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In the Baroque period, D major was regarded as "the key of glory"; [1] hence many trumpet concertos were in D major, such as those by Johann Friedrich Fasch, Gross, Molter (No. 2), Leopold Mozart, Telemann (No. 2), and Giuseppe Torelli. Many trumpet sonatas were in D major, too, such as those by Corelli, Petronio Franceschini, Purcell, and
Piano Concerto No. 2 for the left hand (in C minor and E-flat major) (Bortkiewicz) Piano Concerto No. 1 ; Piano Concerto No. 3 (Cleve, with string orchestra accompaniment) Piano Concerto ; Piano Concerto ; Piano Concerto No. 2 (Eckhardt-Gramatté) Piano Concerto No. 1 ; Piano Concerto No. 3 (Field)
Alexander Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11 (1893–95) – Scriabin wrote a total of 90 preludes for piano (50 in major keys, 31 in minor keys, and 9 in indeterminate keys). These contained only one complete set of preludes in all 24 major and minor keys. Sergei Rachmaninoff: 24 Preludes, Opp. 3/2, 23, and 32 (1892, 1901–03, and 1910)
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.
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 ...
From Mendelssohn's own works, the use of just a string section as orchestral accompaniment is reminiscent of his String Symphonies, twelve of which he had written by the end of the year under the influence of C.P.E. Bach's Sinfonias. There are three movements: Allegro (D minor) Adagio (A major) Allegro molto (D minor)
Major/minor compositions are musical compositions that begin in a major key and end in a minor key (generally the parallel minor), specifying the keynote (as C major/minor). This is a very unusual form in tonal music, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] although examples became more common in the nineteenth century. [ 3 ]
This is a list of String quintets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. All are viola quintets, that is, they are scored for string quartet (two violins, viola and cello), and an additional viola . String Quintet No. 1 in B flat major, K. 174; String Quintet No. 2 in C minor, K. 406/516b; String Quintet No. 3 in C major, K. 515; String Quintet No. 4 in G ...