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calyptorhynchus
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« on: February 17, 2014, 09:32:20 pm » |
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Ok, thanks for the list of Symphonies in G major.
What it shows is that Haydn wrote proportionally more symphonies in G major than the other keys he used, however, apart from this it actually demonstrates what I said, there are very few symphonies (and other works) in G major: most of the people on this list are hardly household names, if you discount early works by Mozart, VW's London and Dvorak 8 there are hardly any*. Imagine this list set alongside lists of Symphonies in C, F, D, Bflat, Eflat &c
My own feeling is that C major is so entrenched as the basic key and as G major is its dominant, composers have felt that a symphony in G major risked being heard as a sort of dominant C throughout and not a real key.
*For what it's worth G major is the gravitational centre of Robert Simpson's 8th, the neglected masterpiece amongst his other slightly less neglected masterpieces.
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