J.S. Bach "Little" Fugue in G minor, BWV 578 (harpsichord)
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- Опубликовано: 15 фев 2013
- Bach's well known "little" fugue, BWV 578, for organ, played on Italian Pierluigi harpsichord (sampled by realsamples - Ed. Beurmann, meantone tuning at 383 Hz).
Some parts of the piece had to be transposed for playing it on one manual (8' register), but care was taken to retain the spirit of the original.
Please enjoy the sonorous warm and deep tone!
sheet music: www.dropbox.com/s/7dx7h72uo94... 
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300 years ago a german guy wrote some circles on a piece of paper and here i am crying here
This fugue has an exceptionally catchy and nostalgic theme
The comfort of this Bach‘s music is irreplaceable , unfathomable and universal
I feel the opposite, soul renewed.
This music is so well crafted, it follows structure, logical chaining of chord progressions, logical sequences, logical cadences.
Everything along a very playful melody that carries the whole fugue. It all produces an incredibly satisfactory feeling to the ear, a sense of beauty that only this sounds can awake.
Now consider this, all the theory in music based on mathematical proportions and intervals. It’s absolutely incredible.
People think this is old music are ignorants, this is transcendental music!
Bach is my favorite composer of all time. He was truly on a level that no one will ever match.
Listen to CPE Bach then. I think he represents an exquisite transition between JS Bach and the classical period, and you can even hear his influence on classical composers like Haydn.
Yes, normally the piece is played higher. The gravity here is due to the 383 Hz tuning of the Pierluigi harpsichord (see description). Some notes had to be adjusted/transposed due to the smaller range of the instrument (e.g., instead of the octave jumps in the 27th bar at 1:35, I just played repetitions on the same pitch, eflat and d, respectively, in the fourth voice).
Plenty of harpsichord were built to play at lower than more modern pitches. I much prefer the lower pitches for their resonance. The tone of this instrument is a bit thin.
at first I thought the harpsichord was out of tune, then I remembered Baroque tuning. Sounds so strange we are so used to just temperament.
Bach improvised MOST of the time he wasn't 'busy' with his assignments and paid commissions. He only wrote down a portion of what he played. He must have played a lot of music - and almost all the time. Now consider this: he had twenty children ! He didn't simply "father and forget 'em" he taught many of them music; how to play MULTIPLE instruments, how to compose (gets complicated writing for different instruments) and how to conduct orchestras and choruses.
He was NOT considered even a minor composer-of-note in his day - popular and widely held opinion of his compositions was that he was old fashioned and basically stuck in a 'has-been' style no one was interested in any longer. He was however, considered a master organist and people came from far and wide to hear him play. He was also an accomplished violinist. Time management anyone ?
Well...
The 20 kids probably didn't take long...
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@@donarundel1560 11 survivesd - and the kid who wrote this awesome piece "solfegietto" was Christoph Phillip Immanuel Bach - a very good Composer. I think Friedemann wasn´t so good .....
@@odunhops7727 Carl Philipp Emmanuel, and they call him "CPE" . He was the most talented of his sons, true. His concerto 172 is amazing
You forgot a very important detail. He attributed everything to God! “Soli Deo Gloria” he often wrote in his manuscript, which translates to “All the glory to God”.
He didn’t consider himself to be better than anyone but a humble servant of the Lord.
Also, how can God’s music ever become old fashioned?
Timeless music. Magic music.
I particularly love this Bach piece. Nicely performed! Thank you for sharing!!
Thanks a lot!
Yes, the meantone tuning sounds a bit weird. Especially in the bass at 2:49 ;) The Pierluigi harpsichord is certainly not the most suitable instrument for baroque music; the original instrument was built in 1579, so I would say renaissance music played on it sounds much better.
This piece was not played on the original instrument (it is in the collection of historical key instruments of Andreas Beurmann), but I used the official realsamples library.with a Yamaha Clavinova.
I was not expecting bach to look like bach combined with newton
ahhhhh this is so good, i wish every keyboard piece by bach had a transcription for violin and harpsichord................ if only
Bach is so good!!!
Thank you very much for your comment. Unfortunately I don't have more Bach works here on RUclips yet, but a recording of the Italian Concerto sounds like a good idea (although the 3rd movement will be very hard for me...). I have to check if the Pierluigi harpsichord fits to it (because of the meantone tuning).
thank you very much for uploading this music!!!!
