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The Toccata in B-flat major is a piece for solo piano written in 1932 by Aram Khachaturian. It is a favorite of piano students, and has been recorded many times. Khachaturian wrote this work as the first movement of a three-movement suite for piano: Toccata; Waltz-Capriccio; Dance. [citation needed]
Keyboard works (Klavierwerke) by Johann Sebastian Bach traditionally refers to Chapter 8 in the BWV catalogue or the fifth series of the New Bach Edition, [1] both of which list compositions for a solo keyboard instrument like the harpsichord or the clavichord.
The toccatas represent Bach's earliest keyboard compositions known under a collective title. [1] The earliest sources of the BWV 910, 911 and 916 toccatas appear in the Andreas-Bach Book, [2] an important collection of keyboard and organ manuscripts of various composers compiled by Bach's oldest brother, Johann Christoph Bach between 1707 and 1713.
Op. 1: Concertino for piano and orchestra (1957) Op. 3: Variations for piano and big band (1962) Op. 5: Piece for trumpet and orchestra (1962) Op. 8: Toccata for piano and orchestra (1964)
Leopold Stokowski made a large number of transcriptions for full orchestra, including the Toccata and Fugue in D minor for organ, which appeared in the film Fantasia and the Little Fugue in G minor. Alexander Siloti made many piano transcriptions of Bach, most famously his Prelude in B minor based on Bach's Prelude in E minor, BWV 855a.
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Toccata and Fugue in D minor and the Other Bach Transcriptions for Solo Piano Dover Publications, 1996, ISBN 0-486-29050-6 •Note: Includes the same items as Vol III of the BB6. However, the actual sources are other publications of the same pieces as noted below. 1) Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532 [from Breitkopf & Härtel, EB 3355]
The first page of J. S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565. Toccata (from Italian toccare, literally, "to touch", with "toccata" being the action of touching) is a virtuoso piece of music typically for a keyboard or plucked string instrument featuring fast-moving, lightly fingered or otherwise virtuosic passages or sections, with or without imitative or fugal interludes, generally ...