Symphony No. 26 (Haydn)

This article is about the symphony by Joseph Haydn. For the symphony by Michael Haydn, see Symphony No. 26 (Michael Haydn).

The Symphony No. 26 in D minor, Hoboken 1/26, is one of the early Sturm und Drang symphonies written by Joseph Haydn. It was written under the auspices of Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, and is from the late 1760s, when Haydn began to experiment with minor key symphonic writing. It is also one of his first minor key symphonies.

Since Haydn's day, the symphony has been known as the Lamentatione because of the Christus motif of the opening movement's second theme. As with all the nicknamed symphonies, the title is not Haydn's own.

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