Sergey Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony was written in 1947 as an elegy for the tragedies of World War II. 1, Elegie in E flat minor (Stephane De May, piano) 3, written as a set of solo piano pieces in 1892, has the first piece as an Elegie in E flat minor.
It is in Russian music that we find the use of E flat minor. Andante con moto alla marcia – Presto (Vienna Octet) Once the Presto begins, however, we’re back in the home key of E flat major (key of courage and determination, according to Pauer) and the feeling changes immediately.īeethoven: Septet in E-Flat Major, Op. We can hear immediately the somber mood that Pauer remarked on. The few places where it appears in Classical music include the introduction to the last movement of Beethoven’s Septet, Op. Pauer’s key characteristics for E flat minor is that it is “the darkest, most somber key of all. For the rest of the major and minor keys, he left us the attributes but not the list of pieces. Dmitry Shostakovich Credit: our earlier series on C major and minor, G major and minor, and D major and minor, and A major and minor, E major and minor, B major and minor, F sharp major and minor, C sharp major and minor, and A flat major and minor, we listed Ernst Pauer’s suggestions from 1876 of pieces that fit the particular affect he assigned for a key.
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