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Toccata And Fugue (other)
Toccata and Fugue may refer to several classical compositions attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach: * Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 – the best known "Toccata and Fugue", for organ * Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 538 a.k.a. ''Dorian'', for organ * Toccata and Fugue in F major, BWV 540 – for organ * Prelude (Toccata) and Fugue in E major, BWV 566 – for organ * Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, BWV 564 – for organ See also * List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach for more works called "Toccata and Fugue" * Prelude and fugue, including a list of works * Fantasia and Fugue (other) Fantasia and Fugue may refer to several compositions attributed mainly to Johann Sebastian Bach: * Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, for harpsichord * Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537, for organ * Great Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542, for ... {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard works such as the ''Goldberg Variations'' and ''The Well-Tempered Clavier''; organ works such as the '' Schubler Chorales'' and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor; and vocal music such as the ''St Matthew Passion'' and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach revival he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. The Bach family already counted several composers when Johann Sebastian was born as the last child of a city musician in Eisenach. After being orphaned at the age of 10, he lived for five years with his eldest brother Johann Christoph, after which he continued his musical education in Lüneburg. From 1703 he was back in Thuringia, working as a musician for Protestant c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toccata And Fugue In D Minor, BWV 565
The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis, BWV 565, is a piece of organ repertoire, organ music written, according to its oldest extant sources, by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). The piece opens with a toccata section, followed by a fugue that ends in a coda (music), coda. Scholars differ as to when it was composed. It could have been as early as . Alternatively, a date as late as the 1750s has been suggested. To a large extent, the piece conforms to the characteristics deemed typical of the north German organ school of the baroque music, Baroque era with divergent stylistic influences, such as south German characteristics. Despite a profusion of educated guesswork, there is not much that can be said with certainty about the first century of the composition's existence other than that it survived that period in a manuscript written by Johannes Ringk. The first publication of the piece, in the Bach Revival era, was in 1833, through the efforts of Felix Mendelss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toccata And Fugue In D Minor, BWV 538
The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 538, is an organ piece by Johann Sebastian Bach. Like the better-known BWV 565, BWV 538 also bears the title ''Toccata and Fugue in D Minor'', although it is often referred to by the nickname Dorian – a reference to the fact that the piece is written without a key signature – a notation that leads one to assume the Dorian mode. However, the two pieces are quite different musically. Like the Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 562, it is nearly monothematic. It opens with a motoric sixteenth-note motif that continues almost uninterrupted to the end of the piece, and includes unusually elaborate concertato effects. Bach even notates manual changes for the organist, an unusual practice in the day as well as in Bach's organ output. The fugue, also in D minor, is long and complex, and involves a rather archaic-sounding subject which prominently features syncopations and three upward leaps of a perfect fourth. The strict contrapuntal developme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toccata And Fugue In F Major, BWV 540
The Toccata and Fugue in F major, BWV 540, is an organ work written by Johann Sebastian Bach, potentially dating from the composer's time in Weimar, or in Leipzig. History No firm date can be established for the composition, and it has even been conjectured that the 2 parts were composed separately, with the toccata being a potentially more mature piece. Williams however describes that the differing ''Affekt'' of the two parts does not pose any problem to the hypothesis that the whole work was composed at the same period. This conception of "complementary movements" was even a favourite of Bach's, and the dramatic nature of the toccata as contrasted to the counterpoint of the fugue should, as one author writes, "not be misunderstood as mere discrepancy". Because of the range of the pedal parts, the toccata may have been written for a performance, around 1713, at the Weißenfels organ, with its pedal going up to F. Music Toccata The toccata starts with a large linear canon (firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prelude (Toccata) And Fugue In E Major, BWV 566
