I don't see like that, there's a bunch of Suspensions and Resolutions common found in most of his work for violin for example. I think he was to boring playing at church services all the time in Leipzig, so he decided to create something uncommon...
That is because it wasn't written by Bach..it was likely written by an apprentice who wrote Bach's name on the piece so that it would be played. (At the time only works written by famous composers were played). I took a Master's course in college on JS Bach and it is widely "speculated" that he didn't write this piece.
I disagree though. It is not considered as spurious by the Neue-Bach-Gesellschaft or other scholars. Furthermore, this "uncommon" style of the toccata could also be found in his other works (like the Fantasia of BWV 542 or the solo harpsichord of the first movement of BWV 1052). The only real question is when he composed it.
Future me here, that resulotion is fantastic, but nothing tops the final chords. 7:36 Is such a transcendental way of leading you to that final resolution 7:50 which everytime I listen to it is like staring into the beyond.
@@Pardock97 It's not a resolution, but, rather, an interruption/suspension. And the final cadence, which includes precisely this very same chord (B♭ major), will complete it.
I'm learning to play this wonderful masterpiece and that point is for me at the same time a magnificent thing to listen and the end of the "hell to play" of the previous three minutes! :D
Many of Bach's music was composed to be performed in church. The church, both Lutheran and Catholic, forbid music to end on a minor chord if it was meant to be church music.
This music is well-known in our country. In Korea, people hum the first melody when they get frustrated or desperate. Almost everyone knows this music! What a masterpiece!
Beethoven's fifth symphony is also very well-known but we hum this melody a lot more even though this music is not related to frustration or sadness at all haha
My grandparents had an organ in their home and this brings me right back to the sitting room, this was one of the pieces my grandfather would play. Thanks for this!
I find it interesting that this piece does not just end with the fugue's final restatement over a pedal point like most pieces titled "x and fugue in y", but instead sort of brings back the toccata texture to finish it off the way a standalone toccata would be finished. 0:21 - Toccata 2:40 - Fugue 6:45 - Toccata-like Coda It's like Bach sandwiched the fugue between 2 toccatas.
Imagine living near Bach's Church when he was playing! T'would almost convert a Catholic to Lutheranism. Ah but just up the road the Catholic's were belting out Vivaldi!
I thinks it is not about religious political, Bach do served every client who ask for composition with amount of money, that what he was earned for living.
That's because most scholars think that Bach never wrote this piece. Either it was transcribed for an organ from a violin piece written by an anonymous person. Another theory states that this piece may have been composed by another composer named Johann Peter Kellner (who's pieces sound very very VERY similar to this one) who was an organist living around the same time as Bach. Kellner could've probably composed this piece and attributed it to Bach, or he could've written it completely and it somehow made it's way to Bach and we have said it is a Bach piece ever since.
Wow, thank you for uploading this and taking the time to add the score. Sometimes I wonder if it is just an accident why certain pieces are better known than others, as Bach has many other great organ works, but I do have to say, there is something particulary special about this one.
my favorite parts!!! 0:21 THE BEYOND ICONIC OPENING 1:37 32nd notes are fun 2:18 T H I C C chords 3:41 pedal part COMPLETES the 16ths 4:56 this modulation is so good 6:45 the TASTIEST resolution in the whole piece 7:05 crunching dissonance to the major resolution 🤩 7:37 uncommon yet ultra satisfying minor ending
Leo demasiados comentarios criticando la perfomance del organista, pero ninguno de los que critican subiendo un video. (Busquence una vida, puristas ingradecidos.)
I really don't like it when they rush the last 3 measures like that! The way I play it, those three last bars are like 5 times longer, but they are more profound than that hurried version...
The only thing I'd have to say is, does this song seem like a slow song? Why would he break the speed to hold it so long? It's most certainly a dramatic song, but the length he held them seemed just right...although I do understand, each musician has a different interpretation.
