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A lesser-known work in the key is the Moderato in E major, WN 56. Moritz Moszkowski wrote his Piano Concerto Op. 59 in E major. Antonín Dvořák wrote his Serenade for Strings Op. 22 in the key of E major. Charles-Valentin Alkan wrote Cello Sonata in E major, and so did Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart in his Op. 19.
D major is a major scale based on D, consisting of the pitches D, E, F ... String Quartet No. 7, D. 94; Piano Sonata No. 17, D 850 "Gasteiner" Felix Mendelssohn.
In the key of C major, these would be: D minor, E minor, F major, G major, A minor, and C minor. Despite being three sharps or flats away from the original key in the circle of fifths, parallel keys are also considered as closely related keys as the tonal center is the same, and this makes this key have an affinity with the original key.
Bach and Alkan chose C# major, but most composers have preferred D♭ major or D♭ major: 5 flats 4 C# minor: 4 sharps 5 D major: 2 sharps 6 D minor: 1 flat 7 E♭ major: 3 flats 8 Either D# minor: 6 sharps Most composers of sets of 24 pieces have preferred E♭ minor over D# minor. Bach, Lyapunov and Ponce are among the few who have used D#.
Similar to a D minor symphony ending in D major, as with Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, a D major symphony can have for its allegro first movement a slow introduction in D minor. Robbins Landon wrote that "Tonic minor Adagio introductions, especially in the key of D minor, were very popular with English composers of the year 1794", and Joseph ...
For example, G major and D major have 4 chords in common: G, Bm, D, Em. This can be easily determined by a chart similar to the one below, which compares chord qualities. The I chord in G major—a G major chord—is also the IV chord in D major, so I in G major and IV in D major are aligned on the chart.
Beethoven – Piano trio No. 6 in E ♭ major, ii (C) [33] Beethoven – Violin Sonata No. 9, "Kreutzer", i (A) [34] Beethoven – Piano Quartet No. 1 in E ♭ WoO 36, i (and ii) (E ♭) [35] (although sometimes construed as two separate movements, they are not really separable as the first ends with a half-cadence leading into the second)
The piano sonata D 157 has three known movements. Some commentators describe the first movement of the sonata as by far the most interesting, as it shows Schubert breaking away from the restrictions on harmonic progressions his teacher Antonio Salieri had imposed for vocal music, [3] and as one of his happiest inspirations, prefiguring his later trade marks, while the remaining two movements ...