Superb insights and what a lot of information about everything. In fact, there's way too much here to take in all at once. I will watch it in sections over several days. And this is the introductory lecture?? There must be some well-informed students in Norway!
Was für ein großartiger Vortrag. Unglaublich viel Inhalt. Ich wünschte, ich wäre einer Ihrer Studenten gewesen. Aber bei 32:50 bin ich fast vom Stuhl gefallen - so ein Klassiker!
Thank you very much for this elaborate video! Very useful (although you have mentioned most information your other nice videos as well but that's why it is a summary 🙂)
Thank you! Yes, you're right, I kept thinking while recording the talk that I'd covered the various questions during the Orgelbüchlein series, but maybe someone will find it handy to have it all together somewhere.Glad it's useful! Tim
That's a really excellent question. I think that he was demonstrating something. Some of the chorale preludes, like the Orgelbüchlein, have a stated didactic purpose. They show student organists how to create their own (improvised or composed), as well as serving as good training materials for organ playing. Some of the others would have had a similar purpose. But it's a little more complicated with, for instance, the chorale preludes of Klavierübung part III. Yes, it lies in the title that these were teaching keyboard skills, but there is an encylopaedic element here - demonstrating what is possible, rather like the "48" or the Art of Fugue. And the Schübler chorales were something else again: a commercial venture - a kind of album of arrangements of his own "popular classics" - at the behest and initiative of a publisher and possibly arranged by someone else. So lots of different reasons, but not primarily for his own use in services (though it's quite conceivable that he would have played some of the longer and more elaborate preludes - like the so-called "18" or "Leipzig" chorales - in concerts). Tim
Nach vielen Jahren des Spielens und Lesens finde ich dies - und alle Fragen sind beantwortet. Wunderbar. Danke, Professor Tim
Danke - freut mich dass es nützlich sein. Tim
Superb insights and what a lot of information about everything. In fact, there's way too much here to take in all at once. I will watch it in sections over several days. And this is the introductory lecture?? There must be some well-informed students in Norway!
I'm very glad that it's useful. I was a bit worried that it's a bit long and tightly packed: great idea to break it down into sections. Tim
Enough information to fill a whole book, presented really clearly and consisely. Thank you for making all this available on YT!
Glad that it's useful! Tim
Was für ein großartiger Vortrag. Unglaublich viel Inhalt. Ich wünschte, ich wäre einer Ihrer Studenten gewesen. Aber bei 32:50 bin ich fast vom Stuhl gefallen - so ein Klassiker!
Ich danke Ihnen vielmals. 32:50 war die Belohnung für das lange Durchhalten! Tim
Thank you very much for this elaborate video! Very useful (although you have mentioned most information your other nice videos as well but that's why it is a summary 🙂)
Thank you! Yes, you're right, I kept thinking while recording the talk that I'd covered the various questions during the Orgelbüchlein series, but maybe someone will find it handy to have it all together somewhere.Glad it's useful! Tim
Wonderful! Thank you for recording this.
Thank you - you're a great encouragement! Tim
Which piece is being played at the very beginning of this video?
One of my all-time favourites: Von Gott will ich nicht lassen BWV 658 (from the "18" or "Leipzig" chorale preludes). Tim
@@timrishton5871 Thank you very much. 🙂
Why did he write so much if he was still an excellent improvisator?
That's a really excellent question. I think that he was demonstrating something. Some of the chorale preludes, like the Orgelbüchlein, have a stated didactic purpose. They show student organists how to create their own (improvised or composed), as well as serving as good training materials for organ playing. Some of the others would have had a similar purpose. But it's a little more complicated with, for instance, the chorale preludes of Klavierübung part III. Yes, it lies in the title that these were teaching keyboard skills, but there is an encylopaedic element here - demonstrating what is possible, rather like the "48" or the Art of Fugue. And the Schübler chorales were something else again: a commercial venture - a kind of album of arrangements of his own "popular classics" - at the behest and initiative of a publisher and possibly arranged by someone else. So lots of different reasons, but not primarily for his own use in services (though it's quite conceivable that he would have played some of the longer and more elaborate preludes - like the so-called "18" or "Leipzig" chorales - in concerts). Tim