What is A-flat minor?
{{Infobox Scale | image_name=C-flat-major_a-flat-minor.svg | scale_name=A{{music|flat}} minor | relative=[[C-flat major|C{{music|flat}} major]] | parallel=[[A-flat major|A{{music|flat}} major]] | enharmonic=[[G-sharp minor|G{{music|sharp}} minor]] | first_pitch=A{{music|flat}} | second_pitch=B{{music|flat}} | third_pitch=C{{music|flat}} | fourth_pitch=D{{music|flat}} | fifth_pitch=E{{music|flat}} | sixth_pitch=F{{music|flat}} | seventh_pitch=G{{music|flat}} }} '''A-flat minor''' is a [[minor scale]] starting on A{{music|flat}}. Its key signature has seven flats. Its [[Relative key|relative major]] is [[C-flat major]], and its [[parallel key|parallel major]] is [[A-flat major]]. Its [[enharmonic equivalent]] is [[G-sharp minor]]. A-flat minor is rarely used as the main key of a piece of music. More often, pieces in a minor mode that have A{{music|flat}} as the [[tonic (music)|tonic]] are written in the [[enharmonic]] key, [[G-sharp minor]], because it has a simpler key signature. Because of this, there are few works in A-flat minor. In some scores, the A{{music|flat}} minor key signature in the bass clef is written with the flat for the F on the second line from the top. ==In classical music== * The Funeral March in [[Ludwig van Beethoven]]'s [[Piano Sonata No. 12 (Beethoven)|Piano Sonata No. 12]], Op. 26 * An early section of the last movement of Beethoven's [[Piano Sonata No. 31 (Beethoven)|Piano Sonata No. 31]], Op. 110 (although the key signature of this section uses only 6 flats, not 7) * [[Johannes Brahms]]'s Fugue for organ (c. 1857) * [[Max Bruch]]'s [[Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Bruch)|Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra]], Op. 88a (although at least one two-piano transcription of this uses a 6-flat signature, similarly to the Op.&nbsp;110 Beethoven example) * the Evocación from Book I of [[Isaac Albéniz]]'s ''Iberia'' *[[Isaac Albéniz]]'s ''La Vega'' (c. 1897) * [[Leoš Janáček]] uses it for his violin sonata and the organ solo of his ''[[Glagolitic Mass]]''. * [[Moritz