The most intense ending in a piece of music

[greg]

looks like Twisted Metal 
yeah, i'd like to do this to Ubloobideega, oh yeah- i like anything that ends in D Minor 

[Mark G. Simon]

ummmmmm

how come no one has mentioned the Rite of Spring and the Penderecki Threnody after 3 pages?

Say, you know The Rite of Spring has got to have the most intense ending in all music.

[Danny]

Hmm.........I dunno, really.  For chaos, I think the end of Prokfiev's Fifth Symphony suffices.  For intensity, the end of Shosty's First and Seventh are good examples.  Beethoven's Appasionata probably takes the cake, though.

[George]

Forty six and two by Tool. 

[PaulR]

I'd like to add Shostakovich 10 and 11 as well

[not edward]

Mahler 6 and Prokofiev 6 are good examples in the symphonic realm. Shostakovich 14 too.

Scriabin's a reliable choice here too, as witness Vers la Flamme, Prometheus, [l]Le Poeme de l'Extase[/i].

[Danny]

I'd like to add Shostakovich 10 and 11 as well

Yes, you should!   

[Mark G. Simon]

Turangalila may well have the loudest ending in music.

[aquablob]

Beethoven's Appasionata probably takes the cake, though.

You beat me to that one! What an amazing coda!!!

Another ending that is "intense" in a very different way: Poulenc's Dialogue of the Carmelites.

And yet another: Chopin's d minor prelude. I here refer to the piece itself as the finale to the set, and also the last three low D's to finish the work (probably the most intense three notes I know in all of music).

And how about the B minor fugue at the end of WTC 1?

[val]

The coda of the first movement of Beethoven's 3rd and 9th Symphonies.

The coda of the first movement of Bruckner's 3rd and 6th Symphonies and the coda of the 4th movement of the 8th Symphony.

The coda of the last movement of Sibelius 2nd Symphony.

The coda of the last movement of Schubert's string Quintet.

[Haffner]

Mahler Symphony no.8

Mozart's "Jupiter" Finale, "Marriage of Figaro" Ouverture


Bach Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor

[The new erato]

Another ending that is "intense" in a very different way: Poulenc's Dialogue of the Carmelites.

Good one. Add to that the Shostakovich 13th string quartet (end perhaps a few other of his late quartets).

[val]

I forgot one other: the coda of the last movement of Beethoven's piano Sonata opus 53.

[greg]

Say, you know The Rite of Spring has got to have the most intense ending in all music.

i'd say second most, that i've heard

but i don't think anything beat Penderecki's Threnody, which ends in a fff megacluster that sounds like a diesel engine which gradually fades out..... and the events which lead up to it are- whoa! impossibly expressionistic

[jochanaan]

Another ending that is "intense" in a very different way: Poulenc's Dialogue of the Carmelites.

Yes.  My sister the opera fan, jaded listener that she is, says that she sobbed aloud the first time she saw that opera live.

[Ubloobideega]

ok, i renamed the title to be "GMG appropriate"......
yo, check this out, the first time it was performed, it was microphoned into speakers that were as big as cities, turned all the way up, yo yo yo

[Justin Ignaz Franz Bieber]

er, but thats not the ending of the piece is it....

i thought of that, but so many people were listing endings of movements of symphonies, etc so i didn't think it mattered.

[PerfectWagnerite]

I vote for the conclusion to Acts I and II of Die Walkurere.

[Leporello]

'Agnus Dei' from the Kronungsmesse, Mozart

[BachQ]

Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique