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The Toccata in C major, Op. 7 by Robert Schumann, was completed in 1830 and revised in 1833.The piece is in sonata-allegro form. [1]The work was originally titled Etude fantastique en double-sons (Fantastic Study in Double Notes), and was infamously referred to by Schumann as the "hardest piece ever written"—to this day it remains as "one of the most ferociously difficult pieces in the piano ...
Pour le piano (For the piano), L. 95, is a suite for solo piano by Claude Debussy. It consists of three individually composed movements, Prélude, Sarabande and Toccata. The suite was completed and published in 1901. It was premiered on 11 January 1902 at the Salle Érard, played by Ricardo Viñes.
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.
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.
The Toccata was written in August 1901 and the suite was completed in the summer of 1903 with three other movements, for presentation at a competition organised by the periodical Musica. It was entered in the piano division of the competition, the Pleyel Prize, under the motto "Des cloches sonores". It won first place.
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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)