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Theme. The fugue's four-and-a-half measure subject in G minor is one of Bach's most recognizable tunes. The fugue is in four voices. During the episodes, Bach uses one of Arcangelo Corelli's most famous techniques: imitation between two voices on an eighth note upbeat figure that first leaps up a fourth and then falls back down one step at a time.
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 Great Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542, is an organ prelude and fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach. It acquired that name to distinguish it from the earlier Little Fugue in G minor, which is shorter. This piece is not to be confused with the Prelude and Fugue in A minor, which is also for organ and also sometimes called "the Great". [1] [2]
Bach's G minor fugue is "insistent and pathetic". [ citation needed ] The subject also appears in his funeral cantata Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (God's time is the very best time). [ 1 ] The subject of the fugue employs a minor 6th leap in the first measure, then resolves it with a more conventional stepwise motion.
BWV 575 – Fugue in C minor; BWV 576 – Fugue in G major; BWV 577 – Fugue in G major "à la Gigue" (spurious) BWV 578 – Fugue in G minor "Little" BWV 579 – Fugue on a theme by Arcangelo Corelli (from Op. 3, No. 4); in B Minor; BWV 580 – Fugue in D major (spurious) BWV 581 – Fugue in G major (not by Bach, composed by Gottfried August ...
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Bach extracted the second movement from his Sonata No. 1 in G minor for solo violin, BWV 1001, written in 1720, and rewrote it; it is not clear that it was intended for the lute. [2] No definitive manuscript version exists today, although there is a contemporary copy in tablature, possibly made by Bach's lutenist friend, Christian Weyrauch.
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582; Prelude (Toccata) and Fugue in E major, BWV 566; Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543; Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544; Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major, BWV 866; Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 531; Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 546; Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 871