Views : 441,617
Genre: Music
Date of upload: Jun 28, 2019 ^^
Rating : 4.874 (461/14,153 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2022-04-09T02:18:21.308024Z
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My favorite ending of all time is Holst's The Planets where a women's choir from an off-stage room slowly repeat their last few notes over and over again and diminish away as someone closes the door to the room until it fades away to nothing. Within a concert hall the effect is unforgettable and magical.
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Leave that Tchaikovsky Trio alone. It is indeed one of the best endings imaginable to a piece that is about remembering that someone dear has passed away. The logic behind it is striking. You have a Theme and Variations followed and a final variation that takes the function of a sonata form finale. It is lively and exciting and full of exuberance. And at the moment where everybody expects a raucous ending, like Tchaikovsky does so often, suddenly the a-minor of the opening movement forces itself back and the pain and mourning is back and then everything fades away into black nothingness.
It's the perfect musical image of being speechless over the untimely death of a friend.
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at 4:46 what makes this joke ending even better is satie's marking above it - "cadence obligée (de l'auteur)" - which translates to "mandatory cadence (from the author)"
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@LardGreystoke
4 years ago
Beethoven hammered the ending to death because hammering things to death was what Beethoven did, and Satie mocked him because Satie was a mocker, but if Beethoven had still been alive he would have hammered Satie to death.
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