the Loudest Finales in Classical Music

A pwn to literally every single piece posted by every single person here:

Apparently he is....

The end of Barber's Symphony No. 1 is just plain goddamn ridiculous.

Uh huh! I love it so much. One of but not my favorite symphonies.

Ok, so here are some of my favorite glorious endings:

Copland's 3rd Symphony (greatest live music experience I have ever had)

Barber's 2nd Essay for Orchestra

Barber's Symphony No. 1

Beethoven's 5th Symphony

Greig's Piano concerto in A Minor

Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue

Beethoven's 9th Symphony

Debussy's La Mer

Handel's Messiah (Worthy Is the Lamb)

Summon the Hero's by John Williams

Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture

Puccini's Turandot

Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky

Stravinsky's Firebird you dumbs!!

Also Hindemith Symphonic metamorphosis

Aye, we almost forgot about our ol' Ravel there!

The most glorious, loud and pompous finales IMO (without looking into the scores):

1) Mahler's Second Symphony.

2) Shostakovich's 5th Symphony.

3) Puccin's (actually Alfano's) closing scene in Turandot

4) Tchaikovsky, a league of his own with 1812, Marche Slave, Swan Lake and 2nd, 4th and 5th Symphonies.

5) Elgar's Enigma.

6) Rachmaninov's piano concerti.

7) Orff's Carmina Burana.

8) Mahler's First Symphony.

9) Beethoven's 9th.

10) John Williams's score for ET.

Чайковский definitely has some loud finales. As does Mahler.