Afinale is the lastmovement of asonata,symphony, orconcerto; the ending of a piece of non-vocalclassical music which has several movements; or, a prolonged final sequence at the end of an act of anopera or work ofmusical theatre.[1]
Michael Talbot wrote of the finales typical in sonatas: "Therondo is the form par excellence used for final movements, and ... its typical character and structural properties accord perfectly with those thought desirable in a sonata finale of the early nineteenth century."[2]Carl Czerny (1791–1857) observed "that first movements and finales ought to—and in practice actually do—proclaim their contrasted characters already in their openingthemes."[3]
In theatrical music,Christoph Willibald Gluck was an early proponent of extended finales, with multiple characters, to support the "increasingly natural and realistic" stories in his operas that "improved continuity and theatrical validity" beyond the earlier works.[4]
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