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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
Symphony in E major (two movements sketched but abandoned in 1834, completed by Felix Mottl in 1887) Karl Weigl: Symphony No. 1, op. 5 (1908) [40] [41] Felix Weingartner: Symphony No. 3, op. 49 with organ (1908–10)
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 Harmonious Blacksmith is the popular name of the final movement, Air and variations, of George Frideric Handel's Suite No. 5 in E major, HWV 430, for harpsichord.This instrumental air was one of the first works for harpsichord published by Handel and is made up of four movements. [1]
The String Quintet in E major, Op. 13, No. 5 (G 275), by Luigi Boccherini was written in 1771 and published in 1775. The quintet is famous for its minuet third movement which is frequently played as a standalone piece outside of the context of the full quintet.
Étude Op. 10, No. 3, in E major, is a study for solo piano composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1832. It was first published in 1833 in France, [1] Germany, [2] and England [3] as the third piece of his Études Op. 10. This is a slow cantabile study for polyphonic and expressive legato playing.
One of the better known nocturnes, this piece has a rhythmic freedom that came to characterize Chopin's later work. The left hand has an unbroken sequence of eighth notes in simple arpeggios throughout the entire piece, while the right hand moves with freedom, occasionally in patterns of seven, eleven, twenty, and twenty-two in the form of polyrhythms.