During this work's "adagio lamentoso" final movement a triple forte drumroll interrupts the recapitulation of ends the "desperation" theme.
This work's final section begins with the first and second violins successively playing alternating notes of the main theme, and this piece concludes with a muted fanfare of stopped horns and the single stroke of a tam-tam while the music fades into quiet. The "Allegro con grazia" second movement is a waltz written in the unusual time signature of 5/4. In this symphony's first movement a theme inspired by Don Jose' "Flower Song" from Carmen slowly dwindles until it is played at a volume marked with six Ps. During this work's "adagio lamentoso" final movement a triple forte drumroll interrupts the recapitulation of ends the "desperation" theme. Premiered nine days before the composer's death from cholera, for 10 points, name this final Tchaikovsky symphony.
This work's final section begins with the first and second violins successively playing alternating notes of the main theme, and this piece concludes with a muted fanfare of stopped horns and the single stroke of a tam-tam while the music fades into quiet.
Pathetique or Symphony No. 6 in B minor