Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "G minor has been considered the key through which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart best expressed sadness and tragedy, and many of his minor key works are in G minor. Though Mozart touched on various minor keys in his symphonies, G minor is the only minor key he used as a main key for his numbered symphonies. In the Classical period, symphonies in G minor almost always used four horns, two in G and two in B-flat alto. Another convention of G minor symphonies observed in Mozart's No. 25 and No. 40 was the choice of the submediant, E-flat major, for the slow movement; other non-Mozart examples of this practice include J.C. Bach Opus 6 No. 6 from 1769, Haydn's No. 39 (1768/9) and Johann Baptist Wanhal's G minor symphony sometime before 1771 (Bryan Gm1).Isolated sections in this key within Mozart's compositions may also evoke an atmosphere of grand tragedy, one example being the stormy G minor middle section to the otherwise serene B-flat major slow movement in the Piano Concerto No. 20."@en }
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- Mozart_and_G_minor abstract "G minor has been considered the key through which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart best expressed sadness and tragedy, and many of his minor key works are in G minor. Though Mozart touched on various minor keys in his symphonies, G minor is the only minor key he used as a main key for his numbered symphonies. In the Classical period, symphonies in G minor almost always used four horns, two in G and two in B-flat alto. Another convention of G minor symphonies observed in Mozart's No. 25 and No. 40 was the choice of the submediant, E-flat major, for the slow movement; other non-Mozart examples of this practice include J.C. Bach Opus 6 No. 6 from 1769, Haydn's No. 39 (1768/9) and Johann Baptist Wanhal's G minor symphony sometime before 1771 (Bryan Gm1).Isolated sections in this key within Mozart's compositions may also evoke an atmosphere of grand tragedy, one example being the stormy G minor middle section to the otherwise serene B-flat major slow movement in the Piano Concerto No. 20.".