Schumann: Fantasy opus 17
Schumann: Arabesque opus 18
Brahms: Sonata opus 1
Debussy: Prelude no. 10 ‘La Cathédrale Engloutie’ (‘The Sunken Cathedral’)
C minor
The key signature of C minor has three flats. Its relative major is E flat major. Its tonic
major is C major. The natural minor scale of C minor consists of the notes C, D, E flat, F,
G, A flat, B flat and C. Modifications are made by way of accidentals depending on
whether the harmonic minor or the melodic minor scale is being played. In the case of
the harmonic minor the leading note is sharpened by a semitone on the way up and the
way down. In the case of the melodic minor the note before the leading note and the
leading note are each sharpened on the way up only.
Some piano pieces in C minor:
Mozart: Sonata K 457
Mozart: Piano concerto K 491
Beethoven: Sonata opus 10 no. 1
Beethoven: Thirty-two Variations on an Original Theme WoO 80
Beethoven: Sonata opus 13 ‘Pathétique’
Beethoven: Piano concerto no. 3 opus 37
Beethoven: Sonata opus 111
Chopin: Etude opus 10 no. 12 ‘Revolutionary’
Chopin: Nocturne opus 48 no. 1
Delius: Piano concerto
Rachmaninoff: Piano concerto no. 2 opus 18
D flat major