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E-flat major was the second-flattest key Mozart used in his music. For him, E-flat major was associated with Freemasonry; "E-flat evoked stateliness and an almost religious character." [4] Edward Elgar wrote his Variation IX "Nimrod" from the Enigma Variations in E-flat major. Its strong, yet vulnerable character has led the piece to become a ...
The Piano Concerto No. 22 in E ♭ major, K. 482, is a work for piano, or fortepiano, and orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composed in December 1785.. This is the first piano concerto of Mozart's to include clarinets in its scoring, [1] and is scored for solo piano, flute, two clarinets (in B ♭), two bassoons, two horns and two trumpets (silent in Andante) in E ♭, timpani (in E ...
The score of the E-flat major version of Bach's Magnificat was first published by Simrock in 1811, edited by Georg Pölchau, however without the Christmas hymns. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] These were published in 1862, in the appendix of Volume 11/1 of the Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe , a publication that contained the D major version of the Magnificat (and ...
Antonio Vivaldi used this key for the "Spring" concerto from The Four Seasons.. Johann Sebastian Bach used E major for a violin concerto, as well as for his third partita for solo violin; the key is especially appropriate for the latter piece because its tonic (E) and subdominant (A) correspond to open strings on the violin, enhancing the tone colour (and ease of playing) of the bariolage in ...
Piano Quartet in E major (Saint-Saëns) Piano Quintet No. 2 (Farrenc) Piano Sonata in E major, D 157 (Schubert) Piano Sonata in E major, D 459 (Schubert) Piano Sonata No. 9 (Beethoven) Piano Sonata No. 30 (Beethoven) Piano Trio No. 4 (Mozart) Piano Trio No. 44 (Haydn) Prelude (Toccata) and Fugue in E major, BWV 566
The scale degree chords of B-flat major are: Tonic – B-flat major; Supertonic – C minor; Mediant – D minor; Subdominant – E-flat major; Dominant – F major; Submediant – G minor; Leading-tone – A diminished
In jazz music, on the other hand, such chords are extremely common, and in this setting the mystic chord can be viewed simply as a C 13 ♯ 11 chord with the fifth omitted. In the score to the right is an example of a Duke Ellington composition that uses a different voicing of this chord at the end of the second bar, played on E (E 13 ♯ 11 ).
In the Classical period, C major was the key most often chosen for symphonies with trumpets and timpani. Even in the Romantic period, with its greater use of minor keys and the ability to use trumpets and timpani in any key, C major remained a very popular choice of key for a symphony. The following list includes only the most famous examples.