 It appears in Rameau's opera "Hippolyte", Respighi's "The Birds" and Beethoven's "Third Symphony".Nightingales can also be found in works by Glinka, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Balakirev, Grieg, Granados, Ravel, and Milhaud.The cuckoo's distinctive call is used by Beethoven ("Pastoral Symphony", 2nd movement), Delius ("On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring"), Handel ("The Cuckoo and the Nightingale"), Respighi ("The Birds"), Rimsky-Korsakov ("Snow Maidens"), Dvořák, Saint-Saens ("Carnival of the Animals"), Vivaldi ("Concerto in A", The Cuckoo), and Gustav Mahler ("First Symphony", where the cuckoo sings perfect fourths instead of the usual major third or minor third).