Prelude (Toccata) and Fugue in (C or) E major, BWV 566 is an organ work written by Johann Sebastian Bach probably during his 4 month-stay at Lübeck or afterwards in the winter of 1705–1706. It comprises five sections and is an early work in grand form of Bach. Its compositional form resembles that of Praeludia by Danish-German composer Dieterich Buxtehude. The first section alternates manual or pedal cadenzas with dense suspended chords. The second is a charming fugue with much repetition following the circle of fifths. The third section is a brief flourish for manuals, ending with an even briefer pedal cadenza punctuated with 9-voice chords. The fourth section, in time, is a second fugue with a rhythmic subject resembling the theme of the first fugue immediately followed by the fifth and final section that opens with a virtuous pedal-solo. Bach also wrote a transposed version of the piece in C major (BWV 566a), to play on organs tuned in meantone where E major would sound di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toccata, Adagio And Fugue In C Major, BWV 564
Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C major (BWV 564) is an organ (music), organ composition by Johann Sebastian Bach. As is the case with most other organ works by Bach, the autograph score does not survive. The earliest manuscript copies were probably made in 1719–1727. The title of the piece in these copies is given, as expected of organ literature of the time, simply as ''Toccata in C major'' (or more precisely, ''Toccata ped: ex C'' in one source and ''Toccata ex C pedaliter'', referring to the obbligato pedal part). The piece is an early work, probably composed in the mid-to-late Weimar years, i.e. 1710–1717. It shares some similarities with other toccatas composed around the same time, such as Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 538, BWV 538, Toccata and Fugue in F major, BWV 540, BWV 540, and others: all show the influence of concerto style and form.Jones 2007, 160. Composition Toccata The work begins with an updated and extended form of the old prelude-type, manual '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Compositions By Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach's vocal music includes cantatas, motets, masses, Magnificats, Passions, oratorios, four-part chorales, songs and arias. His instrumental music includes concertos, suites, sonatas, fugues, and other works for organ, harpsichord, lute, violin, viola da gamba, cello, flute, chamber ensemble and orchestra. There are over 1000 known compositions by Bach. Nearly all of them are listed in the ' (BWV), which is the best known and most widely used catalogue of Bach's compositions. Listing Bach's compositions Some of the early biographies of Johann Sebastian Bach contain lists of his compositions. For instance, his obituary contains a list of the instrumental compositions printed during the composer's lifetime, followed by an approximate list of his unpublished work. The first separately published biography of the composer, by Johann Nikolaus Forkel, follows the same approach: its ninth chapter first lists printed works (adding four-part chorales which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prelude And Fugue
{{Unreferenced, date=June 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot) The prelude and fugue is a musical form generally consisting of two movements in the same key for solo keyboard. In classical music, the combination of prelude and fugue is one with a long history. Many composers have written works of this kind. The use of this format is generally inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach's two books of preludes and fugues — ''The Well-Tempered Clavier'' — completed in 1722 and 1742 respectively. Bach, however, was not the first to compose such a set: Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer wrote a 20-key cycle in his 1702 work ''Ariadne musica''. A number of composers wrote sets of pieces covering all 24 major and/or minor keys. Many of these have been sets of 24 preludes and fugues, or 24 preludes. The first movement may be alternatively titled, resulting in a fantasy and fugue, or a toccata and fugue, among others. Works The following works employ, sometimes loosely, the prelude-and-fugue for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasia And Fugue (other)
Fantasia and Fugue may refer to several compositions attributed mainly to Johann Sebastian Bach: * Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, for harpsichord * Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537, for organ * Great Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542, for organ * Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 561, for organ; see ''Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis'' * Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 562, for organ * Fantasia and Imitatio in B minor, BWV 563, for organ; see ''Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis'' * Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 906, for harpsichord * Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 944, for organ * Fantasy and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H, for organ (and later piano) by Franz Liszt * Fantasy No. 1 with Fugue (Mozart), for piano by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart See also * List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach * Prelude and fugue * Toccata and Fugue (other) Toccata and Fugue may refer to several classical compositions attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach: * Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BW ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
