

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
