What is it with C#m and overplayed pieces?

[blink83]

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Chopin Fantasie-Impromptu and posth Nocturne. Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody 2. Rachmaninoff Prelude op 3 no 2. Does anyone else find this weird?  

Any more piece you can think of?

[perprocrastinate]

Chopin Etude Op. 10-4; and this one isn't a piano piece, but Bach Partita No. 3, Preludio

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Fur Elise

That's not even Beethoven's best work!!!

[thalbergmad]

Fur Elise

That's not even Beethoven's best work!!!

Unless I am too drunk to remember, it is not even in C# minor.

Thal

[austinarg]

Unless I am too drunk to remember, it is not even in C# minor.

Thal

And to support this hypothesis, you are a 555 years old woman currently residing in Agincourt. So yes, you are indeed drunk.

[adari]

 

[stiefel]

Can't you pick just about any key signature and name a handful of overplayed pieces in that key?

[blink83]

Can't you pick just about any key signature and name a handful of overplayed pieces in that key?

Probably. But it is a little weird that the one beethoven sonata most non-pianists know, arguably (along with the Gm) the most popular rach prelude, along with the one hungarian rhapsody (and liszt piece) most people know, and the one overplayed Chopin piece most non-musicians like... There are many overplayed pieces, but these few are prime examples. And all in the same key.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Unless I am too drunk to remember, it is not even in C# minor.

Thal

Does it have to be in c# minor?

[blink83]

Does it have to be in c# minor?

See: thread title.

[werq34ac]

Well... That one famous Beethoven symphony is in Cm, that other Beethoven Sonata everyone knows (Pathetique) is in C minor, That one Chopin etude everyone wants to play (Revolutionary) is in C minor, that ONE concerto everyone loves (Rach 2) also C minor, Brahms 1st symphony also known as Beethoven's 10th, the most famous Bach Partita (for keyboard, #2), am I missing anything?

What is it with Cm and overplayed pieces? (Though some of the ones I mentioned aren't overplayed)

[austinarg]

Well... That one famous Beethoven symphony is in Cm, that other Beethoven Sonata everyone knows (Pathetique) is in C minor, That one Chopin etude everyone wants to play (Revolutionary) is in C minor, that ONE concerto everyone loves (Rach 2) also C minor, Brahms 1st symphony also known as Beethoven's 10th, the most famous Bach Partita (for keyboard, #2), am I missing anything?

What is it with Cm and overplayed pieces? (Though some of the ones I mentioned aren't overplayed)

Well, considering the sheer size of overplayed classical music, we'll always find at least 5-6 overplayed pieces in every possible key.

[zezhyrule]

Well, considering the sheer size of overplayed classical music, we'll always find at least 5-6 overplayed pieces in every possible key.

I agree with this 

[j_menz]

Well, considering the sheer size of overplayed classical music, we'll always find at least 5-6 overplayed pieces in every possible key.

Name one in E# major. 

[austinarg]

Name one in E# major. 

Beethoven's Pastoral symphony?? 

[j_menz]

Beethoven's Pastoral symphony??  

Enharmonic equivalents not considered.  

[austinarg]

Enharmonic equivalents not considered.  

What a paradoxical way of thinking 

[werq34ac]

Well, considering the sheer size of overplayed classical music, we'll always find at least 5-6 overplayed pieces in every possible key.

Yes, that was the point of my post...

In fact, this could be fun. I'll go start another thread of popular pieces in every possible key

[sphince]

on that way of thinking name an overplayed piece written on Ax#

[cuberdrift]

Fur Elise

That's not even Beethoven's best work!!!

No, that's in A Minor.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

No, that's in A Minor.

I didn't know that it only had to be in C# minor.