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[[Charles-Valentin Alkan|Alkan]] composed the second movement (Adagio) for [[Concerto for Solo Piano (Alkan)|Concerto for Solo Piano]] in C-sharp minor.

[[Frédéric Chopin]] often wrote in this key: examples include the [[Fantaisie-Impromptu]], [[Études (Chopin)|Études]] [[Étude Op. 10, No. 4 (Chopin)|Op. 10, No. 4]] and [[Étude Op. 25, No. 7 (Chopin)|Op. 25, No. 7]], [[Scherzo No. 3 (Chopin)|Scherzo No. 3 (Op. 39)]], [[Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2 (Chopin)|Waltz Op. 64, No. 2]], [[Polonaises, Op. 26 (Chopin)|Polonaise Op. 26 No. 1]], the [[Preludes (Chopin)|Prelude opus 45]] and Nocturnes [[Nocturnes, Op. 27 (Chopin)|No. 7 (Op. 27, No. 1)]] and [[Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. posth. (Chopin)|No. 20 (''Lento con gran espressione'')]]. More examples of works in C-sharp minor include [[Sergei Rachmaninoff|Rachmaninoff's]] [[Prelude in C-sharp minor (Rachmaninoff)|Prelude in C-sharp minor (Op. 3, No. 2)]], [[Alexander Scriabin|Scriabin's]] [[Étude in C-sharp minor, Op. 2, No. 1 (Scriabin)|Étude in C-sharp minor, Op. 2, No. 1]], [[Franz Liszt|Franz Liszt's]] [[Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2]], and [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky's]] [[Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor (Tchaikovsky)|Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor]].

Piano concertos written in C-sharp minor include [[Francis Poulenc|Poulenc]]'s [[Piano Concerto (Poulenc)|Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor, FP 146]] (1949), [[Erich Wolfgang Korngold]]'s [[Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (Korngold)|Piano Concerto for the Left Hand]], Op. 17, [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]]'s [[Piano Concerto (Rimsky-Korsakov)|Piano Concerto]], and others by [[Ferdinand Ries]], [[Xaver Scharwenka]], [[Amy Beach]], [[Miriam Hyde]] and [[Issay Dobrowen]].