Final movement of the symphony. Be sure to listen to the other movements first!
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Much like the first movement, this movement is in sonata form and begins with the same crash in D minor. The introduction here is expanded with the first movement's primary theme and immediately followed by an unresolved variant of the introductory melody that has been heard throughout the work (we'll call it the "mouse" theme) and leads directly into the exposition. The primary theme is a fiery march with a dependent transition derived from the first theme of the first movement leading into the secondary theme, which is the same mouse theme but now in the sonata proper! In previous movements, it was outside the proper form or purely innocent and undeveloped, but here it is excited and preparing to find closure! The exposition repeats. The first part of the development sequences theme 1 motifs in modulation. The first theme from the first movement reemerges, disguised rhythmically and in a major key reaching for closure falling short into the mouse theme motifs, which also fall short of closure, and lead into the Retransition. The dramatic primary theme marks the recapitulation, which is now expanded. The mouse theme emerges triumphant over the drama of the first theme! It finally found its much sought after resolution :>

Thank you for listening! Hope it brought some joy to people :3