[citation needed] In Book 1 of The Well-Tempered Clavier by Bach, Prelude No.

[1] Beethoven applied E-flat minor to the slow introduction in the sixth (last) movement of his Septet Op.

20 by adding accidentals while bearing the key signature of E-flat major (three flats).

The "Introduction" to his oratorio Christ on the Mount of Olives is also in this key, but with the full six-flat signature.

Alkan composed the final movement for Symphony for Solo Piano in E-flat minor, as well as the final etude from his Trois morceaux dans le genre pathétique.

A few other less well-known composers also wrote symphonies in this key, such as Andrei Eshpai, Jānis Ivanovs (fourth symphony Sinfonia Atlantida, 1941), Ovchinnikov and Nikolai Myaskovsky.

Aram Khachaturian wrote his Toccata in E-flat minor while studying under Myaskovsky.

E-flat minor is the key in which Shostakovich composed his fifteenth and final string quartet.

1, from Cinq Morceaux de Fantaisie, is in E-flat minor, as is his Étude-Tableau, Op.

The waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria" by Ilya Shatrov, about the loss of Russia in the Russo-Japanese War, is written in E-flat minor.

Guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen has composed a number of pieces in E-flat minor, including the Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra.