The king himself was an amateur cellist, and the work, written largely emulating the style of Haydn, is playable by the knowledgeable amateur cellist. This work, one of the last string quartets Mozart wrote, is part of the set known as his “Prussian” quartets, written for and dedicated to Friedrich Wilhelm II, King of Prussia. 22, we can hear exactly what Pauer was referring to. If we take work such as Mozart’s String Quartet No. Beethoven used it for piano concertos, symphonies, string quartets, and other works as well. Mozart used it for symphonies, piano concertos, a violin concerto, violin sonatas, string quartets, and so on. Pauer’s correct in how often the Classical / Romantic composers used B flat major. Pauer’s key characteristics for B flat major is that it is “…a favourite key of our classical composers, has an open, frank, clear, and bright character, which also admits the expression of quiet contemplation.” For the rest of the major and minor keys, he left us the attributes but not the list of pieces.

Carl Maria von Weber 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, A flat major and minor, and E flat major and minor, we listed Ernst Pauer’s suggestions from 1876 of pieces that fit the particular affect he assigned for a key.

B flat major scale