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I know everyone's choices would inevitably be subjective to some extent. So I think there is great room for variety and little room for argument over which are indeed the ten greatest movements ever composed. I hope that this will at least serve for each of you as an occasion to revisit the classical music that you love and consider the greatest, as it has been for me. Here are my choices in no particular order: 1. Beethoven String Quartet No. 14, Op. 131, last movement "Presto". This is the one that inspired me with the idea for this thread. So I think that this IS the greatest movement of music ever composed. For me, it constitutes the powerful victory of the human spirit over hardship and evil. I think there is no more victorious music ever composed. 2. Mozart Symphony No. 40, last movement "Allegro", a dramatic movement that forges ahead despite every hardship. 3. Beethoven Symphony No. 5, 1st movement "Allegro con brio". 4. Mozart String Quartet K. 421, 1st movement "Allegro" 5. Schubert String Quartet No. 14, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden", 1st movement "Allegro" 6. Brahms String Quartet No. 1, Op. 51, No. 1, 1st movement "Allegro" 7. Mozart Requiem K. 626, 7th movement "Confutatis" 8. Handel Messiah Oratorio, "Hallelujah Chorus" 9. Bach Partita No. 2, last movement "Ciaccona" 10. Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 29 "Hammerklavier", last movement "Largo Allegro Risoluto" -
A few years ago I didn't like suites, sonatas... because they seemed boring at the time. As the time went by, I started to realize the inner structure of those forms, and appreciate them more. Most recently, I have became sort of a structure freak, observing relations between sections, movements..., and it does indeed fascinate me. I've also been composing for some time now, but didn't write that much material. Most recently I have firmly set a goal for me, a keyboard suite in c minor. So far, I've written 3 movements, Prelude (presto), Adagio and Scherzo (Allegro assai). The movements yet to be written: Trio, Chorale, Finale. I structured it like this: Prelude (very fast repeating figure going through different harmonies) 2/4 Adagio (as a contrast to the prelude - polyphony in 3 parts) 2/2 Scherzo - Trio - Scherzo d. c. (fast scherzo and relatively slow trio) 3/4 Chorale (slow, hymn - like homophonic four part harmony movement) 4/4 Finale I have a few questions. Please if you're going to answer 'just do whatever you feel is the best', don't even bother writing it. 1. Should at least one movement be completely in a major key (e. g. Trio or Chorale) 2. Is it better for the Finale to be in 6/8 meter and act like a jig so the suite closes like a baroque dance suite, or should I use a rondo form like closing a sonata. 3. I was thinking for some time about adding an 'extra' movement in the middle ('the center movement') between adagio and scherzo. Perhaps a Toccata of some sort, or a rondo movement, but then a jig at the end... Or is it good just the way it is now. I know it is a lot of text here, but... I wanted to be informative. I would have put the first 3 movements up here for you to listen, but I don't have a microphone, and MIDI synthethization is just lame.
