London, wrote 43 symphonies, one of which was misattributed in the 19th century to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as his Symphony No. 3 Johann Hartmann (1726–1793), Danish composer of 4 symphonies, grandfather of Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann Johann Wilhelm Hertel (1727–1789), German composer of many symphonies Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729–1774), German-speaking Bohemian composer of 32 symphonies Pierre van Maldere (1729–1768), Belgian composer of about 45 symphonies František Xaver Pokorný (1729–1794), Bohemian composer of about 140 symphonies, 104 of which were deliberately misattributed to other composers in 1796 by Theodor von Schacht Jean-Baptiste Cardonne (1730–1792), French composer of at least 2 symphonies Christian Cannabich (1731–1798), German composer of the Mannheim school, who wrote