Yes, this, for me at least, is rushed. Are so many organists trying to impress us by showing how fast they can play? That may be appropriate for a rock guitarist, but it does not interpret Bach
0:40 gerubach you are fucking genius with how you narrowed the sheet music with that chord. I swear to god that chord gives me chills like no other chord ever has
Well another possibility is that this was originally a work for violin or 5 string cello, which would explain the easiness of fugal writing (the counter subject and its accompaniment being thirds and sixths mainly). Also there are parts both in the toccata and the fugue where bariolage (a primarily string technique) is used. I do my end of studies memoir on this piece and the more I dig, the more I find that it IS a Bach work. Look at his partitas for strings. The likeness is striking.
I'd be interested in an arrangement for violin, viola, and cello. I have difficulty imaging a single string instrument playing this (except maybe harp or harpsichord) .
Nope. Although IMSLP has lots of Bach pieces, I've found the quality not good enough to use for graphics (i.e. the contrast is way too heavy and causes the stave lines to become broken). I've been scanning my music at 300 dpi in order to get the best detail possible. Unfortunately, sometimes the publications also have ink pressing flaws as well (like the lack of ink on the middle stave at 5:18).
Surprisingly, this is the first time I have listened to this original piece in full! I heard Vanessa Mae perform her version of this, but the organ just sounds absolutely wonderful. However, i cannot be the only one whose eyes feel dizzy after watching this?
Wonderful composition and nice rendition of this great work. I agree with another person that commented that the last 3 measures should be played slower. I've even heard a recording where the high D is held solo before the final chord is played.
Sorry to say this but at the moment all of Bach's works are free but other composers / requests I'd have to charge for. It is a harsh reality but I'm trying to make a buck like everyone else and scrolling Bach is my way of presenting my resume to the world.
If Johan Sebastiaan wouldn't have written this masterpiece, who would have? And why should we only know the composer from this impressive organ work? Are there any Bachadepts who could have written something like this?
That is a great part. Genius. It is also one of the parts I hear and think, why is there debate? Who else would have written that? I was shocked to see that the authenticity of this is challenged. You can hear just in the way the composer uses suspensions, motivic organisation, and the way they use sixteenth notes, that is almost certainly the composer of BWV 540, 541, 542, 543, 547, 535. Many others too likely but I don't remember all.
Toccata and Fugue in nearly D minor. I have a matchstick wedged into the bend wheel of my keyboard so I can play along with what was considered to be "D" when this organ was built!
People hear a rumour and just believe it without doing any research. The only reason anyone has ever doubted this is by Bach is because only a copy exists but that copy is by one of his students and says by j s Bach.. which isn’t a reason to say Bach didn’t write it.. they say it bcos they don’t think it sounds like other Bach pieces….. even though it is totally Bach… and this piece is so similar to the fugue in bwv 582
It‘s strange that this is probably the most famous piece of Bach and at the same time it has a totally different style from other Bach‘s pieces.
I don't see like that, there's a bunch of Suspensions and Resolutions common found in most of his work for violin for example. I think he was to boring playing at church services all the time in Leipzig, so he decided to create something uncommon...
That is because it wasn't written by Bach..it was likely written by an apprentice who wrote Bach's name on the piece so that it would be played. (At the time only works written by famous composers were played). I took a Master's course in college on JS Bach and it is widely "speculated" that he didn't write this piece.
@@bribortzviola you can't just crush my childhood like this 😭
I disagree though. It is not considered as spurious by the Neue-Bach-Gesellschaft or other scholars.
Furthermore, this "uncommon" style of the toccata could also be found in his other works (like the Fantasia of BWV 542 or the solo harpsichord of the first movement of BWV 1052).
The only real question is when he composed it.
It's likely that Bach didn't actually compose this piece, but transcribed it for organ. So it makes sense that it's quite stylistically idiosyncratic
I love the section between 0:00 and 8:38
and I ask myself: what did I do in my life?
Even the silence at the end? Based.
nah the best part was 8:38 - 10:00
@@sdfsldfels Ah, the silence after the silence. Very cultured indeed, my good sir.