Wow, great description, thank you for the upload :D
ABSOLUTE BLISS. Thank you God for giving us B A C H
Very well played, thank you !
God!! this piece is wonderful!
5 star ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Bach performance.
Chills of delight.
One of my favorites
Splendid
Merci beaucoup très beau !!
Thanks a lot!
i really like this musicc hanks for uploading it!!!!!
Thank you!
i love this music!
I didn't think I would care for this, but I must say, nice work!
Excellent ¡¡ well done.
Thanks for shared this Work ..
I love Johann Sebastian Bach music thank for uploading It!!!
wonderful
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Beautifully performed with an amazing flair for skill. The harpsichord is a facinating instrument in the hands of a master.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks!
What a gorgeous sounding song and this instrument is so interesting
it's not a song
@@dominicfield8022so what It IS?
@@JonathanHarker-rz9cf a song is sung. It's a piece of keyboard music
Oh I see. Sorry my ignorance, it's because I didn't know quite well that the word 'song' in english is used only when it is expecifically sung.@@dominicfield8022
Forgive my ignorance, but this performance really sounds like a MIDI file played on a sequencer.
Gianmarco Carnevale I forgive you.
Gianmarco Carnevale kkkk, I think the same
Without showing the hands of the performer playing, you can easily say the piece was reproduced using a computer simulation (can be transposed easily into another key). Showing just the picture of a harpsichord without the performer, whoever recorded and uploaded the video may be posting someone else's performance.
The original is supposed to be in G minor. Today, most people who play Baroque music including Bach, Handel, Telemann & Vivaldi tend to tune their instruments at A=415Hz (half a pitch lower than the standard A=440Hz) sounding like an F#. Here the tuning is 1 tone lower than the standard pitch turning a G into an F.
i low key appreciate it because im too dumb to make out the individual lines in a humanistic performance
It is.. just manually
Picardy third cadence 👌👌👌
Genius!
Прекрасно 👍🏻
Wow! Organ, harpsichord, piano, orchestra? You can play Bach on anything.
Que belíssima interpretação. Bach é um compositor fenomenal
Caro Apolo! Eu diria que BACH É UM FENÔMENO!
QUE BELLEZA
Thank you Jingyi for your comment! I'm sorry, but a live show is not yet planned ;)
Take an idea and run with it.
Beauty
nice music
Thank you, you're welcome.
We makin it out of Eisenach with this one!!!
But to answer your question: I never tried the A minor fugue BWV 543, but at first sight I would say, it's more difficult to play it on a piano/harpsichord. Also for BWV 578 I had to "reduce" some parts, just to play it two-handed.
It's interesting that it still sounds just as good even when you reduced the voices. I think Im gonna try reading through the WTC just playing the bass and soprano.
Is like the opening of SABOTON 5 the game
HE DON MISS
melhor musica
The opening was also used by sabaton in their song red baron.
Gracias hermanos del domo terrestre por tan bella música... Yo si entiendo la belleza de esa música... Y muy pocos también
Thank you Farnaz for your comments :)
좋네요
Wonderful! Great interpretation and authenticity! I look forward to hearing more Bach works from you? Do you have a recording of the italian concerto on here? I would love to hear your interpretation of that! =)
What's authentic about it?
Brilliant! I've only hear the 578 on Organ, is this written out for one manual? The the Harpsichord have a pedal board?
Best wishes,
David
Some harpsichords do have a pedal board but they are not that popular
Would love to hear this on just intonation too. Thanks for the video!
J. S. Bach...
❤❤❤❤
Thats remember a secret that i dont discovery
The sound of it all... only on harpsichord though.
!!👌
very good. The clavecin is certenely not the instrument I woul'd think of for this fugue, but it renders quite good. The pitch is wierd, but I suppose this is normal :p
Is it easy to plys on the clavecin? I would like to try it on the piano, the a minor organ fugue I would like to try is to hard for me, is this one easier?
At 0:10 Isnt the theme also in one of bachs concertos? Please let me know if that is the case as i have been trying to find it for ages
:) So nice melody. When can we watch your live show?
Sabaton's Red Baron at the Beginn.
Hi Matthias. Is this your performance? It is Beautiful.
Yes it is, thanks for the compliment!
Amazing piece of Johann Sebastian Bach, thank you, it sounds so different and beautiful. Does anyone know who is the man on thr painting? Definitely not J.S. Bach.
