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G flat minor relative major2/9/2024 I think the story’s true, Brahms strikes me as someone who didn’t really care about originality for its own sake, like too many of today’s composers.Īmong symphonies, the most famous in B minor might be Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. So when he heard Dvořák’s, the older composer reportedly said if he had known he would have written one like that. Legend has it that Brahms, who did write two piano concerti and violin concerto, had thought about writing a cello concerto but never did. Teresa Carreño’s String Quartet in B minor is a good example of this. There’s something very melancholy about B minor, much more so than, say, the often combative C minor. Some commentators read into these B minor compositions a quiet resignation and acceptance of fate. It’s special for being in B minor but it’s not special for being unfinished, because Schubert actually left half a dozen symphonies short of complete in different ways, most of them in D major, the relative major to B minor. Next, you might think of Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony, the one in B minor. Even Bruckner’s longest mass runs a couple of minutes shy of one hour. The first piece to come to mind for B minor might be Bach’s Mass in B minor, which at two hours is a little hard to justify for liturgical use. Or it could be because the composer is one of those dead white men acknowledged as great composers, but, aside from his greatest hits, most of his music is obscure. Could be because the composer is black, or a woman. I’m looking for music that is undeservedly obscure for some reason or another. Next up on my survey of music along the circle of fifths, B minor.
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