18", from both books of The Well-Tempered Clavier which is also in G-sharp minor both movements from Book 1 end with a Picardy third, requiring a B-sharp in the final G-sharp major chord.The G flat (G♭) major scale has six flats (6 ♭) and according to the order of flats they are the B flat, E flat, A flat, D flat, G flat and the C flat (B♭, E♭, A♭, D♭, G♭ & C♭). Sibelius wrote the slow movement of his Third Symphony in G-sharp minor.īach also wrote the movements, "Prelude and Fugue No. Maurice Ravel's "Scarbo" from Gaspard de la nuit (1908), is in G-sharp minor. Liszt's " La campanella" from his Grandes études de Paganini is in G-sharp minor.Īlexander Scriabin's Second Piano Sonata "Sonata-Fantasy", Op. Modest Mussorgsky wrote the movements, "The Old Castle" and "Bydło" (Cattle), from Pictures at an Exhibition in G-sharp minor. 33 and his 12th prelude from the 24 Preludes, Op. If G-sharp minor is used in orchestral music, composers generally write B ♭ wind instruments in the enharmonic B-flat minor, rather than A-sharp minor to facilitate reading the music (or A instruments are used instead, giving a transposed key of B minor).įew symphonies are written in G-sharp minor among them are Nikolai Myaskovsky's 17th Symphony, Elliot Goldenthal's Symphony in G-sharp minor (2014) and an abandoned work of juvenilia by Marc Blitzstein.įrédéric Chopin composed a Polonaise in G-sharp minor, Op. Dmitri Shostakovich used the key in the second movement of his 8th String Quartet, and the slow fourth movement of his 8th Symphony is also in this key. 2 by Alexander Scriabin, who actually seemed to prefer writing in it. See also: List of symphonies in G-sharp minorĭespite the key rarely being used in orchestral music other than to modulate, it is not entirely uncommon in keyboard music, as in Piano Sonata No.
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