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The Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, by Dmitri Shostakovich is a work for orchestra composed between April and July 1937. Its first performance was on November 21, 1937, in Leningrad by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky.
The key of C minor was, like most other minor keys, associated with the literary Sturm und Drang movement during the Classical period. But ever since Ludwig van Beethoven's famous Symphony No. 5, Op. 67, of 1808, C minor imparts a symphony in the key a character of heroic struggle.
The Symphony No. 5 in D major/D minor, Op. 107, known as the Reformation, was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1830 in honor of the 300th anniversary of the Presentation of the Augsburg Confession. The Confession is a key document of Lutheranism and its Presentation to Emperor Charles V in June 1530 was a momentous event of the Protestant ...
Michael Haydn's Symphony No. 29 in D minor is notable for using two trumpets in D (the horns are in F but change to D for the coda of the finale). In the Romantic era, D minor symphonies, like symphonies in almost any other key, used horns in F and trumpets in B ♭.
Symphony (1846 – lost) Niels Gade: Symphony No. 3, Op. 15 (1847) Edward German: Symphony No. 2 "Norwich" (1893) [4] Evgeny Golubev: Symphony No. 5, Op. 45 (1960) [8] Alexander Gretchaninov: Symphony No. 2, Op. 27 "Pastoral" (1908) Howard Hanson: Symphony No. 3, Op. 33 (1937) Alfred Hill: Symphony No. 5 "Carnival" (1955, arrangement of a ...
Symphony No. 5 (Tchaikovsky) in E minor (Op. 64) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1888 Symphony No. 5 (Ustvolskaya) ( Amen ) by Galina Ustvolskaya, 1989–90 Symphony No. 5 (Vaughan Williams) in D major by Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1938–43
The Art of Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach is in D minor. Michael Haydn's only minor-key symphony, No. 29, is in D minor. According to Alfred Einstein, the history of tuning has led D minor to be associated with counterpoint and chromaticism (for example, the chromatic fourth), and cites Bach's Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903, in D minor. [1]
Major/minor compositions are musical compositions that begin in a major key and end in a minor key (generally the parallel minor), specifying the keynote (as C major/minor). This is a very unusual form in tonal music, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] although examples became more common in the nineteenth century. [ 3 ]