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Originally Posted by wax
i was trying to find dark, powerfull piano music. i was thinking classical and probly sonatas. a very dark haunting quality.
id say beethovens moonlight sonata (no14 in c sharp minor, the really famous slow one) ... thats a good indicator of the kind of thing im thinking of.
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Beethoven: n°17 "The tempest" and n°23 "Appassionata". He surely has plenty of other sonatas worth checking out.
As for the symphonies: Beethoven's third and seventh have dark and haunting themes. I also second the Mahler suggestion.