Favorite Key

[shatteringpulse]

This question is rather general, but what are some of your favorite keys in which to play? Not just for the physical comfort, or challenge , but also the emotion expressed in a certain key? (although different composers use different keys for different things!)

[Wired]

I find C# minor to be the one that I like the most, simply because Rach's C# minor prelude was the biggest leap in difficulty I have ever taken and completed. It's stuck with me through the years

[allchopin]

This is a unique question, mainly because music is all relative and a specific key is really pretty much like any other....
But E major seems to be in a correct tonal range- also, many great pieces are writeen in it over other keys (such as Chopin's Etude #3 Op. 10 'Tristesse').  Also E has a good feel, and is easy to scale.
I hate F#.

[Rach3]

Maybe d or f minor, or Eb major, no, certainly CS minor.

[thracozaag]

Definitely F#major/Gbmajor

[liszmaninopin]

I have always had a special place for the sharp minor keys.

[BoliverAllmon]

I love to compose in d min, but find myself continually playing new pieces that are in a-flat major, even the beethoven sonata I am learning has 4 flats, just in the relative minor.

boliver

[beud711]

C# Minor
B Major

[e60m5]

D flat major

A flat major

Two most beautiful keys.

[ALVARO_M]

I love A minor.

Because of paganini caprice 24 and 5


I love them!!!!!!!!!!!!

[The Tempest]

B Major and D Flat Major.

[Rach3]

Think of the scherzo part of the second movement.

F minor is a sublimely tragic key.

I think maybe Eb major is one of the more powerful yet versatile.

[steveolongfingers]

Bb Minor cause of Chopin's Sonata No.3, and G minor, beacause of two symphonies, Mozarts 40th and the March to the Scafold by Berlioz

[mattkay]

most definitely f minor!! though Bb minor is a close second!

[Jemmers]

A major.

Also, does anybody else feel that C major is just devoid of expression (oddly so... even though they're all supposed to be the same). It's such a shame for such an easy key.

[Rach3]

Really? C major? Think of Waldstein and the Wanderer Fantasy. Of course both have many black notes and frequently modulate, into E major and B flat and worse. Then there is the first movement of the Schumann fantasy, very expressive, and doesn't have get to an actual C chord until the second to last line. Maybe it's that the pure C scale without any black notes is somehow uninteresting?

[eddie92099]

Bb Minor cause of Chopin's Sonata No.3

Which is in B minor,
Ed

[steveolongfingers]

woops my bad....i ment op 35, yeah...i feel like an idiot

[Rach3]

C-flat is a very nice neglected key, more mellow than its enharmonic and equally pianistic. I recently saw a well-known Romantic composer modulate directly from F major to C-flat major, a very daring tritone leap.