First off is Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, one of the most popular pieces of classical music ever, is the equivalent of stepping into Dracula's lair. The infamous opening and how it holds forever until you imagine bats flying around and shit.
It's all on organ, too, so you get that additional creepy Phantom thing going on. And it goes on for 8 and half minutes in its entirety, and all of this culminates into one long vampiric theme.
Maybe my favorite piece of classical music is Edvard Grieg's In The Hall Of The Mountain King from the Ibsen play Peer Gynt. It has this force and build.
Starting off at a ridiculously low volume, the song's first theme involves the lead character (Peer Gynt) sneaking through the Mountain King's castle avoiding trolls. The second theme is the first but slightly changed, these represent the trolls. As the trolls find Peer and give chase, the music slowly grows faster and louder.
Finally Peer finds himself in the hall of the Mountain King, coming face to face with the monstrous troll. The music is finally at full volume as the thundering presence of the King looks for the now hiding Peer Gynt. Finding an exit, Peer rushes out of the mountain, the trolls giving chase. Cymbals crash, timpanis roll, silencing the other instruments, the mountain collapses just as Peer has escaped and the trolls have been crushed by the falling rocks.
Now listen to the song and imagine that happening. It's crazy.
Also Grieg looks a shitload like Mark Twain and Albert Einstein had a kid.
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