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F-sharp minor is sometimes used as the parallel minor of G-flat major, especially since G-flat major's real parallel minor, G-flat minor, would have nine flats including two double-flats. For example, in the middle section of his seventh Humoresque in G-flat major , Antonín Dvořák switches from G-flat major to F-sharp minor for the middle ...
Although E-sharp minor is usually notated as F minor, it could be used on a local level, such as bars 17 to 22 in Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C-sharp major. (E-sharp minor is the mediant minor key of C-sharp major.) The scale-degree chords of E-sharp minor are: Tonic – E-sharp minor
Fantasie in F-sharp minor, Op. 28, by Felix Mendelssohn, is a work composed for piano in three movements to be played without pause. This work was also known as Sonata écossaise (Scottish Sonata). First an Allegro in F-sharp minor in a loose sonata form, then an Allegro con moto in A major, and third a finale in F-sharp minor, in sonata form ...
The Suite in F-sharp minor, Op. 19, sometimes called "Suite romantique", was written by Ernő Dohnányi in 1909, while he was teaching at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik. [1] It is characterised by brilliant and lush scoring, and witty and engaging melodies with a Hungarian accent.
Dmitri Shostakovich began work on his String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor, Op. 108, in May 1959 and completed it in March 1960. [1] He dedicated it to the memory of his first wife Nina Vassilyevna Varzar, who died in December 1954. This piece was composed in the year that would have marked her 50th birthday.
Violin Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 14, by Polish violin virtuoso Henryk Wieniawski was first performed on October 27, 1853 in Leipzig. The score is dedicated to King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia. [1]
Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor (Stravinsky) Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor, D 571 (Schubert) Piano Sonata No. 1 (Enescu) Piano Sonata No. 1 (Schumann) Piano Sonata No. 2 (Brahms) Piano Sonata No. 3 (Scriabin) Piano Sonata No. 5 (Hummel) Piano Trio No. 40 (Haydn) Polonaise in F-sharp minor, Op. 44 (Chopin) Prelude in F-sharp minor (Rachmaninoff)
Mazurka in F-sharp minor, the final piece of the set, is referring to an oberek, a national Polish dance much faster than a mazurka.The piece begins with a memorable and powerful melody, the second theme is somewhat more joyful than the first.