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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]
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.
Le Tombeau de Couperin - free complete recording at The Piano Society; Listen to Toccata from Le Tombeau de Couperin orchestrated by Kenneth Hesketh; Youtube: Orchestration of the Fugue and Toccata by Jack M. Jarrett (1982) Youtube: Jazz arrangement of the Prelude by Tamir Hendelman (piano), Marco Panascia (bass), Lewis Nash (drums) (2010)
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.
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.
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