E Major

(Ger. E dur). E major has four sharps in its key signature.

To ROMANTIC composers, E major was the key of spiritual enlightenment.

Well-known works in E major include:

ANTON BRUCKNER'S grand Seventh Symphony, an ambitious and lengthy work. In composing this symphony, Bruckner's imagination was possessed by RICHARD WAGNER. He said that the second movement (Adagio), in the relative key of G minor, forecasted Wagner's death.

Wagner's overture to Tannhäuser

The First Symphony of Alexander Scriabin, which ends with a choral section celebrating art

E major is found in the final sections of orchestral works nominally in E MINOR, the most famous example being FELIX MENDELSSOHN'S E-minor Violin Concerto.