Me too buddy, me too
6:45 I can't get over that resolution
Future me here, that resulotion is fantastic, but nothing tops the final chords. 7:36 Is such a transcendental way of leading you to that final resolution 7:50 which everytime I listen to it is like staring into the beyond.
@@Pardock97 It's not a resolution, but, rather, an interruption/suspension. And the final cadence, which includes precisely this very same chord (B♭ major), will complete it.
This is called a broken cadence. When it resolves to the VI grade of the scale
I'm learning to play this wonderful masterpiece and that point is for me at the same time a magnificent thing to listen and the end of the "hell to play" of the previous three minutes! :D
Because in this cadence (in d minor) the c (being natural) losts his rule of leading note. That's why it sounds so strange.
1. Toccata: 0:20
2: Fugue: 2:40
3:(Recitativo): 6:55
4: (Toccata): 7:05
Im pretty sure the end is a CODA and not Toccata
This is where i got the source from and yes it's wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toccata_and_Fugue_in_D_minor,_BWV_565#Coda
I guess it can be both :p
In what way does it "look like a Toccata"? It looks like a coda, and that's because it is a coda. It's marked "Recitativo" because of its character.
There wasn't even a proper cadential point?
7:51 without a doubt begins one of the most dramatic ending ever
Interesting performance of Bach's Toccatas and Fugues on Accodeon: https: //www.youtube.com/watch? V = PMbtm1vgIgs & ab_channel =% D0% 94% D0% BC% D0% B8% D1% 82% D1% 80% D0% B8% D0 % B9% D0% A2% D0% B0% D0% BC% D0% B1% D0% BE% D0% B2% D1% 86% D0% B5% D0% B2
The third to last chord is a goosebumps moment at every listening.
to other people is sounds dramatic, to music scholars they are chords
@@elenagaletskaya9613 machine code?
I was thinking how I would call it, and it would be probably "Tune of the End if the World."
One of the very few pieces of J. S. Bach in a minor key that ends in a minor key
Seems that way doesn't it!?
Likely because it wasn't originally composed by Bach, rather he transcribed it
Yes the more I hear this piece over the years I really do not believe this was composed by Bach
Many of Bach's music was composed to be performed in church. The church, both Lutheran and Catholic, forbid music to end on a minor chord if it was meant to be church music.
Except it's a jubilant piece, not sad at all.
4:59 That trills in the next few bars made the theme so chaotic. Love it.
Its not a theme but a subject !
@@demandols8555 [Wrote fugues myself]
Yes, I know, great theme of a subject!
This gets better each and every time that I listen to it.
This music is well-known in our country. In Korea, people hum the first melody when they get frustrated or desperate. Almost everyone knows this music! What a masterpiece!
Frustrated or desperate? How did that start?
I love you Koreans! You interpret our culture in such an original and creative way! God bless!
Are you sure it's not Beethoven's fifth symphony?
Beethoven's fifth symphony is also very well-known but we hum this melody a lot more even though this music is not related to frustration or sadness at all haha
Nice! Bach in Korea!
My grandparents had an organ in their home and this brings me right back to the sitting room, this was one of the pieces my grandfather would play. Thanks for this!
How tf do u fit a whole ass organ in ur house
@@kininiwong5350ong
@@kininiwong5350it was probablya digital one
ah@@yeety1208
I find it interesting that this piece does not just end with the fugue's final restatement over a pedal point like most pieces titled "x and fugue in y", but instead sort of brings back the toccata texture to finish it off the way a standalone toccata would be finished.
0:21 - Toccata
2:40 - Fugue
6:45 - Toccata-like Coda
It's like Bach sandwiched the fugue between 2 toccatas.
Sandwiched the fugue inside a toccata. You don't make a sandwich with two loaves of bread xd
Yeah I noticed that too, it is so unlike him. Maybe he tried it and then people complained so he never did it again...
J.S.Bach Toccata i Fuga in D Minor to jest mój najbardziej ulubiony utwór tego kompozytora genialny dziękuję bardzo
I really love the last chords !
