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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.
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.
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]
BWV 564 – Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major; BWV 565 – Toccata and Fugue in D minor; BWV 566 – Toccata and Fugue in E major (also published in C major) BWV 566a – Toccata in E major (earlier version of BWV 566) BWV 567 – Prelude in C major (possibly by Johann Ludwig Krebs) [9] BWV 568 – Prelude in G major (doubtful) [9]
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]
The work begins with an updated and extended form of the old prelude-type, manual passaggio followed by a pedal solo, and a motivic-contrapuntal section. Bach's extended passaggio which opens BWV 564 may have been inspired by Buttstett's preludes; both the rhetorical rests followed by returns to the tonic and the single pedal notes are part of the older tradition as well. [3]
An opposed point of view holds that the orchestral Bachianas No. 2 was put together from preexistent and unrelated pieces, three originally for cello and piano (O canto do capadócio, O canto da nossa terra, and O trenzinho do caipira), the other (Lembrança do sertão) for solo piano (Peppercorn 1991a, 103; Peppercorn 1991b, 33–34).
The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 538, is an organ piece by Johann Sebastian Bach.Like the better-known BWV 565, BWV 538 also bears the title Toccata and Fugue in D minor, although it is often referred to by the nickname Dorian – a reference to the fact that the piece is written without a key signature – a notation that leads one to assume the Dorian mode [citation needed].