A piece in this key was published, at its composer's insistence, without the final-movement cadenza added by its dedicatee Hanuš Wihan  (HA-noosh vee-HAHN) .
A piece in this key was published, at its composer's insistence, without the final-movement cadenza added by its dedicatee Hanuš Wihan  (HA-noosh vee-HAHN) . Johannes Brahms fell asleep during a performance of a single-movement piece in this key; that piece, which opens with G octaves and a descending G Phrygian scale, is an early example of double-function form. A work that repeatedly quotes the composer's cantata  Wir danken dir   (veer DAHN-ken deer)  is in this key, as are Dvořák's Cello Concerto and Liszt's (*)  Piano Sonata. That composition titled for this key has a Credo section titled "Symbolum Nicenum" that centers on a "Crucifixus" in 3/2 time, and opens with an F-sharp minor Kyrie. This key's relative major is D major, and its key signature has two sharps. For 10 points, name this minor key in which J.S. Bach wrote a famous late mass.
A piece in this key was published, at its composer's insistence, without the final-movement cadenza added by its dedicatee Hanuš Wihan  (HA-noosh vee-HAHN) .
B minor  [or  H-moll ; prompt on partial answer; accept  B  alone only after "minor" is read; accept Mass in B minor ] 