![]() Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso – Allegro con spirit (Gary Graffman, piano Cleveland Orchestra George Szell, cond.) The work opens with 4 emphatic chords, all in B flat minor and from there, we have both the gloom of the key and its passionate counterpart in the theme in D flat major (you might remember that Pauer characterized D flat major as “fullness of tone, and it sonorousness and euphony.”) 1, written after Pauer completed his book, is nonetheless a work that should almost be emblematic of this key. There’s nothing by Mozart in B flat minor, but we can find it in the music of Tchaikovsky. Pauer’s key characteristics for B flat minor is that it is “…a key full of gloomy and somber feeling, like E flat minor, “ and he goes on to note that it is little used. ![]() For the rest of the major and minor keys, he left us the attributes but not the list of pieces. ![]() Samuel Barber 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, A flat major and minor, and E 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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