Best One Note Endings/Orchestral or Otherwise

[Joe_Campbell]

No.8 is indeed in G minor, the C# minor one is No.9. The confusion has arisen because the composer withdrew No.4 and republished it in Op.39. I think it best to stick to the original published numbers. However, I agree that the ending is not a single note. No.3 ends on a single C but with the pedal held down. No.6 ends with a solo phrase over a long bass pedal chord.

Ah...that clears things up. That's pretty cool, imperfection because I'll be learning that etude once I'm done my audition.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

How about the Mahler 6th with that single plucked A?

Also some individual Mahler movements: 5/ii (single timpani thud); and I think 2/i, 6/ii, 9/i and 7/iii, though I don't have the scores handy to check.

[bassio]

Liszt Piano Sonata

At first Liszt intended to end with a flashy forte .. but altered the ending and decided to keep the current version, which ends on the same note the piece starts - which theoretically can make the whole work go through a loop of endless thematic transformations (of course if you were to start from the beginning  )

[Dancing Divertimentian]

There is a sublime one note ending to Bartok's second violin sonata.

No more gripping ending could be concocted if the full tuttis of every living orchestra blasted away in unison.

[Dax]

Stockhausen - Gruppen

[Cato]

Stockhausen - Gruppen

Check Stockhausen's Spaceship in the Composer's section for comments on a recent performance of Gruppen in Berlin.


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[greg]

Penderecki- De Natura Sonoris 2