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FINALE, a term in music for the concluding movement in an instrumental composition, whether symphony, concerto, or sonata, and in opera of the older type the concluding section of each act. Among instrumental examples the great choral finale to Bee thoven's 9th symphony, and, among operatic finales, that of Mozart's Nozze di Figaro, to the second act, are famous.