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James Kibbie – Bach Organ Works: free downloads of the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach, recorded by James Kibbie on original baroque organs in Germany. Accessed: 09:23, 3 April 2016 (UTC).
A prelude (German: Präludium or Vorspiel; Latin: praeludium; French: prélude; Italian: preludio) is a short piece of music, the form of which may vary from piece to piece. [1] [2] While, during the Baroque era, for example, it may have served as an introduction to succeeding movements of a work that were usually longer and more complex, it may also have been a stand-alone piece of work ...
In music, a chorale prelude or chorale setting is a short liturgical composition for organ using a chorale tune as its basis. It was a predominant style of the German Baroque era and reached its culmination in the works of J.S. Bach , who wrote 46 (with a 47th unfinished ) examples of the form in his Orgelbüchlein , [ 1 ] along with multiple ...
The court chapel at the Schloss in Weimar where Bach was court organist. The organ loft is visible at the top of the picture. The Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book) BWV 599−644 is a set of 46 chorale preludes for organ — one of them is given in two versions — by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Free download: Peter Watchorn plays JS Bach's Prelude No. 2 in C minor, BWV 847i (1 min, 2.6 Mb) Free download: Peter Watchorn plays Passamezzo Galliard, from the English Jacobean period (2 mins, 3.2 Mb) Free downloadable samples of Peter Watchorn and Emlyn Ngai, JS Bach's Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord
The court chapel at the Schloss in Weimar where Bach was court organist. The organ loft is visible at the top of the picture. Early versions of almost all the chorale preludes are thought to date back to 1710–1714, during the period 1708–1717 when Bach served as court organist and Konzertmeister (director of music) in Weimar, at the court of Wilhelm Ernst, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. [2]
As usual in a Baroque musical suite, after the prelude which begins each suite, all the other movements are based around baroque dance types. [1] The cello suites are structured in six movements each: prelude, allemande, courante, sarabande, two minuets or two bourrées or two gavottes, and a final gigue. [2]
Arnold Schoenberg arranged for orchestra Bach's organ Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major St Anne, BWV 552. Igor Stravinsky made an arrangement of the Canonic Variations on "Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her" in 1956. Igor Stravinsky's last work was a transcription of Four Preludes and Fugues from Das Wohltemperirte Clavier