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The Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler was composed in 1901 and 1902, mostly during the summer months at Mahler's holiday cottage at Maiernigg.Among its most distinctive features are the trumpet solo that opens the work with a rhythmic motif similar to the opening of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, the horn solos in the third movement and the frequently performed Adagietto.
Mahler began work on the Piano Quartet in A minor towards the end of his first year at the Vienna Conservatory, when he was around 15 or 16 years of age.The piece had its first performance on July 10, 1876, at the conservatory with Mahler at the piano, [2] but it is unclear from surviving documentation whether the quartet was complete at this time.
Piano Quintet (Saint-Saëns) Piano Quintet No. 1 (Farrenc) Piano Sonata in A minor, D 537 (Schubert) Piano Sonata in A minor, D 784 (Schubert) Piano Sonata in A minor, D 845 (Schubert) Piano Sonata No. 2 (Szymanowski) Piano Sonata No. 3 (Prokofiev) Piano Sonata No. 8 (Mozart) Piano Trio (Ravel) Piano Trio (Tchaikovsky) Piano Trio in A minor (Hill)
In 1904, Mahler was enjoying great international success as a conductor, but he was also, at last, beginning to enjoy international success as a composer.His second daughter was born that June, and during his customary summer break away from Vienna in his lakeside retreat at Maiernigg in the Carinthian mountains, he finished his Symphony No. 6 and sketched the second and fourth movements (the ...
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Piano Trio No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 (1848) Piano Trio No. 2 in E ♭ major, Op. 22 (1852) Piano Trio No. 3 in E ♭ major, Op. 53 (1856) [The German National Library and Audite site list this work as being in D major, while IMSLP says E♭ major.] Piano Trio No. 4 in D major, Op. 58 (1861) Richard Franck. Piano Trio No.1 in B minor, Op.20 (1893)
Tarantella, Op. 23 for cello and piano; Tema e Variazioni for cello and piano; The race – La corsa for cello and piano; Twenty-One Hungarian Dances (1881, Brahms-Piatti) Ástor Piazzolla. Tres piezas Breves; Le Grand Tango for cello and piano; Gabriel Pierné. Cello sonata, Op. 46 in F-sharp minor (1919) Willem Pijper. Cello sonata, No. 1 (1919)
The Scherzo and the first movement use identical keys, A minor at the beginning and F major in the trio. The Andante's key, E ♭ major, is farthest removed from the key at the close of the first movement (A major), whilst the C minor key at the beginning of the finale acts as transition from E ♭ major to A minor, the principal key of the finale.