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Piano Music in C-sharp minor
51 public-domain piano scores written in the key of C-sharp minor, from the Baroque through the early 20th century. Browse complete works with PDF downloads, score editions, and detailed catalog data drawn from the IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library.
The character of C-sharp minor
Veiled, intimate, meditative. The key of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and Rachmaninoff's Prelude Op. 3 No. 2.
For pianists, key choice is never accidental. Each tonality on the keyboard has its own physical fingerprint — the pattern of black and white keys under the hand, the resonance of open strings, the historical associations attached to it through three centuries of repertoire. Studying multiple works in C-sharp minor alongside one another reveals how successive composers understood the key's possibilities, and how the conventions of each era shaped what a single tonality could be made to express.
The pieces below are sortable, downloadable as PDF scores, and free to perform, study, record, and re-engrave. Every entry links to the original IMSLP page, where you can compare editions, read editorial notes, and access alternative arrangements where they exist.
All scores in C-sharp minor
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