Same
i totally agree with it, those cords are the one of the best ending ever...
Is it a joke?
no, i really adore this ending. the last 3 beats are totally amazing. (maybe the closing chord would be better in major).
@@otdv7 lol but there is soooo weak Tonic...
La più conosciuta e classica musica di Bach di questi tempi mi fa venire e brividi e ritorno nel '700
Listening to this piece feels like eating a good meal. Very satisfying!!!
Food for the soul- Bach
The final Cadenza, in its majestic simplicity, is pure Genius.
This truly is a masterpiece. Thank you Bach
When J.R.R. Tolkien speaks of the Music of the Ainur, I think he was speaking of Bach.
Imagine living near Bach's Church when he was playing! T'would almost convert a Catholic to Lutheranism. Ah but just up the road the Catholic's were belting out Vivaldi!
Peter Jongsma aye Catholic gang!
If it's any consolation, Bach was writing beautiful masses that couldn't be performed in his own church!
I thinks it is not about religious political, Bach do served every client who ask for composition with amount of money, that what he was earned for living.
Da igual estás igual fueron creadas para la iglesia católica
If you can read music, you will enjoy only scrolling videos. i guess.
This was my introduction to classical music at the age of 8 or 9. And it's still amazing!
That first chord laying out is so satisfying and utterly terrifying at the same time
Muchas gracias por subir ésta joya!!! Aquí regenerando neuronas con éstas hermosísimas melodías.
This fugue has one of the weirdest counterpoints, but it somehow works
That's because most scholars think that Bach never wrote this piece. Either it was transcribed for an organ from a violin piece written by an anonymous person. Another theory states that this piece may have been composed by another composer named Johann Peter Kellner (who's pieces sound very very VERY similar to this one) who was an organist living around the same time as Bach. Kellner could've probably composed this piece and attributed it to Bach, or he could've written it completely and it somehow made it's way to Bach and we have said it is a Bach piece ever since.
Wow, thank you for uploading this and taking the time to add the score. Sometimes I wonder if it is just an accident why certain pieces are better known than others, as Bach has many other great organ works, but I do have to say, there is something particulary special about this one.
This is a wonderfully elaborated masterpiece. Bach was certainly a genius ahead his time.
Thank you, gerubach! These scrolling works of Bach are wonderful!! I am spreading the word...
my favorite parts!!!
0:21 THE BEYOND ICONIC OPENING
1:37 32nd notes are fun
2:18 T H I C C chords
3:41 pedal part COMPLETES the 16ths
4:56 this modulation is so good
6:45 the TASTIEST resolution in the whole piece
7:05 crunching dissonance to the major resolution 🤩
7:37 uncommon yet ultra satisfying minor ending
2:27
6:07
Same but with this.
0:00 - 8:38
I like this part at 4:12
Dracula wants to:
*know your location*
and then there's THESE people.
dracula is all of us 2020
Orochimaru want's to know your location
...man kann vor Ehrfurcht nur Staunen....Bach muss direkt vom Himmel stammen....❤️
I was not expecting that ending. Wow, so good!
I think that this is the best version of this piece I've ever heard. Thank you very much for uploading!
Wtf it's total butchery
Try Peter Hurford. Sounds like no other.
I think towards others it is too rushed.
I hope this beautiful music, will be played on my funeral..
Sohrab Anwary either way , the composition is still music as it creates emotion to the listener
Leo demasiados comentarios criticando la perfomance del organista, pero ninguno de los que critican subiendo un video.
(Busquence una vida, puristas ingradecidos.)
Seeing the scrolling notes helps me to realize just how complex this music is.
+Les B: It would have taken Bach months to make that single organ music.
I really don't like it when they rush the last 3 measures like that! The way I play it, those three last bars are like 5 times longer, but they are more profound than that hurried version...
The only thing I'd have to say is, does this song seem like a slow song? Why would he break the speed to hold it so long? It's most certainly a dramatic song, but the length he held them seemed just right...although I do understand, each musician has a different interpretation.
