Toccatas, Fantasias, Passacaglia and Other Works for Organ

by Johann Sebastian Bach

Book Overview

Perhaps the greatest of all composers for the organ, Bach brought characteristic invention, innovative harmony, and virtuosity to his compositions for that instrument. This volume contains 19 compositions, including such early works as the Fugue in C Minor on a Theme of Legrenzi, BWV 574, and the Fugue in B Minor on a Theme of Corelli, BWV 579, the important Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 582, and, of course, the extremely popular Toccata...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486254038
• ISBN13: 9780486254036
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.0" x 12.0"

Customer Reviews

The largest-size of the 3 Dover JSBach Organ-Music volumes

With this volume we get some of the most striking, popular and yet profound of J.S. Bach's organ music: the 4 Toccata and Fugue pairs, the g-minor Fantasia and Fugue, the great c-minor Passacaglia and Fugue, and a number of other thoroughly-beautiful works (e.g., the Fantasias in G-major {"Pièce d'Orgue"} and c-minor). This way, the other 2 volumes of 1) Preludes & Fugues where the Preludes are strictly preludes, plus 2) the initial volume of trio-sonate, the 3rd-part of the Klavierübung and various Chorale-Preludes and workings around, are properly balanced and complemented to give the overwhelming bulk of Bach's entire organ oeuvre. All of these are beautifully reproduced from the authoritative Bach-Gesellschaft edition at a fraction of the price those volumes would cost otherwise! [Those who're unhappy about the page-turns had better blame the Bach-Gesellschaft instead!] Most highly recommended, yet again! Bravo Dover!!!