Complimenti vivissimi, esecuzione splendida !! Mi piace molto questa trascrizione, l'ho cercata sul web ma invano, è di troppo disturbo se ti chiedo se me ne puoi inviare per email una copia?
Very nice!
Say, is it just me, or is the piece played higher?
baroque tuning (also if ur reading this ur a legend)
Det är en härlig instrument ... svårt att tro strängarna är plockade i stället hit med hammare (såsom piano).
Kim C ”Detta är ett dägligt instrument. Det är svårt att tro, att dess strängar skulle plockas, istället för att hamras (såsom i ett pianoforte).”
Just one question for satisfy my curiousity...
Why the harspichord is tuning at 383 Hz ?
Because I believed that the harpsichord is tuning at 315 Hz...
In all of case, the mine is tuning a this frequency (315)...
Thank for your explanation...
During the Baroque, there were several tunings, for example in England was used 422Hz (with influence of Haendel), already in Portugal was used 408-410Hz (vine of the renaissance that tuning) Italy used the 415Hz like France and Germany. But it has a chority in Germany, only a region within Saxony from Lepzig to Dresden, used at 415'50Hz considered the most beautiful tuning of all and all time, or is still considered today. Do you know who discovered that tuning? The Bach! :D
Very interesting ! thanks!
copy the url, or at the end write -&fmt=18- without the slashes, that should load the whatever clip with a higher quality stereo audio, reload it and the quality should immediately improve, youtube is DEFAULTED to accomodate low-medium bandwith internet connections, it would be unpolite to infer that someone's connection would automatically be superb or that they would care for a high quality version, nice, very good,
Hi :) did you have the sheet paper of this transcription? thanks!
Yes, I do. Just tell me your Email address.
I've sent you a temporary address, advise me when you're connected, so I will send you another new address if the one I sent you is expired. Sorry, I prefer not to share my real e mail address here :)
+Matthias Thienel
Don't know if you'll see this but I greatly appreciated it if you can send me the sheets as well. Just send it to sheldoncooper864@gmail.com
Hubbard .
Thanks, but now I'm a bit confused ;) what is horrifying? The playing, the sound of the instrument or just the music itself?
1.5 Speed!
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Looks like newton
Thank you! Maybe you wanna listen to my original compositions and tell me what you think?
this is fortepiano !
No, this is an Italian harpsichord.
It is a harpsichord of the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque years 1600, the fortepiano so appeared in 1720.
Ehsan Aghabarari Instrumenta de pianofortæ et gravi cembali non est similatur sunt.
Bach seems to have in his right eye episcleritis in this portrait
No, he's fine
@@hindenburg1596 It is not his portrait
This tone colour seems unusual for a harpsichord.
Beautiful sound
¿Que transcripción es?
So then did Sabaton just yoink this for Red Baron?
Al do y al re naturales le falta tono hacia arriba, la canción no queda bien. Digan lo que digan esta fuga suena bien bajo las frecuencias de afinación modernas.
That is the oddest G minor, that must be tuned to a european G minor, ie not tuned to A = 440.
yeah putting this up to a tuner you get the tonic is F4 ~ 343mhz.. its sounds ugly to me like the insturment is in dire need of tuning.. lol. This is my favorite Bach fugue though.
I actually thought this was more reminiscent of the tone of the Mario Wailuigi instrument of 1616
This is so sus!
It look likes a midi
It is MIDI, otherwise the sampled instrument wouldn't produce any sound.
Lack of knowledge of this, he does not know the Harpsichord and the various instruments of the time, will not know the sounds, then he thinks it is MIDI.
Nej!! Not "midi" -- förlåt
How can it LOOK like MIDI? Seriously
Is the interpreter human, or is it a computer? The interpretation seems too rigid.
Music is good, but sounds like a computer simulator.
That's because it is.
Is not MIDI, please to listen you have to have ears.
Don't be so happy. This was meant to be listened by the God, not us😒
This is great, but sorta of horrifying at the same time... Like Voldemort..
Advert?: If you want to play it on a synthesiser, fine, if you want to play it on a harpsichord, fine; but don't try and pass it of as a harpsichord when it's not. All this is, is an advert for a Yamaha Clavinova. So why not say so. Don't put harpsichord in the title. It's dishonest
Because it's a harpsichord