Yes, this, for me at least, is rushed. Are so many organists trying to impress us by showing how fast they can play? That may be appropriate for a rock guitarist, but it does not interpret Bach
@@AnjiEnnui I mean, it marked "Molto Adagio
ruclips.net/video/ho9rZjlsyYY/видео.html
@@AnjiEnnui Is there a youtube option to hear the voices of the "song" ? I can''t find it.
This legit gives me chills no matter how many times I hear it
0:40 gerubach you are fucking genius with how you narrowed the sheet music with that chord. I swear to god that chord gives me chills like no other chord ever has
Well another possibility is that this was originally a work for violin or 5 string cello, which would explain the easiness of fugal writing (the counter subject and its accompaniment being thirds and sixths mainly). Also there are parts both in the toccata and the fugue where bariolage (a primarily string technique) is used. I do my end of studies memoir on this piece and the more I dig, the more I find that it IS a Bach work. Look at his partitas for strings. The likeness is striking.
I'd be interested in an arrangement for violin, viola, and cello. I have difficulty imaging a single string instrument playing this (except maybe harp or harpsichord) .
@@comradebork
ruclips.net/video/M0k0SZ3xXvw/видео.html
There are some slight tweaks tho
Nope. Although IMSLP has lots of Bach pieces, I've found the quality not good enough to use for graphics (i.e. the contrast is way too heavy and causes the stave lines to become broken). I've been scanning my music at 300 dpi in order to get the best detail possible. Unfortunately, sometimes the publications also have ink pressing flaws as well (like the lack of ink on the middle stave at 5:18).
5:18
I was playing "air organ" the whole way. Even that was hard! What a blast!!
Yeesh, that's startling, especially the beginning. AND IT'S SO COOL!!!!
The Fugue AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Saludos desde España, una de las piezas más conocidas y escuchadas de Bach, enhorabuena!!!!!, gran trabajo como es habitual !!!!
Brilliant work, gerubach!
The opening of the Tocatta is majestically ominous.
Surprisingly, this is the first time I have listened to this original piece in full! I heard Vanessa Mae perform her version of this, but the organ just sounds absolutely wonderful.
However, i cannot be the only one whose eyes feel dizzy after watching this?
Bach es un mago...hizo de la música una obra de arte.
Very fascinating and interesting to watch for someone who can't "read" notes. Thank you :)
Como sería escucharlo por primera vez en esa época grande Bach!!!
Such a beautiful piece of music I haven't heard in over a decade, that invokes (personal thought) death, liberty, and...........
This is mind boggling, I can follow it to a point, organists are incredible, like octopus all limbs in motion. I wish I could do it...
8000 notes so I heard
for some reason, ive never thought this fugue was as great as some of bachs earlier fugues, namely the great fugue in g minor and the wedge
How did Bach know what God was thinking?
Bach ia the god
vielen dank für dieses video, es ist sehr anschaulich durch die noten und das spiel.
Wonderful composition and nice rendition of this great work. I agree with another person that commented that the last 3 measures should be played slower. I've even heard a recording where the high D is held solo before the final chord is played.
One of the greatest pieces ever written
I can't read music (other than basics), but watching this is quite hypnotic!
What all do you know? I play Clarinet in marching band.
So this is the true duration of this piece... I've seen performances lasting 7 min and others lasting over 9 minutes
Absolutely mesmorizing indeed. No complaints here. Just awe!
Very good!
Cool
:)
I can't help it I love this version the best!! I picture Dracula at an organ surrounded by candles in his dark castle doing this the way I would!
Magnífico. O Clássico dos clássicos.
Hey
Sorry to say this but at the moment all of Bach's works are free but other composers / requests I'd have to charge for. It is a harsh reality but I'm trying to make a buck like everyone else and scrolling Bach is my way of presenting my resume to the world.
