This was written as a commission by the one-handed concert pianist Paul Wittgenstein in 1923 and only reentered the performing repertoire in the 1980s. One major work in C sharp major, but which is outside the German Classical/Romantic canon that Pauer used as his reference is the remarkable work by Erich Korngold, his Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in C-Sharp Minor, Op. ![]() Waltz in C Sharp Major (Jenő Jandó, piano) But, as a waltz in C sharp major, it doesn’t carry the sonorousness that Pauer sought.īrahms: 16 Waltzes, Op. We will, of course, find the key of C sharp major in collections organized by key such as Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier and we also find it as one of Brahms’ 16 Waltzes, Op. Powers says that C sharp major was scarcely ever used in its enharmonic guise as D flat major, “it is remarkable for its fullness of tone, and it sonorousness and euphony. ![]() For the rest of the major and minor keys, he left us the attributes but not list of pieces. ![]() Credit: WikipediaIn 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, and F sharp 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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