One piece for each key

[UberB]

 Not sure if this has been done before, but the thought occurred to me:

If you could only listen to 24 pieces in your entire life, one piece for every key, what would they be? Here are mine:

C major: Mozart Symphony 41
A minor: Chopin Etude Op.25 No.11
G major: Beethoven Piano Concerto 4
E minor: Beethoven Piano Sonata 27
D major: Chopin Mazurka Op.33 No.2
B minor: Liszt Sonata
A major: Beethoven Symphony 7
F# minor: Can't think of a piece in this key...so I will cheat and say the Adagio sostenuto of the Hammerklavier
E major: Beethoven Piano Sonata 30
C# minor: Chopin Scherzo 3
B major: Chopin Nocturne 9
G# minor: Liszt La Campanella
F#/Gb major: Chopin Nocturne 5
D#/Eb minor: Chopin Polonaise 2
Db major: Chopin Nocturne 8
Bb minor: Chopin Scherzo 2
Ab major: Chopin Polonaise 6
F minor: Beethoven Piano Sonata 23 (sorry Chopin ballade 4 )
Eb major: Beethoven Symphony 3
C minor: Beethoven Piano Sonata 32
Bb major: Beethoven Piano Sonata 29
G minor: Chopin Ballade No. 1
F major: Beethoven Symphony 6
D minor: Beethoven Symphony 9 (sorry Mozart Piano Concerto 20 )

As you can see, I mostly listen to Beethoven and Chopin
Curious to see what other GMGers have to say on this! It would be interesting to see if there is a consensus on any keys!

edit: here is the format for those who are lazy

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C major:
A minor:
G major:
E minor:
D major:
B minor:
A major:
F# minor:
E major:
C# minor:
B major:
G# minor:
F#/Gb major:
D#/Eb minor:
Db major:
Bb minor:
Ab major:
F minor:
Eb major:
C minor:
Bb major:
G minor:
F major:
D minor:


[Grazioso]

Charles Mingus: "E's Flat, Ah's Flat Too" 

Seriously, I'd really have to root through my collection, with a team of assistants, to answer you. I don't have any sort of digital database listing pieces by key.

[petrarch]

Some of my 24 pieces don't have keys...

[springrite]

I am too lazy (or tone deaf) to remember the keys to some of my favorite works. So I will take Bach's WTC Book1.


Oh, and greetings from Beijing, UberB!

[Opus106]

Just grab the Well Tempered Clavier and be done with it.

The correct answer. 0:)

[Scarpia]

The correct answer. 0:)

You still have to pick one of two options for each key.  That gives 2^24 or 16777216 possibilities.   

[Opus106]

You still have to pick one of two options for each key.  That gives 2^24 or 16777216 possibilities.   

Touche!

[mjwal]

Favourite piece in F# minor: Schoenberg 2nd String Quartet Op.10 . I'll have to think about the others  ...thinks...
Aha! To save storage costs in the overcrowded and internet-policed future, I would take Nielsen's Fifth Symphony, in which "the first movement begins in F and rises by fifths to a conclusion in G, while the second begins on B, with an opposing pull to F, and while tending towards A major works round instead, by a similar tritone opposition, to a triumphant close in E flat." (Wikipedia, who got it from Robert Simpson). A few more like that and I'm done.