*When Abaddon Forms the Kingdom of the Hellborn in TNO and Takes Over the World*
If Johan Sebastiaan wouldn't have written this masterpiece, who would have? And why should we only know the composer from this impressive organ work? Are there any Bachadepts who could have written something like this?
Bach’s pupil, organ virtuoso Cornelius Heinrich Dretzel (1697-1775)
2:45 emotional part and I heard that if the fugue is in D minor, it's answer is in A minor key!🤔🤔🤔
In most traditional fugues the answers and counter subjects are in different keys than the subject (which is in D minor)
yeah, when the second voice enters in a fugue, it's usually a fifth away from the tonic (D -> A)
But isn’t the answer here in G-Minor?😅
@@SILAS-cb9xl yep it's in G minor but It shud be in A minor coz D minor has the dominant key of A minor
3:23 take a second and pay attention from this part onwards. its extremeley genuis, this is why bach is one of the greats
That is a great part. Genius.
It is also one of the parts I hear and think, why is there debate? Who else would have written that?
I was shocked to see that the authenticity of this is challenged. You can hear just in the way the composer uses suspensions, motivic organisation, and the way they use sixteenth notes, that is almost certainly the composer of BWV 540, 541, 542, 543, 547, 535. Many others too likely but I don't remember all.
Amazing!
No have like bach!!!❤😍
The roots of Heavy Metal?
Not the roots of heavy metal, but played ON heavy metal!
+Shining Armor lol. yeah organ's made out of metal
GBPaddling check out preludio and fugue in a minor
why heavy metal?? roots of music shure
The roots of all music!
A very good interpretation, and an excellent viewing on the sheet music ♪
I think the ending is so hurried!! I play it so much slower to feel the pain in the final chords, the tremendous suffering I think it conveys.
Bach, a fervent Christian, wrote this to illustrate God's overwhelming and terrifying power.
Bach was a rock god before his time. :)
geniale...... bach e Gerubach !
Blue lobster 🔵🦞
I thought I heard a slightly off note around 6:06.
i didn't; Witch tempo of witch compass?
y11971alex your right, he pressed 2 D notes when he was ascending up the pedal
He pressed D-A-D-A
Insted of D-A-E-A
2.45 - so entrancing and creepy sounding that it actually puts me on a buzz!
That's Bright Halloween
Note to self: I should NOT watch these scrolling music things when I'm stoned! (of course, I haven't smoked ANYTHING for nearly 30 years...)
It's unreal that anyone can READ this,let alone PLAY this...
7:50 to the end is simply astounding!!!!
Toccata and Fugue in nearly D minor. I have a matchstick wedged into the bend wheel of my keyboard so I can play along with what was considered to be "D" when this organ was built!
Bravo bravo bravo bravo bravo grandiose genial fantastic music
I like those pedal flute pedal sound coming into my ears from both sides alternatively :)
at 1:12 the organist plays a d in the upper keyboard but the score has a d only in the foot-keyboard
Bravo from Australia 2014
Absolutely Beautiful!
That puts a smile on my face..
Κι’ εμένα το ίδιο
@@_____c___482 ωπ ελληνας
Γιωργος Μαλαχιας ωπ ναι
Oh fuck yeah, you are the man, this is perfect!!
BRAVO!!!
And I don’t have to turn pages!, SUPER!
1:02 &1:24 that's some great heavy metal music
my favorite vincent lubeck organ work
People hear a rumour and just believe it without doing any research. The only reason anyone has ever doubted this is by Bach is because only a copy exists but that copy is by one of his students and says by j s Bach.. which isn’t a reason to say Bach didn’t write it.. they say it bcos they don’t think it sounds like other Bach pieces….. even though it is totally Bach… and this piece is so similar to the fugue in bwv 582
I love this song so much! I hope to try to learn it.
yeah go ahed i have piced the toccata and i working whit the fugue use notes and syntheisa i hope i vas 2 help
Nope. It's the actual publication in a modified version.
Me pergunto o que Bach teria composto de tivesse acesso a os programas de edição de hoje!
It also works on a Pedal Piano