Thickness … [107] The score of Stokowski's arrangement was published in 1952. [90] In André Pirro's 1906 biography, Bach's organ toccatas are only mentioned as a group. [135] After initially confirming Williams's doubts about the authorship of BWV 565,[136] by the second decade of the 21st century, statistical analysis left the attribution issue undecided. 8:15)[17] and execution times of over 10:30[18] exist. Hilgenfeldt considers the Toccata and Fugue in F major the most accomplished of Bach's toccatas for organ. 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The only near-contemporary source is an undated copy by Johannes Ringk, a pupil of Johann Peter Kellner. All in all, he judges the music as superficial, not more than a stepping stone in Bach's development. The contrapuntal section fails to resolve back to its key chord, and instead leads into a coda which shows close similarities to the final line of BWV 565, Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor. [100] The reworked edition of this book, in one volume, appeared in 2003, and devotes more pages to discussing the authenticity and possible prior versions of BWV 565. These near-identical 19th-century copies, the version Felix Mendelssohn knew, use the treble clef and a separate stave for the pedal. [117][118][119][120][121], The 1950 film Sunset Boulevard used BWV 565 as a joking reference to the horror genre. Although only simple triadic harmony is employed throughout the fugue, there is an unexpected C minor subject entry, and furthermore, a solo pedal statement of the subject—a unique feature for a Baroque fugue. [129] Half a decade later, BWV 565 was further questioned. [84], In Johann Nikolaus Forkel's early 19th century biography of Bach, the work is left unmentioned. BWV 565 exhibits a typical simplified north German structure with a free opening (toccata), a fugal section (fugue), and a short free closing section. "Bach's Organ Registration Reconsidered" pp. Reconstructions have been applied to several other works by Bach, with variable success. In any case, for a classically trained musician such a glaring reference to one of the most hackneyed commonplaces of Western art music—certainly the most hackneyed within Bach's output (although its authorship has long been disputed)—clashes with the alleged intention of paying homage to the Eisenach maestro." Taylor begins his narrative with, "What you’re going to see is the designs and pictures and stories of what music inspired in the minds and imaginations of a group of artists." The section ends with a diminished seventh chord which resolved into the tonic, D minor, through a flourish. Parallel octaves and the preponderance of thirds and sixths may be explained by a transcriber's attempt to fill in harmony which, if preserved as is, would be inadequately thin on a pipe organ. [44], In the early 1910s, Albert Schweitzer collaborated with Charles-Marie Widor to compile a complete edition of Bach's organ compositions, published by Schirmer. [31] It has been presented as an emanation of the galant style, yet too dramatic to be anything near that style. Aria from an opera/ ground bass- chromatic descending scale. Now to think of some music to go with it - here we come !! In the second wave, much of Bach’s instrumental music was adapted to resources that were available in salon settings (for example solo piano, or chamber ensembles). Toccata and Fugue in D minor is as mysterious as it is well known. "[125][126][127][128], A certain uneasiness regarding the authorship of BWV 565 had been around long before the 1980s. Several theories concerning the authorship of the work were put forward by scholars. He links it to the northern school, and mentions Tausig, Busoni and Stokowki as influencing its trajectory. J.S. [13][14] However, the numerous recitative stretches are rarely found in the works of northern composers and may have been inspired by Johann Heinrich Buttstett,[10] a pupil of Pachelbel, whose few surviving free works, particularly his Prelude and Capriccio in D minor, exhibit similar features. He considers it an early work, probably composed for testing the technical qualities of a new organ. [22], The first major public performance was by Mendelssohn, on 6 August 1840, in Leipzig. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor was played with an organ. As with most Bach organ works, no autograph manuscript of BWV 565 survives. [146] In 2009, Reinmar Emans wrote that Claus and Wolff had diametrically opposed views on the reliability of Ringk as a copyist, inspired by their respective positions in the authenticity debate, and thinks that sort of speculation unhelpful.[132]. 