Buxtehude, Dieterich - Toccata in D Minor for Pipe Organ BuxWV 155 Orgue seul |
Compositeur : | Buxtehude, Dieterich (1637 - 1707) | ||
Instrumentation : | Orgue seul | ||
Genre : | Baroque | ||
Tonalité : | Ré mineur | ||
Arrangeur : Editeur : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||
Droit d'auteur : | Public Domain | ||
Ajoutée par magataganm, 05 Aoû 2018 Dietrich Buxtehude is probably most familiar to modern classical music audiences as the man who inspired the young Johann Sebastian Bach to make a lengthy pilgrimage to Lubeck, Buxtehude's place of employment and residence for most of his life, just to hear Buxtehude play the organ. But Buxtehude was a major figure among German Baroque composers in his own right. Though we do not have copies of much of the work that most impressed his contemporaries, Buxtehude nonetheless left behind a body of vocal and instrumental music which is distinguished by its contrapuntal skill, devotional atmosphere, and raw intensity. He helped develop the form of the church cantata, later perfected by Bach, and he was just as famous a virtuoso on the organ. This toccata in D minor works much like a praeludium in that there is an alternation of free passage work and imitative polyphony. Altogether there are three different imitative sections scattered in between segments of free rhapsodic passage work; however, it should be noted that the free passage work occurs more in this piece than imitative material. The first imitative portion of the toccata is fairly brief, and only eight measures long leading into a much more substantial imitative section. The third of the three imitative portions is yet longer. None of the three imitative portions of the toccata are thematically related as was so common in the praeludia of Buxtehude. The free rhapsodic portions of this toccata are quite wild and chaotic, making this work one of Buxtehude's most extreme examples of the stylus phantasticus, a style characterized by unpredictable improvisatory chaos. Also the free rhapsodic passages tend to pile upon one another in this piece. Rather than turning to imitative material after coming to a cadence at the end of each free toccata section, Buxtehude twice (once at the beginning, and again at the end) returns for more free toccata material. Source: AllMusic (https://www.allmusic.com/composition/toccata-for-organ -in-d-minor-buxwv-155-mc0002367732 ). I created this Transcription of the Toccata in D Minor (BuxWV 155) for Pipe Organ (2 Manuals & Pedals). |