F-sharp minor
Americannoun
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Anyone who worries whether Sorey has the chops to create “normal” music can sample “Movement,” on “Alloy,” which opens with a ravishingly melancholy piano solo in F-sharp minor.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019
The pianist ended with a revelatory account of Brahms’s feisty, craggy Sonata No. 2 in F-sharp minor, one of the works the 19-year-old Brahms showed the Schumanns when he first met them.
From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2017
The transition begins in measure 39; at first with a repetition of the main theme, which soon modulates to F-sharp minor, in which key the second theme enters, in measure 51.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
In F-sharp minor, dedicated to M. A. d'Augusz.
From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James
The Polonaise in F-sharp minor was damned years ago by Liszt, who found that it contained pathologic states.
From Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques by Huneker, James
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