1 in their sixth volume of Bach's organ works. Stokowski’s first 78rpm disc of 1927 was an international best-seller which introduced the music to many record collectors. A single dramatic ground-thought unites the daring passage work of the toccata, that seems to pile up like wave on wave; and in the fugue the intercalated passages in broken chords only serve to make the climax all the more powerful. Emotion is more than the technique, voice and stops used. [50] In 2010, Breitkopf & Härtel initiated a new edition of Bach's organ works, with BWV 565 appearing in its fourth volume. [92] After listing several organ works in which Bach showed himself a pupil of Buxtehude, Frescobaldi, and various contemporary Italian composers, Schweitzer describes the Toccata and Fugue in D minor as a work in which the composer rises to independent mastery:.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, In the D minor toccata and fugue, the strong and ardent spirit has finally realised the laws of form. Immediately after the final subject entry, the composition resolves to a sustained B♭ major chord. Making the voices fit together requires great skill. 4 (2:37, Toccata only – Fugue of that, J. S. Bach – L'Œuvre Pour Orgue – Intégrale en 24 disques, Vol. He assumed the work was written in the first year of Bach's second Weimar period (1708–1717). The second section of the Toccata is a number of loosely connected figurations and flourishes; the pedal switches to the dominant key, A minor. Bach scholars like Christoph Wolff defended the attribution to Bach. [45] In 1912, BWV 565 was published in the second volume, containing works of Bach's "first master period". [113][114][115][116], After 1936, another approach to using BWV 565 in film was under consideration. [55] Schweitzer's first recording of the piece was issued in 1935. Thickness Vocabulary to use: Description with specific examples: [81][82] From the 1950s to the first decades of the 21st century, there were half a dozen recordings of Tausig's piano version,[83] and several dozen of Busoni's. Forkel probably did not even know of the composition. The cowboy shootout with Gian Maria Volonté takes place in a deconsecrated church, turned into a pigsty, where the theme is heard on the organ at full blast. [11] Ringk's copy abounds in Italian tempo markings, fermatas (a characteristic feature of Ringk's copies) and staccato dots, all very unusual features for pre–1740 German music. without ♭ at the key). The composer and pianist Ferruccio Busoni was a leader of this movement, and wrote many piano transcriptions of Bach compositions, which often radically alter the original. Thin 5. [37] In the words of Jean-Claude Zehnder, who was sympathetic towards the violin version reconstruction: "The matter still remains open, despite the scholarly discourse that began in 1981. This resolves into a D major chord: Three short passages follow, each reiterating a short motif and doubled at the octave. [79][80] Ignaz Friedman recorded the piano version he had published in 1944. The author warns against numerological over-interpretation like that of Volker Gwinner. [51] Franz Liszt adopted the piece into his organ repertoire. Bach Toccata and Fugue in D Minor played by Stephanuskerk Hasselt . [70][71] Many more piano transcriptions of BWV 565 were published, for instance by Louis Brassin,[72][73] Ferruccio Busoni's,[74] Alfred Cortot's, and by Max Reger, in transcriptions for both piano two hands and four hands. Morricone used the trumpet musical theme "La resa dei conti" ("Sixty Seconds to What?") Although only 17 bars long, it progresses through five tempo changes. The 1962 film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera by Hammer Productions featured the piece, and since then, the movie has helped to associate the music with horror movies, Halloween, and the like in popular culture. Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Other commentators ignored the doubts over its authenticity, or considered the attribution issue undecided. 193–211 in Stauffer/May 1986. Williams put this theory into practice by writing a reconstruction of the conjectured original violin work, which has been performed (by violinists Jaap Schröder and Simon Standage), and published. In Ringk's manuscript the upper stave is written down using the soprano clef (as was common in the time when the manuscript originated), where printed editions use the treble clef. A multi-sectional coda follows, marked Recitativo. Bach is known to have transcribed solo violin works for organ at least twice. Later in 1937, while in California, Stokowski and Disney discussed the idea of making a short animated film of The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Dukas for Disney Studios, the intention being to introduce classical music to a younger and broader audience. ", "Some Speculations on the Development of Bach's Organ Style", pp. ", pp. In the later copies the work is named for instance "Adagio" and "Fuga" (for the respective parts of the work), or "Toccata" for the work as a whole. IV, No. An earlier virtuoso piano transcription also once much in vogue was by Carl Tausig; pianist Marie Novello chose it for what one source claims to be the Toccata and Fugue’s first recording. [41] In 1846, C. F. Peters published the Toccata con Fuga as No. Williams questions the authenticity of the piece, based on its various unusual features, and elaborates the idea that the piece may have a violin version ancestor. City Weimar? [2][10], The name "Toccata" is most probably a later addition, similar to the title of Toccata, Adagio and Fugue, BWV 564, because in the Baroque era such organ pieces would most commonly be called simply Prelude (Praeludium, etc.) Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor is one of the most famous pieces of Baroque organ music ever written - with a particularly iconic opening. The piece opens with a toccata section, followed by a fugue that ends in a coda. Counterpoint literally means note against note. [10] A new violin version was created by scholar Bruce Fox-Lefriche in 2004. [10], German organ schools are distinguished into north German (e.g. Basso warns against seeing too much in the composition. The parallel octaves, Wolff writes, must be explained by the deficiencies of Bach’s Arnstadt organ, which the composer sought to rectify. [39] Soon the idea was emulated by other musicians. Dieterich Buxtehude) and south German (e.g. [78] Percy Grainger's 1931 recording on the piano, based on the Tausig and Busoni transcriptions, was written out as a score by Leslie Howard, and then recorded by other artists. [150] The violinist Andrew Manze produced his own reconstruction, also in A minor, which he has performed and recorded. [22] Its presumed time of composition shifted around. The other hypothesis elaborated by Williams is that BWV 565 may have been a transcription of a lost solo violin piece. Artist: Johann Sebastian Bach Album: Toccata and Fugue Song: Toccata and Fugue in D minor Element of Focus: Texture 1. Part 1 of 1 - Week 3 Quiz 100.0 Points Question 1 of 10 10.0 Points What are the two forms of keyboard composition explored in J.S. Such violinistic figures are frequently encountered in Baroque music and that of Bach, both as fugue subjects and as material in non-imitative pieces. 291–304, Johann Sebastian Bach: Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke, "Composer attribution by quantifying compositional strategies" pp. The movement uses long held chords with many suspensions to great effect, an idiom which Bach employed with relative frequency in his mature works. He considers that the notes of the piece are not too difficult to play, but that an organist performing the work is primarily challenged by interpretation. [2] At the time Ringk was a student of Bach's former student[7] Johann Peter Kellner at Gräfenroda, and probably faithfully copied what his teacher put before him. In fact one of the most recognizable organ pieces is by Bach (check out his Toccata et Fugue in D Minor). Despite Mendelssohn's opinion that it was "at the same time learned and something for the people",[23] followed by a fairly successful piano transcription in the second half of the 19th century,[24] it was not until the 20th century that it rose above the average notability of an organ piece by Bach. English progressive rock band Egg covered the piece for their 1970 debut album. His description of the piece refers to long sections that are surfeit: "rocking passages which have no connection whatever with the chief idea" and organ recitatives alternating with "ponderous, roaring masses of chords". Although only simple triadic harmony is employed throughout the fugue, there is an unexpected C minor subject entry, and furthermore, a solo pedal statement of the subject—a unique feature for a Baroque fugue. homophonic. "On Measuring Musical Style – The Case of Some Disputed Organ Fugues in the J. S. Bach (BWV) Catalogue" Ch. In 1982, scholar David Humphreys suggested that such a composer could come from the circle of Ringk’s teacher Johann Peter Kellner (1705–1772), who had close ties with the Bach family. In the mid-1990s, Fred Mills, then trumpet player for Canadian Brass, created an adaptation for brass quintet that became a worldwide standard for brass ensembles.[160][161]. [75], Tausig's version of the work was recorded on piano rolls several times in the first decades of the 20th century. Unusually, the answer is in the subdominant key, rather than the traditional dominant. Jacques Loussier's Bach to Bach Trio withAndré Arpino - Drums & Vincent Charbonier - Bass. A passage in the fugue of BWV 565 is an exact copy of a phrase in one of Johann Pachelbel’s D minor fantasias, and the first half of the subject is based on this Pachelbel passage as well. 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