1, from Cinq Morceaux de Fantaisie, is in E-flat minor, as is his Étude-Tableau, Op. Aram Khachaturian wrote his Toccata in E-flat minor while studying under Myaskovsky.Į-flat minor is the key in which Shostakovich composed his fifteenth and final string quartet. A few other less well-known composers also wrote symphonies in this key, such as Andrei Eshpai, Jānis Ivanovs (fourth symphony Sinfonia Atlantida, 1941), Ovchinnikov and Nikolai Myaskovsky. 6 opens in E-flat minor but does not return to this key. 1905, arguably his best-known work for the piano, is in E-flat minor.Īlkan composed the final movement for Symphony for Solo Piano in E-flat minor. Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture is a sonata form in E-flat minor framed by an extended introduction and a long coda, both in E-flat major. 899, in E-flat minor, the parallel key to its opening E-flat major, and so did Brahms in his Rhapsody No. The piece, like many pieces in this key, is dark and funereal, being based on the Dies irae chant. The final piece in Brahms' Klavierstücke, Op. The 'Introduction' to his oratorio Christ on the Mount of Olives is also in this key, but with the full six-flat signature. 20 by adding accidentals while bearing the key signature of E-flat major (three flats). īeethoven applied E-flat minor to the slow introduction in the sixth (last) movement of his Septet Op. XV.31 in two movements, composed in 1794/95, one of the 'London Trios', is in E-flat minor. In Book 2, both movements are in D-sharp minor. 8 is written in E-flat minor while the following fugue is written in D-sharp minor. In Book 1 of The Well-Tempered Clavier by Bach, Prelude No. In the 24 canonic keys, most of the composers preferred E-flat minor, while Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Lyapunov, and Manuel Ponce preferred D-sharp minor. See also: List of symphonies in E-flat minor

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