Editing Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák) (section)

=== IV. Allegro con fuoco ===
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The final movement is also written in sonata form. After a brief introduction, the horns and trumpets declare the movement's main theme against sharp chords played by the rest of the orchestra. The second theme is then presented by the clarinet above tremolos in the strings. The development not only works with these two themes but also recalls the main themes of the first and second movements and a fragment of the Scherzo. Following the recapitulation which begins in the unexpected key of G minor but later corrects itself back to the original key, the movement reaches its climax in the coda, in which materials from the first three movements are reviewed for a final time while the Picardy third is expanded after the orchestra triumphantly plays a "modally altered" plagal cadence.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |last1=Cross |first1=Milton |last2=Ewen |first2=David |author1-link=Milton Cross |title=Antonín Dvořák |encyclopedia=Milton Cross' Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music |volume=1 |page=239 |year=1962 |publisher=Doubleday and Company, Inc. |location=Garden City, New York |lccn=62008097}}</ref> The main theme, especially its occurrence in bar 321, bears a close resemblance to the opening theme of the ''Hans Heiling Overture'' by [[Heinrich Marschner]].