Some piano pieces in A flat major:
Field: Piano concerto no. 2 H 31
Beethoven: Sonatas opus 26 and opus 110
Schubert: Impromptus opus 90 D 89 and opus 142 D 935
Schumann: Carnaval opus 9
Chopin: Piano Concerto no 2. opus 21 - slow movement
Chopin: Polonaise opus 53 ‘Heroic’
Chopin: Etudes opus 10 no 10 and opus 25 no. 1
Chopin: Nocturne opus 32 no. 2
Chopin: Waltzes opus 34 no. 1, opus 42, opus 64 no. 3 and opus posth 69 no. 1
Chopin: Ballade no. 3 opus 47
Liszt: Liebestraum no. 3
Liszt: Petrarcan Sonnet no. 124
Brahms: Waltz opus 39 no. 15
A flat minor (G sharp minor)
The key signature of A flat minor has seven flats. Its enharmonic equivalent is G sharp
minor which has five sharps. Its relative major is C flat major [B]. Its tonic major is A
flat major. The natural minor scale of A flat minor consists of the notes A flat, B flat. C
flat [B], D flat, E flat, F flat [E], G flat, A flat. The G flat becomes G natural in the
harmonic minor. The G flat and F flat become G natural and F natural in the ascending
melodic minor.
A flat minor occurs in modulation in works in other keys but is seldom used as the
principal key of a piece as the enharmonic key of G sharp minor with five sharps is
simpler. ‘Evocación’ by Albeniz is in A flat minor as is Brahms’s Fugue for organ WoO
8.
Some piano pieces in A flat minor:
Beethoven: Sonata in A flat major opus 26 – the ‘Funeral March’ movement