620: Overture (London Classical Players Roger Norrington, cond.) Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. We have the Queen of Night’s 3 Ladies, the 3 boys who provide guidance, the 3 trials the hero and heroine have to undergo, and, starting with the Overture, the three great chords that start the work. The perfect work for this key, then was his final opera, Die Zauberflöte, which, with its overabundance of triples has become emblematic of Mozart and the Freemasons. Mozart’s association with Freemasonry and its emphasis on three and triple make E flat major a particularly appropriate key, since E flat major has three flat signs in its key signature. Allegro con brio (Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Kurt Masur, cond.) In 1806, the score was published with the note that it was “composed to celebrate the memory of a great man.”īeethoven: Symphony No.
The Eroica symphony, famously, was initially dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte as a model of the ideals of the French Revolution, but when Beethoven found out that Bonaparte had crowned himself emperor, Beethoven, literally, tore Bonaparte’s name off the title page. Within Beethoven’s works, we have the Eroica Sympony and the Emperor Concerto. When we look over the classical repertoire in E flat major, we quickly can hear what Pauer was referring. This is the first key to which Pauer gives a gender designation! At once serious and solemn, it is the exponent of courage and determination, and gives to the piece a brilliant, firm and dignified character.” He goes on to say “It may be designated as eminently a masculine key.” Pauer’s key characteristics for E flat major is that it is “the key that boasts the greatest variety of expression. For the rest of the major and minor keys, he left us the attributes but not the list of pieces.
Napoleon Bonaparte Credit: our earlier series on C major and minor, G major and minor, and D major and minor, and A major and minor, E major and minor, B major and minor, F sharp major and minor, C sharp major and minor, and A flat major and minor, we listed Ernst Pauer’s suggestions from 1876 of pieces that fit the particular affect he assigned for a key.
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