[dohtml]<div style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Comic Sans MS"><p>I have just listened to Joseph Haydn’s Symphony &#8470&nbsp;45 in F Sharp Minor on Windows Media Player.</p>
<p>Did you know? The key signature of F sharp minor has three sharps, and the chord of F sharp minor consists of the notes F sharp, A, and C sharp. B)</p></div>[/dohtml]

[dohtml]<div style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman"><p>Did you know? Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Rondo alla turca” (the finale of one of his piano sonatas) has a middle section in F sharp minor.</p></div>[/dohtml]

[dohtml]<div style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Comic Sans MS"><p>Did you know? Sergei Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto is in F sharp minor.</p></div>[/dohtml]

[dohtml]<div style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman"><p>Did you know? Dmitri Shostakovich’s Seventh String Quartet is in F sharp minor. The work could be enjoyed listening to on BBC Radio&nbsp;3 this morning.</p></div>[/dohtml]

[dohtml]<div style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Comic Sans MS"><p>Did you know? Johannes Brahms’s Fifth Hungarian Dance is in F sharp minor.</p></div>
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[dohtml]<div style="line-height: 150%; font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman"><p>Did you know? There is a polonaise in F sharp minor by Frédéric Chopin. It’s his Op&nbsp;44, and I am enjoying listening to it on BBC Radio&nbsp;3 right now.</p></div>[/dohtml]

Did you know? The Eighth of Chopin's Preludes, Op.28, is in F sharp minor.

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[dohtml]<div style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman"><p>Did you know? Haydn’s Thirty-ninth String Quartet (Op&nbsp;50 &#8470&nbsp;4) is in F sharp minor. I am enjoying listening to it right now on BBC iPlayer, having missed it on “Afternoon on 3” presented by Jonathan Swain on Radio&nbsp;3 on Friday.</p></div>[/dohtml]

[dohtml]Did you know? The BBC’s theme tune to the 1998 Football World Cup is taken from a pavane in F sharp minor by Gabriel Fauré. I heard the pavane this morning on BBC Radio&nbsp;3’s “Classical Collection” presented by Sarah Walker, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields conducted by Neville Marriner in the recording chosen for the programme.[/dohtml]

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<p>Did you know? During that World Cup, I kept thinking that the pavane was by Maurice Ravel – until Des Lynam specifically mentioned that it was by Fauré. I was no doubt confusing it with an entirely different piece, Ravel’s <i>Pavane pour une infante défunte</i>. :oops:</p></font>[/dohtml]

Did you know? Alexander Scriabin’s Op.20 is a piano concerto in F sharp minor.

Did you know? Haydn’s Twenty-fourth Piano Trio (Op.73 No.3) is in F sharp minor. The slow movement of this work also appears in the composer’s Symphony No.102 in B Flat Major. I heard this work on BBC Radio 3 today.

Did you know? The slow movement of Symphony No.102 was a favourite of Haydn's English friend Rebecca Schroeter, so Haydn arranged it as the slow movement of his piano trio for her. ;)

[dohtml]Did you know? His Fourth Hungarian Dance, which I heard on BBC Radio&nbsp;3 yesterday in an orchestral arrangement by Paul Juon, is also in F sharp minor.[/dohtml]