Musician's or Publisher's Notes
Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata No. 2 in c-minor was likely composed between 1709 and 1711, certainly no later than 1714 making it among Bach's earliest works. This work uses the North German-style
of toccata of Buxtehude, with alternations between improvisatory and fugal
sections, as its model, which differs greatly from the Prelude/Toccata and
Fugue combinations that dominate Bach's later well-known organ repertoire. This manualiter (hands-only) toccata is a
continuous stream of music; the opening fantasy blends into the adagio and then into the fugue.
The head of Bach's rather conventional fugue subject is based on a nearly
unadorned broken triad. After several minutes Bach interrupts the fugue with a brief fantasia-like passage reminiscent of the opening, and then resumes the fugue, in the original key, with few changes from the first section. The piece ends with a slow section
followed by a rapid finale, both in a free-composed form, to round out the
composition. Tomo Matsuo
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata in c minor, BWV 911
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Musician's or Publisher's Notes
Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata No. 2 in c-minor was likely composed between 1709 and 1711, certainly no later than 1714 making it among Bach's earliest works. This work uses the North German-style of toccata of Buxtehude, with alternations between improvisatory and fugal sections, as its model, which differs greatly from the Prelude/Toccata and Fugue combinations that dominate Bach's later well-known organ repertoire. This manualiter (hands-only) toccata is a continuous stream of music; the opening fantasy blends into the adagio and then into the fugue.
The head of Bach's rather conventional fugue subject is based on a nearly unadorned broken triad. After several minutes Bach interrupts the fugue with a brief fantasia-like passage reminiscent of the opening, and then resumes the fugue, in the original key, with few changes from the first section. The piece ends with a slow section followed by a rapid finale, both in a free-composed form, to round out the composition. Tomo Matsuo
More music by Johann Sebastian Bach
French Suite No 6 in E major BWV 817
Prelude in b minor
Prelude & Fugue in A minor BWV 894
Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659
Well Tempered Clavier - Prelude 1
English Suite No. 2 in a minor, BWV 807
Italian concerto, BWV 971
Prelude and Fugue in E Major from Well-Tempered Clavier Book II
g-minor Violin Sonata - Presto
Prelude and Fugue in B-flat Major from Well-Tempered Clavier Book I
Performances by same musician(s)
Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57, "Appassionata"
Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960, Op. post.
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