It is the most frequently used key in the keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti, and often requires clarinets in B-flat to switch to clarinets in A. The violin concertos of Beethoven, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky are all set in this key, also found in many symphonies of Haydn and Mozart.
Alexander Scriabin considered it "golden," while Baroque and Classical composers called it "the key of glory," and works requiring trumpets were written in it. It is the most frequently used key in the keyboard sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti, and often requires clarinets in B-flat to switch to clarinets in A. The violin concertos of Beethoven, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky are all set in this key, also found in many symphonies of Haydn and Mozart. For 10 points, name this key with two sharps whose relative minor is B minor.
Alexander Scriabin considered it "golden," while Baroque and Classical composers called it "the key of glory," and works requiring trumpets were written in it.
{D} major